MechWarrior

MechWarrior is often used as an alternative moniker or brand name for BattleTech-related products and publications. It can refer to:

In-universe

• MechWarrior (pilot), a neo-feudal warrior piloting (and typically owning) a BattleMech
• MechWarrior (rank), used by some factions as the lowest rank for a BattleMech pilot

Games

Tabletop game

• The MechWarrior: Dark Age and later MechWarrior: Age of Destruction (MWDA/MWAoD) boardgame and its setting, a miniatures-based collectible game by WizKids using the Clix system and rules. A distinct boardgame from Classic BattleTech, it was initially set some 60 years ahead of the classic BattleTech universe timeline and had its own novel line (see below). It was discontinued as a separate game, and its setting, timeline and novels were since overtaken by and incorporated into the classic BattleTech game line.

Role-playing games

The MechWarrior Role Playing Game (RPG) series:

• MechWarrior, First Edition by FASA.
• MechWarrior, Second Edition by FASA.
• MechWarrior, Third Edition by FASA; reprinted by FanPro in 2007 as Classic BattleTech RPG with new name and cover art to avoid confusion with the then-new MechWarrior: Dark Age brand.
• A Time of War and A Time of War Companion by CGL, this RPG system is informally also known as "MechWarrior, Fourth Edition".
• MechWarrior: Destiny by CGL; a new, rules-light approach to roleplaying in the BattleTech universe devised not to supplant A Time of War, but to serve as an alternative ruleset.

Video games

• The MechWarrior series of video games:
  • MechWarrior
  • MechWarrior (SNES), a heavily altered SNES port of the aforementioned MechWarrior PC game amounting to a separate game
  • MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat & Ghost Bear's Legacy expansion pack
  • MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (a stand-alone title distinct from the aforementioned MechWarrior 2, but using the same game engine)
  • MechWarrior 3 & Pirate's Moon expansion pack
  • MechWarrior 4: Vengeance & Black Knight expansion pack
  • MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
  • MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
  • MechWarrior 3050, a SNES console game featuring near-identical cover graphics to MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat despite being a totally different game

• MechWarrior Online (MWO)
• MechWarrior: Tactical Command
• MechWarrior Tactics, canceled in 2014 while still in closed beta stage
• MechWarrior: Living Legends (unofficial fan creation)

Novels

• The MechWarrior series, six unrelated novels published between 1999 and 2002 alongside the classic BattleTech novels under the Roc Books imprint, set in the classic BattleTech setting and era
• The summary title of a German omnibus edition of the first three novels in the aforementioned MechWarrior novel series
• The MechWarrior: Dark Age novel series pubilshed from 2002 to 2008 in the eponymous MechWarrior: Dark Age setting (see above), distinct from the aforementioned MechWarrior novel series

Other

• MechWarrior: Legends art book