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BattleTech Core Rules Master Index Topic Subtopic Book Page Ab/flak (ablative/flak) armor A Time Of War 287 Abandoned units Tactical Operations 216-17 Abandoned units Tactical Operations 196-98 Abandonment Strategic Operations 26-27 Abandonment Strategic Operations 314 Ability restrictions A Time Of War 219 Ablative armor A Time Of War 287 Able spaceman A Time Of War 357 Abstract command system Strategic Operations 266 Abstract ground support Strategic Operations 308 Abstract space support Strategic Operations 308 Abtakha A Time Of War 28 Acceleration engagement phase Strategic Operations 82 Acceleration engagement phase Strategic Operations 81 Acceleration Tactical Operations 24 Accidental entry: battle armor Total Warfare 228 Accidental falls from above large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164 Accidental falls from above mobile structure Tactical Operations 173 Accidental falls from above Tactical Operations 154 Accidental falls from above sideslipping Total Warfare 68 Accidental falls from above Total Warfare 63 Accidental fires Tactical Operations 43 Accurate weapon Strategic Operations 193 Achievements A Time Of War 331 Acid (AX) missiles Tactical Operations 367 Acrobatics A Time Of War 141-42 Acting A Time Of War 142-43 Action complexity A Time Of War 167 Action injury modifiers A Time Of War 182 Action phase A Time Of War 206-18 Action phase A Time Of War 166-89 Action phase A Time Of War 164 Action rating A Time Of War 141 Action resolution, basic A Time Of War 40-42 Action A Time Of War 38-43 Action check modifiers A Time Of War 41 Action check table A Time Of War 40 Action check A Time Of War 19 Actions aerospace units Strategic Operations 48 Activation hex Strategic Operations 101 Last updated: 2/21/2011

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Ab/flak (ablative/flak) armor A Time Of War 287Abandoned units Tactical Operations 216-17Abandoned units Tactical Operations 196-98Abandonment Strategic Operations 26-27Abandonment Strategic Operations 314Ability restrictions A Time Of War 219Ablative armor A Time Of War 287Able spaceman A Time Of War 357Abstract command system Strategic Operations 266Abstract ground support Strategic Operations 308Abstract space support Strategic Operations 308Abtakha A Time Of War 28Acceleration engagement phase Strategic Operations 82Acceleration engagement phase Strategic Operations 81Acceleration Tactical Operations 24Accidental entry: battle armor Total Warfare 228Accidental falls from above large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Accidental falls from above mobile structure Tactical Operations 173Accidental falls from above Tactical Operations 154Accidental falls from above sideslipping Total Warfare 68Accidental falls from above Total Warfare 63Accidental fires Tactical Operations 43Accurate weapon Strategic Operations 193Achievements A Time Of War 331Acid (AX) missiles Tactical Operations 367Acrobatics A Time Of War 141-42Acting A Time Of War 142-43Action complexity A Time Of War 167Action injury modifiers A Time Of War 182Action phase A Time Of War 206-18Action phase A Time Of War 166-89Action phase A Time Of War 164Action rating A Time Of War 141Action resolution, basic A Time Of War 40-42Action A Time Of War 38-43Action check modifiers A Time Of War 41Action check table A Time Of War 40Action check A Time Of War 19Actions aerospace units Strategic Operations 48Activation hex Strategic Operations 101

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Active minefield Tactical Operations 209-10Active minefield Tactical Operations 208Active minefields Strategic Operations 287Active mines (land) Tactical Operations 364Active probe TechManual 252Active probe TechManual 204Active probe Total Warfare 238Active probe Total Warfare 228Active probe Total Warfare 134Active probe Total Warfare 129Active probe (PRB) advanced sensors Strategic Operations 118Active probe (PRB) ECCM Strategic Operations 111Active probe (PRB) Strategic Operations 280-81Active probe (PRB) Strategic Operations 349Active probe (PRB) Strategic Operations 345Active probes Tactical Operations 278Active probes Tactical Operations 219Active probes Tactical Operations 102Active probes Tactical Operations 99Active sensors Tactical Operations 219Actuator damage braced limb Tactical Operations 84Actuator damage climbing and Tactical Operations 22Actuator Enhancement System Tactical Operations 380Actuator Enhancement System Tactical Operations 279Actuator Enhancement System Tactical Operations 278Actuators TechManual 32Ad hoc unit creating Strategic Operations 268Ad hoc unit Strategic Operations 322Adhesives Total Warfare 291Adjacent ground units: LOS Total Warfare 99Adjacent hexes Strategic Operations 225Adjustable to-hit modifiers Strategic Operations 360Administration A Time Of War 143Adolescent warfare A Time Of War 67Advanced aerospace unit base engine formulae Strategic Operations 147Advanced aerospace unit battle values Strategic Operations 160-61Advanced aerospace unit chassis design Strategic Operations 144-46Advanced aerospace unit combat Strategic Operations 94Advanced aerospace unit control systems Strategic Operations 149-50Advanced aerospace unit costs Strategic Operations 158-60

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Advanced aerospace unit crew tables Strategic Operations 150Advanced aerospace unit design-armor Strategic Operations 152-53Advanced aerospace unit design-heat sinks Strategic Operations 151Advanced aerospace unit design-Record Sheet Strategic Operations 159Advanced aerospace unit design-steps Strategic Operations 144Advanced aerospace unit design-weapons/ammo/other equipment Strategic Operations 153-59Advanced aerospace unit electronic warfare Strategic Operations 110-13Advanced aerospace unit engine/control systems installation Strategic Operations 146-51Advanced aerospace unit fuel table Strategic Operations 147Advanced aerospace unit general rules Strategic Operations 94-117Advanced aerospace unit Record Sheet Strategic Operations 11Advanced aerospace unit types Strategic Operations 145Advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 145Advanced anti-aircraft Strategic Operations 96Advanced anti-aircraft Strategic Operations 94Advanced atmospheric control rolls Strategic Operations 97-98Advanced blip counters Strategic Operations 280Advanced chain of command Strategic Operations 300Advanced combat modifiers Strategic Operations 283-84Advanced espionage Strategic Operations 268-69Advanced fire control TechManual 217–18Advanced fire control (AFC) Strategic Operations 345Advanced force balancing Strategic Operations 311Advanced force distribution Strategic Operations 301Advanced formations Strategic Operations 330Advanced formations Strategic Operations 329Advanced heat Strategic Operations 96Advanced initiative Strategic Operations 277Advanced initiative Strategic Operations 63Advanced maintenance Strategic Operations 174-75Advanced maneuvers-vehicles Tactical Operations 25-26Advanced military organization Strategic Operations 300Advanced movement diagram Strategic Operations 65Advanced movement sequence Strategic Operations 277Advanced movement Strategic Operations 64-66Advanced movement Strategic Operations 269-72Advanced point defense weapons Strategic Operations 96-97Advanced rules components Strategic Operations 261-62Advanced rules game terms Strategic Operations 260-61Advanced rules Interstellar operations Strategic Operations 9

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Advanced rules level Strategic Operations 260Advanced rules miniatures Strategic Operations 386Advanced rules naval C3 Strategic Operations 352Advanced rules organization of Strategic Operations 260Advanced rules strategic operations Strategic Operations 8-9Advanced rules tactical operations Strategic Operations 8Advanced rules Strategic Operations 212Advanced Rules Record Sheets Tactical Operations 11-13Advanced sensors shadows and Strategic Operations 116Advanced sensors shadows and Strategic Operations 114Advanced sensors Strategic Operations 117-19Advanced short range missile launcher TechManual 261advanced support vehicles building damage Tactical Operations 120advanced support vehicles engine explosion Tactical Operations 78advanced support vehicles fractional accounting Tactical Operations 377advanced support vehicles large naval vessel damage Tactical Operations 159advanced support vehicles mobile structure hits Tactical Operations 172advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 255advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 254Advanced tactical missile (ATM) system TechManual 229Advanced tactical missiles Strategic Operations 360Advanced terrain Strategic Operations 270-72Advanced unit design-space Strategic Operations 143Advanced unit design-technology base Strategic Operations 143Advanced unit design-type Strategic Operations 142-43Advanced unit design-weight Strategic Operations 143Advanced unit high speed closing engagements Strategic Operations 74-85Advanced unit landing and liftoff (expanded) Strategic Operations 71-74Advanced unit Strategic Operations 62-63Advanced weapons: equipment aerospace units Total Warfare 251Advanced weapons: equipment mounting Total Warfare 228Advanced weapons: equipment Total Warfare 129Advanced weapons: equipment Total Warfare 124Advanced worlds A Time Of War 369Aerodyne DropShips air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234Aerodyne DropShips facing Strategic Operations 75Aerodyne DropShips firing arc Strategic Operations 233Aerodyne DropShips ground-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234Aerodyne DropShips liftoff/landing/ground movement Strategic Operations 223Aerodyne DropShips small craft damage Strategic Operations 361

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Aerodyne DropShips space movement Strategic Operations 224Aerodyne units high-altitude movement Total Warfare 80Aerodyne units movement Total Warfare 92Aerodyne units Total Warfare 235Aeronautics technician A Time Of War 157Aerospace abstract system Strategic Operations 18-21Aerospace armor points per ton TechManual 192Aerospace armor weapon space TechManual 192Aerospace attacks Strategic Operations 233-36Aerospace attacks Strategic Operations 290Aerospace Battle Value TechManual 312–14Aerospace cockpit TechManual 211–12Aerospace damage status Strategic Operations 174Aerospace destroyed Strategic Operations 175Aerospace ejection Strategic Operations 26-27Aerospace engines- fusion/turbine TechManual 215Aerospace fighter A Time Of War 28Aerospace fighters TechManual 180Aerospace fighters TechManual 13Aerospace forces Strategic Operations 202-3Aerospace gunnery A Time Of War 147Aerospace miniatures Strategic Operations 391-93Aerospace miniatures Strategic Operations 408Aerospace miniatures Strategic Operations 403Aerospace missiles Strategic Operations 309Aerospace movement Strategic Operations 220Aerospace movement costs A Time Of War 208Aerospace movement costs A Time Of War 206Aerospace pilot A Time Of War 96Aerospace piloting A Time Of War 152Aerospace Record Sheets Strategic Operations 11-13Aerospace sizing Strategic Operations 249Aerospace spotting Strategic Operations 280Aerospace structure TechManual 224Aerospace weapon classes TechManual 331Aerospace weapons/equipment BV TechManual 318Aerospace assignment: random Total Warfare 272Aerospace atmospheric movement BattleForce Strategic Operations 220-23Aerospace atmospheric movement BattleForce Strategic Operations 215Aerospace atmospheric movement phase Strategic Operations 273-75

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Aerospace atmospheric movement phase Strategic Operations 263Aerospace atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 220-23Aerospace attack modifiers table Total Warfare 237Aerospace carriers dismounting from Total Warfare 226-27Aerospace carriers Total Warfare 225Aerospace element conversion Strategic Operations 380Aerospace element conversion Strategic Operations 358Aerospace element conversion Strategic Operations 357Aerospace element transport Strategic Operations 325Aerospace fighter bay Strategic Operations 345Aerospace fighter/small craft heat point table Total Warfare 161Aerospace fighters infernos Total Warfare 141Aerospace fighters Total Warfare 23-24Aerospace fighters (PPCs and) Tactical Operations 103Aerospace fighters(s) attacks Strategic Operations 233Aerospace fighters(s) bay Strategic Operations 345Aerospace fighters(s) conversion Strategic Operations 363Aerospace fighters(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358Aerospace fighters(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 231Aerospace fighters(s) gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Aerospace fighters(s) ground-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234Aerospace fighters(s) overheat value Strategic Operations 362Aerospace fighters(s) sensor/FCS hits Strategic Operations 381Aerospace fighters(s) targeting capital missiles Strategic Operations 117Aerospace fighters(s) Strategic Operations 327Aerospace fighters(s) Strategic Operations 26Aerospace movement phase atmospheric Total Warfare 78-84Aerospace movement phase control rolls Total Warfare 92-93Aerospace movement phase evasive action Total Warfare 77Aerospace movement phase facing Total Warfare 77Aerospace movement phase high-G maneuvers Total Warfare 78Aerospace movement phase mapsheets Total Warfare 75Aerospace movement phase matching mapsheets to low altitude hexes Total Warfare 91-92Aerospace movement phase rolling Total Warfare 77-78Aerospace movement phase scale Total Warfare 76Aerospace movement phase space Total Warfare 76Aerospace movement phase stacking Total Warfare 78Aerospace movement phase terms Total Warfare 74-75Aerospace movement phase thrust points Total Warfare 76Aerospace movement phase Total Warfare 86-91

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Aerospace movement phase Total Warfare 37Aerospace Operations Strategic Operations 244-59Aerospace pilots damage Total Warfare 41Aerospace record sheets Total Warfare 30Aerospace small craft Strategic Operations 361Aerospace space BattleForce Strategic Operations 224Aerospace space BattleForce Strategic Operations 215Aerospace space movement phase Strategic Operations 276-79Aerospace space movement phase Strategic Operations 263Aerospace space movement phase Strategic Operations 224Aerospace Technologies Strategic Operations 122-41Aerospace transport (AT#) Strategic Operations 345Aerospace unit armor table TechManual 191Aerospace unit atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 55Aerospace unit critical hits Tactical Operations 75Aerospace unit damage Strategic Operations 177Aerospace unit defending modifier Strategic Operations 37Aerospace unit force balancing Strategic Operations 161Aerospace unit fuel consumption Strategic Operations 34-35Aerospace unit gale Tactical Operations 61Aerospace unit grappling Tactical Operations 200Aerospace unit heat sinks table TechManual 193Aerospace unit infantry vs. infantry actions Tactical Operations 199-200Aerospace unit landing/lifting off Tactical Operations 209Aerospace unit linked scenarios Strategic Operations 47-50Aerospace unit missed shots Tactical Operations 82Aerospace unit movement/weapon resolution Strategic Operations 47Aerospace unit on ground mapsheets Tactical Operations 185-86Aerospace unit random assignment Strategic Operations 56-57Aerospace unit random assignment Strategic Operations 50-53Aerospace unit rearming Tactical Operations 214Aerospace unit record sheet TechManual 28–29Aerospace unit record sheet TechManual 182Aerospace unit rolling maps Tactical Operations 215Aerospace unit search and rescue Strategic Operations 47Aerospace unit storm Tactical Operations 61Aerospace unit structural costs/availability TechManual 283Aerospace unit tornado Tactical Operations 62Aerospace unit TechManual 285Aerospace unit TechManual 19

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Aerospace unit TechManual 9Aerospace units cargo movement Strategic Operations 41-44Aerospace units cargo movement Strategic Operations 42Aerospace units gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Aerospace units infantry vs. infantry actions Strategic Operations 36-38Aerospace units miniatures Strategic Operations 399-400Aerospace units morale and fatigue Strategic Operations 38-41Aerospace units orbital obstacles Strategic Operations 44-45Aerospace units search and rescue Strategic Operations 45-47Aerospace units armor-piercing ammunition Total Warfare 140Aerospace units atmospheric combat Total Warfare 240-50Aerospace units atmospheric damage Total Warfare 249Aerospace units collisions: ramming Total Warfare 240Aerospace units combat Total Warfare 98Aerospace units critical damage Total Warfare 124Aerospace units damage recording Total Warfare 121Aerospace units death from above Total Warfare 149Aerospace units destruction Total Warfare 128Aerospace units dumping ammunition Total Warfare 104Aerospace units ground mapsheets Total Warfare 242Aerospace units ground units and Total Warfare 234-35Aerospace units heat Total Warfare 158Aerospace units hit location table Total Warfare 237Aerospace units movement Total Warfare 91-92Aerospace units multiple targets modifier Total Warfare 110Aerospace units other weapons: equipment Total Warfare 251Aerospace units physical attack Total Warfare 144Aerospace units plasma weapons Total Warfare 139Aerospace units scenario set-up Total Warfare 256Aerospace units scenarios Total Warfare 258Aerospace units space combat Total Warfare 235-36Aerospace units stealth armor system Total Warfare 142Aerospace units swarm attack Total Warfare 222Aerospace units vehicles: firing arcs Total Warfare 104Aerospace units Total Warfare 238-40Aerospace units Total Warfare 234-35Aerospace units Total Warfare 160-61Aerospace units Total Warfare 266Aerospace units Total Warfare 26Aerospace units Total Warfare 25

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Aerospace units Total Warfare 20Aerospace units on ground miniatures Strategic Operations 391-92Aerospace vehicles Strategic Operations 122-26Aerospace weapon range table Total Warfare 235Aerospace weapons equipment battle value table Tactical Operations 385AeroTech 2 TechManual 8Aerotechnology TechManual 174–75Aesthetics A Time Of War 359-61Affiliation TechManual 146Affiliation TechManual 145Affiliation key TechManual 290Affliation changing A Time Of War 55Affliation changing A Time Of War 53Affliation limits A Time Of War 49Affliation A Time Of War 53-64Affliation A Time Of War 258Affliation A Time Of War 52Affliation A Time Of War 50Age A Time Of War 74Age A Time Of War 71Age of War A Time Of War 28Age of War A Time Of War 25Aggregate experience Strategic Operations 333Aggregate experience Strategic Operations 330Aggregate weight by force Strategic Operations 334Aggregate weight by force Strategic Operations 333Aging A Time Of War 332-33Aging A Time Of War 49Agitator A Time Of War 74AgroMech A Time Of War 28Aimed shot modifiers A Time Of War 176Aimed shot modifiers A Time Of War 172Aimed shot A Time Of War 173Aimed shots building damage Tactical Operations 120Aimed shots heat Total Warfare 160Aimed shots leg attacks Total Warfare 220Aimed shots specialized attacks Total Warfare 110Aimed shots swarm attacks Total Warfare 220Air Strategic Operations 256-57Air defense Arrow IV Strategic Operations 308

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Air mobile structure carrying units Tactical Operations 170Air mobile structure collisions Tactical Operations 167Air mobile structure line of sight and Tactical Operations 171Air mobile structure movement Tactical Operations 165Air navigation A Time Of War 150Air support Strategic Operations 205Air tactics A Time Of War 156Air vehicle gunnery A Time Of War 147Air vehicle piloting A Time Of War 152Airborne aerospace units attack direction Total Warfare 119Airborne aerospace units firing arcs Total Warfare 104-5Airborne aerospace units hit location Total Warfare 120Airborne aerospace units LOS Total Warfare 99Airborne aerospace units specialized attacks Total Warfare 110Airborne aerospace units stacking Total Warfare 58Airborne aerospace units weapons firing Total Warfare 107Airborne aerospace units Total Warfare 242Airborne infantry suppressing fire and Tactical Operations 87Airborne non-aerospace units height Total Warfare 99Airborne non-aerospace units specialized attacks Total Warfare 111Airborne non-aerospace units stacking Total Warfare 57Airborne targeting Tactical Operations 180-81Airborne units aerospace elements-attack direction Strategic Operations 405Airborne units capital-scale weapons Strategic Operations 104Airborne units facing and Strategic Operations 403Airborne units line of sight and Strategic Operations 404Airborne units miniatures Strategic Operations 405Airborne units accidental falls Total Warfare 152Airborne units falling units and Total Warfare 152Airborne units hiding Total Warfare 259Airborne units Total Warfare 242Airborne vehicle picking up Tactical Operations 96Airborne-to-orbit fire Strategic Operations 110Airborne-to-orbit fire Strategic Operations 103Airborne-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 108-9Airborne-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 295Airborne-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 103Airburst mortars Tactical Operations 373Air-defense arrow missiles Tactical Operations 353Airship atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54

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Airship gale Tactical Operations 61Airship hail Tactical Operations 57Airship heavy industrial zones and Tactical Operations 31Airship storm Tactical Operations 61Airship template table Tactical Operations 241Airship tornado Tactical Operations 62Airship zip lines Tactical Operations 219Airship random altitude change table Total Warfare 205Airship support vehicle Tactical Operations 249Airship support vehicles crashes Total Warfare 81Airship support vehicles high-altitude movement Total Warfare 80Airship support vehicles hit location Total Warfare 206Airship support vehicles movement Total Warfare 84Airship support vehicles thrust points Total Warfare 76Airship velocity table Total Warfare 204Airships advanced movement Strategic Operations 270Airships atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 220Airships conversion Strategic Operations 358Airships fixed-wing TechManual 112Airships liftoff/landing/ground movement Strategic Operations 223Airships structural integrity TechManual 130–31Airships support vehicles Strategic Operations 363Airships support vehicles TechManual 11Airships support vehicles fuel table TechManual 126Airships Strategic Operations 359Airships TechManual 129Airships TechManual 116Airships TechManual 111Airships evasive action Total Warfare 77Airships Total Warfare 204-5Airships Total Warfare 25Air-to-air arrow (AAA) missiles Tactical Operations 357Air-to-air Arrow IV missile Strategic Operations 309Air-to-air attacks Total Warfare 241-42Air-to-air attacks/combat abstract Strategic Operations 21Air-to-air attacks/combat miniatures Strategic Operations 408Air-to-air attacks/combat miniatures Strategic Operations 399Air-to-air attacks/combat Strategic Operations 234Air-to-air refueling Strategic Operations 35Air-to-ground attack modifier table Total Warfare 243

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Air-to-ground attacks miniatures Strategic Operations 408Air-to-ground attacks miniatures Strategic Operations 399Air-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234-36Air-to-ground attacks Total Warfare 242-47Air-to-ground attacks (shielding) Tactical Operations 20Alcor bush ape A Time Of War 242Allotments starting A Time Of War 49Alpha strike Strategic Operations 302-3Altered energy weapon damage Tactical Operations 83-84Alternate ID A Time Of War 108Alternate munitions Strategic Operations 308-10Alternating crews Strategic Operations 71Alternating movement Strategic Operations 277Alternating movement Strategic Operations 273Alternating movement Strategic Operations 269Alternative munitions Tactical Operations 386Alternative munitions Tactical Operations 352Altitude bombing Strategic Operations 235Altitude miniatures Strategic Operations 408Altitude miniatures Strategic Operations 401Altitude miniatures Strategic Operations 400Altitude miniatures Strategic Operations 388Altitude Strategic Operations 220Altitude bombing Total Warfare 246Altitude changing Total Warfare 84Altitude Total Warfare 43Altitude bombing scatter Tactical Operations 178Amaris Stefan A Time Of War 26Amaris- Stefan TechManual 14Ambidextrous A Time Of War 108Ambush A Time Of War 361Ambush Strategic Operations 303Ammunition Advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 98-99Ammunition Advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 153-59Ammunition autocannon TechManual 208Ammunition battle armor TechManual 170–72Ammunition combat vehicles TechManual 107Ammunition critical hit effects Total Warfare 125Ammunition dumping Total Warfare 104Ammunition expenditure Total Warfare 103-4

