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14k Triad (CapellanPirates)
"Named after an iconic East Asian criminal gang from Terran history, 14k has managed to evade most of the attention of the Capellan authorities by sticking to legal businesses in the Confederation, while 'gifting' regularly the Chancellor Maximillian Liao with a portion of its profits. This has allowed them to expand their drug trafficking, slavery and racketeering activities to rimward Periphery worlds."
Ali Baba's Thieves (RegulanPirates)
"A group of pirates originally operating on the Principalty of Regulus, Ali Baba's Thieves take their name from the classic Terran novel, 'One Thousand and One Nights'. They are know to prey on travellers in the Periphery."
Alphard Trading Company
"The original Alphard Trading Corpo... -
Third Party Mod Compatibility List
A list of third party mods and their compatibility with Hyades Rim (HYR). Please use this channel to suggest/report about other mods you've tested. Use any of these mods at your own risk.
Recommended (all optional add-ons and/or improved experience)
CAB 3025
Colorful Flashpoints
Navigation Computer
BattleTech Performance Fix (disable ContractLagFix due to a bug)
Safe (according to reporting on Discord)
Advanced Difficulty Settings
AmmoCookOff
BTMLColorLOSMod
BetterBaseDefense
BetterMortar
BTCommanderAbilities
BuffMasterTactician
CareerLeopardStart (with Career only, incompatible with Campaign)
Commander_Background_and_Quirks
CommanderPortraitLoader
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These are the tracks I've been listening and getting inspiration while writing the new story.
A Youtube playlist with all those tracks is available here: BattleTech 3025 Hyades Rim Soundtrack.
1. The Black Angels - "You On The Run"
2. Bob Marley - "Exodus"
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising"
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Beat The Devil's Tattoo"
5. Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Dazzle"
6. Blondie - "Atomic"
7. Ennio Morricone - "Death Rides A Pale Horse"
8. Bauhaus - "Third Uncle"
9. Sisters of Mercy - "Gimme Shelter"
10. Joy Division - "Wilderness"
11. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - "I Hate Myself For Loving You"
12. Garbage - "Temptation Waits"
13. Johnny Cash - "The ... -
* A new BattleTech story and Campaign mode, consisting of 36 planned new flashpoints, based on the unofficial history of the Arano Restoration where Kamea Arano wasn't presumed killed as the ComStar cover-up claims (a.k.a. original campaign). Instead, she was exiled and the company entered the service of canon BattleTech figures such as Interstellar Expeditions and Chandrasekhar Kurita and the real events of the Aurigan campaign were suppressed.
* Twenty-eight original flashpoints released, campaign mode only: You On The Run, Exodus, Evil Eye, The Periphery Is A Harsh Mistress, The Mad Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Here Might Be Dragons, Jinxed, It Came From The Rim, Death's Mask, God Mecha, Amaris Legacy, Tales of 1001 BattleMechs, The Man Comes Around, Danse Macabre, Putting O... -
The Hyades Rim campaign will consist when finished of 36 campaign flashpoints and divided into three parts, with several subarcs running parallel to Kamea's story.
Flashpoints marked with an asterisk * are unfinished/unwritten yet.
Part 1
You On The Run (Kamea)
Exodus (IE)
Evil Eye (IE)
The Periphery Is A Harsh Mistress (Satan's Kittens)
The Mad Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Satan's Kittens)
Here Might Be Dragons (Satan's Kittens)
Jinxed (Jinxie and the Banshees)
It Came From The Rim (IE)
Death's Mask (IE)
God Mecha (Autocracy of Leh)
Amaris Legacy (IE/Autocracy of Leh)
Tales of 1001 BattleMechs (Kamea)
The Man Comes Around (Kamea/IE)
Danse Macabre (Kamea)
Part 2
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* For most of the campaign you'll use the Hysteria (Leopard), and only get the Argo at the end of part 2, with the Question Of Faith campaign flashpoint.
* All of the original campaign contracts have been modified and the text rewritten according to the new story.
* Several of the new campaign flashpoints have consecutive deployments. This is done to increase the challenge of having to run multiple operations with limited assets, and for story telling proposes, since the story of the flashpoint involves fast operations. Certain flashpoint choices can reduce the number of consecutive deployments or allow you to use third-party 'Mechs.
* The original flashpoints of the five Inner Sphere factions are optional to play during the campaign, and will immediately precede the 4th ... -
The UNK variants are divided into around twenty different types, with internal mod designations consisting of alphabetic letters. They can only appear in the new factions added by this mod and will never appear in the canon BattleTech factions.
A - 'Hero'
C - Engine Double Heat Sinks
E - Energy Capacitators
F - MASC
G - Improved Missile
H - Improved Ballistic
I - Inferno/FAEs/Flamers
J - Improved Jump Jets
M - Dummy weapons
N - Melee mods
O - Battle Computer
P - Cannons/MGs
Q - Energy weapons
R - Lostech (not used)
S - Lostech (not used)
T - Tek BattleCom
UNK - Star League weapons and gear
W - Lostech (not used)
X - ECM Guardian
XX - Active Probe
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Hello there,
My initial idea for the Hyades Rim came when I started playing the new BattleTech after it was released. I remember being initially frustrated that I couldn't explore the star map right away and being restricted to the Periphery until the campaign was explored (and started modding the game right away). While I haven't played much BattleTech over the years, and it was mainly limited to a few hours of tabletop during the 80s using cardboard 'Mech figures, and the Crescent Hawk and MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries videogames, I was hooked into its universe and bought as many novels and sourcebooks as I could.
Even still, I loved the campaign and career modes and played over a thousand hours of it, most of it unmodded. But when the Urban Warfare DLC was released...