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{{InfoBoxProduct
| image               = Tactical Handbook cover.jpg
| name                = ''Tactical Handbook''
| type                = Rulebook
| author              = 
| development         = [[Rob Cruz]]<br />[[Scott Jenkins]]<br />[[Sam Lewis (person)|Sam Lewis]]
| primarywriting      = [[Jim Long]]<br />[[Stuart Johnson]] (LAM rules)
| pages               = 80
| cover               = [[Doug Chaffee]] (Painting)<br />[[Joel Biske]] (Design)
| interiorart         = 
| illustrations       = [[Paul Daly]]<br />[[John Paul Lona]]
| publisher           = [[FASA]]
| productioncode      = 8630
| year                = 1994
| ISBN10              = 1555602126
| ISBN13              = 978-1555602123
| MSRP                = $12.00
| content             = 
| era                 = [[Clan Invasion era]]
| timeline            = ca. [[3055]]
| series              = 
| precededby          = 
| followedby          = 
}}
==Description==
The '''''BattleTech Tactical Handbook''''' was the first expansion to the [[BattleTech]] board game that included so called [[Rules Level Three]] optional rules and equipment. These rules included the much-maligned [[Combat Value]] system for balancing force and the [[Double-Blind rules]] that enable players and a gamemaster to allow both sides the use of hidden units. Plenty of new arms, armor, and ammunition debuted. Some of the equipment and rules were later included in ''[[Maximum Tech]]''.

==From the back cover==
{{quote|'''''Thirty-one hours ago''' your [[lance]] commander ordered you into position. Twenty-eight hours ago you finished draping the thermal camo tarps over your [['Mech]]. And for the past 27 hours you've been sitting in your cockpit, systems on minimum power, waiting in the dark — waiting for the [[Clans]].''

'''''Suddenly''' your thermal sensors detect multiple 'Mechs moving 100 meters directly ahead. Your fingers fly over the weapons controls, disengaging [[PPC]] field inhibitors, hot-loading [[LRM]]s... green board. A single pull of the trigger sends fiery missile plumes and white-hot plasma streaking through the air, and the night erupts in a lethal inferno...''

''The '''BattleTech Tactical Handbook''' is an advanced-rules supplement for the '''BattleTech''' game universe. The '''Handbook''' provides advanced rules and equipment that enables players to add new depth and intensity to their games. Guidelines for creating long-term campaigns and double-blind games, formulas for calculating the combat values of all '''BattleTech''' combat units, detailed descriptions of advanced weapon systems and more make the '''BattleTech Tactical Handbook''' a necessity for the serious '''BattleTech''' player.''}}


==Contents==
* Introduction
* New Rules
** [[Thunder LRM]]s
** [[Double-Blind Rules]]
** Operational Game
** [[Combat Value]]s

* [[Rules Level 3|Level Three]] Rules
** Modified Movement Sequence
** [[Artillery]]
** BattleMech Engine Explosions
** BattleMech Sensors
*** Electromagnetic Sensors
*** Seismic Sensors
*** Thermographic Sensors
** Craters
** Disengaging PPC [[Field Inhibitor|field inhibitor]]s
** [[Four-Legged 'Mech]]s
** Hidden Placement
** [[Hot Loading]] LRMs
** Hull-Down Rules
** [[Interlocking]] Streak Missiles
** Jumping Fire
** [[Land-Air BattleMech]]s
** Line of Sight
*** Partial Cover
** MechWarrior Damage
** Selecting Terrain Elevation

* New Equipment
** Ballistic Weapons
*** [[Caseless AC/10|Caseless Autocannon]]
*** [[Hyper-Velocity Autocannon]]s
*** [[LB-X Autocannon]]s
*** [[Mech mortar|'Mech Mortar]]s
*** [[Ultra Autocannon]]s
** Missile Systems
*** [[Acid (AX) Warhead]]
*** [[Fragmentation Missile|Anti-Personnel (AP) Warhead]]
*** [[Dead-Fire Missiles]]
*** [[ELRM-10|Extended Long-Range Missiles]]
*** [[Heat Seeking Warhead|HS (Heat Seeking) Warhead]]
*** [[Magnetic-Pulse Warhead]]
*** [[Smoke Warhead]]
*** [[Streak Missile System]]s
*** [[Tandem-Charge Warhead|TC (Tandem-Charge) Warhead]]
*** [[Thunderbolt Missile|Thunderbolt Launcher]]
** Physical Weapons
*** [[Claw]]
*** [[Mace]]
** BattleMech Accessories
*** [[Angel ECM Suite]]
*** [[Bloodhound Active Probe]]
*** [[Command Console]]
*** [[Coolant Pod|Coolant System]]
*** [[Mechanical Jump Booster]]s
*** [[Watchdog System]]
** Defensive Armaments
*** [[Blazer Armor]]
*** [[Glazed Armor]]
*** [[Laser Anti-Missile System]]
** Static Defenses
*** Bunkers
*** Field Works
*** Fortifications
*** Installations
** MechWarrior Gear
*** [[Ablative/Flak Cooling Suit and Vest]]
*** [[Computer Voice Circuit]]
*** [[Damage-Interrupt Circuit]]
*** [[SLDF]] [[Neurohelmet#SLDF Neurohelmet|Neurohelmet]]

* Weapon and Equipment Tables

==Notes==
* A number of pieces of optional equipment are carried over from ''[[Unbound]]'', an earlier book with optional tech.
* The ''Tactical Handbook'' was the last official publication to include the rules for construction and use of [[Land-Air 'Mech]]s, the previously tournament legal designs moved to optional/non-legal status with this book, signaling their decline and removal from the BattleTech universe.<ref>''Interstellar Operations'' pp. 105–106 shows LAMs are extinct in [[3050]], and are listed as Experimental Technology.</ref>
* The book was written from perspective of the early to mid-3050s, including still non–tournament legal "prototype" [[Inner Sphere]] versions of the previously [[Clan]]-only [[LB-X Autocannon|LB-X]] and [[Ultra Autocannon]]s and [[Streak Missile System|Streak launchers]] which would later become [[Rules Level 2]] with the ''[[Field Manual: Draconis Combine]]'' and ''[[Field Manual: Free Worlds League]]'' prior to their "official" inclusion in [[BattleTech Master Rules]].
* A number of pieces of equipment described here, such as the [[ELRM-15|Extended Long-Range Missiles]] systems, are not tournament legal. Instead they have been recategorized as [[Advanced Technology|Advanced]] or [[Experimental Technology]]. This equipment is defined further in ''[[Interstellar Operations]]'' and ''[[Tactical Operations]]''.
* The trademark title was ''BattleTech Tactical Handbook''.

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