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Ammunition expenditure/tracking Strategic Operations 186Ammunition explosions Strategic Operations 98Ammunition explosions Total Warfare 41Ammunition feed problem Strategic Operations 196Ammunition ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 194Ammunition heat Total Warfare 160Ammunition heavy weapon TechManual 324–25Ammunition heavy weapon TechManual 294–96Ammunition hit Strategic Operations 230-31Ammunition hit Strategic Operations 381Ammunition IndustrialMech TechManual 74–75Ammunition missile TechManual 261–62Ammunition missile TechManual 230–31Ammunition missile TechManual 171Ammunition NARC TechManual 232–33Ammunition non-missile TechManual 170–71Ammunition ProtoMech TechManual 88–89Ammunition quality Strategic Operations 192Ammunition support vehicles TechManual 136–37Ammunition swapping Strategic Operations 186Ammunition weight of TechManual 149Ammunition Strategic Operations 360Ammunition Tactical Operations 102Ammunition TechManual 57Ammunition TechManual 21Ammunition Total Warfare 161Amphibious (AMP) Strategic Operations 345Analysis skill field A Time Of War 83Angel ECM (AECM) Strategic Operations 345Angel ECM suite Tactical Operations 279Angel ECM suite Tactical Operations 278Angel ECM suite Tactical Operations 102Angels on our shoulders Total Warfare 230-33Angle of attack Strategic Operations 76-77Animal antipathy A Time Of War 108Animal empathy A Time Of War 108Animal handling A Time Of War 143AniMelee A Time Of War 240Annapolis A Time Of War 380-82Anthropologist skill field A Time Of War 82

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Anti-’Mech attacks infantry Total Warfare 220-23Anti-’Mech attacks skill Total Warfare 220Anti-’Mech attacks skill level Total Warfare 40Anti-’Mech attacks Total Warfare 30Anti-aerospace capital laser targeting mode Strategic Operations 100Anti-aerospace capital laser targeting mode Strategic Operations 99Anti-aircraft specialists Tactical Operations 193Anti-aircraft targeting Strategic Operations 323Anti-aircraft targeting Strategic Operations 193Anti-aircraft weapon TechManual 148Anti-battle armor pods Total Warfare 130Anti-BattleMech attacks TechManual 310Anti-infantry weapons A Time Of War 212-13Anti-Mech skill rolls Tactical Operations 108Anti-Mech trained infantry Tactical Operations 217Anti-Mech (AM) attacks-miniatures Strategic Operations 399Anti-Mech (AM) infantry Strategic Operations 322Anti-Mech (AM) Strategic Operations 345Anti-Mech battle armor TechManual 167Anti-missile system TechManual 204Anti-missile system cluster hits Total Warfare 116Anti-missile system Total Warfare 129-30Anti-missile system (AMS) Strategic Operations 345Anti-missile system (AMS) Strategic Operations 98Anti-missile system (AMS) Strategic Operations 97Anti-missile systems Tactical Operations 99-100Anti-personnel gauss rifle TechManual 255Anti-personnel gauss rifle TechManual 218Anti-personnel pods (A-pods) TechManual 204–5Anti-personnel weapon TechManual 310Anti-personnel weapon TechManual 271Anti-personnel (AP) mortars Tactical Operations 373-74Anti-personnel Gauss rifle Total Warfare 135Anti-personnel pod Total Warfare 130Anti-personnel weapons: battle armor Total Warfare 218Anti-radiation (ARAD) missiles Tactical Operations 368Anti-ship (AS) electronic warfare (ASEW) missiles Tactical Operations 358Anti-ship (AS) missiles Tactical Operations 358Anti-ship electronic warfare missiles Strategic Operations 309Anti-ship electronic warfare missiles Strategic Operations 111

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Anti-ship missiles Strategic Operations 309Appraisal A Time Of War 143Archaeologist skill field A Time Of War 82Archaic melee weapons A Time Of War 262Archaic melee weapons A Time Of War 261Archaic melee weapons A Time Of War 260Archaic ranged weapons A Time Of War 261Archaic ranged weapons A Time Of War 260Archaic weapons TechManual 272–73Archery A Time Of War 143Arcturus A Time Of War 376-77Area effect damage A Time Of War 179Area effect weapons A Time Of War 172-73Area effect A Time Of War 213Area-effect (AE) weapons Total Warfare 246-47Area-effect (AE) weapons Total Warfare 172-75Area-effect (AE) weapons Total Warfare 275Area-effect (AE) weapons Total Warfare 219Area-effect (AE) weapons Total Warfare 112Area-effect weapon combat damage Tactical Operations 66Area-effect weapon construction factor Tactical Operations 122Area-effect weapon engine explosion Tactical Operations 78Area-effect weapon fires and Tactical Operations 45Area-effect weapon large naval vessels Tactical Operations 159Area-effect weapon minefields Tactical Operations 207Area-effect weapon miniatures Strategic Operations 396Area-effect weapon rail support vehicle damage Tactical Operations 153Area-effect weapon shielding Tactical Operations 20Area-effect weapon Strategic Operations 104Ares Conventions A Time Of War 28Ares Conventions A Time Of War 26Ares Conventions A Time Of War 25Ares conventions Strategic Operations 247Arm and shoulder actuators hit Strategic Operations 381Arm blown off Total Warfare 125Arm critical hit Total Warfare 126Arm damage-Mech Strategic Operations 176Arm destroyed Strategic Operations 381Arm hits Total Warfare 124-25Arm Total Warfare 186

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Armament (conventional infantry) TechManual 272–73Armed melee damage A Time Of War 180Armor advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 152-53Armor advanced conventional infantry Tactical Operations 12Armor advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 252-54Armor BattleMechs TechManual 33–34Armor BattleMechs TechManual 56Armor building Tactical Operations 130-31Armor combat vehicles TechManual 105–6Armor conditions Tactical Operations 219Armor conversion Strategic Operations 357-58Armor conversion Strategic Operations 379Armor damage aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Armor damage infantry Strategic Operations 177Armor damage Mech Strategic Operations 176Armor damage ProtoMech Strategic Operations 177Armor damage vehicle Strategic Operations 177Armor degradation A Time Of War 186-88Armor diagram Strategic Operations 12Armor diagram TechManual 54–55Armor diagram TechManual 252–53Armor diagram TechManual 23–26Armor diagram TechManual 28Armor effects A Time Of War 190Armor fighter squadron Strategic Operations 28Armor fighters TechManual 190–93Armor fractional accounting Tactical Operations 376Armor FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Armor increased effectiveness A Time Of War 192Armor IndustrialMech TechManual 72–73Armor IndustrialMech TechManual 61–62Armor Internal structure (rounding and) TechManual 22Armor mobile structure Tactical Operations 266Armor mobile structure Tactical Operations 171Armor penetration (AP) A Time Of War 185-86Armor penetration (AP) A Time Of War 258Armor piercing mortars Tactical Operations 374Armor ProtoMech TechManual 86–87Armor ProtoMech TechManual 82Armor space TechManual 55

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Armor structure diagram-BattleForce Strategic Operations 214Armor support vehicle TechManual 134–36Armor tables Tactical Operations 280Armor tables Tactical Operations 253Armor technology base TechManual 55Armor type modifier table Tactical Operations 380Armor types A Time Of War 185Armor A Time Of War 182Armor A Time Of War 181Armor A Time Of War 180Armor Tactical Operations 279-82Armor TechManual 205–6Armor data Total Warfare 30Armor diagram Total Warfare 27Armor value Total Warfare 219Armor Total Warfare 29-30Armor Total Warfare 228-29Armor Total Warfare 43Armor Total Warfare 30Armor Total Warfare 28Armor diagram advanced ground vehicle/VTOL Tactical Operations 12Armor diagram large naval vehicle Tactical Operations 10Armor diagram super-heavy vehicle Tactical Operations 13Armored buildings construction factor Tactical Operations 122Armored buildings Tactical Operations 121Armored buildings Tactical Operations 120Armored component (ARM) Strategic Operations 345-46Armored components Tactical Operations 380Armored components Tactical Operations 283Armored components Tactical Operations 282Armored gloves TechManual 259Armored gloves Total Warfare 229Armored infantry Strategic Operations 323Armored motive system (ARS) Strategic Operations 346Armored motive systems Tactical Operations 283Armored motive systems Tactical Operations 282Armor-piercing ammo Strategic Operations 309Armor-piercing ammunition TechManual 208Armor-piercing ammunition ground combat vehicles Total Warfare 192Armor-piercing ammunition Total Warfare 140

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Arresting hoists TechManual 245–46Arrow IV artillery missile Tactical Operations 284Arrow IV homing missiles Tactical Operations 353-54Arrow IV homing missiles (air-launched version) Tactical Operations 358-59Arrow IV non-homing missiles Tactical Operations 354Arrow IV Tactical Operations 359Arrow IV (homing or standard) missiles point defense and Strategic Operations 97Arrow IV (homing or standard) missiles Strategic Operations 309Arrow IV (homing or standard) missiles Strategic Operations 308Arrow IV (homing or standard) missiles Strategic Operations 290Art A Time Of War 144Art TechManual 9Art: fiction and Total Warfare 9Artemis IV Strategic Operations 360Artemis IV FCS Total Warfare 134Artemis IV FCS Total Warfare 130Artemis IV fire-control system TechManual 206–7Artemis V Fire-Control Systems Tactical Operations 283Artemis V Fire-Control Systems Tactical Operations 282Artemis-equipped missiles Total Warfare 140Artemus V Strategic Operations 360Artillery cannons Tactical Operations 285Artillery cannons Tactical Operations 284Artillery clearing minefield Tactical Operations 211Artillery conventional Tactical Operations 284Artillery counter-battery fire Tactical Operations 186Artillery direct-fire Tactical Operations 185-86Artillery modifiers table Tactical Operations 180Artillery munitions Tactical Operations 353-57Artillery not directly in playing area Tactical Operations 179-80Artillery ordnance table Tactical Operations 184Artillery play sequence Tactical Operations 179Artillery ranges table Tactical Operations 181Artillery spotters Tactical Operations 181-82Artillery targeting Tactical Operations 180-82Artillery A Time Of War 144Artillery Tactical Operations 179-86Artillery Tactical Operations 284Artillery (ARTX-#) attacks-standard Strategic Operations 286Artillery (ARTX-#) conversion Strategic Operations 378

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Artillery (ARTX-#) flight time Strategic Operations 287Artillery (ARTX-#) modifiers Strategic Operations 286Artillery (ARTX-#) range and damage Strategic Operations 287Artillery (ARTX-#) strike/plot Strategic Operations 268Artillery (ARTX-#) weapons Strategic Operations 360Artillery (ARTX-#) Strategic Operations 308-9Artillery (ARTX-#) Strategic Operations 285-86Artillery (ARTX-#) Strategic Operations 345Artillery (ARTX-#) Strategic Operations 205Assault ’Mechs Total Warfare 21Assault ships Total Warfare 24Assault vehicles Total Warfare 22Assistance rearming Strategic Operations 186Asteroids Strategic Operations 44-45ATM (advanced tactical missile) system Total Warfare 138Atmosphere effects Total Warfare 236Atmospheric Total Warfare 74Atmospheric (ATMO) combat-miniatures Strategic Operations 399Atmospheric (ATMO) conditions Strategic Operations 73Atmospheric (ATMO) control rolls-advanced Strategic Operations 97-98Atmospheric (ATMO) drops Strategic Operations 22-23Atmospheric (ATMO) facing changes Strategic Operations 221Atmospheric (ATMO) flight instability Strategic Operations 196Atmospheric (ATMO) flight times Strategic Operations 68-69Atmospheric (ATMO) flyer Strategic Operations 193Atmospheric (ATMO) hexes-targeting capital missiles Strategic Operations 117Atmospheric (ATMO) movement-basics Strategic Operations 220-22Atmospheric (ATMO) movement-miniatures Strategic Operations 391Atmospheric (ATMO) pressure Strategic Operations 22Atmospheric (ATMO) pressure-capital-scale weapons Strategic Operations 104Atmospheric (ATMO) Strategic Operations 346Atmospheric combat Total Warfare 241-50Atmospheric control modifiers table Total Warfare 249Atmospheric movement Total Warfare 86-91Atmospheric movement Total Warfare 78-84Atmospheric pressure/density Tactical Operations 52-53Atmospheric pressure/density Tactical Operations 186Atmospheric toxins A Time Of War 181Atmospheric traits A Time Of War 238Attack angle: aerospace units Total Warfare 236

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Attack declaration VTOL Total Warfare 196Attack declaration WIGE Total Warfare 199Attack declaration Total Warfare 98-99Attack direction aerospace units Total Warfare 238Attack direction ground combat vehicles Total Warfare 192Attack direction support vehicles Total Warfare 206Attack direction Total Warfare 119Attack modifiers table Total Warfare 117-18Attack path Total Warfare 43Attack value: space combat Total Warfare 235Attack(s) against battle armor troopers Strategic Operations 398Attack(s) against bearings-only launch Strategic Operations 102Attack(s) against buildings Strategic Operations 312Attack(s) against cocoons Strategic Operations 23Attack(s) against conventional infantry squads Strategic Operations 398Attack(s) against death from physical Strategic Operations 233Attack(s) against declaration Strategic Operations 279Attack(s) against declaration Strategic Operations 225Attack(s) against declaration air-to-ground Strategic Operations 235Attack(s) against declaration ground-to-air Strategic Operations 234Attack(s) against declaration in space Strategic Operations 236Attack(s) against declaration meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82-84Attack(s) against direction Strategic Operations 405Attack(s) against direction Strategic Operations 229Attack(s) against docked units Strategic Operations 67Attack(s) against docked/grappled unit Strategic Operations 36Attack(s) against dropping units Strategic Operations 314Attack(s) against dropping units Strategic Operations 313Attack(s) against dropping units Strategic Operations 22Attack(s) against ejected pilot Strategic Operations 26Attack(s) against end phase Strategic Operations 296Attack(s) against fighter squadron Strategic Operations 32Attack(s) against from attacking and defending aerospace units Strategic Operations 36Attack(s) against from docked units Strategic Operations 67Attack(s) against from dropping units Strategic Operations 314Attack(s) against from dropping units Strategic Operations 313Attack(s) against from dropping units Strategic Operations 22Attack(s) against from fighter squadron Strategic Operations 30-31Attack(s) against from grounded aerospace units Strategic Operations 400Attack(s) against from hidden units Strategic Operations 320

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Attack(s) against ground support Strategic Operations 21Attack(s) against ground support Strategic Operations 19Attack(s) against grounded DropShip Strategic Operations 233Attack(s) against in space Strategic Operations 236Attack(s) against modifiers capital missile launch Strategic Operations 80Attack(s) against modifiers meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82Attack(s) against modifiers miniatures Strategic Operations 395Attack(s) against same hex Strategic Operations 312Attack(s) against types of Strategic Operations 225Attack(s) against types of (miniatures) Strategic Operations 404Attack(s) against types of (modifiers) Strategic Operations 283Attack(s) against weapons conversion Strategic Operations 359-60Attacker closing engagements Strategic Operations 75Attacker determining Strategic Operations 48-49Attacker displacing Strategic Operations 292Attacker engaging Strategic Operations 292Attacker actions conditions A Time Of War 175-76Attacker actions conditions A Time Of War 172Attacker movement Total Warfare 108Attacker movement modifier Total Warfare 42Attacking elements inside buildings Strategic Operations 312Attacks: battle armor Total Warfare 217-18Attractive A Time Of War 108-9Attribute check A Time Of War 38-39Attribute check A Time Of War 40Attribute check A Time Of War 19Attribute effects table A Time Of War 36Attribute increase/decrease A Time Of War 35-36Attribute points-only system A Time Of War 89Attribute purchasing A Time Of War 81-91Attribute scores A Time Of War 35Attribute statistics A Time Of War 35Attribute A Time Of War 34-36Attribute A Time Of War 201-2Attribute A Time Of War 333Attribute A Time Of War 19Audio/video/trideo equipment A Time Of War 300-301Audio/video/trideo equipment A Time Of War 302Autocannon munitions Tactical Operations 352-53Autocannon A Time Of War 28

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Autocannon Tactical Operations 285-86Autocannon Tactical Operations 284Autocannon Tactical Operations 100Autocannon TechManual 207–8Autocannon (AC X/X/X/X) munitions Strategic Operations 309-10Autocannon (AC X/X/X/X) SRM/LRM Strategic Operations 359Autocannon (AC X/X/X/X) Strategic Operations 346Autocannon munitions Tactical Operations 352-53Autocannon munitions TechManual 208Automated weapons building Tactical Operations 133Automatic damage: ’Mech falling Total Warfare 69Automatic events A Time Of War 189Automatic hits Tactical Operations 81Availability codes table TechManual 287Availability determining final TechManual 288–89Availability introduction/extinction dates TechManual 287–88Availability ratings TechManual 286–87Availability Tactical Operations 275Availability ratings A Time Of War 255Available information Tactical Operations 219Average worlds A Time Of War 373Avionics Total Warfare 239Avionics damage Strategic Operations 32Avoided contact meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82Aziz Demona A Time Of War 23Back woods A Time Of War 67Back woods A Time Of War 65Backend of nowhere Total Warfare 276-79Backhoe TechManual 242Backhoe Total Warfare 130Backward movement expanded Tactical Operations 22Backward movement hull down Tactical Operations 21Backward movement Total Warfare 49Backward worlds A Time Of War 370Bad reputation Strategic Operations 196Bait and switch Strategic Operations 303-4Balance sensors TechManual 34Balancing forces Strategic Operations 310-11Ballistic plate armor A Time Of War 287Ballistic weapon TechManual 148

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Ballistic weapons A Time Of War 264-65Ballistic weapons A Time Of War 266Bank command points Strategic Operations 268BAR (Barrier Armor Rating) Total Warfare 31BAR (Barrier Armor Rating) Total Warfare 29BAR armor conversion Strategic Operations 357BAR armor Strategic Operations 346Barghest TechManual 305Baron A Time Of War 352Baronet A Time Of War 352Barrier firing through A Time Of War 173Barrier integrity A Time Of War 187Barrier striking through A Time Of War 176Barrier types A Time Of War 185Barrier armor degradation A Time Of War 187Barrier armor rating (BAR) A Time Of War 185-86Barrier armor rating (BAR) A Time Of War 258Barrier armor rating (BAR) A Time Of War 188Barrier armor rating (BAR) A Time Of War 187Barrier armor A Time Of War 187Barrier armor A Time Of War 185Base attack damage conversion Strategic Operations 360-61Base attack point value Strategic Operations 362Base attack Strategic Operations 50Base damage A Time Of War 258Base range TechManual 149Base terrain types Tactical Operations 36-40Base terrain types Tactical Operations 30-31Base terrain Tactical Operations 29Base to-hit number Total Warfare 243Base to-hit number Total Warfare 144Base to-hit number Total Warfare 106Base to-hit number Total Warfare 42Basements collapse and Total Warfare 176Basements table Total Warfare 179Basements Total Warfare 179Base-to-base contact-miniatures Strategic Operations 405Base-to-base contact-miniatures Strategic Operations 395Basic fire control TechManual 217Basic fire control (BFC) Strategic Operations 346

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Basic training naval skill field A Time Of War 84Basic training skill field A Time Of War 84Battery packs TechManual 42Battle armor adding TechManual 168–70Battle armor anti-personnel weapons Strategic Operations 361-62Battle armor base damage Strategic Operations 361-62Battle armor Battle Value TechManual 310–11Battle armor C3 Tactical Operations 298Battle armor C3 Tactical Operations 297Battle armor chassis TechManual 162–63Battle armor conversion Strategic Operations 378Battle armor conversion Strategic Operations 364Battle armor conversion Strategic Operations 357Battle armor damage status Strategic Operations 174Battle armor dead Strategic Operations 176Battle armor designing TechManual 161Battle armor detachable weapon pack Tactical Operations 287Battle armor detachable weapon pack Tactical Operations 286Battle armor DropChute Tactical Operations 349Battle armor DropChute Tactical Operations 348Battle armor equipment TechManual 250Battle armor equipment (Clan) TechManual 326–27Battle armor equipment (Inner Sphere) TechManual 325–26Battle armor fighters TechManual 182Battle armor Gale Tactical Operations 61Battle armor infantry A Time Of War 211Battle armor infantry Tactical Operations 108Battle armor manipulators TechManual 166–68Battle armor mechanical jump booster Tactical Operations 286-87Battle armor mechanical jump booster Tactical Operations 380Battle armor melee attacks A Time Of War 217-18Battle armor melee modifiers A Time Of War 216Battle armor modular technology TechManual 160Battle armor morale check Tactical Operations 211Battle armor motive systems TechManual 164–66Battle armor movement A Time Of War 167Battle armor movement Strategic Operations 355Battle armor myomer booster Tactical Operations 380Battle armor myomer booster Tactical Operations 287Battle armor myomer booster Tactical Operations 286

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Battle armor physical enhancements TechManual 165–66Battle armor picking up Tactical Operations 97-98Battle armor picking up/throwing objects Tactical Operations 92Battle armor protection table TechManual 169Battle armor rearming Strategic Operations 186Battle armor record sheet TechManual 172–73Battle armor record sheet TechManual 27Battle armor storm Tactical Operations 61Battle armor structural Strategic Operations 358Battle armor structural costs/availability TechManual 281Battle armor structure weights table TechManual 163Battle armor taser Tactical Operations 345-46Battle armor technology base TechManual 160Battle armor throwing Tactical Operations 98Battle armor troopers Strategic Operations 397-98Battle armor unit size modifier TechManual 316Battle armor units A Time Of War 210Battle armor vibro-claws Strategic Operations 362Battle armor weapon TechManual 20–21Battle armor weapon limits table TechManual 170Battle armor weapon space TechManual 161Battle armor weapon/ammunition TechManual 170–72Battle armor weapon/equipment cost availability TechManual 296–98Battle armor weapons A Time Of War 214-18Battle armor weight TechManual 161Battle armor weights Tactical Operations 186-87Battle armor A Time Of War 186-87Battle armor A Time Of War 300Battle armor A Time Of War 298Battle armor A Time Of War 214Battle armor A Time Of War 201Battle armor A Time Of War 185Battle armor A Time Of War 28Battle armor TechManual 19–20Battle armor TechManual 157–59Battle armor TechManual 13Battle armor TechManual 9Battle armor attacks against Total Warfare 219Battle armor damage Total Warfare 41Battle armor moving through buildings Total Warfare 168-69

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Battle armor multiple targets modifier Total Warfare 110Battle armor organization/weight table Total Warfare 214Battle armor plasma weapons Total Warfare 139Battle armor record sheet Total Warfare 29-30Battle armor transport position table Total Warfare 227Battle armor Total Warfare 217-19Battle armor Total Warfare 281Battle armor Total Warfare 23Battle claw weight TechManual 259Battle claw Total Warfare 229Battle computer Strategic Operations 193Battle Cruiser Strategic Operations 10Battle force weight TechManual 314Battle force construction Tactical Operations 386Battle of Tukayyid A Time Of War 26-27Battle of Tukayyid A Time Of War 24Battle of Tukayyid A Time Of War 23Battle scenario Strategic Operations 49Battle tanks TechManual 92–93Battle Value (BV) aerospace weapons TechManual 312–14Battle Value (BV) aerospace weapons TechManual 318Battle Value (BV) battle armor TechManual 310–11Battle Value (BV) battle armor unit size modifier TechManual 316Battle Value (BV) BGS-1T Barghest TechManual 305Battle Value (BV) Clan weapons/equipment TechManual 318Battle Value (BV) conventional infantry weapons TechManual 319Battle Value (BV) Delphyne-2 TechManual 307Battle Value (BV) DropShip TechManual 313Battle Value (BV) Hephaestus OmniVehicle TechManual 309Battle Value (BV) hover mechanized infantry platoon TechManual 310Battle Value (BV) infantry TechManual 309–10Battle Value (BV) Inner Sphere weapons/equipment TechManual 317Battle Value (BV) Mech TechManual 302–4Battle Value (BV) Mech modifiers TechManual 315Battle Value (BV) MechBuster TechManual 313Battle Value (BV) Mon-66 Mongoose calculation TechManual 304Battle Value (BV) off ensive adjustment TechManual 316Battle Value (BV) ProtoMech TechManual 306–7Battle Value (BV) Purifier TechManual 311Battle Value (BV) Simca ambulance TechManual 308

