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BattleTech: Total Warfare (2006)

Players
2–6
Best: 2, 3, 4
Playing time
120–120 min
Age
14+
8.09
Average rating
320
Ratings
3.93/5
Weight
Alternate names:Classic Battletech: Total Warfare
Designer:Jordan Weisman, Sam Lewis, L. Ross Babcock, III, Randall N. Bills, Herbert A. Beas II, Jason Hardy, Kevin Killiany, Ray Arrastia, David L. McCulloch, Steve Mohan, Jr., Jason Schmetzer, Phaedra Weldon, Dan C. Duval, Drew Williams (I)
Artist:Franz Vohwinkel, Marco Mazzoni, Klaus Scherwinski, Adam Jury, Jason Vargas, Chris Lewis, David M. Stansel-Garner, Shane Hartley, Steve Walker, Troy Stansel-Garner
Publisher:Fanpro +2 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 9, Luck 9, Interaction 5, Complexity 7.9, Theme 8
Strategy9.0
Luck9.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity7.9
Theme8.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Science FictionWargameExpansion for Base-gameFightingMiniaturesVariable Player PowersHexagon GridRole PlayingDice Rolling

Overview

It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across human-occupied space. As star empires clash, these epic wars are won and lost by BattleMechs, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and dozens of other lethal weapons; enough firepower to level entire city blocks. Your elite force of MechWarriors drives these juggernauts into battle, proudly holding your faction’s flag high, intent on expanding the power and glory of your realm. At their beck and call are the support units of armored vehicles, power armored infantry, aerospace fighters and more, wielded by a MechWarrior's skillful command to aid him in ultimate victory. Will they become legends, or forgotten casualties? Only your skill and luck will determine their fate!

The product of more than twenty years of gaming experience, Total Warfare presents the rules of the Classic BattleTech game system as never before. For the first time, all the rules for various units that have a direct impact on the deadly battlefields of the thirty-first century appear in a unified rules set: from BattleMechs to ProtoMechs, Combat Vehicles to Support Vehicles, infantry to aerospace fighters and DropShips. Interwoven and meticulously updated, Total Warfare provides the most detailed and comprehensive rules set published to date for BattleTech—the perfect companion for standard tournament play.

Total Warfare is the single-source rulebook for people who play Classic BattleTech. It is not intended to teach new players the game, but rather to serve as a reference work for people who know the game, while introducing more technologies and expansive rules than appear in the basic box set. The introductory game in the BattleTech line is the Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set. New players should pick up that product before diving into this one. Construction rules for the various units presented in Total Warfare can be found in Classic BattleTech TechManual.

Corrected Second Printing by Catalyst Game Labs.

Expands:

BattleTech BattleTech: Introductory Box Set

Expansions

BattleTech: BattleForce – The Galtor Campaign
BattleTech: Day of Heroes
BattleTech: Era Report – 3052
BattleTech Starter: Fist and Falcon
BattleTech: Field Manual – 3085
BattleTech: Era Report – 3145
BattleTech: Field Manual – 3145
BattleTech: Campaign Operations
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Primitives V
BattleTech: Battle of Tukayyid
BattleTech: Clan Fire Star
BattleTech: Clan Command Star
BattleTech: Clan Heavy Striker Star
BattleTech: Clan Heavy Battle Star
BattleTech: Alpine/Grasslands Battlemat
BattleTech: Desert/Grasslands Battlemat
BattleTech: Clan Support Star
BattleTech: Clan Heavy Star
BattleTech: Clan Striker Star
BattleTech: Clan Ad Hoc Star
BattleTech: Clan Elemental Star
BattleTech: ComStar Command Level II
BattleTech: ComStar Battle Level II
BattleTech: Dark Age Turning Points – Liao
BattleTech: Dark Age Turning Points – Vega
BattleTech: Dark Age Turning Points – Irian
BattleTech: Aerospace Battlemat
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Caveat Emptor
BattleTech: Battle of Tukayyid Supplemental
BattleTech: Chaos Campaign – Succession Wars
BattleTech: Dig, Defend or Die
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Primitives vol 4
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Primitives vol 3
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Primitives vol 2
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Primitives vol 1
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Republic vol 3
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Republic vol 2
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Republic vol 1
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Most Wanted
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – 1945
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Boondocks
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Boondoggles
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – The Clans
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – ComStar
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Corporations
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Davion
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Gladiators
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Gunslingers
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Kurita
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Liao
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Marik
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Mercs
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Periphery
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Pirates
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – RetroTech
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Royal Fantasy
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Steiner
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Succession Wars
BattleTech: Dossiers – Lamenkov's Liability
BattleTech: Dossiers – Salazar Tsakalotos
BattleTech: Dossiers – Youling Zhanshi
BattleTech: Dossiers – Jason Zaklan
BattleTech: Dossiers – The Bounty Hunter
BattleTech: Era Digest – Age of War
BattleTech: Era Digest – Golden Century
BattleTech: Era Digest – Dark Age
BattleTech: Field Report 2765 – AFFS
BattleTech: Battleforce – MapPack
BattleTech: Experimental Technical Readout – Phantoms
BattleTech: Bruderkampf
BattleTech: Era Report – 3062
BattleTech: Empire Alone – An ilClan Era Sourcebook
BattleTech: Eridani Light Horse Hunter Lance
BattleTech: Dominions Divided
BattleTech Legends
BattleTech: Alien Worlds – Crystalline Canyon/Badlands Battlemat
BattleTech: Alien Worlds – Caustic Valley/Mines Battlemat
BattleTech: Alien Worlds – Fungal Crevasse/Washout Battlemat
BattleTech: Alien Worlds – Lunar Base/Sand Drifts Battlemat
BattleTech: Adventures – Ghosts of Obeedah
BattleTech: City/Lunar BFM Battlemat
BattleTech: Clan Spaniel Sourcebook
Battletech: Clan Cavalry Star
Battletech: Clan Direct Fire Star
Battletech: Battlefield Support – Recon & Hunter Lances
Battletech: Battlefield Support – Assault & Cavalry Lances
Battletech: Battlefield Support – Battle & Fire Lances
Battletech: Battlefield Support – Rifle & Command Lances
Battletech: Battlefield Support – Heavy Battle & Sweep Lances
Battletech: Battlefield Support – Objectives
Battletech: 1st Somerset Strikers ForcePack
Battletech: Cities HPG Heliport/Plaza Battlemat
Battletech: Cities HPG Engineering/Business District Battlemat
BattleTech: Cities Central Park/Shopping District Battlemat
BattleTech: Black Remnant Command Lance Forcepack
BattleTech: Battlefield Support – Emplacements
BattleTech: 21st Centauri Lancers Command Lance Forcepack
BattleTech: Brush Wars – Operation Guerrero (Vol 3, Chapter 1)
BattleTech: Bug 'Mech Company
BattleTech: Clan Wolf Fight Points Forcepack
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