User:Fish

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If you've found this page, congrats. I stumbled into BattleTech backasswards from a 2022 Arma 3 YouTube video and I've been slowly sinking ever since. I'm a big fan of BattleTech lore, own a growing collection of sourcebook PDFs (and some physical books- they're expensive!) and am working on writing up character pages...lots and lots of character pages.

Proud author of 3659 character pages! Also several random other things!

Planning Board

To Do:

• Finish FM:FWL (Done!)

• Write unit officers for FM:FS (Done!)

• Write ComStar officers for FM:CS (Done!)

• Write pilot cards, various sources (Done for now - thanks Tom!)

• Big project, update all units with FM: 3085 info (Paused, CCAF, DCMS, AFFS, FWL, & LCAF done).
  • Sub-goal, data-mining OTP: Capellan Crusades for characters (Done!).
  • Sub-goal, write unit officers for Field Manual: Lyran Alliance (Done!).
  • Sub-goal, write AFFS officers and LCAF officers for Field Manual: Updates (Done!).
  • Sub-goal, make sure all FWLM officers from Updates have pages (Done!).

• Write rest of FM: ComStar characters (Done!)
  • Incidentally write Black Watch characters from Twilight of the Clans (Done!)

• Mine First Succession War and Second Succession War sourcebooks for characters (Done!).

• Add non-apocryphal material to Jihad (Chronology) and Republic Age (Chronology) (Done!).

Timeline Project

• Fill commanding officer timelines using below sources (mercenaries optional) (Active).
  • Write regular officers from 3025-era House books (House Marik, Davion, & Steiner done).
  • Write characters/character info from Brush Wars 1(?).
  • Write characters/character info from NAIS 4SW Atlases.
  • Write characters/character info from War of 3039.
  • Write regular officers from 20 year update (Free Worlds League & FedCom done).
  • Write regular officers from Objective Raids.
  • Write characters from Chaos March.
  • Write DCMS characters from FM:DC and FM:U.
  • Write CCAF characters from FM:CC and FM:U.
  • Write Clan characters from FM:WC, FM:CrC, & FM:U.
  • Write info from Shattered Sphere.
  • Write characters from Field Report 2765: LCAF.
  • Turning Points: Tyrfing characters (Done!).
  • Turning Points: Orbisonia characters.
  • Turning Points: Mallory's World characters.
  • Turning Points: Misery characters.
  • Turning Points: Galtor characters.
  • Operational Turning Points: Falcon Incursion characters/info.

Future Plans

• Write corporate characters from Handbooks and House books.

• Write mercenary characters (many sources, very scattered, yikes).

• Notable pilot pages from various sources.

• Turning Points Characters, Focus On characters, 'phonebook' scenario characters.

• Personal reminder: ask HF22 about list of characters to work on at some point - especially if all goals finished.

Resources

Books owned: (PDF)

• ilClan Recognition Guides volumes 1-6.
• Technical Readout(s) 3039, 3050U, 3055U, 3058U, 3075, 3085, 3145 & 3150. TRO: Golden Century.
• Experimental Technical Readout: Royal Fantasy.
• Dawn of the Jihad & Jihad Hot Spots: 3070, 3072, 3076 & Terra; also Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents.
• Historical: Operation KLONDIKE & Historical: Reunification War.
• FedCom Civil War.
• Jihad Turning Points: Luthien, New Avalon, Tharkad, Sian & Atreus.
• Operational Turning Points: REVIVAL Trials & Capellan Crusades.
• Turning Points: Tyrfing.
• Every classic Field Manual, Field Manual: Updates, Field Manual: Mercenaries Revised, Field Manual: 3085, Field Manual: 3145 & Field Manual: SLDF (unfinished, paused).
• Era Report: 3052.
• The Falcon and the Wolf.
• Invading Clans.
• The Wars of Reaving.
• Jade Falcon Sourcebook.
• Wolf Clan Sourcebook.
• First & Second Succession War sourcebooks.
• 20 Year Update.
• House Marik, Steiner, Kurita, and Davion sourcebooks.

(Physical)

• Dominions Divided.
• Empire Alone
• ilClan.

(eBooks)

• Shrapnel Issues 1-6.
• Exodus Road.
• The Blood of Kerensky & Legend of the Jade Falcon trilogies.
• Jaguar's Leap.
• Icons of War.

Also in possession of an Atlas & Quickdraw miniatures that I got from the Mercenaries Kickstarter launch party. The pizza was pretty good. I got a lot of 'Mechs killed.