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Battle Value (BV) skill multiplier table TechManual 314Battle Value (BV) Uni CargoMech TechManual 305–6Battle Value (BV) unit type modifier TechManual 316Battle Value (BV) vehicle TechManual 307–9Battle Value (BV) TechManual 21–22Battle Value (BV) system Total Warfare 257-59Battle Value (BV) system Total Warfare 264Battle Value (BV) system Total Warfare 262Battle Value (BV) system Total Warfare 261Battle Value (BV) system Total Warfare 260Battle Value (BV) system Total Warfare 256Battle values advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 160-61Battle values (advanced) Tactical Operations 378-79BattleCorps.com A Time Of War 32-33Battlefield Intelligence Strategic Operations 263-65Battlefield radar Strategic Operations 119Battlefield ratio Strategic Operations 263-64Battlefield salvage/control Strategic Operations 49Battlefield tactics Strategic Operations 205-6Battlefield thermal/optical detection Strategic Operations 119Battlefield tech A Time Of War 101Battlefield wreckage Tactical Operations 187BattleForce aerospace atmospheric movement phase Strategic Operations 220-23BattleForce aerospace atmospheric movement phase Strategic Operations 215BattleForce BT conversions Strategic Operations 378-81BattleForce BT conversions Strategic Operations 355-78BattleForce BT conversions Strategic Operations 354BattleForce combat phase Strategic Operations 225-37BattleForce combat phase Strategic Operations 216BattleForce components Strategic Operations 214-15BattleForce end phase Strategic Operations 237BattleForce end phase Strategic Operations 216BattleForce game play Strategic Operations 238-41BattleForce game play Strategic Operations 215-16BattleForce ground movement phase Strategic Operations 216-20BattleForce ground movement phase Strategic Operations 215BattleForce high speed closing engagement Strategic Operations 77BattleForce map movement Strategic Operations 273BattleForce movement diagram Strategic Operations 222BattleForce movement phase Strategic Operations 224

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BattleForce movement phase Strategic Operations 215BattleForce multiple-element Strategic Operations 262BattleForce Record Sheet Strategic Operations 13BattleForce scenario creation Strategic Operations 242-43BattleForce setting up Strategic Operations 242BattleForce special abilities Strategic Operations 342-54BattleForce standard rules Strategic Operations 400BattleForce Strategic Operations 240BattleForce Strategic Operations 215BattleForce Strategic Operations 213BattleForce Strategic Operations 9BattleMaster Total Warfare 281BattleMech actuators TechManual 32BattleMech armor TechManual 56–57BattleMech armor TechManual 54–55BattleMech armor TechManual 33–34BattleMech assault unit assignment A Time Of War 135BattleMech assault unit assignment A Time Of War 134BattleMech assault unit assignment A Time Of War 132BattleMech assault unit assignment A Time Of War 131BattleMech chassis design TechManual 46–48BattleMech cockpit TechManual 39–42 52BattleMech critical space table TechManual 45BattleMech design process TechManual 45–46BattleMech diagnostic interpretation (DI) computer TechManual 42BattleMech emergence of TechManual 14BattleMech endoskeleton of TechManual 31–32BattleMech endo-steel TechManual 32BattleMech engine TechManual 35–37BattleMech engine installation TechManual 48–50BattleMech ferro-fibrous armor TechManual 34BattleMech frame TechManual 31–32BattleMech full-head ejection system Tactical Operations 310BattleMech full-head ejection systems Strategic Operations 25BattleMech gyroscope TechManual 50–51BattleMech gyroscope TechManual 34–35BattleMech harjel system Tactical Operations 288BattleMech heat sinks TechManual 53–54BattleMech heat sinks TechManual 37–38BattleMech heavy unit assignment A Time Of War 135

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BattleMech heavy unit assignment A Time Of War 134BattleMech heavy unit assignment A Time Of War 132BattleMech heavy unit assignment A Time Of War 130BattleMech in zero-g ground unit combat Strategic Operations 120BattleMech intelligence of TechManual 42–43BattleMech internal structure TechManual 46–48BattleMech internal structure TechManual 31–33BattleMech jump capability TechManual 51BattleMech jump jets TechManual 38–39BattleMech jump pack Tactical Operations 293BattleMech jump pack Tactical Operations 292BattleMech light unit assignment A Time Of War 135BattleMech light unit assignment A Time Of War 133BattleMech light unit assignment A Time Of War 131BattleMech light unit assignment A Time Of War 130BattleMech mechanical jump boosters Tactical Operations 380BattleMech medium unit assignment A Time Of War 135BattleMech medium unit assignment A Time Of War 133BattleMech medium unit assignment A Time Of War 131BattleMech medium unit assignment A Time Of War 130BattleMech melee weapons Tactical Operations 288-92BattleMech motive systems Tactical Operations 292-93BattleMech myomers TechManual 32–33BattleMech partial wing Tactical Operations 380BattleMech pilot ejections Strategic Operations 25BattleMech random assignment Strategic Operations 54-55BattleMech record sheet TechManual 59BattleMech sensors/targeting systems TechManual 39BattleMech space TechManual 45BattleMech special physical enhancements TechManual 52–53BattleMech stealth armor TechManual 34BattleMech structural costs/availability TechManual 277–78BattleMech taser Tactical Operations 346BattleMech technology base TechManual 47BattleMech technology base TechManual 44BattleMech technology rating TechManual 44BattleMech turret Tactical Operations 347BattleMech turret Tactical Operations 346BattleMech UMU system Tactical Operations 380BattleMech UMU system Tactical Operations 295

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BattleMech UMU system Tactical Operations 292BattleMech weapons/ammunition TechManual 57–59BattleMech weight TechManual 45BattleMech weight TechManual 18BattleMech weight TechManual 9BattleMech A Time Of War 28BattleMech A Time Of War 25BattleMech Strategic Operations 202BattleMech HarJel (BHJ) Strategic Operations 346BattleMech shield (SHLD) Strategic Operations 346BattleMechs Total Warfare 20-21Battleship Strategic Operations 10BattleSpace TechManual 8Battlesuit gunnery A Time Of War 147Battlesuit piloting A Time Of War 152Battlesuit TechManual 9Battlesuit armor types TechManual 169BattleTech common measures A Time Of War 91BattleTech converting BattleForce to Strategic Operations 378-81BattleTech converting elements to BattleForce Strategic Operations 355-78BattleTech converting elements to BattleForce Strategic Operations 381BattleTech history A Time Of War 25-30BattleTech Tactical Operations Strategic Operations 8BattleTech Introductory Box Set A Time Of War 31-32BattleTech Universe A Time Of War 31-33BattleTech Universe A Time Of War 20BattleTech Universe A Time Of War 18BattleTech Universe A Time Of War 16Bay door TechManual 209Bay personnel table Tactical Operations 202Bay personnel Tactical Operations 218Bays special abilities Strategic Operations 325Bearings-only launch Strategic Operations 100-102Bearings-only launch Strategic Operations 112Beast infantry Conversion Strategic Operations 358Beast infantry Strategic Operations 323Beast-mounted infantry Tactical Operations 295-96Beast-mounted infantry Tactical Operations 294Beginning players Strategic Operations 281Bidding Total Warfare 266

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Binary laser cannon Tactical Operations 319Bingo fuel Strategic Operations 304Biographical data A Time Of War 37Biological weapons Strategic Operations 203Bipedal Mech Tactical Operations 21Birthright A Time Of War 348Bits Total Warfare 291Bits use Total Warfare 294Black box A Time Of War 144-45Black ice Tactical Operations 40Black market base cost A Time Of War 257Black market A Time Of War 256-57Blacklining Total Warfare 288Blackstone BattleMechs TechManual 114Blades subskill A Time Of War 158Blake Jerome A Time Of War 23Blast damage A Time Of War 179Blast weapons A Time Of War 172-73Blazer armor Tactical Operations 282Blazer cannon Tactical Operations 319Bleeding effect A Time Of War 184Bleeding stopping A Time Of War 184Bleeding A Time Of War 189Bleeding A Time Of War 181Blending Total Warfare 287-88Blind fighting A Time Of War 176Blind fire A Time Of War 173Blip counters Strategic Operations 279-80Blip counters Strategic Operations 261Blip counters Strategic Operations 260Blizzard Tactical Operations 60Blocking physical attack Tactical Operations 88-89Blocking terrain A Time Of War 169Blood stalker A Time Of War 219-20Bloodhound (BH) Strategic Operations 346Bloodhound active probe Tactical Operations 278Bloodhouse A Time Of War 28Bloodmark A Time Of War 109Bloodnamed greater, exclusive general bloodhouse A Time Of War 356Bloodnamed greater, exclusive phenotype bloodhouse/Kerensky's legacy A Time Of War 356

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Bloodnamed greater, general bloodhouse A Time Of War 355-56Bloodnamed greater, phenotype bloodhouse A Time Of War 356Bloodnamed lesser, exclusive phenotype bloodhouse A Time Of War 356Bloodnamed lesser, general bloodhouse A Time Of War 355Bloodnamed lesser, general exclusive bloodhouse A Time Of War 356Bloodnamed lesser, phenotype bloodhouse A Time Of War 355Bloodnamed A Time Of War 126-27Bloodnamed A Time Of War 28Bloodright A Time Of War 28Bloody Dividends Tactical Operations 114-147Blowing sand Tactical Operations 62Blown-off arms Total Warfare 123Blue collar A Time Of War 65Blue shield particle field damper Tactical Operations 296Blueprints (IndustrialMech) TechManual 61Blue-water combat vehicles TechManual 93Blunt weapons subskill A Time Of War 158Boarding for damage-infantry vs. infantry action Strategic Operations 37Boarding for damage-option Strategic Operations 37-38Boarding infantry vs. infantry Tactical Operations 199-201Boarding non-infantry Tactical Operations 188-91Boarding structural integrity damage Strategic Operations 37Boarding Strategic Operations 290-91Boarding Strategic Operations 248-49Boarding Tactical Operations 238-45BOD (body) A Time Of War 34-35Body stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Body type TechManual 162Bog A Time Of War 234Bog down rules Tactical Operations 62-63Bola Narc pods Tactical Operations 368Bomb critical hits Total Warfare 79Bomb dumping Total Warfare 247Bomb Total Warfare 239Bomb (Bomb#) aerospace atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 220Bomb (Bomb#) munitions/capital-scale weapons Strategic Operations 103Bomb (Bomb#) types/miniatures Strategic Operations 400Bomb (Bomb#) Strategic Operations 346Bomb (Bomb#) Strategic Operations 309Bomb munitions Tactical Operations 357-60

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Bomb rack TechManual 253Bombast Strategic Operations 361Bombast laser Tactical Operations 320Bombast laser Tactical Operations 319Bombast laser Tactical Operations 102Bombing attack Strategic Operations 408Bombing attack Strategic Operations 235Bombing attack Strategic Operations 84Bombing damage Strategic Operations 408Bombing damage Strategic Operations 236Bombing damage Strategic Operations 32Bombing miniatures Strategic Operations 400Bombing scatter Strategic Operations 235-36Bombing scatter Strategic Operations 409Bombing VTOLs Tactical Operations 108Bombing Total Warfare 245-47Bonuses A Time Of War 335Booby trap Tactical Operations 296-97Booby trap (BT) Strategic Operations 346Booby trap (BT) Strategic Operations 192Boom Tactical Operations 110-113Boot camp- diary TechManual 141–43Bootlegger Tactical Operations 25Bore sighting Tactical Operations 185Born mercenary brat A Time Of War 65Boss A Time Of War 338-39Bracing Tactical Operations 84Bracketing fire mode capital and sub-capital weapons Strategic Operations 99-100Branth A Time Of War 243Bravo zulu Strategic Operations 304Brawlers Tactical Operations 193Break contact Strategic Operations 78Breakthrough Strategic Operations 242Breakthrough Total Warfare 261-62Breakthrough victory points table Total Warfare 262Bridge intervening terrain Total Warfare 100Bridge maximum capacity Total Warfare 62Bridge movement Total Warfare 62Bridge Total Warfare 297Bridge Total Warfare 33

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Bridge-building engineers Strategic Operations 323Bridgelayer TechManual 242Bridge-layer Total Warfare 130-31Bridgelayer (BRID) Strategic Operations 346-47Bridge-layer table Total Warfare 131Bridges Tactical Operations 116-17Bridges Tactical Operations 129Brigadier general A Time Of War 358Broken morale Strategic Operations 294Broken morale Tactical Operations 212Brotherhood of the Asami A Time Of War 15Brotherhoods A Time Of War 28Brown stuff Total Warfare 291Brute force TechManual 34–35Bug storms Tactical Operations 40-41Building basics Tactical Operations 128Building BattleForce Strategic Operations 311-13Building classification Tactical Operations 114-17Building classification Tactical Operations 129Building classification Tactical Operations 128Building collapse Tactical Operations 123-26Building collapse Tactical Operations 168Building components Tactical Operations 131-33Building construction Tactical Operations 128-33Building construction Tactical Operations 116Building design process Tactical Operations 128-33Building height/depth Strategic Operations 225Building levels Strategic Operations 312Building miniatures Strategic Operations 396-97Building modifier (infantry vs. infantry actions) Tactical Operations 203Building orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 106Building orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 104Building Record Sheet Tactical Operations 133Building size/shape Tactical Operations 129Building size/shape Tactical Operations 116Building size/shape Tactical Operations 114Building types Strategic Operations 311-12Building units Strategic Operations 328Building collapses A Time Of War 233Building modifiers table Total Warfare 167

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Building movement modifiers table Total Warfare 167Buildings advanced equipment Tactical Operations 133-41Buildings advanced features Tactical Operations 119Buildings armored Tactical Operations 121Buildings artillery hits Tactical Operations 184Buildings attacking from within Tactical Operations 121Buildings climbing and Tactical Operations 22Buildings combat damage Tactical Operations 66Buildings critical damage Tactical Operations 120-21Buildings engine explosion Tactical Operations 78Buildings fire Tactical Operations 43Buildings infantry scaling Tactical Operations 27Buildings infantry vs. infantry inside Tactical Operations 201Buildings minefields and Tactical Operations 207Buildings mobile structure Tactical Operations 259Buildings mobile structure Tactical Operations 168Buildings movement damage Tactical Operations 65Buildings moving through Tactical Operations 118-20Buildings smoke and Tactical Operations 48Buildings standard Tactical Operations 116Buildings Tactical Operations 30Buildings attack direction Total Warfare 119Buildings attacking Total Warfare 171Buildings attacking units inside Total Warfare 171-72Buildings backhoe damage Total Warfare 130Buildings basements Total Warfare 179Buildings battle armor Total Warfare 228Buildings bulldozer damage Total Warfare 131Buildings chainsaw damage Total Warfare 134Buildings collapse Total Warfare 176-79Buildings combat eff ects Total Warfare 171-79Buildings crashes Total Warfare 81Buildings damage recording Total Warfare 121Buildings displacement Total Warfare 151Buildings dual saw damage Total Warfare 134Buildings exiting Total Warfare 170-71Buildings firing at Total Warfare 111Buildings heavy-duty pile driver damage Total Warfare 136Buildings infantry Total Warfare 214Buildings infernos Total Warfare 141

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Buildings intervening terrain Total Warfare 100Buildings mining drill Total Warfare 138Buildings movement eff ects Total Warfare 167-71Buildings NARC missile beacon Total Warfare 139Buildings rock cutter Total Warfare 140Buildings sideslipping Total Warfare 67-68Buildings skidding Total Warfare 62-63Buildings stacking Total Warfare 58Buildings types Total Warfare 166-67Buildings VTOL Total Warfare 197Buildings WIGE landings Total Warfare 199Buildings wrecking ball Total Warfare 143Buildings Total Warfare 297Buildings Total Warfare 100Buildings Total Warfare 33Bulldozer TechManual 243Bulldozers Total Warfare 131Burning Edge A Time Of War 43Burning Edge A Time Of War 19Burst fire A Time Of War 173Burst-fire damage A Time Of War 179Burst-fire weapon damage vs. conventional infantry table infantry Total Warfare 215-16Burst-fire weapon damage vs. conventional infantry table inside buildings Total Warfare 172Burst-fire weapon damage vs. conventional infantry table Total Warfare 175-76Burst-fire weapon damage vs. conventional infantry table Total Warfare 217Burst-fire weapon damage vs. conventional infantry table Total Warfare 217Buying units Strategic Operations 328C3 (command/ control and communications) boosted system Tactical Operations 298C3 (command/ control and communications) booster slave Tactical Operations 298C3 (command/ control and communications) emergency master Tactical Operations 298C3 (command/ control and communications) remote sensor launcher Tactical Operations 299C3 (command/ control and communications) remote sensor launcher Tactical Operations 298C3 (command/ control and communications) Tactical Operations 297-99C3 (command/ control and communications) Tactical Operations 386C3 computer Total Warfare 131-33C3 computer Total Warfare 134C3 computer slave (C3S) Strategic Operations 347C3 computers TechManual 209C3 emergency master computer (C3EM#) Strategic Operations 347C3 improved computer (C3I) Strategic Operations 347-48

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C3 master computer (C3M#) Strategic Operations 347C3 network ECM vs. Strategic Operations 349C3 network loss Strategic Operations 347C3 remote sensor (C3RS) Strategic Operations 347C3/C3I boosted systems (C3BS#) loss Strategic Operations 348C3/C3I boosted systems (C3BS#) Strategic Operations 347Cal-Boeing TechManual 114Calderon Protectorate A Time Of War 13Called shots Tactical Operations 78-79Called shots mode Strategic Operations 100Called shots mode Strategic Operations 99Camel A Time Of War 241Camo system TechManual 253Camo system Total Warfare 228Campaign basics A Time Of War 50Campaign era A Time Of War 50Campaign era A Time Of War 48Campaign linked scenarios Strategic Operations 49Campaign score-linked scenarios Strategic Operations 48-49Campaign type A Time Of War 50Campaign type A Time Of War 48Campaign victory Strategic Operations 39Campaign A Time Of War 331Cap advancement A Time Of War 350Capellan Confederation affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 54Capellan Confederation covert operations A Time Of War 76Capellan Confederation A Time Of War 21-22Capellan Confederation A Time Of War 26Capellan Confederation A Time Of War 25Capellan Confederation A Time Of War 13Capellan Confederation Strategic Operations 15Capellan Confederation TechManual 15Capital (CAP) Strategic Operations 348Capital armor conversion Strategic Operations 357Capital artillery attack/plot Strategic Operations 268Capital artillery Strategic Operations 295Capital missile bearings only launch Strategic Operations 100-102Capital missile bearings only Strategic Operations 295Capital missile launchers TechManual 210Capital missile(s) launch Strategic Operations 80-81

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Capital missile(s) maneuvering Strategic Operations 79-80Capital missile(s) meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82Capital missile(s) point defense and Strategic Operations 97Capital missile(s) preprogrammed waypoint launches Strategic Operations 102Capital missile(s) rearming Strategic Operations 98Capital missile(s) targeting Strategic Operations 117Capital missile(s) Strategic Operations 359Capital missiles aerospace units Total Warfare 239Capital missiles evasive action Total Warfare 77Capital weapons ACs Tactical Operations 331Capital weapons ACs Tactical Operations 330Capital weapons advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 154Capital weapons attacks Strategic Operations 233Capital weapons damage Strategic Operations 361Capital weapons detailed ranges Strategic Operations 115Capital weapons fire in atmosphere Strategic Operations 293-95Capital weapons fire in atmosphere Strategic Operations 103-10Capital weapons fire in atmosphere Strategic Operations 100Capital weapons gauss Tactical Operations 333Capital weapons gauss Tactical Operations 332Capital weapons laser Tactical Operations 333Capital weapons laser Tactical Operations 332Capital weapons mobile structures Tactical Operations 267Capital weapons PPC Tactical Operations 334Capital weapons PPC Tactical Operations 333Capital weapons rearming Strategic Operations 186Capital weapons Strategic Operations 362Capital weapons Strategic Operations 360Capital weapons Strategic Operations 359Capital weapons Tactical Operations 256Capital weapons TechManual 194Capital-scale armor Strategic Operations 12Capital-scale damage Tactical Operations 126Captain A Time Of War 358Captured units/buildings Tactical Operations 207Career A Time Of War 144Careful aim Strategic Operations 304Careful aim Tactical Operations 84Careful movement Tactical Operations 63-64Careful movement Tactical Operations 65

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Cargo bay TechManual 239Cargo DropShips TechManual 177–78Cargo lifter TechManual 259Cargo transportation TechManual 154–55Cargo Total Warfare 239-40Cargo (CAR#) advanced units Strategic Operations 72Cargo (CAR#) bays-units and personnel in Strategic Operations 43-44Cargo (CAR#) damage Strategic Operations 32Cargo (CAR#) element as Strategic Operations 326Cargo (CAR#) movement Strategic Operations 41-44Cargo (CAR#) space stations Strategic Operations 139Cargo (CAR#) transport Strategic Operations 42Cargo (CAR#) Strategic Operations 348Cargo bays fire due to weapon attacks Tactical Operations 190-91Cargo bays large naval vessel damage Tactical Operations 159Cargo bays units mounted in Tactical Operations 161Cargo bays weapon attacks in Tactical Operations 188-89Cargo bays Total Warfare 133Cargo carriers: extraction Total Warfare 261Cargo dropping Total Warfare 261Cargo hit: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 194Cargo transport-kilotons (CK#) Strategic Operations 348Cargo transport-tons (CT#) Strategic Operations 348Carpe diem Strategic Operations 305Carriers Strategic Operations 10Carrying aerospace unit attacks Total Warfare 90Carrying limits Total Warfare 227Carrying unit attacks Total Warfare 227Carrying units Total Warfare 89-91Carrying Total Warfare 91Carrying units large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Carrying units large naval vessels Tactical Operations 156Carrying units mobile structures Tactical Operations 170Cartographer skill field A Time Of War 82CASE (Cellular ammunition storage equipment) Total Warfare 133-34CASE (Cellular ammunition storage equipment) Total Warfare 122CASE II Tactical Operations 381CASE II Tactical Operations 299CASE II Tactical Operations 298CASE II Tactical Operations 159

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CASE. See Cellular ammunition storage equipment TechManualCaseless autocannon ammo Tactical Operations 352Castles Brian climbing and Tactical Operations 118Castles Brian complexes-typical components Tactical Operations 141-43Castles Brian damage Tactical Operations 204Castles Brian expanded Tactical Operations 45Castles Brian gale Tactical Operations 61Castles Brian map sample Tactical Operations 142Castles Brian meteor showers Tactical Operations 56Castles Brian mobile structures Tactical Operations 261Castles Brian orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 104Castles Brian Record Sheet Tactical Operations 143Castles Brian storm Tactical Operations 61Castles Brian tornado Tactical Operations 62Castles Brian Tactical Operations 117-18Castles Brian Tactical Operations 139Castles Brian Tactical Operations 139Castles Brian Tactical Operations 129Castles Brian Tactical Operations 126Casualties infantry Strategic Operations 177Cat A Time Of War 241Catastrophic deviation Strategic Operations 278Caustic atmosphere Tactical Operations 56Cavalry TechManual 93Cavalry skill field A Time Of War 84Ceilings high/low Tactical Operations 137CellCo Ranger UPU 3000 TechManual 114Cellular ammunition storage equipment (CASE) TechManual 210CHA (charisma) A Time Of War 35Chaff grenades Tactical Operations 363Chaff pod Tactical Operations 299Chaff pod Tactical Operations 298Chain of command Strategic Operations 298-302Chain of command Strategic Operations 260Chain whip Tactical Operations 289Chainsaw Tactical Operations 36Chainsaw Tactical Operations 31Chainsaw TechManual 243Chainsaw Total Warfare 134Challenge making Total Warfare 274-75

