![]() "Star League Tech, Heavy 'Mech Design" (44 pages)Ĭover: B&W Illustration of 3 'Mech in the midst of urban combat. It appears to be stapled through the spine (saddle stitched) from the poor images available of this issue. (This is the last issue face stapled.)Ĭover: B&W Illustration of 5 'Mech walking through a valley with buttes. NOTES: Unlike many later issues, this issue is not stapled in the spine from folded 11" by 17" print stock, but rather appears to be printed on 8 ½" by 11" paper common in consumer printers and stapled from the face. "Vehicles, Katachen Variants, New 'Mechs" (44 pages)Ĭover: B&W Illustration of a Swift Wind scout car with a female combatant looking on with one leg perched on a rock. Issue price of $2.50.Ĭover: B&W Illustration of a seated Katrina Steiner reading the BattleTech 20 Year Update. Issue price of $2.50.Ĭover: B&W Illustration of an apparent command or support group of vehicles and personnel with a Cyclops 'Mech. 2"Ĭover: B&W Illustration of a number of 'Mechs firing jump jets. "Medium 'Mechs, Michael Stackpole Interview, Excerpt from Blood Legacy pt. Issue price of $2.00.Ĭover: B&W Illustration of a female combatant perched atop machinery holding a large, smoking gun. "Planetary Assaults, Reviews, New Fighter, The Pipeline"Ĭover: B&W Illustration of an aerospace battle. "LAMs, Tactics, Q&A, Optional Rules, An Official FASA Optional Rule"Ĭover: B&W Illustration of an Unseen Wasp, a LAM, and 4 distant LAMs in fighter mode. "Light 'Mechs, 'Mech Variants, Figures in Review, Date Line: The Front, Star Base Detroit, Rules Variants"Ĭover: B&W Illustration of an Unseen Wasp running at the reader brandishing a medium laser. This publication is considered apocryphal for the assumption that the publisher held a license from FASA to publish BattleTech content otherwise, it would be outright noncanon. Issues from 23 onward were saddle stitched and thought to be more widely distributed… peaking at 50 or more North American hobby stores in the early 1990s, almost exclusively in the US. All known regular issues lacked color printing, but the covers after wider distribution were of heavier color paper stock. Earlier issues may be considered a regional, self-published fanzine and later issues a more widely distributed specialty magazine with more professional printing. ![]() The first 18 issues are known to have a very low distribution, no more than 600 issues. With very limited advertising, original artwork was published in each issue. Donald Lail and others.įuture Wars was a fan-made, unofficial BattleTech publication that ran for 41 issues and a "best of" issue. See the article's section on Canonicity for details. ![]() Although it is an official BattleTech product, the subject of this article does not meet the current criteria for Canon for the BattleTech universe. ![]()
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