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BattleTech is a Mecha turn-based strategy
video game developed by Harebrained Schemes
and published by paradox Interactive. In the
game, the player assumes the role of a
mercenary commander leading a "mech lance",
or a group of four giants
humanoid shaped powerful
combat vehicles called
battlemechs. battletech's
wargaming core and the
prevalence of warfare in
the franchise's
fictional
universe makes
weaponay a key
technology.
the game takes place during
the 3025 succession wars era,
in which powerful noble
houses employ an ever-
shrinking number of giant
fighting vehicles cALLED
BATTLEMECHS PILLOTED BY
INDIVIDUALS CALLED
MECHWARRIORS, TO FIGHT FOR
CONTROL OF THE INNER SPHERE.
tHE SMALL NUMBER OF
REMAINING MECHS MAKES THEM
EXECPTIONALLY VALUABLE TO