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Challenge refusing Total Warfare 275Chameleon light polarization shield Tactical Operations 381Chameleon light polarization shield Tactical Operations 300Chaos March A Time Of War 23Character advancement A Time Of War 330-36Character advancement A Time Of War 18Character attributes A Time Of War 34-36Character background A Time Of War 91Character biographical data A Time Of War 37Character combat data A Time Of War 37Character concept A Time Of War 48-49Character development A Time Of War 331Character features A Time Of War 91Character inventory A Time Of War 37Character maximums A Time Of War 85Character minimums A Time Of War 85Character personal data A Time Of War 37Character record sheet A Time Of War 34Character skills A Time Of War 36-37Character stabilization A Time Of War 192Character traits A Time Of War 36Character type limits A Time Of War 49Character types A Time Of War 50Character vehicle data A Time Of War 37Character A Time Of War 172Character creation accumulating experience A Time Of War 51-52Character creation basics A Time Of War 51Character creation basics A Time Of War 49Character creation final touches A Time Of War 91-93Character creation overview A Time Of War 48-52Character creation points-only A Time Of War 51Character creation prerequisites A Time Of War 51Character creation samples A Time Of War 93-101Character creation A Time Of War 18Charge attack damage Strategic Operations 232Charge attack miniatures Strategic Operations 396Charge attack Strategic Operations 408Charge attack Strategic Operations 407Charge attack Strategic Operations 232Charge attack damage A Time Of War 218

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Charge attacks Total Warfare 148Charging Tactical Operations 154Charging Tactical Operations 91Charging Tactical Operations 20Charging attacks Total Warfare 223Charlie foxtrot Strategic Operations 305Chase A Time Of War 347Chase Strategic Operations 242Chase Total Warfare 262Chaser weapons fire Strategic Operations 84-85Chassis base value Tactical Operations 240Chassis battle armor TechManual 162–63Chassis combat vehicles TechManual 96–99Chassis design (advanced support vehicle) Tactical Operations 238-45Chassis fighters TechManual 182–84Chassis IndustrialMech TechManual 66–67Chassis modifications Tactical Operations 242Chassis ProtoMech TechManual 81–83Chassis support vehicle TechManual 118–25Chassis weight calculation Tactical Operations 242Chassis design advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 144-46Chassis design internal structure tonnage TechManual 46–48Chassis design technology base TechManual 46Chassis design weight (tonnage) TechManual 46Chassis modification- support vehicles TechManual 122–23Chassis modification- support vehicles TechManual 117Chemical lasers Tactical Operations 320Chemical lasers Tactical Operations 319Chemical tank explosions Tactical Operations 134-35Chemical tank leaks Tactical Operations 135Chemical weapons Strategic Operations 203Chiaroscuro Total Warfare 180-83Chief petty officer A Time Of War 357Childhood early A Time Of War 65-66Childhood early A Time Of War 52Childhood late A Time Of War 67-70Childhood late A Time Of War 52CIC Total Warfare 240Circinus Federation A Time Of War 14Circle Total Warfare 252-55

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Citizenship A Time Of War 109Civil war A Time Of War 347Civilian aerospace units Strategic Operations 37Civilian job A Time Of War 74Civilian schools A Time Of War 72Civilian skill fields A Time Of War 82-83Civilians marine points score Tactical Operations 202Clan advanced weapon conversion Strategic Operations 377Clan aerospace phenotype Strategic Operations 36Clan aerospace warrior skill field A Time Of War 85Clan apprenticeship A Time Of War 67Clan basic training skill field A Time Of War 85Clan battle armor conversion Strategic Operations 378Clan battle armor equipment TechManual 326–27Clan BattleMechs TechManual 44Clan bloodname A Time Of War 127Clan castes A Time Of War 61Clan cavalry skill field A Time Of War 85Clan chain of command Strategic Operations 298-99Clan elemental point conversion Strategic Operations 364Clan elemental skill field A Time Of War 85Clan foot infantry star conversion Strategic Operations 364-65Clan force composition Strategic Operations 331-32Clan heavy weapons/equipment TechManual 322Clan homeworld, affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 60Clan Inner Sphere incompatibility Strategic Operations 182Clan invading, affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 59Clan lance organization Strategic Operations 335Clan MechWarrior skill field A Time Of War 85Clan military skill field A Time Of War 85Clan ProtoMech warrior skill field A Time Of War 85Clan random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 53Clan ratings TechManual 286–87Clan social rank A Time Of War 355-56Clan spacecraft Strategic Operations 35-36Clan standard weapon conversion Strategic Operations 376-77Clan tactics Strategic Operations 206Clan tech base TechManual 19Clan technology Strategic Operations 168Clan tour of duty A Time Of War 80

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Clan trueborn A Time Of War 109Clan warrior washout A Time Of War 75Clan watch operative A Time Of War 74-75Clan weapons/equipment BV TechManual 318Clan A Time Of War 23-24Clan A Time Of War 28Clan TechManual 14Clan TechManual 10Clan TechManual 9Clan capital scale weapons/equipment battle value table Tactical Operations 384Clan rotary autocannon Tactical Operations 286Clan weapons/equipment battle value table Tactical Operations 384-85Clan Diamond Shark warrior-merchant A Time Of War 78Clan Diamond Shark A Time Of War 24Clan Diamond Shark A Time Of War 12Clan Diamond Shark Strategic Operations 35Clan Diamond Shark Strategic Operations 16Clan Diamond Shark TechManual 16Clan Ghost Bear A Time Of War 24Clan Ghost Bear Strategic Operations 53Clan Hell's Horses A Time Of War 24Clan Hell's Horses A Time Of War 15Clan honor interpretation table Total Warfare 274Clan honor Total Warfare 273-75Clan Invasion A Time Of War 26-27Clan Invasion A Time Of War 24Clan Jade Falcon Occupation Zone A Time Of War 12Clan Jade Falcon A Time Of War 24Clan Jade Falcon Strategic Operations 53Clan Jade Falcon Strategic Operations 15Clan Jade Falcon TechManual 15Clan Nova Cat A Time Of War 24Clan Nova Cat A Time Of War 13Clan Nova Cat Strategic Operations 57Clan Nova Cat Strategic Operations 55Clan Nova Cat Strategic Operations 16Clan Nova Cat TechManual 17Clan Smoke Jaguar A Time Of War 27Clan Smoke Jaguar Strategic Operations 90-93Clan Snow Raven A Time Of War 24

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Clan Snow Raven A Time Of War 13Clan Snow Raven Strategic Operations 53Clan Snow Raven Strategic Operations 17Clan Snow Raven TechManual 17Clan Wolf Strategic Operations 53Clan Wolf Strategic Operations 16Clan Wolf Strategic Operations 14Clan Wolf TechManual 15-16Clan Wolf (in-exile) A Time Of War 24Clan Wolf (in-exile) A Time Of War 12Clan Wolf Occupation Zone A Time Of War 13Clans ‘Mech assignment table Total Warfare 269Clans aerospace assignment Total Warfare 272Clans combat vehicle assignment Total Warfare 271Clans Total Warfare 206Clansmen Strategic Operations 46Class mobile structures Tactical Operations 261Classic BattleTech Companion TechManual 8Claws Tactical Operations 289Claws Tactical Operations 288Clear terrain A Time Of War 231Clear terrain A Time Of War 169Clear terrain Total Warfare 295Clear terrain Total Warfare 216Clear terrain Total Warfare 32Clearing woods Tactical Operations 40Clearing woods Total Warfare 112Cliffs-sheer Tactical Operations 39-40Climate control TechManual 41Climbing buildings Strategic Operations 312Climbing A Time Of War 168Climbing A Time Of War 144Climbing Strategic Operations 269-70Climbing Tactical Operations 118Climbing Tactical Operations 27Climbing Tactical Operations 22Cloister training A Time Of War 75Close encounters Strategic Operations 85Close range combat TechManual 93Closing engagements capital missile phase Strategic Operations 79-81

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Closing engagements damage Strategic Operations 85Closing engagements detection/initial maneuver phase Strategic Operations 77-78Closing engagements end phase Strategic Operations 85Closing engagements high speed Strategic Operations 74-75Closing engagements meeting engagement phase Strategic Operations 81-85Closing engagements play sequence Strategic Operations 77Closing engagements set-up Strategic Operations 75-76Closing engagements types of Strategic Operations 75Club attacks miniatures Strategic Operations 396Club attacks Total Warfare 145-46Cluster weapons Strategic Operations 360Cluster Strategic Operations 309Cluster ammunition Total Warfare 141Cluster hits table Total Warfare 116Cluster weapons aerospace units Total Warfare 238Cluster weapons aerospace units Total Warfare 236Cluster weapons artillery/arrow missiles Tactical Operations 354Cluster weapons combat damage Tactical Operations 66Cluster weapons hit location Total Warfare 120Cluster weapons hit penalties Tactical Operations 84Cluster weapons hits weapons Tactical Operations 82Cluster weapons specialized attacks Total Warfare 112Cluster weapons A Time Of War 213Coal-burning generators Tactical Operations 135Coanda PSC TechManual 115Cockpit BattleMechs TechManual 39–42Cockpit command console Tactical Operations 301Cockpit command console Tactical Operations 300Cockpit controls TechManual 210–12Cockpit controls TechManual 40Cockpit critical damage Tactical Operations 75Cockpit displays TechManual 40–41Cockpit ejection seats TechManual 41Cockpit FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Cockpit IndustrialMech TechManual 69–70Cockpit IndustrialMech TechManual 63Cockpit life support TechManual 41–42Cockpit ProtoMech TechManual 85Cockpit skill ratings Tactical Operations 386Cockpit space TechManual 52

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Cockpit storage/passengers TechManual 41Cockpit systems Tactical Operations 300-301Cockpit technology base TechManual 52Cockpit waste systems TechManual 41Cockpit TechManual 39–40Cockpit systems – torso-mounted cockpit Tactical Operations 381Cockpit: critical hit Total Warfare 125Cocoon drops Strategic Operations 23-24Cold status engine Strategic Operations 72Cold temperature Strategic Operations 315Collapse buildings Strategic Operations 312-13Collapse: buildings Total Warfare 167Collapsible command module (CCM) Tactical Operations 301-2Collapsible command module (CCM) Tactical Operations 300Collar hit Strategic Operations 285Collision large naval vessel Tactical Operations 155-56Collision miniatures Strategic Operations 391Collision mobile structures Tactical Operations 167-68Collision rail support vehicle Tactical Operations 149Collision Strategic Operations 278Collisions aerospace units Total Warfare 241Collisions avoiding Total Warfare 63-64Collisions falling and Total Warfare 68Collisions sideslipping Total Warfare 67-68Collisions skidding Total Warfare 62-64Colonel A Time Of War 358Colonization A Time Of War 25Combat aerospace operations Strategic Operations 244-50Combat armor accessories A Time Of War 289-91Combat BattleForce Strategic Operations 225-37Combat BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Combat computer Strategic Operations 193Combat correspondent A Time Of War 75-76Combat damage Tactical Operations 66Combat data A Time Of War 37Combat effects/miniatures and buildings Strategic Operations 397Combat elements-BattleForce Strategic Operations 238-39Combat general rules Tactical Operations 74-79Combat heat Tactical Operations 104-6Combat infantry Tactical Operations 108

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Combat intuition A Time Of War 225Combat large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Combat large naval vessels Tactical Operations 157-59Combat loss Strategic Operations 39-40Combat mechanized battle armor Strategic Operations 324-25Combat miniatures Strategic Operations 404-9Combat miniatures Strategic Operations 393-96Combat miniatures Strategic Operations 401Combat mobile structures Tactical Operations 171-72Combat mobile structures Tactical Operations 167Combat modifiers A Time Of War 175-76Combat modifiers A Time Of War 209Combat modifiers A Time Of War 178Combat modifiers A Time Of War 172Combat orders Strategic Operations 48Combat paralysis A Time Of War 206Combat paralysis A Time Of War 110Combat phase Strategic Operations 279-95Combat phase Strategic Operations 263Combat physical Tactical Operations 88-91Combat picking up/throwing objects Tactical Operations 92-99Combat planetary conditions Tactical Operations 28Combat rail support vehicle Tactical Operations 153Combat rules Strategic Operations 279-82Combat rules Strategic Operations 225-37Combat scale A Time Of War 165Combat sense A Time Of War 110Combat target numbers A Time Of War 177Combat turn A Time Of War 164Combat vehicles A Time Of War 28Combat vehicles Tactical Operations 107-8Combat victory Strategic Operations 39Combat weapon attacks Tactical Operations 79-88Combat weapon resolution dice Tactical Operations 109-10Combat weapons/equipment Tactical Operations 99-104Combat A Time Of War 164Combat A Time Of War 18Combat Tactical Operations 74Combat attack declaration Total Warfare 98-99Combat cargo carriers Total Warfare 261

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Combat charge attacks Total Warfare 148Combat critical damage Total Warfare 123-28Combat death from above attacks Total Warfare 149-50Combat different levels Total Warfare 150Combat effects: buildings Total Warfare 171-79Combat firing arcs Total Warfare 104-6Combat infantry Total Warfare 214-19Combat inside buildings Total Warfare 175-76Combat kick attacks Total Warfare 147Combat lift hoists Total Warfare 137Combat line of sight Total Warfare 99-102Combat other weapons: equipment Total Warfare 129-43Combat physical attacks Total Warfare 144-45Combat physical attacks by prone ‘Mechs Total Warfare 151Combat physical weapon attacks Total Warfare 146Combat ProtoMechs Total Warfare 184Combat punch attacks Total Warfare 145Combat push attacks Total Warfare 147Combat skidding in Total Warfare 62Combat terms Total Warfare 98Combat unit destruction Total Warfare 128Combat unit displacement Total Warfare 151-53Combat weapon attacks Total Warfare 103-4Combat Total Warfare 98Combat Equipment TechManual 8Combat Operations TechManual 8Combat suits TechManual 41–42Combat targeting computer TechManual 312Combat targeting computer TechManual 303Combat vehicle armor TechManual 90–91Combat vehicle armor TechManual 105–6Combat vehicle battlefield roles of TechManual 92–93Combat vehicle chassis TechManual 96–99Combat vehicle chassis modifications Tactical Operations 302-3Combat vehicle chassis modifications Tactical Operations 381Combat vehicle control systems TechManual 100–103Combat vehicle costs/availability TechManual 279Combat vehicle crews TechManual 92Combat vehicle designing TechManual 96Combat vehicle engines TechManual 91–92

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Combat vehicle engines TechManual 100–103Combat vehicle equipment TechManual 91Combat vehicle escape pod Tactical Operations 309Combat vehicle fission engines Tactical Operations 307Combat vehicle fission engines Tactical Operations 306Combat vehicle fuel cell engines Tactical Operations 307Combat vehicle fuel cell engines Tactical Operations 306Combat vehicle heat sinks TechManual 107Combat vehicle heat sinks TechManual 104Combat vehicle jump jets TechManual 103Combat vehicle lift/dive equipment TechManual 102Combat vehicle maneuverability TechManual 91Combat vehicle movement (motive) type TechManual 94–95Combat vehicle movement (motive) type TechManual 96Combat vehicle record sheet TechManual 109Combat vehicle record sheet TechManual 96Combat vehicle structure TechManual 225Combat vehicle technology base TechManual 97Combat vehicle technology base TechManual 95Combat vehicle weapons/ammunition TechManual 107–9Combat vehicle weight (tonnage) TechManual 95Combat vehicle TechManual 97–99Combat vehicle TechManual 10–11Combat vehicle TechManual 19Combat Vehicles combat Total Warfare 192-99Combat Vehicles movement Total Warfare 192Combat Vehicles random assignment Total Warfare 271Combat Vehicles record sheet Total Warfare 28-29Combat Vehicles Total Warfare 22-23Combine Tactical Operations 38-39Combine TechManual 243Combine Total Warfare 134Combined approach A Time Of War 346Combined arms BattleForce Strategic Operations 239-40Combined arms Strategic Operations 205Combined minefields Tactical Operations 210Combined-arms combat A Time Of War 28Combustion engines TechManual 214Command bridges TechManual 212Command cohesion A Time Of War 170

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Command console satellite Tactical Operations 194Command console Tactical Operations 102Command sergeant major A Time Of War 358Command(s) additional Strategic Operations 265Command(s) BattleMech Strategic Operations 193Command(s) Change Strategic Operations 269Command(s) choice Strategic Operations 302Command(s) circuits Strategic Operations 135Command(s) counters Strategic Operations 260-61Command(s) design Strategic Operations 302Command(s) detonated minefields Strategic Operations 287Command(s) discarding Strategic Operations 266Command(s) disruption Strategic Operations 305Command(s) drawing new Strategic Operations 266Command(s) effects Strategic Operations 302-8Command(s) eliminate Strategic Operations 269Command(s) execution Strategic Operations 269Command(s) issue request for Strategic Operations 267Command(s) list Strategic Operations 303-4Command(s) list Strategic Operations 260Command(s) moving Strategic Operations 266-67Command(s) optional Strategic Operations 298-308Command(s) phase (optional) Strategic Operations 265-69Command(s) phase (optional) Strategic Operations 263Command(s) points Strategic Operations 265-66Command(s) points Strategic Operations 261Command(s) pool Strategic Operations 261Command(s) request for Strategic Operations 267Command(s) request for Strategic Operations 267Command(s) reveal Strategic Operations 269Command(s) reveal Strategic Operations 269Command(s) summary Strategic Operations 305Command(s) tier of Strategic Operations 269Command(s) transfer Strategic Operations 268Command(s) unit Strategic Operations 300-301Command(s) unit Strategic Operations 261Command(s) using Strategic Operations 266-69Command(s) Strategic Operations 261Command-control and communications (C3) TechManual 314Command-detonated mines (land/sea) Tactical Operations 365

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Command-detonated mines (land/sea) Tactical Operations 209Command-detonated mines (land/sea) Tactical Operations 208Commander A Time Of War 358Commander hit: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 194Commanders abilities Tactical Operations 192Commanders anti-aircraft specialists Tactical Operations 193Commanders banking initiative Tactical Operations 192Commanders brawlers Tactical Operations 193Commanders communications disruption Tactical Operations 193Commanders double-blind rules Tactical Operations 224Commanders forcing initiative Tactical Operations 192Commanders ground attack specialists Tactical Operations 193Commanders multiple abilities in lance Tactical Operations 192Commanders off-map movement Tactical Operations 192Commanders overrun combat Tactical Operations 193Commanders sharp shooters Tactical Operations 193Commanders zone of control Tactical Operations 193Commanders Tactical Operations 191-92Commanders Total Warfare 273Commanding general/admiral A Time Of War 359Command-level (tactical) comms Tactical Operations 191-96Commercial armor TechManual 205Commercial armor conversion Strategic Operations 357Commodore A Time Of War 358Communications equipment A Time Of War 300-301Communications skill field A Time Of War 82Communications A Time Of War 144-45Communications A Time Of War 365Communications Strategic Operations 250-51Communications Strategic Operations 209-10Communications disruption Tactical Operations 193Communications equipment double-blind rules Tactical Operations 224Communications equipment satellite Tactical Operations 194-95Communications equipment Tactical Operations 100-101Communications equipment Tactical Operations 102Communications equipment TechManual 212Compact engine: critical hit Total Warfare 126Compact engines TechManual 214Compact gyro TechManual 219Compact gyros Total Warfare 126

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Compact heat sinks Tactical Operations 316Company composition Strategic Operations 333Company lance weight classes Strategic Operations 334Complete destruction Strategic Operations 175-76Complex actions A Time Of War 166Complexes Tactical Operations 133Complexes Tactical Operations 129Complexes Tactical Operations 128Complexity A Time Of War 202Component formulas Strategic Operations 160Component miniatures Strategic Operations 401Components Tactical Operations 10Components TechManual 9–13Composite structure Tactical Operations 342Composite structures conversion Strategic Operations 358Comprehensive symbology Strategic Operations 340-41Compulsion A Time Of War 110-11Computers A Time Of War 301-2Computers A Time Of War 303Computers A Time Of War 145ComStar affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 64ComStar chain of command Strategic Operations 298ComStar covert operations A Time Of War 76ComStar force composition Strategic Operations 332ComStar lance organization Strategic Operations 335ComStar random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 52ComStar service A Time Of War 76ComStar A Time Of War 28ComStar A Time Of War 23ComStar A Time Of War 15ComStar Strategic Operations 300ComStar Strategic Operations 16ComStar TechManual 16ComStar TechManual 14ComStar Total Warfare 266Concealed armor A Time Of War 289Concealed weapon (modification) TechManual 213Concealing composition Strategic Operations 279Concealing element capabilities Strategic Operations 281-82Concealing Record Sheets Strategic Operations 280-81

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Concealing unit Strategic Operations 280Concealing information active probes Tactical Operations 99Concealing information Tactical Operations 219-20Condition monitor A Time Of War 165Configurable damage Strategic Operations 361Confl icting terrain: levels Total Warfare 49Conflicting prerequisites A Time Of War 51Connections A Time Of War 111-12Conqueror-class battlecruiser/carrier conversion Strategic Operations 373-74Consciousness recovering Total Warfare 42Consciousness rolls Total Warfare 41-42Consciousness effect A Time Of War 184Construction advanced options Tactical Operations 376-78Construction capital-scale weapons Strategic Operations 103Construction customizing rules Strategic Operations 189Construction electronic warfare Strategic Operations 111Construction factor-orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 104-5Construction Tactical Operations 10Construction TechManual 200Construction factor Total Warfare 166-67Construction rules Total Warfare 8Construction factor armor structure Tactical Operations 11Construction factor Tactical Operations 121-23Construction factor Tactical Operations 129Construction factor Tactical Operations 128Construction rules advanced equipment Tactical Operations 136Construction rules Tactical Operations 275ConstructionMech A Time Of War 28Continuous damage armor and A Time Of War 181Continuous damage fatigue and A Time Of War 181Continuous damage inferno weapon A Time Of War 181Continuous damage non-inferno weapon A Time Of War 181Continuous damage stun and A Time Of War 181Continuous damage A Time Of War 180-81Continuous damage A Time Of War 189Continuous damage A Time Of War 179Control Total Warfare 240Control damage Strategic Operations 32Control roll table Total Warfare 93Control rolls zero-g ground attack Strategic Operations 120

