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Originally Posted by Captain Vlad

The only official simulation based on the actual Battletech board game stats and numbers.

Kind of one of those official not official things I guess... FASA wanted to really get into the computer side of things but they kept having these visions of something like the 3D cockpit versions and kept blowing off the board game version thinking it was not what people wanted.. Funny thing, had we been able to complete it the way we wanted and sell it, I have no doubt it would have become one of the top selling Battletech games of all time.... and we just could not make FASA realize that this game based 1 for 1 on the board game books, manuals, charts, dice and everything WAS what players wanted..

Ralph had started implementing things like Armor, infantry, AeroTech, emplacements and fortifications and more into the game at this point as well as Clan tech. Sadly, we will never see the end result although what we do have now is fully playable up and through Clan tech. I have a unit I have run for years now in the game that I play still... That unit was started in 1992 or so. I just spent a few days a couple months ago playing again.. It is one of those games I still today go back to when the mood hits.

But Since it did not have flashy graphics and animations, they (FASA) felt it was not good enough... I personally have no doubt that opinion was wrong... but they owned the ultimate rights to the name Battletech and since the game was designed as a 1 for 1 board version on computer we could not sell it without their ok.