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Battletech Field Manual: Crusader Clans

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An excellent Field Manual, loaded with sourcebook-class information on the following Clans:

Blood Spirit, Fire Mandrill, Hell's Horses, Ice Hellion, Jade Falcon, Star Adder, Wolf

Plus, a relatively full section showing the statistics of the units of every Clan.

The Clan's new Gnome and Salamander suits are shown here, along with the new Heavy Lasers, the Blood Kite 'Mech, the Hellfire 'Mech and the Hellion OmniMech.

The only beef I have with it is it has that useless section in the back on making scenarios.

Like the DCMS field manual, This book sets standards. In the future, when FASA releases updated info, this will be the critics frame of referrence. As a GM and Player of both the RPG and the tabletop game, I think the book is excellent. While updating the info on existing clans and filling in information about the "home" clans, this book delivers a excellent view of the crusader clans right before the "Twighlight". Though everyone knows what happens to them, I think that having a little information about the Smoke Jaguars would have been nice. Overall this book is a must for almost every kind of Battletech player.

This book is a role-playing supplement at its best; it contains great information for game masters (ie personalities, factions, and excellent unit overviews). It does have the traditional roleplaying fault of being top-heavy; not enough time is spent describing the 'typical' unit or tactics. The main problem with this supplement is that it is purely first-person. As much as college literature classes are saying that 3rd person is dead, at least for a game it is important that some perspective is given from a 'neutral' point of view- ie a twentieth century viewpoint- to stress subtleties that they wouldn't notice about themselves or their societies. Minor quibble; otherwise an excellent supplement.

What can I say but wow. The Boys at FASA really when all out on this one. The history is quite intense. Not much good for the traditional Fire and Slag players who focus on the battles, but it is an excellent referance for any GM's who run the Mechwarrior Role playing game. The color artwork of the new clan's painting skeems and uniforms are excellent. A must have for any die hard Battletech collector.

The historical background of the new Clans is very-very nice , I still miss a Fieldmanual of the "warden/homeworld Clans" .

I loved the detail FASA put into this one, one practically comes away jumping to play one of the4 new Clans, or revise one's J-F or Wolf forces to work within the new guidlines. Though it did not have enough new tech for my liking, the Heavy lasers and special elementals were a welcome addition to my Clanner arsenals. The only problems I really had were FASA's usual toying with it's history(continuity, people, continuity). But, this is over lookable when one takes into account the wondeful new feature this book had: a complete index! That, if anything makes this book worth 3 stars, and the complete breakdown of the clan galaxies and special modifiers based on their tactics(in some cases on a cluster by cluster basis) makes this a superb addition to the Battletech line...and I look forward to introducing standard elementals to the Gnome and Salamander suits.

I tell ya something this universe is ADDICTIVE!!! I first starting liking battletech when mechwarrior first came out..then when mech2 came out for the puter this is hwere I REALLY got into it right now I am Khan tableslayer of Clan wolf on Mplayer and this really helps me with ideas and such heck I enjoy reading it because of the details in battle history....(battle history MY FIRST LOVE!!!) anyhows it shows really though how weak the crusader faction is because almost every clan, ie. hells horses upper keshik have warden views. To this Point I can say that this is like the Calm before the "GREAT BOOK" comes out and thats the Warden Field manual...and boy I already have it pre-ordered just waiting for FASA to release it.

All in all an excellent source for Crusader minded individuals who wish to roleplay accurately. Gives good information on backgrounds of each CLan though it at times lack key information (then again The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky at times fills this gap). Excellent updates as to the state of the Crusaders. A must have for Clan players, Warden and Crusader alike.

Not enough game information but plenty of lore to keep diehard fans drooling.