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Control rolls aerospace movement Total Warfare 92-93Control rolls Total Warfare 42Control systems cockpit TechManual 40Control systems combat vehicles TechManual 103Control systems DropShips TechManual 175–76Control systems fighters TechManual 188–90Control systems fighters TechManual 178–79Control systems installation Strategic Operations 146-51Control systems support vehicles TechManual 131–32Control systems Strategic Operations 149-50Control systems Tactical Operations 249-51Control systems TechManual 210–12Controlled bursts A Time Of War 173Conventional electromagnetic communications A Time Of War 145Conventional fighter A Time Of War 28Conventional fighters conversion Strategic Operations 363Conventional fighters conversion Strategic Operations 358Conventional fighters engine hit Strategic Operations 231Conventional fighters sensor/FCS hits Strategic Operations 381Conventional fighters tactical fuel efficiency Strategic Operations 34Conventional fighters with flotation hull Strategic Operations 73Conventional fighters TechManual 180Conventional fighters TechManual 13Conventional infantry armament TechManual 272–73Conventional infantry attacks against Strategic Operations 22Conventional infantry conversion Strategic Operations 358Conventional infantry cost calculations TechManual 282Conventional infantry cost calculations TechManual 275Conventional infantry damage status Strategic Operations 174Conventional infantry damage values Strategic Operations 361Conventional infantry dead Strategic Operations 176Conventional infantry equipment TechManual 272Conventional infantry maintenance Strategic Operations 169Conventional infantry minefield clearing Strategic Operations 289Conventional infantry miniatures Strategic Operations 397-98Conventional infantry range modifier Strategic Operations 398Conventional infantry readying for deployment Strategic Operations 44Conventional infantry record sheet TechManual 27Conventional infantry weapons TechManual 328–31Conventional infantry weapons TechManual 21

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Conventional infantry weapons BV TechManual 319Conventional infantry weapons cost/availability TechManual 298–301Conventional infantry Strategic Operations 364-65Conventional infantry TechManual 18–19Conventional infantry TechManual 12–13Conventional Infantry Record Sheet Advanced Tactical Operations 12Conventional minefield Strategic Operations 288Conventional vehicles Strategic Operations 202Conversion new rules Strategic Operations 354Conversion process Strategic Operations 355Conversion rules Strategic Operations 212Coolant ammo Tactical Operations 361Coolant pod Tactical Operations 303-4Coolant pod Tactical Operations 381Cooling down BattleForce Strategic Operations 237Cooling pod rearming Strategic Operations 186Cooling system flaws Strategic Operations 196Co-pilot hit: VTOL Total Warfare 197Copperhead Strategic Operations 308Copperhead artillery Tactical Operations 355Corporal A Time Of War 357Corrective surgery A Time Of War 194-95Corrosive ammo Tactical Operations 361Corsair aerospace fighter conversion Strategic Operations 363Corvette Strategic Operations 10Cost A Time Of War 258Cost calculations Strategic Operations 160Costs component formulas TechManual 274Costs rounding TechManual 274Costs structural TechManual 274–82Costs weapons/equipment TechManual 282–86Costs TechManual 21-22Count/countess A Time Of War 352-53Counter-battery fire Tactical Operations 186Counters BattleForce Strategic Operations 215Counters miniatures Strategic Operations 387Counters Strategic Operations 261-62Counters Total Warfare 33Coventry kangaroo A Time Of War 243Cover non-infantry units as Tactical Operations 108

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Cover partial Tactical Operations 87-88Cover modifiers A Time Of War 171-72Covert operations skill field A Time Of War 83Covert operations A Time Of War 76-77Cowl Strategic Operations 193Cramped cockpit Strategic Operations 196Crashes atmospheric Strategic Operations 223Crashes miniatures Strategic Operations 392Crashes Total Warfare 81-83Crashes Total Warfare 54-55Crashing airborne unit-clearing minefield Tactical Operations 211Crashing airborne unit-minefield Tactical Operations 209Crashing battlefield wreckage Tactical Operations 187Crashing ice Tactical Operations 50Crawling A Time Of War 168Crawling Tactical Operations 20Creature attributes A Time Of War 239Creature combat A Time Of War 240-41Creature compendium, extraterrestrials A Time Of War 242-45Creature compendium, terrestrials A Time Of War 241-42Creature encounters A Time Of War 239Creature skills A Time Of War 239-40Creature training A Time Of War 239Creature A Time Of War 238-46Creature size table Tactical Operations 294Crew accommodations Tactical Operations 250Crew accommodations-advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 149Crew accommodations-mobile structures Tactical Operations 265Crew additional TechManual 131Crew advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 149-50Crew advanced support vehicle minimum tables Tactical Operations 250Crew aerospace needs TechManual 189Crew aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Crew casualties Strategic Operations 290Crew combat vehicle TechManual 92Crew damage A Time Of War 217Crew data Strategic Operations 12Crew data TechManual 28Crew data TechManual 26Crew data-advanced ground vehicle-VTOL Tactical Operations 12

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Crew data-structure Tactical Operations 11Crew fighters TechManual 188Crew hit Strategic Operations 380Crew hit Strategic Operations 295Crew hit Strategic Operations 231Crew hit Strategic Operations 32Crew hits Tactical Operations 206Crew infantry weapon TechManual 151Crew infantry weapon TechManual 150Crew infantry weapon TechManual 149Crew killed Strategic Operations 380Crew killed Strategic Operations 285Crew killed Strategic Operations 231Crew killed-large naval vessel damage Tactical Operations 159Crew losses/casualties Tactical Operations 206Crew marine points score Tactical Operations 201-2Crew minimum TechManual 131Crew modifiers Strategic Operations 171Crew numbers/abilities Tactical Operations 218-19Crew passenger quarters Strategic Operations 160Crew quarters Tactical Operations 268Crew quarters Tactical Operations 256Crew quarters Tactical Operations 131Crew quarters TechManual 282Crew quarters-advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 155Crew quarters-fighters TechManual 195Crew rearming Strategic Operations 99Crew stunned Strategic Operations 231Crew support vehicle Tactical Operations 249-5Crew systems Tactical Operations 131-33Crew table Tactical Operations 132Crew transport bays Tactical Operations 218Crew vehicle Strategic Operations 177Crew A Time Of War 258Crew Strategic Operations 168-69Crew TechManual 103Crew data Total Warfare 29Crew killed: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 194Crew stunned: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 194-95Crew Total Warfare 240

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Crewed weapons A Time Of War 173Crimes A Time Of War 363Critical damage buildings Tactical Operations 120-21Critical damage cockpit Tactical Operations 76Critical damage cockpit Tactical Operations 75Critical damage direct-fire ballistic/artillery weapons Tactical Operations 76Critical damage direct-fire energy/pulse weapons Tactical Operations 75Critical damage equipment Tactical Operations 76Critical damage large naval vehicle record Tactical Operations 10Critical damage large naval vessels Tactical Operations 159Critical damage missile weapons Tactical Operations 76Critical damage satellite Tactical Operations 11Critical damage Tactical Operations 74-75Critical damage TechManual 28Critical damage TechManual 26Critical damage carrying units Total Warfare 90Critical damage ground combat vehicles Total Warfare 192-94Critical damage infantry carriers Total Warfare 224Critical damage support vehicles Total Warfare 207Critical damage VTOL Total Warfare 197Critical damage Total Warfare 53Critical damage Total Warfare 30Critical damage Total Warfare 29Critical hit effects gravdeck Strategic Operations 94Critical hit effects K-F drive Strategic Operations 94Critical hit effects quick strike Strategic Operations 407Critical hit effects Strategic Operations 230-31Critical hits advanced Mech table Tactical Operations 12Critical hits advanced VTOL table Tactical Operations 12Critical hits aerospace Strategic Operations 12Critical hits BattleForce to BattleTech Strategic Operations 380Critical hits buildings Tactical Operations 120-21Critical hits determining Strategic Operations 230Critical hits fighter squadron Strategic Operations 32-33Critical hits floating rule Tactical Operations 77Critical hits miniatures Strategic Operations 408Critical hits mobile structures Tactical Operations 172Critical hits quick-strike Strategic Operations 407Critical hits roll Strategic Operations 284-85Critical hits roll Strategic Operations 233

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Critical hits satellite Tactical Operations 74-75Critical hits TechManual 25Critical hits TechManual 24Critical hits TechManual 23Critical hits aerospace units Total Warfare 238-39Critical hits swarm attacks Total Warfare 223Critical hits transferring Total Warfare 125Critical hits Total Warfare 41Critical hits Total Warfare 28Critical hits table Total Warfare 124Critical hits table Total Warfare 27Critical space BattleMech TechManual 45Critical space IndustrialMech TechManual 65Critical space Mech engine TechManual 50Critical space TechManual 18–19Crossing engagement Strategic Operations 75Crouching A Time Of War 169Cruise missile artillery Tactical Operations 284-85Cruise missile attack-morale checks and Tactical Operations 211Cruise missile mobile structures Tactical Operations 186Cruise missiles Strategic Operations 286Cruiser Strategic Operations 10Cruising Total Warfare 53Crush depth checks Tactical Operations 43Crush depth checks Tactical Operations 42Cryptography A Time Of War 145-46Culture A Time Of War 362-66Custom vehicle A Time Of War 112Customization Strategic Operations 188-90Customization Strategic Operations 281Customization Strategic Operations 166Cutting Total Warfare 291-92Cutting torch TechManual 254Cybernetics technician A Time Of War 157Cybernetics A Time Of War 28Cyclops Incorporated TechManual 113Damage air-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 236Damage amount of Strategic Operations 229Damage application (quick strike) Strategic Operations 407Damage applying Strategic Operations 230

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Damage artillery Tactical Operations 182-84Damage battle armor troopers Strategic Operations 398Damage BattleForce Strategic Operations 237Damage bombing Strategic Operations 408Damage building Tactical Operations 122-23Damage charge A Time Of War 218Damage conventional infantry squads Strategic Operations 398Damage conversion Strategic Operations 360Damage determining final value Strategic Operations 362Damage determining/applying Strategic Operations 228-29Damage determining/applying Strategic Operations 405Damage determining/applying Strategic Operations 284Damage diagnosis Strategic Operations 176-78Damage ECM/ECCM Strategic Operations 112Damage effects A Time Of War 182-84Damage end phase Strategic Operations 296-97Damage final for each range Strategic Operations 326Damage ground-to-air Strategic Operations 234Damage groups Strategic Operations 293-94Damage high speed Strategic Operations 85Damage hyperspace hole Strategic Operations 89Damage increased capacity A Time Of War 192Damage keeping secret Tactical Operations 75Damage K-F booms Strategic Operations 279Damage meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82Damage miniatures Strategic Operations 405Damage miniatures Strategic Operations 405Damage multipliers A Time Of War 190Damage notation A Time Of War 179Damage notation A Time Of War 177Damage order of Tactical Operations 66Damage order of-building collapse Tactical Operations 123Damage physical hits Strategic Operations 232Damage piloting skill roles Tactical Operations 23-24Damage ram attack A Time Of War 218Damage record (capital missiles loss) Strategic Operations 80-81Damage recording A Time Of War 179Damage resolution A Time Of War 179-82Damage resolution A Time Of War 177Damage scaled Tactical Operations 124

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Damage scaled-armored buildings Tactical Operations 121Damage size class Strategic Operations 73Damage standard A Time Of War 182Damage threshold-buildings Tactical Operations 120Damage thresholds/variable Strategic Operations 117Damage total base for each range Strategic Operations 326Damage tracking-mobile structure Tactical Operations 167-68Damage tracking-mobile structure Tactical Operations 172Damage underwater Strategic Operations 229Damage value Strategic Operations 213Damage vehicle pilots/MechWarriors A Time Of War 218Damage weapon attacks Tactical Operations 83-84Damage Strategic Operations 408Damage TechManual 149Damage aerospace units Total Warfare 238-40Damage attacker Total Warfare 150Damage building collapse Total Warfare 177-79Damage charge attacks Total Warfare 148Damage crashes Total Warfare 81Damage crippling Total Warfare 258Damage determination Total Warfare 38Damage modifiers Total Warfare 110Damage other infantry units Total Warfare 216Damage ProtoMechs Total Warfare 185-86Damage recording Total Warfare 121-22Damage resolution Total Warfare 122Damage support vehicles Total Warfare 206-7Damage target Total Warfare 150Damage thresholds Total Warfare 239Damage value Total Warfare 43Damage warrior Total Warfare 41Damage Total Warfare 121-22Damage values-weaponry TechManual 152–54Dangle-and-drop Tactical Operations 22Dark caste A Time Of War 77Dark secret A Time Of War 112-13Darkness A Time Of War 236Darkness Strategic Operations 315Data structure Tactical Operations 11Dawn Tactical Operations 58

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Dead to rights Strategic Operations 305Dead zones Tactical Operations 79-80Dead zones Tactical Operations 83Deadly taints A Time Of War 238Death A Time Of War 184Death from above attacks Total Warfare 149-50Death from above infantry carriers Total Warfare 223Death from above VTOL Total Warfare 198Death from above Tactical Operations 91Death from above attack miniatures Strategic Operations 396Death from above attack Strategic Operations 407-08Debris Collision Strategic Operations 84Debris Strategic Operations 45Deceleration engagement phase Strategic Operations 81-82Deceleration Tactical Operations 24-25Dedicated driver TechManual 92Deep Periphery affliations/subaffiliations trader A Time Of War 78Deep Periphery affliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 58Deep snow A Time Of War 233Deep snow Tactical Operations 41Deep space map Strategic Operations 274Defector Strategic Operations 306Defender closing engagements Strategic Operations 75Defender determining Strategic Operations 48-49Defending troops zero-g ground attack Strategic Operations 120-21Defensive battle rating TechManual 302–3Defensive factors TechManual 315Defensive factors modifier Tactical Operations 379Delayed liftoff Strategic Operations 71Delphyne-2 TechManual 307Demolition engineers Tactical Operations 341Demolitions A Time Of War 279Demolitions A Time Of War 278Demolitions A Time Of War 146Demoralizer A Time Of War 225Dependents A Time Of War 113Deployment readying for Strategic Operations 44Deployment zone Strategic Operations 213Depth 1 water physical attack Total Warfare 144Depth 1 water terrain modifiers Total Warfare 109

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Depth 2+ water physical attack Total Warfare 144Depth 2+ water terrain modifiers Total Warfare 109Depth rules: stacking Total Warfare 58-59Depth tracks TechManual 26Depth tracks Total Warfare 29Depths Total Warfare 43Derailment damaged rail support vehicles Tactical Operations 153Derailment rail support vehicles Tactical Operations 149-50Derailment rail support vehicles Tactical Operations 151Desertion checks Strategic Operations 39Desertions Strategic Operations 40Design quirk A Time Of War 114-15Design quirk A Time Of War 113Design quirks Strategic Operations 193-99Designation phase bearings-only launch Strategic Operations 101Desperate Thrill Strategic Operations 58-61Destroyed gyro Tactical Operations 380-81Destroyed gyro Tactical Operations 20Destroyed location Total Warfare 124Destroyed unit Strategic Operations 175-76Destroyer Strategic Operations 10Destruction mobile structures Tactical Operations 172Destruction rail support vehicle Tactical Operations 151-52Destruction sinking vessel Tactical Operations 161Destruction: carrying units Total Warfare 90Detachable missile pack modification TechManual 254Details Total Warfare 288Detection check-advanced sensors Strategic Operations 118Detection closing engagement Strategic Operations 77-78Detection maneuvering Strategic Operations 78Detection phase-bearings-only launch Strategic Operations 101-102Detection Strategic Operations 246-48Detective skill field A Time Of War 83DEX (dexterity) A Time Of War 35DFA Tactical Operations 20Diagnostic interpretation (DI) computer TechManual 42Dice Total Warfare 33Dice/die use, non-player characters A Time Of War 337Dice/die A Time Of War 34Dice/die A Time Of War 20

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Dice/die A Time Of War 19Different levels table Total Warfare 150Difficult challenges A Time Of War 332Difficult ejection Strategic Operations 196Difficult terrain A Time Of War 169Difficult to maintain quirk Strategic Operations 197Digging in Tactical Operations 108Direct blow Tactical Operations 81Direct fire ballistic/direct fire energy A Time Of War 213Direct fire weapons battle rating TechManual 310Direct-fire artillery Tactical Operations 185-86Dirt road Tactical Operations 51Disease frequency A Time Of War 247Disease severity A Time Of War 247Disease A Time Of War 247-49Disease A Time Of War 245Disguise A Time Of War 146Dismounting units in cargo bay Tactical Operations 161Dismounting units on sinking vessel deck Tactical Operations 160Dismounting carrying units Total Warfare 91Dismounting support vehicles Total Warfare 207Dismounting Total Warfare 225-27Dismounting units Strategic Operations 42-43Displacement building Tactical Operations 122-23Displacement mobile structure Tactical Operations 173Displacement Tactical Operations 63Displacement hull TechManual 94Displacement: building collapse Total Warfare 177-79Displays- cockpit TechManual 40–41Disposable weapons rearming Strategic Operations 186Disposable weapons Tactical Operations 304Dispute resolution Strategic Operations 386-87Dissipating smoke Strategic Operations 318Distance A Time Of War 91Distance to zenith/nadir jump point Strategic Operations 86Dive bombing Strategic Operations 408Dive bombing Strategic Operations 400Dive bombing Strategic Operations 235Dive equipment Tactical Operations 249Dive equipment TechManual 131

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Dive equipment TechManual 102Dive-bombing scatter diagram Total Warfare 245Dive-bombing Total Warfare 245-46Diversification A Time Of War 350Dock hit Strategic Operations 285Docked element attacking Strategic Operations 291Docked element attacking while Strategic Operations 291Docked element zero-g ground attack Strategic Operations 120Docking arms Strategic Operations 193Docking collar Tactical Operations 304Docking collar hit Strategic Operations 381Docking collar hit Strategic Operations 380Docking collar hit Strategic Operations 231Docking collar locations Strategic Operations 67Docking damage Strategic Operations 68Docking hardpoint Tactical Operations 304Docking large craft Strategic Operations 66-67Docking modifiers Strategic Operations 68Docking multiple Strategic Operations 36Docking standard Strategic Operations 36Docking thrusters Tactical Operations 304Docking thrusters Tactical Operations 205Docking Strategic Operations 254-55Docking Strategic Operations 277Docking Strategic Operations 36Docking collar Total Warfare 240Doctor skill field A Time Of War 82Dodge A Time Of War 222Dog A Time Of War 241Dogfights Strategic Operations 21Domino effect Tactical Operations 124Domino effect Total Warfare 152-53Donkey A Time Of War 241Door critical hits Total Warfare 79Door Total Warfare 240Door (D#) hit Strategic Operations 231Door (D#) special abilities Strategic Operations 325Door (D#) Strategic Operations 381Door (D#) Strategic Operations 380Door (D#) Strategic Operations 348

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Doors large Tactical Operations 138Double blind rules atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 23Double heat sinks TechManual 221Double jumping Strategic Operations 135Double-attribute checks A Time Of War 38-39Double-blind rules Turn Record Sheet Tactical Operations 13Double-blind rules Tactical Operations 220-25Double-time march Strategic Operations 306Downtime A Time Of War 334Draconis Combine affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 54Draconis Combine covert operations A Time Of War 76Draconis Combine A Time Of War 26Draconis Combine A Time Of War 25Draconis Combine A Time Of War 21Draconis Combine A Time Of War 13Draconis Combine Strategic Operations 15Draconis Combine TechManual 15Dragging Mech Tactical Operations 99Dragoon TechManual 93Drifting smoke Strategic Operations 318Drills Strategic Operations 251Drive plumes Strategic Operations 119Driver hit: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 195Driving A Time Of War 146-47Driving skill roll table Total Warfare 60Driving skill rolls Total Warfare 59-61Driving skill Total Warfare 40Drone carrier control systems Tactical Operations 305Drone carrier control systems Tactical Operations 304Drone operating system Tactical Operations 306Drone skill ratings Tactical Operations 386Drone systems Tactical Operations 305-6Drone (DRO) Strategic Operations 348Drone carrier control system (DCC#) Strategic Operations 348Drop cocoon hit location Strategic Operations 23Dropping prone battle armor Total Warfare 228Dropping prone swarm attack Total Warfare 222Dropping prone Total Warfare 49DropShip armor TechManual 191DropShip Battle Value TechManual 313–14

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DropShip cargo TechManual 177–78DropShip civilian vs. military TechManual 183DropShip control systems TechManual 175–76DropShip engineering TechManual 176DropShip marines TechManual 177DropShip space TechManual 181DropShip structural integrity TechManual 187–88DropShip technology base TechManual 181DropShip transport bays/doors TechManual 196DropShip unit type/shape TechManual 181DropShip weapon systems TechManual 176–77DropShip TechManual 175DropShip TechManual 13DropShip bay table Total Warfare 89DropShip combat Total Warfare 250DropShip crashes Total Warfare 81DropShip dismounting Total Warfare 225DropShip exhaust damage table Total Warfare 88DropShip infernos Total Warfare 141DropShip sideslipping Total Warfare 67-68DropShip Total Warfare 24DropShip transport (DT#) Strategic Operations 348DropShip(s) attacks Strategic Operations 233DropShip(s) attacks in space Strategic Operations 236DropShip(s) combat while floating Strategic Operations 74DropShip(s) conversion Strategic Operations 366-67DropShip(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358DropShip(s) damage Strategic Operations 361DropShip(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175DropShip(s) emergency combat heading operation Strategic Operations 113-14DropShip(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 231DropShip(s) exhaust damage Strategic Operations 392DropShip(s) firing arc attack direction Strategic Operations 233DropShip(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 404DropShip(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 392DropShip(s) modifiers Strategic Operations 172DropShip(s) mover platform conversion Strategic Operations 369DropShip(s) operations Strategic Operations 245-46DropShip(s) partially submerged spheroid Strategic Operations 74DropShip(s) rearming Strategic Operations 98

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DropShip(s) sensor/FCS hits Strategic Operations 381DropShip(s) spheroid Strategic Operations 220DropShip(s) squadrons Strategic Operations 279DropShip(s) Strategic Operations 327DropShip(s) Strategic Operations 10DropShips fire (effect on) Tactical Operations 45DropShips mobile structures and Tactical Operations 168DropShips mobile structures and Tactical Operations 167DropShips movement damage Tactical Operations 65DropShips non-infantry boarding Tactical Operations 188-91DropShips swamp Tactical Operations 51DropShips A Time Of War 28Drowning A Time Of War 181Drug addiction A Time Of War 321Drug creation A Time Of War 322-23Drug creation A Time Of War 321Drug A Time Of War 317-21Dry brushing Total Warfare 287Dual saw TechManual 244Dual saw Total Warfare 134Duel voiding Total Warfare 275Duke/duchess A Time Of War 353Dumper TechManual 244Dumper Total Warfare 134Dune buggy Tactical Operations 303Dune buggy Tactical Operations 302Dusk Tactical Operations 58Dynamic terrain A Time Of War 235-36Earthquake Strategic Operations 315Earthquake Tactical Operations 55Earthquakes A Time Of War 236Earthwerks-CC TechManual 114Earthwerks-FWL TechManual 115Easy to maintain quirk Strategic Operations 193Easy to pilot quirk Strategic Operations 193ECCM double-blind rules Tactical Operations 224ECCM Tactical Operations 100-101ECCM Tactical Operations 102ECM NARC missile beacon Total Warfare 139ECM pod Total Warfare 141

