Learning of a heavily guarded secret route to the homeworld of Clan Smoke Jaguar, the Lords of the Successor States have managed to put aside their differences and create Operation Serpent, a mighty invasion force that launches an all-out assault on the Jaguar Clan. After brutal fighting with heavy losses on both sides, victory for the Defense Force is close at hand, but when a few Clan warriors escape to spread the alarm, the Successor States find themselves in the fight of their lives!.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Bloody slaughter and too many questions unanswered.,
By Jan Reszat (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadows of War (Twilight of the Clans VI, Battletech, Book 40) (Mass Market Paperback)
Of all the books of the Twilight of Clans series, this is for sure the most martial one. Sure, some of the other books really lacked mech combat, but in this case, mass didn't mean style. Okay, a point was to be made: Warfare is brutal, bloody and no sports and in order to justify Victor S-Davion's campaign of annihilation of CSJ, his message had to be delivered with such a slaughter (on both sides) on CSJ's homeworld. And the tense timeline of this fierce battle and the dynamics of those brutal fights are a good base to get the reader's attention. But, the way Gressman describes mech combat seriously lacks the originality and depths of other btech authors (like i.e. the early Stackpole warrior trilogy). Here it's simply a chaotic string of oftenly unrelated scenes of mech combat. This woulda been accetable if Gressman had stuck with a few main characters, but alas he more than once introduces combatants in a passage and never mentions the same character again, leaving the reader wondering what happened to them. Even worse, he neglects the fate of main characters and of complete mech units. For example Russou Howell, who had been built up as main protagonist in 2-3 of the former novels just gets 2 short appearances. Or, what happened to saKhan Brandon Howell, who was skilled enough to be the only CSJ leader not to completely fail at Tukayid (InvClansSB)? What impact did the IS' reserve units have after they got summoned to reinforce the 2 main groups? Etc... Questions over questions - and not every one gets (satisfactorily) answered in the short final passages when Victor's forces arrive and the battle is decided rather abruptly. Contrary to other reader's comments I liked Gressman's detailed logistical descriptions in 'The Hunters' and he was good at that. But here, I just got the impression that Gressman either had to hurry to finish the assault on Diana or that he simply lacks the skill to span a coherent story line for such large scale mech battles. And that's what Btech is about: Mech combat. And therefore only 2 stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
31 Century Mayhem!,
By Max Draking (Clevland, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shadows of War (Twilight of the Clans VI, Battletech, Book 40) (Mass Market Paperback)
Imagine warfare in the 31st century. Do you imagine the slow lumbering tanks of today, or huge bipedal war machines with birdlike agility? In the Battletech trilogy the latter is what it's all about. Shadows of War is the sixth novel in the Twilight of the Clans series. Twilight of the Clans is about the downfall of clan Smoke Jaguar, but in Shadows of War the Jaguars give the Inner Sphere a hard pounding. The last five chapters are all nonstop action! There is one disadvantage though, the absence of illustrations makes it hard to envision some of the mechs. But in the back of the book are pictures of the most common mechs and vehicles! Shadows of War is a very exiting addition to the Battletech trilogy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Must've been written by an Inner Sphere author,
This review is from: Shadows of War (Twilight of the Clans VI, Battletech, Book 40) (Mass Market Paperback)
Just finished this one. Gressman is a weaker author than Stackpole, by far, but I enjoy his work much more than Thurstons. The story is enjoyable, but lacks some credibility. Some of the battles or one on one fights left me saying "no way," or "just silly." Most annoying to me in the whole series has been the *lack* of information on the Inner Sphere side of the annihalation of Clan Smoke Jaguar. It's alluded to this novel, when remnants of the Smoke Jaguars come limping home from a beating given by Prince Victor, but that's it. What is probably the greatest Inner Sphere battles and history is totally glossed over. (Maybe they're leaving it for Stackpole(?)) Still, like all the Twilight of the Clans series, it's a must read to keep up on the events of Operation Serpent and Operation Bulldog. A word of warning: DO NOT read the little advert for Prince of Havoc in the back of this book; to my mind it gives some major spoilers for the upcoming novel by Stackpole.
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