From the monthly archives: February 2011
The following product has a Street Date of MARCH 30TH, 2011:
BattleTech 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set ($49.95)
Strap yourself into the ultimate suit of armor: the BattleMech. Thirty feet tall and weighing up to a hundred tons, this humanoid engine of destruction is a walking arsenal with enough firepower to level a city […]
Continue Reading →The devastating assaults of the Jihad have ravaged many of the factories that made House Steiner’s Lyran Alliance the epitome of industrial and commercial might. For the first time in centuries, Hesperus II was seized by a foreign power, and even the capitol world of Tharkad lived under the yoke of the Word of […]
Continue Reading →Once again, the printer has been most kind to snap some photos and pass them along. The 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set has reached the final stage! As you can see by the photos below, it’s collating and starting to be boxed up in preparation to start shipping to the distributor come this weekend.
That […]
Continue Reading →For Immediate Release
Catalyst Game Labs and Ulisses Spiele are pleased to announce they have entered into a new, long-term licensing agreement for the BattleTech intellectual property. Ulisses will shortly begin development of a full BattleTech publication program, including the Introductory Box Set, the award-winning core rulebook line starting with Total Warfare, the perennial […]
Continue Reading →I like to think of logos (whether flags, crests, insignias, and so on) as the unsung heroes of art within the BattleTech books. They usually don’t blow people away, nor get them excitedly discussing this or that scene, and so forth. However, from the start BattleTech made heavy use of insignias to help accentuate the […]
Continue Reading →Every time I go to type that phrase, my fingers want to substitute “worm” in there…
I got in some photos from the printer and immediately wanted to share as the 25th Anniversary Box Set moves that one step closer to completion. The boxes will be done by this weekend and collation will start on […]
Continue Reading →I have to admit, if I had to generate a blog post on the scale of Parts 1 and 2, I’d cry uncle today (been grinding out the migration of data for a new site the last week and I’m beat).
Luckily, there isn’t a pile of art notes when it comes to the various […]
Continue Reading →Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to announce the following additional products are in development for release during the second quarter of 2011.
ERA REPORT: 3062
For three hundred years, the nations of the Inner Sphere waged war in the name of the fallen Star League, sending armies of MechWarriors into battle for glory and power. […]
Continue Reading →Color art notes often hold a special place with me. Not that B&W illustrations aren’t wonderful…a well-crafted line illustrations can be incredibly powerful and dynamic. However, we don’t get to do a lot of color illustrations in BattleTech. And when we do, such as covers, it almost always must orient around the central theme of […]
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