BattleTech: Maximum Tech Revised Edition 1700 FASA

Maximum Tech added many new rules to the base BattleTech game play. Published after the addition of the Clans to the game, the book focused on technologies and rules that affected game play in the 3056 time frame and later.Included in the rule book were additions for new terrain types, a replacement rule for Line-of-Sight (LOS) that took into account a special case, and weather and extreme conditions. All of the rules in the source book are optional and were intended to add to game play. Finally, the book introduced the Battle Value (BV) system for evaluating 'Mech and vehicle abilities.Several of the rules that were first introduced into BattleTech through Maximum Tech became tournament legal with the publication of Total Warfare, including using a MechWarrior's piloting skill as the base for physical attacks.From the back cover“ Rediscovered Star League technology gives the Inner Sphere a new edge on the battlefield! But new weapons require new tactics; now as never before, ingenuity