Hide and Seek During the Pentagon Civil War, the House Liao-aligned Congress-class frigates Long March and Noble House battle the House Davion-aligned Black Lion-class battlecruiser Michael Norman on 8 October 2802. The BattleSpace game includes a rulebook, a sourcebook that provides the history of naval warfare and the statistics and descriptions of those ships currently in the Inner Sphere, two 22' x 34' full color mapsheets, color counters with stands, ship record sheets, and two six-sided dice.īattleSpace is a boardgame for 2 or more players ages 12 and up. Fully compatible with BattleTech, the BattleSpace game system adds a whole new dimension to the wars of the future. As the mighty armies of two civilizations clash on the far-flung worlds of humanity, their interstellar armadas wage war in the infinite battlefield of space.īattleSpace, the new system of aerospace combat in the 31st century, thrusts you straight into the heart of this vast arena, where JumpShips, DropShips, and WarShips fight to carry their deadly 'Mech cargoes into battle. It is 3056, centuries since the fall of the Star League, and the Successor States of the Inner Sphere face their greatest threat ever - The Clans, warlike invaders from beyond known space. The rules have since undergone considerable change, to the point where the stats for capital ships as published in the original version of the Technical Readout: 3057 (which was conceived as a companion Technical Readout for BattleSpace) had to be changed. It would in turn later be replaced by AeroTech 2 the most recent and up-to-date edition of the aerospace and space combat rules is spread over the most recent set of rulebooks ( Total Warfare, TechManual, Tactical Operations, and Strategic Operations). It expanded the latter's concepts and incorporated information from the DropShips and JumpShips sourcebook and other Clan Invasion era publications, focusing on WarShips instead of aerospace fighters. BattleSpace was a space combat game set in the BattleTech universe, replacing the outdated AeroTech.

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