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ECM suite Total Warfare 134-35ECM Total Warfare 238ECM Total Warfare 229ECM suite TechManual 254ECM suite TechManual 213ECM suites active probes Tactical Operations 99ECM suites double-blind rules Tactical Operations 224-25ECM suites modifier table Tactical Operations 223ECM suites Tactical Operations 100-102Economics A Time Of War 366-73EDG (Edge) A Time Of War 35Edge non-player characters and A Time Of War 43Edge A Time Of War 42-43Education A Time Of War 364Efficiency of Rome Tactical Operations 270-273Eisenjagers Total Warfare 188-91Ejection modifiers table Tactical Operations 197Ejection safe Strategic Operations 26Ejection systems Strategic Operations 314Ejection systems Tactical Operations 309-10Ejection Strategic Operations 26-27Ejection Tactical Operations 196-98Ejection seat TechManual 213–14Ejection seat TechManual 41Ejection seat (ES) Strategic Operations 349El Dorado A Time Of War 374-76Elective implants A Time Of War 316-17Electric engine (ELEC) Strategic Operations 349Electric security A Time Of War 153Electromagnetic interference (EMI) Tactical Operations 55Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) mines (land) effects table Tactical Operations 365Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) mines (land) Tactical Operations 365Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) mines (land) Tactical Operations 208Electronic compass A Time Of War 311Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) Strategic Operations 111-13Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) Strategic Operations 314Electronic countermeasures (ECM) BattleForce Strategic Operations 314Electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod Strategic Operations 310Electronic countermeasures (ECM) vs. active probes Strategic Operations 349Electronic countermeasures (ECM) vs. C3 networks Strategic Operations 349

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Electronic countermeasures (ECM) Strategic Operations 112-13Electronic countermeasures (ECM) Strategic Operations 349Electronic countermeasures (ECM) Strategic Operations 111Electronic countermeasures (ECMs) satellites Tactical Operations 195-96Electronic equipment critical damage Tactical Operations 75Electronic equipment ejection/abandoned unit Tactical Operations 196Electronic equipment large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Electronic equipment large naval vessel Tactical Operations 159Electronic equipment taking control of Tactical Operations 216Electronic support measures Strategic Operations 119Electronic technician A Time Of War 157Electronic warfare advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 110-13Electronic warfare sensor shadows Strategic Operations 114Electronic warfare (EW) equipment Tactical Operations 310-11Electronics A Time Of War 300-305Element as cargo Strategic Operations 326Element composition-determining Strategic Operations 355Element detachment Strategic Operations 322Element fire and Strategic Operations 318Element heights Strategic Operations 282Element point value (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 238Element separation Strategic Operations 322Element splitting Strategic Operations 322Element squadron selection Strategic Operations 326Element transport Strategic Operations 324Element Strategic Operations 213Elemental A Time Of War 97Elemental A Time Of War 28Elephant A Time Of War 241Elevation TechManual 26Elevation changes Total Warfare 55-56Elevation rules: stacking Total Warfare 58-59Elevation Total Warfare 31-32Elevation Total Warfare 43Elevation Total Warfare 29Elevation (miniatures) Strategic Operations 401Elevation (miniatures) Strategic Operations 388Elevation changing A Time Of War 169-70EM interference Strategic Operations 197Emergence wave Strategic Operations 278

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Emergence wave Strategic Operations 118Emergency combat heading operation Strategic Operations 113-14Emergency combat heading operation Strategic Operations 277Emergency evacuation systems Strategic Operations 255Emergency flares A Time Of War 311Emergency jet pack/jump pack A Time Of War 311EMP minefield Strategic Operations 288Encumbering items A Time Of War 170Encumbrance A Time Of War 170End phase BattleForce Strategic Operations 237End phase BattleForce Strategic Operations 216End phase miniatures Strategic Operations 409End phase miniatures Strategic Operations 401End phase A Time Of War 218-19End phase A Time Of War 189-95End phase A Time Of War 164End phase Total Warfare 38Endo steel Total Warfare 135Endo-composite structure Tactical Operations 342Endo-steel TechManual 224Endo-steel TechManual 32End-overs Strategic Operations 277End-overs Strategic Operations 66Enemy A Time Of War 115-16Enemy A Time Of War 113Enemy vehicle-picking up Tactical Operations 96Energy (ENE) Strategic Operations 349Energy storage batteries Tactical Operations 306Energy weapon TechManual 148Energy weapons A Time Of War 265-66Energy weapons A Time Of War 276Energy weapons A Time Of War 275Energy weapons A Time Of War 267Energy weapons Tactical Operations 102Engagement speed Strategic Operations 76Engine aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Engine base value Tactical Operations 240Engine BattleMechs TechManual 48–50Engine BattleMechs TechManual 35–37Engine combat vehicles TechManual 91–92

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Engine combat vehicles TechManual 100–103Engine damage Strategic Operations 32Engine explosions Tactical Operations 77-78Engine fighters TechManual 184–88Engine fighters TechManual 179Engine fractional accounting Tactical Operations 376Engine FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 189Engine hit Strategic Operations 381Engine hit Strategic Operations 380Engine hit Strategic Operations 285Engine hit Strategic Operations 231Engine hit-large naval vessel damage Tactical Operations 159Engine IndustrialMech TechManual 67–70Engine IndustrialMech TechManual 62Engine installation Strategic Operations 146-51Engine installation-support vehicle Tactical Operations 245-48Engine master table Tactical Operations 308Engine master table TechManual 49Engine Mech Strategic Operations 177Engine Mech critical space table TechManual 50Engine OmniMechs TechManual 48Engine oversized BattleMechs TechManual 37Engine ProtoMech TechManual 83–85Engine rating and mobility formulas TechManual 48Engine status-advanced units Strategic Operations 72Engine stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Engine support vehicle TechManual 126–28Engine systems Tactical Operations 307-9Engine systems Tactical Operations 381Engine tables Tactical Operations 247Engine tables Tactical Operations 246Engine TechManual 214–15Engine critical hit Total Warfare 126Engine ground combat vehicle hit Total Warfare 195Engine Total Warfare 240Engine damage VTOL Total Warfare 197Engine damage WIGE Total Warfare 199Engineer skill field A Time Of War 82Engineering (ENG) Strategic Operations 349Engineering- DropShips TechManual 176

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Enhanced long-range missile (NLRM) launchers Tactical Operations 326-27Enhanced-imaging implant A Time Of War 28Enhancements- special physical TechManual 52–53Entertainment A Time Of War 365Entertainment A Time Of War 331Environmental conditions Strategic Operations 315-17Environmental modifiers Strategic Operations 283Environmental sealing mobile structures Tactical Operations 265Environmental sealing Tactical Operations 136-37Environmental sealing Tactical Operations 303Environmental sealing Tactical Operations 302Environmental sealing TechManual 216Environmental sealing (SEAL) Strategic Operations 349Enviro-sealing TechManual 70Enyo strike tank conversion Strategic Operations 365Equipment advanced Tactical Operations 380-85Equipment advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 255-58Equipment advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 254Equipment aerospace BV TechManual 318Equipment aerospace units Total Warfare 236Equipment attacking building Tactical Operations 121Equipment availability modifier Strategic Operations 178Equipment battle values Strategic Operations 160Equipment battle values Tactical Operations 280Equipment Clan TechManual 322Equipment Clan TechManual 318Equipment costs Strategic Operations 160Equipment critical hit Total Warfare 128Equipment damage-aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Equipment damage-Mech Strategic Operations 177Equipment damage-ProtoMech Strategic Operations 177Equipment damage-vehicle Strategic Operations 177Equipment data A Time Of War 259Equipment FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Equipment IndustrialMech TechManual 63Equipment infantry Total Warfare 214Equipment Inner Sphere TechManual 320–21Equipment Inner Sphere TechManual 317Equipment key TechManual 320Equipment miniatures Strategic Operations 396

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Equipment missile Tactical Operations 103Equipment mobile structures Tactical Operations 266-69Equipment non-player character A Time Of War 339Equipment purchasing A Time Of War 91-92Equipment rating Strategic Operations 168Equipment ratings A Time Of War 254-55Equipment resource A Time Of War 111Equipment space limits Tactical Operations 240Equipment taking Strategic Operations 39Equipment terms A Time Of War 258Equipment unspecified Tactical Operations 131Equipment use A Time Of War 259Equipment warrior unconscious Total Warfare 41Equipment weapons firing Total Warfare 107Equipment A Time Of War 18Equipment TechManual 201Equipment Total Warfare 238Equipment Total Warfare 113-14Equipped trait A Time Of War 116Equipped trait A Time Of War 92ER pulse lasers Tactical Operations 320Era modifier Strategic Operations 169-170Eruptions hazardous liquid pools Tactical Operations 49Escape artist A Time Of War 147Escape pod TechManual 216Espionage performing Strategic Operations 268-69Espionage gear A Time Of War 307-9Eugenics program A Time Of War 28Evading A Time Of War 168Evading Tactical Operations 18-19Evasive action Strategic Operations 306Evasive action Strategic Operations 277Evasive action Strategic Operations 270Evasive action Strategic Operations 92Evasive action Strategic Operations 80Evasive action Total Warfare 77Evasive action modifiers table Total Warfare 77Exceptional attribute A Time Of War 116Excess heat Total Warfare 41Excessive ammunition TechManual 312

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Excessive ammunition TechManual 303Exchange rates A Time Of War 256Exercise Strategic Operations 252Exoskeletons A Time Of War 186-87Exoskeletons A Time Of War 300Exoskeletons A Time Of War 298Exotic armor A Time Of War 295Exotic armor A Time Of War 291Exotic conditions A Time Of War 237Expanded critical hits Strategic Operations 285Expanded movement cost planetary conditions Tactical Operations 32-36Expanded movement cost planetary conditions Tactical Operations 28-30Expending thrust Strategic Operations 67Experience (XP) accumulating A Time Of War 51-52Experience (XP) award A Time Of War 331-32Experience (XP) cancelling A Time Of War 86-87Experience (XP) pool A Time Of War 49Experience (XP) A Time Of War 37Experience (XP) A Time Of War 35Experience (XP) A Time Of War 19Experience point buying additional costs A Time Of War 85Experience point buying additional leftover A Time Of War 87-88Experience point buying additional points-only system A Time Of War 90Experience point buying additional universal fixed A Time Of War 52Experience point buying additional A Time Of War 88Experience ratings Strategic Operations 187Exploding weapons: heat Total Warfare 160Explorer A Time Of War 77Explosions unintended Tactical Operations 31Explosions: VTOL Total Warfare 198Explosive components: critical hit Total Warfare 128Explosive pod Total Warfare 141Explosives A Time Of War 277-85Exposed actuators Strategic Operations 197Exposed weapon linkage Strategic Operations 197Extended action resolution A Time Of War 189Extended fuel tanks/cells Total Warfare 135Extended IndustrialMech fuel tanks TechManual 245Extended life support TechManual 254–55Extended long-range missile (ELRM) launchers Tactical Operations 327

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Extended mechanized (XMEC) special ability Strategic Operations 324Extended mechanized (XMEC) Strategic Operations 349Extended torso twist Strategic Operations 194Extended-range (ER) laser TechManual 226Extended-range (ER) PPC TechManual 233–34Extended-range flamer Tactical Operations 312External communications Strategic Operations 250-51External fuel tanks Strategic Operations 35External stores blocks TechManual 28External stores fighters TechManual 196External stores hardpoints TechManual 216–17External stores rearming Strategic Operations 186External stores Tactical Operations 386External stores TechManual 314Extinction date TechManual 287–88Extra income A Time Of War 116-17Extra time Strategic Operations 182Extraction Strategic Operations 242Extraction Total Warfare 260-61Extra-light (XL) engines TechManual 36–37Extra-light (XL) engines TechManual 214Extra-light (XL) engines TechManual 38Extralight gyro TechManual 220Extraterrestrials A Time Of War 242-45Extreme depths Tactical Operations 42-43Extreme gravity A Time Of War 237-38Extreme range A Time Of War 272Extreme range A Time Of War 180Extreme range Tactical Operations 85Extreme temperature (cold) troops Tactical Operations 351Extreme temperature (cold) troops Tactical Operations 350Extreme temperature (hot) troops Tactical Operations 351Extreme temperature (hot) troops Tactical Operations 350Extreme temperature Tactical Operations 62Extreme temperature Tactical Operations 60Extreme temperature Tactical Operations 58Fabrication Strategic Operations 179Faceman A Time Of War 99Facing aerospace movement Total Warfare 77Facing after fall Total Warfare 68

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Facing atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 221Facing change Total Warfare 50-51Facing change cost table Total Warfare 77Facing miniatures Strategic Operations 388-89Facing miniatures Strategic Operations 403Facing mobile structures Tactical Operations 167Facing random Strategic Operations 98Facing space movement Strategic Operations 224Facing Strategic Operations 219Facing Strategic Operations 82Facing Strategic Operations 80Facing Total Warfare 84Faction availability modifier Strategic Operations 179Faction quality Strategic Operations 167Factory class refit kits Strategic Operations 188-89Factory stations Strategic Operations 137Failed ammo loading Strategic Operations 98-99Failed braking maneuver table Total Warfare 88Failed braking maneuver table Total Warfare 87Failed hull landing Strategic Operations 25Failed landing location/damage atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 23Fall back Strategic Operations 306Falling bog down rules Tactical Operations 62Falling damage Tactical Operations 65Falling expanded Tactical Operations 24Falling gravity damage Tactical Operations 55Falling intentional Tactical Operations 91Falling minefield Tactical Operations 209Falling miniatures Strategic Operations 391Falling Tactical Operations 91Falling battle armor Total Warfare 228Falling inside building Total Warfare 168Falling swarm attack Total Warfare 222Falling Total Warfare 68-69Falling Total Warfare 41Falling damage armor and A Time Of War 182Falling damage fatigue and A Time Of War 182Falling damage stun and A Time Of War 182Falling damage A Time Of War 181-82Falling unit hits target Total Warfare 152

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Falling unit misses target Total Warfare 152Falls accidental Total Warfare 152Falls death from above Total Warfare 149Falls Total Warfare 150Falls Total Warfare 148Families A Time Of War 28Family training A Time Of War 73Farm A Time Of War 67Farm A Time Of War 65FASCAM artillery/arrow missiles Tactical Operations 357FASCAM bombs Tactical Operations 360Fast learner A Time Of War 117Fast reload Strategic Operations 194Fatal threshold fighter squadron Strategic Operations 32Fatal threshold fighter squadron Strategic Operations 28Fatigue accumulation A Time Of War 189Fatigue Aerospace units outside game play Strategic Operations 38Fatigue armor and A Time Of War 182Fatigue effects Strategic Operations 41Fatigue exertion and continuous damage A Time Of War 182Fatigue modifiers A Time Of War 183-84Fatigue ratings Strategic Operations 41Fatigue recovering from A Time Of War 189Fatigue recovering from A Time Of War 182Fatigue standard damage and falls A Time Of War 182Fatigue stun and A Time Of War 182Fatigue subduing attacks A Time Of War 182Fatigue unassisted recovery A Time Of War 193Fatigue A Time Of War 189Fatigue A Time Of War 182Fatigue A Time Of War 180Fatigue A Time Of War 179Fatigue Strategic Operations 40-41Fatigue Tactical Operations 198FCS damage Strategic Operations 381FedCom Civil War A Time Of War 27FedCom Civil War A Time Of War 22FedCom civil war TechManual 14Federated Suns affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 55Federated Suns covert operations A Time Of War 76

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Federated Suns A Time Of War 25Federated Suns A Time Of War 21Federated Suns A Time Of War 13Federated Suns Strategic Operations 15Federated Suns TechManual 15Federated-Boeing Interstellar TechManual 111Feedback session A Time Of War 330-31Fences Tactical Operations 129Fences Tactical Operations 116Ferro-aluminum armor TechManual 205Ferro-fibrous armor TechManual 205Ferro-fibrous armor TechManual 34Ferro-fibrous armor Total Warfare 135Ferro-Lamellor armor Tactical Operations 279-80Ferro-lamellor armor conversion Strategic Operations 358FFL-4A Firefly conversion Strategic Operations 368Fiction art and Tactical Operations 10Fiction rules and Tactical Operations 9Fiction A Time Of War 32-33Fiction Strategic Operations 9-10Fiction TechManual 8–9Fiction Total Warfare 8-9Field aptitude A Time Of War 122Field class refit kits Strategic Operations 188-89Field costs A Time Of War 71Field kitchen Strategic Operations 41Field kits A Time Of War 311Field medic A Time Of War 340Field rearming Strategic Operations 186Field A Time Of War 70-71Field A Time Of War 52Field Strategic Operations 140-41Field artillery Tactical Operations 311Field artillery Tactical Operations 310Field guns Tactical Operations 311Field guns Tactical Operations 310Field kitchen TechManual 217Fighter ammunition TechManual 194–98Fighter armor TechManual 190–93Fighter armor weapon space TechManual 192

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Fighter battle armor formations table TechManual 182Fighter bay TechManual 240Fighter chassis TechManual 182–84Fighter controls TechManual 188–90Fighter controls TechManual 178–79Fighter engines TechManual 184–88Fighter engines TechManual 179Fighter heat sinks TechManual 193–94Fighter record sheet TechManual 198–99Fighter space TechManual 181Fighter structural integrity TechManual 187Fighter technology base TechManual 181Fighter unit type/shape TechManual 180Fighter weapons TechManual 194–98Fighter weapons TechManual 179Fighter TechManual 178Fighter TechManual 28Fighter TechManual 9Fighter return table Total Warfare 92Fighter squadron(s) creation of Strategic Operations 27-30Fighter squadron(s) maximum size Strategic Operations 27Fighter squadron(s) recommended formation Strategic Operations 28Fighter squadron(s) Record Sheet Strategic Operations 30Fighter squadron(s) Record Sheet Strategic Operations 12Fighter squadron(s) splitting Strategic Operations 33Fighter squadron(s) usage of Strategic Operations 30-33Fighter squadron(s) Strategic Operations 279Fighter squadron(s) Strategic Operations 62Fighter(s) aerospace Strategic Operations 26Fighter(s) deployment Strategic Operations 78Fighter(s) ECCM Strategic Operations 111-12Fighter(s) ECM Strategic Operations 111Fighter(s) engagements-multiple Strategic Operations 21Fighter(s) launch Strategic Operations 77Fighter(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 392Fighter(s) operations Strategic Operations 245Fighter(s) reclamation Strategic Operations 85Fighter(s) selection Strategic Operations 27-28Fighter(s) Strategic Operations 67Fighters carrying units Total Warfare 90

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Fighters crashes Total Warfare 81Fighters dismounting Total Warfare 91Fighters evasive action Total Warfare 77Fighters heat Total Warfare 158Fighters infernos Total Warfare 141Fighters launching Total Warfare 84Fighters proximity damage Total Warfare 88Fighters recovering Total Warfare 86Fighters return table Total Warfare 92Fighters Total Warfare 250Fighters Total Warfare 249Fighters Total Warfare 86Fighters Total Warfare 23Fighters Total Warfare 20Fighters-picking up Tactical Operations 96Fighting withdrawal Total Warfare 94-97Files Total Warfare 290Filtration systems TechManual 41Filtvelt Coalition A Time Of War 15Final glory Strategic Operations 307Finishing Total Warfare 295Fire cargo bay due to weapon attacks Tactical Operations 190-91Fire deep snow Tactical Operations 41Fire diagram Strategic Operations 319Fire effects of Tactical Operations 43-45Fire effects resolution Strategic Operations 318Fire heavy industrial zones and Tactical Operations 31Fire ice Tactical Operations 50Fire putting out Strategic Operations 318-19Fire putting out Tactical Operations 45Fire smoke Tactical Operations 45-46Fire smoke resolution sequence Tactical Operations 46-47Fire spread Strategic Operations 318Fire spreading Tactical Operations 45Fire starting Strategic Operations 319Fire support Strategic Operations 205Fire tables Tactical Operations 44Fire thin snow Tactical Operations 52Fire Strategic Operations 317-20Fire control hit Strategic Operations 380

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Fire control hit Strategic Operations 231Fire control system damage Strategic Operations 32Fire control systems-advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 150Fire control Strategic Operations 155Fire control systems advanced TechManual 69Fire control systems mobile structure Tactical Operations 267Fire control systems mobile structure Tactical Operations 265Fire control systems Tactical Operations 250-51Fire control systems Tactical Operations 256Fire control systems TechManual 217–18Fire control systems TechManual 206–7Fire control systems TechManual 132Fire control systems: support vehicles Total Warfare 206Fire resistant (FR) Strategic Operations 349Fire resistant armor TechManual 253Fire resistant armor Total Warfare 228Fire support- combat vehicles TechManual 93Firedrake TechManual 266Firefighting engineers Strategic Operations 323Firefighting engineers Tactical Operations 341Firing arc advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 154Firing arc advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 94Firing arc aerodyne DropShip Strategic Operations 233Firing arc BattleForce Strategic Operations 226Firing arc grounded DropShip Strategic Operations 233Firing arc ground-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234Firing arc miniatures Strategic Operations 404Firing arc miniatures Strategic Operations 394Firing arc non-DropShip Strategic Operations 233Firing arc surface-to-orbit Strategic Operations 109Firing arc verification Strategic Operations 226Firing arc Strategic Operations 282Firing arcs mobile structure Tactical Operations 267Firing arcs Tactical Operations 107Firing arcs TechManual 194Firing arcs rotating Total Warfare 105-6Firing arcs space combat Total Warfare 235Firing arcs Total Warfare 249-50Firing arcs Total Warfare 243Firing at grounded DropShips Total Warfare 110

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Firing at immobile targets Total Warfare 110Firing range Strategic Operations 226Firing stances Tactical Operations 84Firing weapons aerospace units Total Warfare 235-36Firing weapons Total Warfare 119-23Firing weapons Total Warfare 106-16Firing weapons Total Warfare 238First sergeant A Time Of War 357Fishtail-vehicle Tactical Operations 26Fission engine: critical hit Total Warfare 126Fist fire A Time Of War 220Fit A Time Of War 184Fit A Time Of War 117Fixed wing aircraft TechManual 112Fixed wing structural integrity TechManual 130–31Fixed wing support vehicle fuel table TechManual 126Fixed wing support vehicles TechManual 28Fixed wing support vehicles TechManual 12Fixed wing TechManual 128–29Fixed wing TechManual 116Fixed wing support vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 363Fixed wing support vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358Fixed wing support vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 259Fixed wing support vehicle(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 231Fixed wing support vehicle(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 392Fixed-wing craft Total Warfare 25Fixed-wing support vehicles crashes Total Warfare 81Fixed-wing support vehicles damage Total Warfare 206Fixed-wing support vehicles facing changes Total Warfare 84Fixed-wing support vehicles Total Warfare 206Flail Tactical Operations 289Flail Tactical Operations 288Flak autocannon ammo Tactical Operations 352Flak Tactical Operations 185-86Flak Total Warfare 141Flak Total Warfare 136Flak (FLK) Strategic Operations 349Flak (FLK) Strategic Operations 309Flak armor A Time Of War 287Flame-based weapon TechManual 148

