Combat Operations: A Battletech Rules Expansion (Battletech)

Rating:
Summary: One Really Fun Book for the Large Scale Player
Review: This book has little to offer the casual player or those who only play in tournaments or pickup games, but to those who hold long-term campaigns or want to hold games on a multi-planatary scale (from a small district to Inner Sphere level conflicts), this book has a lot going for it. From rules for a game along the lines of Risk or FASA's long out of print Succession Wars, military unit formation and maintenence, producing infantry teams, to preparation for battles from any time (data including military equipment from the original Star League to post-Federated Commonwealth Civil War) this has a lot of useful info for those who want to go beyond single battlefields. However, for the more casual player, owning or having a friend who owns it is quite useful, especially for the complete factional unit list, including when certain units were developed, convenient for setting campaigns in times other than the current fiction and story arc.