The data for the TRO was pulled from Heavy Metal Pro v5, which is (sadly) showing its age post-Total Warfare rules. Once that was done, I had to go through the entire TRO and make sure the Battle Values listed agreed with what was on the Record Sheets. Had to redo a good portion of the writeup. Got rid of the TSM, restored the Streaks, etc. Then Eric pointed out that you cannot put a launcher in the Center Torso and its Artemis in the Head anymore. More and different rounds in the expanded bins, more armor and still deadly. So I dutifully changed them out for Artemis-enhanced launchers. I had to re-design the Champion II for the Word of Blake because in retrospect, putting TSM and Streak missile launchers together is a blunder of the First Order. *** UPDATE*** There is no love at the Satak house. Consulting the original collection of record sheets, it actually happened that the MUL had to be updated in a couple of places! Between Heavy Metal Pro and MML, we got the numbers correct and I am as sure as I can be that the data has been entered correctly. Working as we did, we used the TRO itself as the ‘bible’ in the end, consulting the Master Unit List at the end to ensure our Record Sheets were complete. In my opinion, it is the equal of any TRO cover ever made. It looks amazing… keeping the original layout but adding polish and clarity to the point where you can actually see the pilots in the machines. Chris Daranouvong and Anthony Scroggins finished the cover. With the exception of one last piece, it is done. The TRO has been assembled and put into book form. Now get back to work and find all the rest of the record sheet bugs before we go live!!! The 'S' stands for 'Sho' Nuff' when it comes to spotting errors, and while he may be persona non grata over at the company boards, he is welcome to come to dinner at my house any time. I repaired that error and several others last night, courtesy of Eric S. Gosh!! If someone had come up to me at the end of May and told me that I accidentally put a jump jet in the right *arm* of the Free Worlds League Vulcan, I would have laughed them off. I had to supply a couple of extra pieces, but he did a hell of a lot of good, solid work and my hat is off to him. We even assembled the Magistracy’s Thunderbolt using this method.Īll of the record sheets use the images provided by Denis Pottkämper of Germany. It was a lot of work and I made quite a few mistakes, but we got our VTOLs, our aerospace fighters and vehicles using fractional accounting nailed down. We are including a side bar with hypertext - zip down the side and click on the unit you want and presto! the sheet pops up right in front of you. We are including the cost of the machine in C-Bills. While compressing it, we have incorporated new features into the Record Sheets and the Master Unit List. Stephen Huda worked off a design originally done by James Lafferty. I just received a donation that paid off the last bit of art - as you can see above. That's right, about 2% of the original size. The largest file I have seen thus far - with everything basically in place - is about 13mb. We are currently working on reducing the file size while maintaining the hi-rez printouts. And I want this to be easy to get, to pass around. It takes too long to download, for one thing. It is a huge old beast - as mentioned in a past blog post, we have the high-rez Record Sheets clocking in at about 550mb. The project is done and on the launchpad. If any of the above links fails, please visit the link below to get your copies. *** I have been having trouble maintaining the integrity of the files on my OpenDrive account. Also inside is a section on the playtesting of the entries and an illustration of the various miniatures we created for our playtest. This includes the art we did not use, as well as sketches and alternate views. Art of the TRO - a fifty-plus page book outlining the evolution of the TRO art. QuickStrike Cards - these are cards corresponding to each record sheet they are for use with the BattleForce version of the game. Record Sheets: 3063 - as you might imagine, a PDF file containing all the record sheets for the TRO entries, including all the variants mentioned in each entry. There are several additional books you can download that are directly associated with this TRO. The other is Print-quality and is about 95mb. There are two versions: one is Web-quality and about 37mb in size. The fan-made BattleTech Technical Readout:3063 is finished.
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