Total Warfare provides rules how maps may (or may not) be placed to form bigger playing fields, and provides that in the absence of actual mapsheets (e.g. Under AeroTech rules, each hex on the low altitude map corresponds with a mapsheet at the ground level. Under standard rules the mapsheet is also referred to as a unit of distance with the range of artillery pieces being originally expressed in terms of the number of mapsheets (or "boards") a given unit could fire. The back was a blank hex board in earlier editions such blank playing fields are not considered tournament-legal maps though. As published, BattleTech mapsheets have terrain, including vegetation, hydrologic features and topography marked. On a standard mapsheet the hex size as originally printed is approximately 1.25 inches and depicts terrain 30 meters (roughly 100 feet) across. Additionally there is an unaddressed half hex column on the sides of the mapsheet that make up a "sixteenth column" when multiple mapsheets are tiled. There are fifteen columns, 01XX through 15XX, and there are nominally 17 rows, XX01 through XX17. This basic mapsheet, two of which are included in each boxed set, is a standardized size and has an addressing scheme printed on the map in a staggered row and column format. The printed size of a standard mapsheet is 22 inches by 18 inches (not 22 by 17 as many rulebooks suggest). The standard mapsheet layout has remained unchanged from the original Battledroids edition through to the latest editions, though there have been cosmetic changes. 8.2 BattleMat: Battle of Tukayyid Collection.7.2 BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat.6.7 And Hell Followed With Him Worldwide Event 2020.6.2 Map Pack Worldwide Event 2018 Terrain Set.3.2 Solaris VII: The Reaches Sourcebook.3.1 Solaris VII: The Game World Boxed Set.Various fan organizations and third parties have created custom mapsheets for tournaments or general gaming. Players are free to create hex-based terrain to play on, and earlier mapsheets had backs with blank hex grids on which players could draw terrain features as desired. The game can be played on essentially any terrain. Sets with other playing maps were later produced as game supplements.Īlthough a number of "official" mapsheets exist for BattleTech, players are by no means required to use these. Typically, two mapsheets would be included with every boxed set. In the classic BattleTech board game, as well as in most other games set in the BattleTech universe, the main gameplay takes place on a mapsheet with hexagonal playing fields. Once this title clears the Moratorium period, or if it already has, please consider revisiting this article and updating it with the new material, removing this tag once all information has been added. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.This article needs to be updated with material from BattleTech: Essentials, BattleTech: Mercenaries, Map Pack: City, Map Pack: Savannahs, BattleMat: City, BattleMat: Savannahs. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. ![]() These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. ![]() We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. ![]() Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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