Battletech's Conventional Infantry Equipment: One Man's Descent into Maddness
Here's the worst thing about being a data person who's into Battletech: The part of your brain that notices inconsistencies is screaming bloody murder. I have spent hours comparing different lists of equipment and trying to understand those inconsistencies only to repeatedly throw my hands up in frustration. Here is my story: I have, for a while now, wanted to build a comprehensive list of Battletech information for my own purposes (research, mostly). Most of us would reasonably start with the Battletech core rulebooks. And predictably, Techmanual has three different tables for conventional infantry equipment: 1) general equipment stats 2) availability and cost information and 3) battle value. Seems pretty straightforward right? Just type up or scan in the table and you are off the races. Well, I convinced myself to check the errata. In 2022 CGL revised the conventional infantry the equipment pretty substantially. Why did they do this? They do not say. A little bit of...