Classic Battletech Campaign Mercenaries

Character CreationBuy a Mech and Pilot Skills, with a total Budget of Eight Million C-BillsYou start as a 7/7 pilot, and must buy training to increase it as detailed later. Skills must remain within 1 of each other, so no 1/6 pilots, but a 4/4, 3/2, or 6/7 pilot are all legal. Mech must be a Stock Variant, filters set to innersphere, succession wars, introductory rules, and a maximum on the year of 3030.Any Funds left over becomes your starting reserve.You must also select a Secondary speciality for your character (your primary being Mechwarrior) These specialties will allow you to complete bonus objectives/abilities in missions.Choose from: Communications, Computers, Mechanics, Scrounging/Salvage, Demolitions, Negotiations, SensorsDeathIf you die you lose all accumulated C-Bills, and character improvements, and restart as a new character with a penalty of 750k C-Bills per preceeding character death, to a minimum of 5M C-BillsCharacter ImprovementFor the sake of simplicity, all character improvement will be bought with C-Bills rather than using any xp system.Skill ImprovementGunnery and Piloting skills must be kept within 1 of each other same as in character creation. However specialty skills do not.Current Skill - Cost to ImproveSkill 7 - 0 (you start here) C-BillsSkill 6 - 250,000 C-BillsSkill 5 - 500,000 C-Bills (750,000 total)Skill 4 - 1,000,000 C-Bills (1,750,000 total)Skill 3 - 2,000,000 C-Bills (3,750,000 total)Skill 2 - 4,000,000 C-Bills (7,750,000 total)Skill 1 - 8,000,000 C-Bills (15,750,000 total)Skill 0 - 16,000,000 C-Bills (31,750,000 total)Skill -1 - 5,000,000,000 C-Bills (5,031,750,000 total)Secondary SpecialtyPurchase an Additional Secondary Specalty - 2,000,000 C-BillsYou may only have two specialties. EdgePlayers are heroes, and all heroes need luck. Edge is this luck. It can be used to force a reroll in almost any situation (GM makes the final call if it is allowed) everything from rerolling a missed shot to rerolling a fatal crit on yourself. Depending on the situation your GM will require a gunnery or piloting check. The first time you use your edge you must equal or exceed your gunnery or piloting. Each time you use your edge the difficulty is increased by 2. You cannnot Edge a roll that is granted by Edge.ie a 4 gunner misses a shot so he uses his edge to reroll it. He needs a 4 or better. Regardless of success or failure later in the same session he recieves a critical hit that he would like rerolled. He then rolls and edge roll using his 5 piloting however this time the difficulty has gone up and there is a +2 modifier on the difficulty. So he needs to make a 7 or better. A person can only have so much luck.

Missions & Loyalty RatingEach Mission will cover approximately a 3-month space of time that will cover travel time, and operations, with the Exception of Extended Campaigns, as noted below.When a mission is concluded, the players will be given the options of three different missions, from three different Employers (usually one of the Great Houses) Choosing one mission will earn you loyalty rating with that employer if it is one of the Great Houses, other employers will offer extra rewards in place of Loyalty, however the other employers will lose loyalty rating. All ratings start at Zero, and at certain breakpoints, positive, or negative, will enable certain effects, such as being offered salvage rights on a mission, or reduced prices on certain equipment, or having the Bounty Hunter sent after the group.Extended CampaignsExtended campaigns are a series of linked missions, that offer greater rewards than other missions types, they also cover a greater period of time, typically one year with three to five missions during that period.Loyalty RatingSusessfully completeing a mission will earn +3 loyalty rating, turning down a mission will lose you 1 Rating from that employer. Fleeing from a mission with less than 50% of your force Disabled/Distroyed will lose you 5 rating from an employer. Bonus Objectives in a Mission may also earn varying amounts of loyalty.At each break point you earn additional considerations from your employers, you gain the benefits listed at your Highest/Lowest value, plus any preceeding values.Positive+5 Discount on Equipment+10 C-Bill Equivalent Salvage+15 Offered Extended Campaign Missions+20 Rare/Unique Equipment available for purchase+25 +30Negative-5-10-15-20-25-30

Purchasing Mechs & Other EquipmentMechsEach time a missions are available for selection, a selection of Mechs will be available for sale as well. These mechs will be chosen (mostly) at random.Refit PackagesRefit packages will also be available, these will allow you to make customizations to a certain degree, and are effectively vouchers that represent a reservation of time and space in a facility, and can be saved, to be used when desired.Refit Type A - Factory Refit - Up to 10 changes made - no restrictionsRefit Type B - Facility Refit - Up to 8 changes made - Skeleton and Engine Changes prohibitedRefit Type C - Dropship Refit - Up to 6 changes made - Armour, Heat Sink, Skeleton and Engine Changes prohibitedRefit Type D - Field Refit - Up to 4 changes made - Jump Jet, Actuator, Armour, Heat Sink, Skeleton and Engine Changes prohibited