"Ideal War" for the Knights of the Inner Sphere (meh). "Main Event" and "D.R.T." if you want to get to know the Black Thorns (I wouldn't). Merc Books: "Wolf Pack" if you read about Wolf's Dragoons. SPINE "Natural Selection" and "Assumption of Risk". Jade Phoenix Trilogy: if you like the Clans, or want to know about their culture, read it. SPINE Blood of Kerensky Trilogy: major events and sets the universe of 3050+ I consider the Grey Death and Dragoon book spine, but they don't deal with "main characters" Skip unless you're a completionist and masochist. "Sword and the Dagger" is painful to read. Really builds characters and you see another merc company for more than hired guns. Wolf's Dragoons ("Wolves on the Border" and "Heir to the Dragon"): My 3025 favorites. Grey Death Legion Trilogy: Meh, but it adds to the 3025 universe, and you can see the start to one of the Lyran's top mercs. SPINE Warrior Trilogy: Gives you some big events and sets the universe very well. If something tickles your fancy, read it before continuing, as some of them may be spoiled later on. Without some background in the universe, I would read spine novels first. To start from the beginning? 2025? Clans? Like info on the Clans? Only want the big events? I'll give you my list and reasons/short review. Warrior Trilogy -> Blood of Kerensky Trilogy -> Twilight of the Clans -> Coleman Civil War Trilogy.ĭepends on what you want. If you only want to read a few, go in this order. There are no Jihad novels, only the source books, and some Battlecorps serials, though if you pay attention, there is a lot of foreshadowing even pretty far back. The books from the "mechwarrior" series, easily IDed by the MW3 logo with red madcat, are more "day in the life" type stories.Īll of the novels are set pre-Jihad, with Endgame, the last novel, ending about a year before the Jihad kicks off. The Twilight of the clans straddles the line somewhat, because about half the books have a POV that does not include any leaders of the Successor States directly. Coleman picks up the main plotline for the Fedcom Civil War in Patriots and Tyrants, Storms of Fate, and Endgame.Įverything else, with the exception of the Twilight of the Clans set, follows smaller stories set against the backdrop of the main arc. They follow the leaders of the successor states directly and supply the background to all the other novels. These are the main story arc of Battletech. Read them in chronological order if you can, starting with the Warrior Trilogy. Start with the Stackpole novels, all of them.
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