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Flamer TechManual 255Flamer TechManual 218Flamer ammunition Tactical Operations 360-63Flame-retardant foam ammo Tactical Operations 361Flamers Tactical Operations 312Flammable atmosphere Tactical Operations 56Flanking gravity damage Tactical Operations 55Flanking Total Warfare 53Flare LRM TechManual 230Flare mortars Tactical Operations 374Flechette Strategic Operations 309Flechette ammo Strategic Operations 309Flechette ammunition TechManual 208Flechette ammunition Total Warfare 141Flechette artillery Tactical Operations 355Flechette weapons A Time Of War 272Flechette weapons A Time Of War 268Flechette weapons A Time Of War 266Fleet admiral A Time Of War 359Flexible experience A Time Of War 51Flight deck large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Flight deck large naval vessels Tactical Operations 156Flight deck mobile structures Tactical Operations 170Flight deck Tactical Operations 313Flight deck Tactical Operations 312Flight deck (FD) Strategic Operations 349Flight deck (FD) Strategic Operations 345Flight path Total Warfare 43Flight stabilizer: VTOL Total Warfare 197Flight times Strategic Operations 68-71Flight times Strategic Operations 287Flipping arms over Tactical Operations 26-27Flipping arms Tactical Operations 87Flipping arms Total Warfare 106Flotation hull Tactical Operations 302Flotillas Strategic Operations 75Fluid gun ammunition Tactical Operations 360-63Fluid gun Tactical Operations 313Fluid gun Tactical Operations 312Fluid suction system TechManual 245

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Flying A Time Of War 169Fog A Time Of War 236-37Fog Strategic Operations 315Fog Tactical Operations 57Foliage-level 1 Tactical Operations 36Follow-the-leader (FTL) missiles Tactical Operations 368Food A Time Of War 372-73Food Strategic Operations 251-52Foot actuator hit Total Warfare 126Foot infantry TechManual 144Foot infantry TechManual 12Foot infantry Total Warfare 23Foot motive TechManual 272Force assembly,BattleForce Strategic Operations 238Force assembly,linked scenarios Strategic Operations 47-48Force composition Strategic Operations 331-32Force composition Strategic Operations 329-30Force composition Total Warfare 262Force composition,base attack Strategic Operations 50Force composition,probe Strategic Operations 49Force composition,recon raid Strategic Operations 50Force deployment (abstract aerospace) Strategic Operations 19Force determination Strategic Operations 329Force distribution Strategic Operations 239Force experience Strategic Operations 330Force experience level: skills Total Warfare 272Force formation determination Strategic Operations 329Force loyalty-generic Strategic Operations 39Force loyalty-generic Strategic Operations 38Force quality Strategic Operations 38-39Force rating Strategic Operations 329-330Force size Strategic Operations 48Force skill rating modifiers Strategic Operations 321Force weight class Strategic Operations 329-30Force Strategic Operations 213Force Total Warfare 266Force Total Warfare 264Force size Tactical Operations 386Force size Tactical Operations 386Force size TechManual 314

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Forced withdrawal initiation Strategic Operations 269Forced withdrawal Tactical Operations 213Forced withdrawal Total Warfare 258ForestryMech A Time Of War 28Forgery A Time Of War 147Formation size symbol equivalency Strategic Operations 337Formation Strategic Operations 213Formation- battle armor TechManual 173Forms Tactical Operations 9Fortresses Tactical Operations 260Fortresses Tactical Operations 137Fortresses Tactical Operations 117Forward arc Total Warfare 105Forward movement Total Warfare 77Four-legged ‘Mechs critical hit effects Total Warfare 125Four-legged ‘Mechs kick attacks Total Warfare 147Four-legged ‘Mechs piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59Four-legged ‘Mechs rotating firing arcs Total Warfare 106Four-legged ‘Mechs specialized attacks Total Warfare 113Four-legged ‘Mechs torso destruction Total Warfare 122Four-legged ‘Mechs Total Warfare 50Four-legged ‘Mechs Total Warfare 49Four-legged ‘Mechs Total Warfare 32Four-legged Mech earthquake Tactical Operations 55Four-legged Mech hit location table Tactical Operations 77Four-legged Mech picking up/throwing Tactical Operations 92Four-legged Mech Record Sheets-advanced Tactical Operations 12Four-legged Mech shielding Tactical Operations 19Fourth Succession War A Time Of War 21Fractional accounting Tactical Operations 376-77Fragile fuel tank Strategic Operations 197Fragile terrain A Time Of War 234-35Fragmentation grenades Tactical Operations 363Fragmentation missile TechManual 230Fragmentation missile Total Warfare 141FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 189-90Free Rasalhague Republic affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 57Free Rasalhague Republic covert operations A Time Of War 76-77Free Rasalhague Republic insurgent A Time Of War 78Free Rasalhague Republic random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 56

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Free Rasalhague Republic random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 54Free Rasalhague Republic Strategic Operations 17Free Rasalhague Republic TechManual 17Free trader merchant A Time Of War 78Free Worlds League affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 56Free Worlds League covert operations A Time Of War 76Free Worlds League A Time Of War 25Free Worlds League A Time Of War 22Free Worlds League A Time Of War 12Free Worlds League Strategic Operations 14Free Worlds League TechManual 14Freeborn A Time Of War 29Freeborn sibko A Time Of War 67-68Free-fall A Time Of War 142Freeform play A Time Of War 165Frenzy: ProtoMechs Total Warfare 187Friendly vehicle-picking up Tactical Operations 96Frigate Strategic Operations 10Fronc Reaches A Time Of War 14Fuchida Takayoshi A Time Of War 25Fuel aerospace units Strategic Operations 34-35Fuel all units Strategic Operations 35Fuel availability and cost Strategic Operations 179Fuel capacity Strategic Operations 147-48Fuel capacity- aerospace fighters TechManual 186–87Fuel consumption Strategic OperationsFuel hit Strategic Operations 231Fuel reserves Strategic Operations 35Fuel running out of Strategic Operations 34Fuel salvaged Strategic Operations 192Fuel space drops in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24-25Fuel support vehicle TechManual 128–30Fuel support vehicle TechManual 127Fuel tank TechManual 255Fuel tank- extended IndustrialMech TechManual 245Fuel tank hits Strategic Operations 34Fuel tank hits Strategic Operations 32Fuel A Time Of War 324-325Fuel TechManual 68Fuel Total Warfare 240

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Fuel capacity mobile structures Tactical Operations 263-64Fuel capacity Tactical Operations 248-49Fuel cell engine: critical hit Total Warfare 126Fuel storage Tactical Operations 264Fuel tank ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 195Fuel tank VTOL Total Warfare 197Fuel tank leak/explosion table Tactical Operations 136Fugitives A Time Of War 65-66Full cover A Time Of War 172Full moon night Tactical Operations 58Full recovery A Time Of War 193Full-head ejection system Tactical Operations 310Fully amphibious option Tactical Operations 303Fully amphibious option Tactical Operations 302Fulmar patrol craft conversion Strategic Operations 371Fumble Tactical Operations 77Fumble Tactical Operations 75Fumble Tactical Operations 23Fumbles A Time Of War 41Functionality TechManual 111Fusion TechManual 35Fusion engine explosions TechManual 36–37Fusion engine TechManual 214Fusion fuels TechManual 35Gale (light/moderate/strong) Tactical Operations 60Game needs A Time Of War 17-20Game play A Time Of War 18Game rules Tactical Operations 275Game running Tactical Operations 220Game play aerospace atmospheric movement phase Strategic Operations 273-75Game play aerospace atmospheric movement phase Strategic Operations 263Game play aerospace space movement phase Strategic Operations 276-79Game play aerospace space movement phase Strategic Operations 263Game play capital weapons fire in atmosphere turns Strategic Operations 103Game play combat phase Strategic Operations 279-95Game play combat phase Strategic Operations 263Game play command phase Strategic Operations 265-69Game play command phase Strategic Operations 263Game play commands (optional) Strategic Operations 298-308Game play end phase Strategic Operations 295-97

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Game play end phase Strategic Operations 263Game play fatigue effects during Strategic Operations 41Game play force generation Strategic Operations 328-35Game play ground movement phase Strategic Operations 269-73Game play ground movement phase Strategic Operations 263Game play initiative phase Strategic Operations 263-65Game play maps in Strategic Operations 242Game play miniatures Strategic Operations 387-88Game play miniatures Strategic Operations 401Game play miniatures Strategic Operations 401Game play morale effects during Strategic Operations 41Game play optional rules Strategic Operations 166Game play special abilities Strategic Operations 342-44Game play special rules Strategic Operations 308-26Game play squadrons (optional) Strategic Operations 326-28Game play statistics (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 214Game play statistics (miniatures) Strategic Operations 401Game play terminology Strategic Operations 213Game play time Strategic Operations 166-67Game play Strategic Operations 262-63Game rules battle armor and exoskeletons A Time Of War 300Game rules battle armor and exoskeletons A Time Of War 298Game rules communications equipment A Time Of War 300Game rules demolitions A Time Of War 279Game rules drugs and poisons A Time Of War 320-21Game rules drugs and poisons A Time Of War 318Game rules elective myomer implants A Time Of War 317Game rules electronic compass A Time Of War 311Game rules emergency flares A Time Of War 311Game rules emergency jet pack/jump pack A Time Of War 311Game rules enhanced-imaging implants A Time Of War 316-17Game rules espionage gear A Time Of War 309Game rules field kits A Time Of War 311Game rules grenade launchers A Time Of War 274Game rules grenades A Time Of War 277Game rules hang gliders, parachutes A Time Of War 311Game rules hostile environment gear A Time Of War 297Game rules hostile environment gear A Time Of War 291Game rules lung and organ replacements A Time Of War 316Game rules lung and organ replacements A Time Of War 314

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Game rules mines A Time Of War 277Game rules missile launchers A Time Of War 276Game rules ordnance A Time Of War 279Game rules personal armor A Time Of War 289Game rules power packs A Time Of War 307Game rules rechargers A Time Of War 307Game rules recoilless rifles A Time Of War 276Game rules remote sensors A Time Of War 305Game rules repair/salvage gear A Time Of War 309Game rules security systems A Time Of War 309Game rules specialty ammunition A Time Of War 284Game rules stealth gear A Time Of War 297-98Game rules support weapon crews A Time Of War 272Game rules vehicles A Time Of War 323Game rules weapon accessories A Time Of War 285Game rules TechManual 200Gamemaster (GM) adjudication by A Time Of War 33Gamemaster (GM) adventure ideas A Time Of War 346-48Gamemaster (GM) aesthetics A Time Of War 359-61Gamemaster (GM) arbitration A Time Of War 51Gamemaster (GM) character creation and A Time Of War 48-49Gamemaster (GM) details A Time Of War 344Gamemaster (GM) diseases A Time Of War 249Gamemaster (GM) entertainment A Time Of War 344Gamemaster (GM) fairness A Time Of War 343-44Gamemaster (GM) flexibility A Time Of War 343Gamemaster (GM) guide A Time Of War 342-44Gamemaster (GM) issued gear A Time Of War 92=93Gamemaster (GM) organization A Time Of War 343Gamemaster (GM) political/military power A Time Of War 349-59Gamemaster (GM) preparation A Time Of War 342-43Gamemaster (GM) rewards A Time Of War 330-32Gamemaster (GM) sample worlds A Time Of War 374-85Gamemaster (GM) session preparation A Time Of War 343Gamemaster (GM) story development A Time Of War 344-46Gamemaster (GM) technicians A Time Of War 157Gamemaster (GM) toolkit A Time Of War 18-19Gamemaster (GM) toolkit A Time Of War 20Gamemaster (GM) A Time Of War 17-18Gamemaster (GM) A Time Of War 19

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Gamemaster (GM) A Time Of War 16Gap filling Total Warfare 293Gap-fillers Total Warfare 291Garden worlds A Time Of War 372-73Gas hog Strategic Operations 197Gauss rifle TechManual 218–19Gauss rifle TechManual 255Gauss rifle Total Warfare 135-36Gauss rifles weapon rearming Tactical Operations 214Gauss rifles weapons Tactical Operations 102Gauss rifles Tactical Operations 313-15Gauss weaponry A Time Of War 276Gauss weaponry A Time Of War 275Gauss weaponry A Time Of War 272Gauss weaponry A Time Of War 268Gauss weaponry A Time Of War 29Gear acquiring A Time Of War 256-58Gear Total Warfare 240General A Time Of War 359General studies skill field A Time Of War 82Generator fuel Tactical Operations 135Generator fuel Tactical Operations 134Generic conventional infantry record sheet Total Warfare 29Geocentric low orbits Strategic Operations 276Geostationary orbits Strategic Operations 276Geyser A Time Of War 235-36Geyser Tactical Operations 48Ghost Bear Dominion A Time Of War 13Ghost Bear Dominion Strategic Operations 15Ghost Bear Dominion TechManual 15Ghost targets Tactical Operations 101-2Glancing blow Tactical Operations 70-73Glancing/direct blows Tactical Operations 80Glancing/direct blows Tactical Operations 19Glare Tactical Operations 58Glass jaw A Time Of War 184Glass jaw A Time Of War 118Gliding A Time Of War 169Godan A Time Of War 243Going prone A Time Of War 169

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Going to ground Strategic Operations 46Golden eagle A Time Of War 241Goliath scorpion seeker A Time Of War 77Good hearing A Time Of War 118Good vision A Time Of War 118Government types A Time Of War 362Grabbing Tactical Operations 90Grand duke/grand duchess A Time Of War 353Grand plot A Time Of War 345Grapple damage A Time Of War 180Grapple severing Strategic Operations 291Grapple A Time Of War 176Grappled unit attacking Strategic Operations 291Grappled unit zero-g ground attack Strategic Operations 120Grappling aerospace units Tactical Operations 199Grappling attacking unit Tactical Operations 199-200Grappling infantry Tactical Operations 200Grappling large naval vessels Tactical Operations 200Grappling mobile structures Tactical Operations 201Grappling small craft Tactical Operations 200Grappling units Tactical Operations 96Grappling Strategic Operations 291Grappling Strategic Operations 36Grappling Tactical Operations 90Grav deck Tactical Operations 315Grav deck Tactical Operations 314Gravdeck boarding Strategic Operations 139Gravdeck critical hit effects Strategic Operations 94Gravdeck Strategic Operations 140Gravel piles Tactical Operations 30-31Gravel road Tactical Operations 51Gravitational effects Strategic Operations 255-56Gravitational effects Strategic Operations 273Gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Gravity artillery Tactical Operations 186Gravity high/low Tactical Operations 55Gravity rating Tactical Operations 43Gravity A Time Of War 237-38Gravity Strategic Operations 315Gravity Total Warfare 80

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Gravity Total Warfare 79Gray areas A Time Of War 257Great Houses A Time Of War 29Green stuff Total Warfare 291Gregarious A Time Of War 118Gremlins A Time Of War 118Grenade launcher munitions Tactical Operations 363-64Grenade launcher vehicular (VGL) Tactical Operations 315Grenade launcher vehicular (VGL) Tactical Operations 314Grenade launcher TechManual 256Grenade launchers A Time Of War 273-274Grenades A Time Of War 277-278Grizzly bear A Time Of War 241Ground BattleForce Strategic Operations 216-20Ground BattleForce Strategic Operations 215Ground hiding Strategic Operations 320Ground Miniatures Strategic Operations 388-91Ground movement Strategic Operations 216-20Ground movement Strategic Operations 223Ground movement phase Strategic Operations 269-73Ground movement phase Strategic Operations 263Ground support (abstract aerospace) Strategic Operations 19-21Ground attack specialists Tactical Operations 193Ground combat vehicle critical hits table Total Warfare 194Ground combat vehicle hit location Tactical Operations 107Ground combat vehicle hit location table Total Warfare 193Ground combat vehicles Total Warfare 192-96Ground map Total Warfare 74Ground mapsheets: aerospace units on Total Warfare 242Ground mobile structure collisions Tactical Operations 167Ground mobile structure stacking Tactical Operations 168-70Ground movement basics Total Warfare 48-50Ground movement costs table Total Warfare 52Ground movement facing Total Warfare 50-51Ground movement modes Total Warfare 53-57Ground movement pavement Total Warfare 61-68Ground movement phase Total Warfare 37Ground movement stacking Total Warfare 57-59Ground movement TechManual 164Ground navigation A Time Of War 150

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Ground unit aerospace units and Total Warfare 234-35Ground unit Total Warfare 20Ground unit(s) BattleForce vehicles Strategic Operations 216Ground unit(s) conversion-for use in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24Ground unit(s) conversion-to fighters Strategic Operations 24Ground unit(s) dismounting/disembarking Strategic Operations 325-26Ground unit(s) in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 291Ground unit(s) in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 279Ground unit(s) in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 89Ground unit(s) mounting/embarking Strategic Operations 325-26Ground unit(s) movement in sub-phases Strategic Operations 24Ground unit(s) space drops in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24-26Ground unit(s) stranded Strategic Operations 325Ground unit(s) transport Strategic Operations 325-26Ground units critical hits Tactical Operations 75Ground vehicle driving A Time Of War 147Ground vehicle gunnery A Time Of War 147Ground vehicle piloting A Time Of War 152Ground vehicle pavement movement Total Warfare 61Ground vehicle skidding Total Warfare 62Ground vehicle Total Warfare 49Ground vehicle Total Warfare 25Ground vehicle Total Warfare 22Ground vehicle Total Warfare 20Ground Vehicle Record Sheets advanced Tactical Operations 12Ground war Strategic Operations 207Grounded aerospace units attack direction Total Warfare 119Grounded aerospace units attacks by Total Warfare 249-50Grounded aerospace units height Total Warfare 99Grounded aerospace units hiding Total Warfare 259Grounded aerospace units hit location Total Warfare 120Grounded aerospace units stacking Total Warfare 57Grounded DropShips firing at Total Warfare 110Grounded DropShips orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 106Grounded DropShips physical attack Total Warfare 144Grounded small craft: attacks against Total Warfare 110Ground-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234Ground-to-air attacks Total Warfare 247-49Ground-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234Group performance A Time Of War 331

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G-tolerance A Time Of War 118Guerilla insurgent A Time Of War 77-78Gun emplacements Tactical Operations 137Gun emplacements Tactical Operations 117Gunners killed Tactical Operations 120Gunners killed-mobile structure Tactical Operations 172Gunners stunned Tactical Operations 120Gunners stunned-mobile structure Tactical Operations 172Gunners TechManual 92Gunnery abilities A Time Of War 219-22Gunnery A Time Of War 147Gunnery skills conversions Strategic Operations 354Gunnery skills fighter squadron Strategic Operations 29-30Gunnery skills Total Warfare 40Gusting rain Tactical Operations 59Gymnastics A Time Of War 142Gyro FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 189Gyro hit Strategic Operations 381Gyro: critical hit Total Warfare 126Gyrojet weapons A Time Of War 272Gyrojet weapons A Time Of War 269Gyroscope BattleMechs space TechManual 50Gyroscope BattleMechs technology base TechManual 50Gyroscope IndustrialMech TechManual 63Gyroscope master table TechManual 50Gyroscope TechManual 34–35Gyroscope TechManual 219–20Habitat stations Strategic Operations 137-38HAG Tactical Operations 84Hail Tactical Operations 57-58Half levels Tactical Operations 31Hand actuator: critical hit Total Warfare 126Handbooks A Time Of War 32Handbooks Total Warfare 11Handheld weapons Tactical Operations 315-16Handheld weapons Tactical Operations 381Handheld weapons Tactical Operations 314Hand-held weapons rearming Strategic Operations 186Handicap A Time Of War 118-19Handicap A Time Of War 184

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Hang gliders A Time Of War 311Hangar Tactical Operations 259Hangar Tactical Operations 137Hangar Tactical Operations 116Hanseatic League, The A Time Of War 14Harasser Total Warfare 284Hard to pilot quirk Strategic Operations 197Hardened armor Tactical Operations 380Hardened armor Tactical Operations 281Hardened armor Tactical Operations 280Hardened armor conversion Strategic Operations 358Hardened buildings Strategic Operations 312Hardened buildings Total Warfare 33HarJel Strategic Operations 35-36Harjel TechManual 256Harpoon missiles Tactical Operations 369Harpoon SRM TechManual 230Hatchet TechManual 220Haywire pod Strategic Operations 310Haywire pod Total Warfare 141Hazardous liquid environment troops Tactical Operations 351Hazardous liquid environment troops Tactical Operations 350Hazardous liquid pools Tactical Operations 49-50Head blown off Strategic Operations 380Head blown off Strategic Operations 231Head damage-Mech Strategic Operations 176Head stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Head blown off Total Warfare 126-27Head hits Total Warfare 124-125Head hits Total Warfare 186Head hits Total Warfare 41Head location destruction Tactical Operations 197Head of state A Time Of War 353-54Head on engagement Strategic Operations 75Heading atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 221Heading space movement Strategic Operations 224Headquarters counter Strategic Operations 262Headquarters Strategic Operations 301Headquarters Strategic Operations 261Headquarters Strategic Operations 243

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Headquarters counter Strategic Operations 262Healing assisted A Time Of War 193Healing general rules A Time Of War 192Healing normal (unassisted) A Time Of War 193Healing A Time Of War 191Health care A Time Of War 313Health care A Time Of War 311Heat avoiding shutdown Tactical Operations 104Heat collection TechManual 38Heat condition Tactical Operations 219Heat coolant systems Tactical Operations 105-6Heat data TechManual 23–24Heat data/scale-advanced Mech Tactical Operations 12Heat deep snow Tactical Operations 41Heat dumping TechManual 38Heat expanded scale Tactical Operations 104Heat full moon night/glare Tactical Operations 58Heat heat sink coolant failure Tactical Operations 105-6Heat light and Tactical Operations 58Heat point table Tactical Operations 63Heat pumps TechManual 38Heat rerouting heat sink coolant Tactical Operations 105Heat scale TechManual 28Heat scale TechManual 25Heat scale modifiers Tactical Operations 64Heat sensor TechManual 256Heat sources TechManual 38Heat A Time Of War 219Heat aerospace units Total Warfare 160-61Heat data Total Warfare 27Heat effects of Total Warfare 159-60Heat gauss rifle Total Warfare 135Heat modifiers Total Warfare 110Heat outside sources Total Warfare 159Heat phase Total Warfare 38Heat plasma weapons Total Warfare 139Heat point table Total Warfare 159Heat points Total Warfare 158-59Heat recording build-up Total Warfare 159Heat scale Total Warfare 27

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Heat tracking Total Warfare 141-42Heat Total Warfare 53Heat Total Warfare 50Heat Total Warfare 30Heat (HT#) advanced Strategic Operations 96Heat (HT#) BattleForce Strategic Operations 237Heat (HT#) BattleForce Strategic Operations 214Heat (HT#) causing weapons Strategic Operations 361Heat (HT#) conversion Strategic Operations 362Heat (HT#) meeting engagement Strategic Operations 85Heat (HT#) scale Strategic Operations 13Heat (HT#) Strategic Operations 349Heat sink advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 154Heat sink capacity Strategic Operations 161Heat sink damage Strategic Operations 33Heat sink fighter squadron Strategic Operations 29Heat sink FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Heat sink hit Strategic Operations 381Heat sink salvaged Strategic Operations 192Heat sink stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Heat sink Strategic Operations 151Heat sinks BattleMechs TechManual 37–38Heat sinks capacity TechManual 312Heat sinks capacity TechManual 303Heat sinks combat vehicles TechManual 107Heat sinks combat vehicles TechManual 104Heat sinks coolant failure Tactical Operations 105-6Heat sinks fighters TechManual 193–94Heat sinks fighters TechManual 195Heat sinks IndustrialMech TechManual 71Heat sinks mobile structures Tactical Operations 267Heat sinks ProtoMech TechManual 86Heat sinks space TechManual 53Heat sinks support vehicles TechManual 133Heat sinks table Tactical Operations 253Heat sinks technology base TechManual 53Heat sinks Tactical Operations 316-17Heat sinks Tactical Operations 251-52Heat sinks Tactical Operations 255Heat sinks TechManual 37–38

