BW Media Spotlight

For the last Chapter By Chapter review set I had trouble choosing from one of three books, and put it up for a vote. I still don’t know why I can’t get audience participation or feedback most of the time but the only one who voted was a friend of mine who has been trying to get me to review a Doctor Who novel so The Time Travellers won out rather easily. That left two books and I decided to choose the next one. It’s the only part of this franchise I haven’t reviewed, not counting the video games since all I have is a demo of one of them. This basically completes the franchise for now, unless I get more comics in the future or discuss the cartoon further for whatever reason.

BattleTech is a tabletop RPG in the sci-fi mold. When it came out in the 80s Dungeons & Dragons and those inspired by it were the ones you heard about so when I saw the ads in comics the idea of a science fiction role-playing game was new to me. Also grabbing my attention were the ads using the destroids from Robotech, those disposable mecha that you never heard much about because none of the main characters used them when they had transforming planes to fly, were used in the ad. Harmony Gold got wind of this and had a fit, forcing FASA to come up with original mech designs, and it was probably the best thing for them. It led to comics, video games, a cartoon, and novels like the one I’m reviewing this round. Our seventeenth book in the Chapter By Chapter review series is…

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