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Heat sinks TechManual 220–21Heat sinks TechManual 35Heat sinks critical hit Total Warfare 127Heat sinks shutoff Total Warfare 159Heat sinks types Total Warfare 158Heat sinks Total Warfare 240Heat special ability BattleForce Strategic Operations 237Heat special ability Strategic Operations 407Heat special ability Strategic Operations 229Heat-causing weapon A Time Of War 213-14Heat-seeking (HS) missiles Tactical Operations 369Heavily industrialized worlds A Time Of War 371Heavy ’Mechs Total Warfare 21Heavy buildings Strategic Operations 312Heavy buildings Total Warfare 33Heavy cover A Time Of War 172Heavy Cruiser Strategic Operations 10Heavy equipment TechManual 201Heavy ferro-fibrous armor TechManual 205–6Heavy fighters Total Warfare 24Heavy flamer Tactical Operations 312Heavy Gauss rifl e Total Warfare 136Heavy gauss rifle TechManual 218Heavy gyro TechManual 219–20Heavy industrial zone Tactical Operations 31Heavy laser TechManual 226Heavy lifter A Time Of War 223Heavy machine gun TechManual 228Heavy PPC TechManual 234Heavy rainfall Tactical Operations 59Heavy smoke Strategic Operations 318Heavy snowfall Tactical Operations 60Heavy truck Total Warfare 289Heavy vehicles Total Warfare 22Heavy weapon ammunition TechManual 324–25Heavy weapon ammunition TechManual 294–96Heavy weapon Clan TechManual 322Heavy weapon equipment TechManual 290–92Heavy weapon Inner Sphere TechManual 320–21Heavy weapon key TechManual 320

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Heavy weapon TechManual 20Heavy woods A Time Of War 231Heavy woods intervening terrain Total Warfare 100Heavy woods terrain modifiers Total Warfare 108-9Heavy woods Total Warfare 32Heavy-burst weapon TechManual 148Heavy-duty gyros Total Warfare 126Heavy-duty pile driver TechManual 244Heavy-duty pile driver Total Warfare 136Height rules line of sight Strategic Operations 225Height: LOS Total Warfare 99-100Helipad Tactical Operations 313Helipad Tactical Operations 312Helipad (HELI) Strategic Operations 349Helipad (HELI) Strategic Operations 345Hello HQ Strategic Operations 307Hephaestus OmniVehicle TechManual 309Herding A Time Of War 143Hex bases (miniatures) Strategic Operations 387Hex rings Strategic Operations 105Hex conditions-terrain displacement Tactical Operations 67Hex destruction-mobile structure Tactical Operations 172Hex levels: skidding Total Warfare 63Hidden units ground unit detection Strategic Operations 320Hidden units space unit detection Strategic Operations 320Hidden units Strategic Operations 320Hidden units Tactical Operations 220Hidden units Total Warfare 259Hide and seek Strategic Operations 242Hide and seek Total Warfare 259-60High altitude drop Strategic Operations 313High altitude map-atmospheric velocity Strategic Operations 274High altitude map-movement Strategic Operations 273High explosive bombs Strategic Operations 309High school A Time Of War 68High speed closing engagements Record Sheet Strategic Operations 83High speed closing engagements Record Sheet Strategic Operations 81High speed closing engagements Record Sheet Strategic Operations 79High speed closing engagements Record Sheet Strategic Operations 76High speed closing engagements Record Sheet Strategic Operations 75

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High speed closing engagements Record Sheet Strategic Operations 13High speed closing engagements Strategic Operations 74-85High speed engagement heat and Strategic Operations 85High-altitude map Total Warfare 75High-altitude miniatures Strategic Operations 392High-altitude movement Total Warfare 79-80High-altitude table Total Warfare 80High-altitude maps Tactical Operations 185Higher education A Time Of War 70-74Higher education A Time Of War 52High-G maneuvers Total Warfare 78High-resolution imager Tactical Operations 339High-resolution imager Tactical Operations 338High-speed closing engagement Strategic Operations 102Hills intervening terrain Total Warfare 100Hills Total Warfare 296Hip critical hit Total Warfare 127Hip damage Mech Strategic Operations 176Hipposaur A Time Of War 243Historicals A Time Of War 32Historicals Total Warfare 11Hit location advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 94Hit location advanced VTOL Tactical Operations 12Hit location effects A Time Of War 183-184Hit location roll A Time Of War 190Hit location vehicle Strategic Operations 177Hit location A Time Of War 190-91Hit location A Time Of War 186Hit location aerospace units Total Warfare 238Hit location critical hits Total Warfare 124Hit location determining Total Warfare 119-20Hit location ground combat vehicles Total Warfare 192Hit location ProtoMechs Total Warfare 184-85Hit location support vehicles Total Warfare 206Hit location VTOL Total Warfare 197Hit location Total Warfare 119-20Hit location Total Warfare 28Hit locations TechManual 25Hits determination artillery Tactical Operations 182Hitting deck Tactical Operations 108

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Hobby knife safety Total Warfare 286Hobby vise Total Warfare 291Hold steady Strategic Operations 82Hold steady Strategic Operations 80Hold the line Strategic Operations 307Hold the line Strategic Operations 242Hold the line Total Warfare 260Holding action A Time Of War 166Holovid A Time Of War 29Homing missiles Strategic Operations 286Homing missiles Tactical Operations 181Homing pod Total Warfare 141Horizontal water landing Strategic Operations 73Horse A Time Of War 241-42Hostile environment gear A Time Of War 296-97Hostile environment gear A Time Of War 291Hostile units carrying Tactical Operations 94Hot dog A Time Of War 222-23Hot status engine Strategic Operations 72Hot temperature Strategic Operations 315Hot zone Tactical Operations 218Hot zone Total Warfare 89-90House Cameron A Time Of War 29House Cameron A Time Of War 26House Cameron TechManual 14House Davion affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 55House Davion random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 51House Davion A Time Of War 29House Davion A Time Of War 26House Davion A Time Of War 21House Davion A Time Of War 13House Davion Strategic Operations 15House Davion TechManual 15House Kurita affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 54House Kurita random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 51House Kurita A Time Of War 29House Kurita A Time Of War 21House Kurita A Time Of War 13House Kurita Strategic Operations 15House Kurita TechManual 15

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House Kurita TechManual 9House Liao affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 54House Liao random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 51House Liao A Time Of War 21-22House Liao A Time Of War 29House Liao A Time Of War 13House Liao Strategic Operations 15House Liao TechManual 15House Lord A Time Of War 29House Marik affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 56House Marik random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 51House Marik A Time Of War 29House Marik A Time Of War 22House Marik A Time Of War 12House Marik Strategic Operations 14House Marik TechManual 14House Rules Strategic Operations 162-65House Steiner affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 56House Steiner random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 52House Steiner A Time Of War 22-23House Steiner A Time Of War 29House Steiner A Time Of War 26House Steiner A Time Of War 12House Steiner Strategic Operations 14House Steiner TechManual 15Hover movement Strategic Operations 218Hover vehicle atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54Hover vehicle careful movement Tactical Operations 64Hover vehicle gale Tactical Operations 61Hover vehicle mobile structure Tactical Operations 173Hover vehicle mud Tactical Operations 50Hover vehicle storm Tactical Operations 61Hover vehicle swamp Tactical Operations 51Hover vehicle tornado Tactical Operations 62Hover vehicles Total Warfare 62Hover vehicles Total Warfare 53Hover vehicles Total Warfare 25Hovercraft based infantry TechManual 145Hovercraft mechanized infantry platoon TechManual 310Hovercraft movement TechManual 94

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Hovercraft support vehicles TechManual 11Hovercraft TechManual 116Hovercraft TechManual 113Hovercraft TechManual 101Hovercraft TechManual 91Hovercraft TechManual 10Hovercraft Total Warfare 56Hovercraft Total Warfare 22Hull breach Strategic Operations 177Hull element-aiding Strategic Operations 292Hull landing on Strategic Operations 291-92Hull down Tactical Operations 21Hull integrity atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54Hull integrity Total Warfare 198Hull integrity Total Warfare 57Humanoid TechManual 162Hurried movement Tactical Operations 20-21Hybrid weather A Time Of War 236Hydrofoil TechManual 94Hyper-assault gauss TechManual 219Hyper-assault Gauss rifle Total Warfare 136Hyper-assault gauss rifles Strategic Operations 360Hyperdrive technology Strategic Operations 10Hyper-extending actuators Strategic Operations 194Hyperpulse Generator (HPG) technician skill field A Time Of War 82Hyperpulse Generator (HPG) A Time Of War 145Hyperpulse Generator (HPG) A Time Of War 29Hyperpulse generator (HPG) Strategic Operations 350Hyperspace initiation Strategic Operations 268Hyperspace jump Strategic Operations 277-79Hyperspace navigation Strategic Operations 88Hyperspace travel Strategic Operations 86-89Hyperspace Strategic Operations 134-35Hyperspace Strategic Operations 130-31Hyperspace Strategic Operations 137Hyperspectral imager Tactical Operations 339Hyperspectral imager Tactical Operations 338Hyper-velocity autocannon (HVAC) Tactical Operations 285Ibex RV TechManual 115Ice breaking through Tactical Operations 50

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Ice sheets A Time Of War 235Ice storm Tactical Operations 60Ice A Time Of War 232Ice Tactical Operations 50ICE-powered ’Mechs Total Warfare 160ICE-powered IndustrialMechs Total Warfare 158Identity-based traits A Time Of War 107Illiterate trait A Time Of War 119Illiterate trait A Time Of War 86Illness recovery A Time Of War 248-49Illumination Arrow IV Strategic Operations 309Illumination Strategic Operations 309Illumination artillery/arrow missiles Tactical Operations 355Imagination A Time Of War 20Immobile ’Mechs: piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59Immobile target Total Warfare 42Immobile targets Tactical Operations 149Impatient A Time Of War 119Implant A Time Of War 119-20Improved C3 computer TechManual 209Improved C3 computer Total Warfare 134Improved C3 computer Total Warfare 133Improved communications Strategic Operations 195Improved cooling jacket Strategic Operations 194Improved heavy gauss rifle Tactical Operations 313-14Improved heavy gauss rifle Tactical Operations 312Improved heavy lasers Tactical Operations 321Improved jump jets TechManual 225–26Improved life support Strategic Operations 195Improved one-shot (I-OS) missile launchers Tactical Operations 327Improved one-shot missiles Strategic Operations 360Improved position Tactical Operations 198-99Improved sensors Strategic Operations 195Improved sensors TechManual 257Improved targeting Strategic Operations 195In for life A Time Of War 120-21Inaccurate weapon Strategic Operations 197Inactivity Strategic Operations 40Inanimate objects carrying Tactical Operations 94Inanimate objects dropping/setting down Tactical Operations 98

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Inanimate objects picking up Tactical Operations 92-93Inanimate objects throwing Tactical Operations 94-95iNARC ECM pods TechManual 232iNARC explosive pods TechManual 232iNARC haywire pods TechManual 232–33iNARC homing pods TechManual 232iNARC nemesis pods TechManual 233iNARC TechManual 232–33I-NARC (INARC) Strategic Operations 350I-NARC (INARC) Strategic Operations 310Inbound jumps Strategic Operations 277-78Incendiary grenades Tactical Operations 364Incendiary LRMs Tactical Operations 369-70Incendiary LRM TechManual 230Incidental actions A Time Of War 166Independent affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 63Independent covert operations A Time Of War 77Indirect artillery fire flight times table Tactical Operations 181Indirect artillery fire Tactical Operations 179Indirect fire spotting for A Time Of War 174Indirect fire A Time Of War 174Indirect fire Tactical Operations 185Indirect fire (IF#) Strategic Operations 359Indirect fire (IF#) Strategic Operations 350Indirect fire (IF#) Strategic Operations 225Indirect LRM fire: NARC missile beacon Total Warfare 139Individual initiative A Time Of War 165Individual performance A Time Of War 331Individual unit rules Total Warfare 36Indoctrination Strategic Operations 211Industrial armor TechManual 205Industrial combustion engines TechManual 215Industrial development A Time Of War 370-71Industrial drill TechManual 259–60Industrial elevators Tactical Operations 137-38Industrial equipment TechManual 323–24Industrial equipment TechManual 292–94Industrial fission/fusion engines TechManual 215Industrial output A Time Of War 370-71Industrial TSM TechManual 240

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Industrial TSM Total Warfare 143Industrial TSM (I-TSM) Strategic Operations 350Industrialized worlds A Time Of War 371IndustrialMech ammunition TechManual 74–75IndustrialMech armor TechManual 72–73IndustrialMech chassis TechManual 66–67IndustrialMech cockpit/sensor systems TechManual 69–70IndustrialMech cockpit/sensor systems TechManual 63IndustrialMech designing TechManual 65IndustrialMech engines/propulsion TechManual 67–70IndustrialMech engines/propulsion TechManual 62IndustrialMech gyroscope TechManual 69IndustrialMech gyroscope TechManual 63IndustrialMech heat sinks TechManual 71IndustrialMech jump jets TechManual 62. 69IndustrialMech market TechManual 60–61IndustrialMech myomers TechManual 62–63IndustrialMech record sheet TechManual 75IndustrialMech space TechManual 67IndustrialMech space TechManual 65IndustrialMech structural core TechManual 66–67IndustrialMech structural core TechManual 61–62IndustrialMech structural costs/availability TechManual 277–78IndustrialMech structure TechManual 224IndustrialMech targeting systems TechManual 303IndustrialMech technology base TechManual 66IndustrialMech technology base TechManual 64IndustrialMech tools/equipment TechManual 63IndustrialMech weapons TechManual 74–75IndustrialMech weapons TechManual 63IndustrialMech weight TechManual 64–65IndustrialMech TechManual 9–10IndustrialMech TechManual 66IndustrialMech TechManual 18IndustrialMech damage recording Total Warfare 121IndustrialMech falling Total Warfare 69IndustrialMech modifier Total Warfare 110IndustrialMech physical attack Total Warfare 144IndustrialMech piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59IndustrialMech record sheet Total Warfare 27

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IndustrialMech sensors critical hit Total Warfare 128IndustrialMech Total Warfare 21IndustrialMechs extreme depths and Tactical Operations 43IndustrialMechs A Time Of War 29IndustrialMechs Strategic Operations 362Industries A Time Of War 366-73Infantry advanced battle values Tactical Operations 379Infantry anti-'Mech skill field A Time Of War 84Infantry armor Tactical Operations 317-18Infantry atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 22Infantry atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54Infantry attacks against large formations Tactical Operations 84Infantry Battle Value TechManual 309–10Infantry BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Infantry bays/compartments Strategic Operations 160Infantry bays/compartments TechManual 282Infantry bays/compartments TechManual 240Infantry bog down rules Tactical Operations 63Infantry carried externally Tactical Operations 153Infantry carriers Strategic Operations 399Infantry cohesion A Time Of War 201Infantry combat Strategic Operations 399Infantry combat Tactical Operations 108Infantry damage Strategic Operations 177Infantry deployment TechManual 146Infantry designing TechManual 145Infantry digging in Tactical Operations 108Infantry direct blow Tactical Operations 81Infantry extreme temperature Tactical Operations 62Infantry fatigue Tactical Operations 198Infantry fire (effects on) Tactical Operations 43-45Infantry firing arc Strategic Operations 226Infantry formations TechManual 147Infantry gale Tactical Operations 61Infantry glancing blow Tactical Operations 80Infantry grappling Tactical Operations 201Infantry grappling Tactical Operations 200Infantry gravel piles and Tactical Operations 31Infantry ground combat vehicle Tactical Operations 107Infantry hail Tactical Operations 57

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Infantry hazardous liquid pools Tactical Operations 49Infantry hex bases and Strategic Operations 401Infantry ice Tactical Operations 50Infantry inside buildings Strategic Operations 312Infantry large-scale Tactical Operations 203Infantry light rainfall Tactical Operations 59Infantry light snowfall Tactical Operations 60Infantry minefield Tactical Operations 207Infantry miniatures Strategic Operations 397-99Infantry miniatures Strategic Operations 404Infantry miniatures Strategic Operations 387Infantry morale check Tactical Operations 211Infantry motive type TechManual 144–46Infantry movement A Time Of War 206Infantry movement Strategic Operations 218-19Infantry movement Tactical Operations 27Infantry movement damage Tactical Operations 65Infantry opportunity fire Tactical Operations 86Infantry organization TechManual 145Infantry platoon type TechManual 145–47Infantry rail support vehicles and Tactical Operations 153Infantry rail support vehicles and Tactical Operations 149Infantry record sheet TechManual 154–55Infantry repairing Strategic Operations 182Infantry resolving Tactical Operations 201-5Infantry roll Tactical Operations 204Infantry sheer cliffs movement Tactical Operations 39Infantry shielding Tactical Operations 19Infantry sinking naval vessel and Tactical Operations 161Infantry skill field A Time Of War 84Infantry squad deployment Tactical Operations 108Infantry squads Strategic Operations 397-98Infantry stealth modifiers table Tactical Operations 318Infantry storm Tactical Operations 61Infantry tactics A Time Of War 156Infantry taking control of abandoned units Tactical Operations 216-17Infantry technology base TechManual 145Infantry terrain displacement Tactical Operations 66Infantry thin snow Tactical Operations 52Infantry tornado Tactical Operations 62

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Infantry units A Time Of War 201-2Infantry units A Time Of War 208Infantry vs. infantry actions Strategic Operations 36-38Infantry weaponry TechManual 148–54Infantry weapons, Conventional A Time Of War 214Infantry with UMU MP Tactical Operations 161Infantry with UMU MP Tactical Operations 160Infantry zone of control Tactical Operations 193Infantry Strategic Operations 203-4Infantry TechManual 9Infantry accidental falls Total Warfare 152Infantry ammunition expenditure Total Warfare 104Infantry anti-‘Mech attacks Total Warfare 220-23Infantry assignment Total Warfare 271Infantry attack direction Total Warfare 119Infantry attacker movement Total Warfare 108Infantry attacks Total Warfare 214-15Infantry attacks against Total Warfare 215-17Infantry basements Total Warfare 179Infantry carrying units Total Warfare 89Infantry charge attacks Total Warfare 148Infantry cluster hits Total Warfare 116Infantry collision avoidance Total Warfare 64Infantry combat Total Warfare 98Infantry destroyed if carrying unit destroyed table Total Warfare 223Infantry destruction Total Warfare 128Infantry dismounting table Total Warfare 226Infantry displacement Total Warfare 151Infantry falling damage table Total Warfare 151Infantry firing arcs Total Warfare 104Infantry heat Total Warfare 158Infantry height Total Warfare 99Infantry hit Total Warfare 194Infantry infernos Total Warfare 141Infantry inside buildings Total Warfare 172Infantry kick attacks Total Warfare 147Infantry machine gun array Total Warfare 137Infantry mechanized battle armor Total Warfare 227-28Infantry movement Total Warfare 49Infantry moving through buildings Total Warfare 168

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Infantry NARC missile beacon Total Warfare 139Infantry other combat equipment Total Warfare 228-29Infantry physical attack Total Warfare 144Infantry piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59Infantry range modifier table Total Warfare 215Infantry scenarios Total Warfare 259Infantry special munitions Total Warfare 140Infantry specialized attacks Total Warfare 111Infantry stacking Total Warfare 57Infantry support vehicles Total Warfare 207Infantry swarm attacks Total Warfare 223Infantry units table Total Warfare 213Infantry Total Warfare 214-19Infantry Total Warfare 175-76Infantry Total Warfare 285Infantry Total Warfare 214Infantry Total Warfare 214Infantry Total Warfare 212Infantry Total Warfare 112Infantry Total Warfare 49Infantry Total Warfare 23Infantry Total Warfare 20Infantry carriers Total Warfare 223-27Infantry damage building collapse Total Warfare 177Infantry damage from attacks inside buildings table Total Warfare 175Infantry damage in buildings table Total Warfare 172Infantry damage recording Total Warfare 121Infantry damage table Total Warfare 216Infantry damage Total Warfare 124Infantry damage Total Warfare 41Infantry transport (IT#) Strategic Operations 350Infantry transport (IT#) Strategic Operations 324Infantry vs. infantry action attacker vs. defender ratios Tactical Operations 204Infantry vs. infantry action boarding Tactical Operations 199-201Infantry vs. infantry action building modifier Tactical Operations 203Infantry vs. infantry action captured units/buildings Tactical Operations 207Infantry vs. infantry action crew losses/hits Tactical Operations 206Infantry vs. infantry action inside building Tactical Operations 201Infantry vs. infantry action table Tactical Operations 205Inferno Arrow IV missiles Tactical Operations 356

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Inferno bombs Tactical Operations 359Inferno fuel ammo Tactical Operations 361-62Inferno mines (land/sea) Tactical Operations 366Inferno morale checks and Tactical Operations 211Inferno Strategic Operations 309Inferno (INF) Strategic Operations 350Inferno ammo explosion table Total Warfare 141Inferno IV Strategic Operations 309Inferno minefield Strategic Operations 288-89Inferno SRM TechManual 231Infernos Total Warfare 141-42Info resource A Time Of War 111Information sharing Strategic Operations 387Infrared imager Tactical Operations 339Infrared sensors Tactical Operations 223Infrared jump signature Strategic Operations 118Initial maneuver phase closing engagement Strategic Operations 77-78Initiative aerospace units Tactical Operations 200Initiative atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 22Initiative banking Tactical Operations 192Initiative bonus Strategic Operations 264Initiative double-blind rules Tactical Operations 221-25Initiative forcing Tactical Operations 192Initiative game play Strategic Operations 263-65Initiative ground support Strategic Operations 19Initiative miniatures Strategic Operations 401Initiative modifiers A Time Of War 166Initiative modifiers Strategic Operations 263Initiative phase A Time Of War 204-5Initiative phase A Time Of War 164-66Initiative phase (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 215Initiative Strategic Operations 264Initiative phase Total Warfare 37Initiative: infantry carriers Total Warfare 223Injury modifiers A Time Of War 182-83Inner Sphere advanced weapon conversion Strategic Operations 376Inner Sphere battle armor conversion Strategic Operations 378Inner Sphere battle armor equipment TechManual 325–26Inner Sphere BattleMechs TechManual 44Inner Sphere capital scale weapons/equipment battle values Tactical Operations 384

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Inner Sphere chain of command Strategic Operations 298-99Inner Sphere citizenship A Time Of War 109Inner Sphere exchange rates A Time Of War 256Inner Sphere force composition Strategic Operations 331Inner Sphere lance organization Strategic Operations 335Inner Sphere random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 51-52Inner Sphere standard weapon conversion Strategic Operations 375Inner Sphere tactics Strategic Operations 206Inner Sphere tech base TechManual 19Inner Sphere terminology Strategic Operations 212Inner Sphere title A Time Of War 126-27Inner Sphere tour of duty A Time Of War 80Inner Sphere weapons/equipment TechManual 320–21Inner Sphere weapons/equipment TechManual 317Inner Sphere weapons/equipment battle values Tactical Operations 382-83Inner Sphere A Time Of War 29Inner Sphere A Time Of War 12Inner Sphere Strategic Operations 10Inner Sphere TechManual 14Inner Sphere TechManual 9Inner Sphere 1 ‘Mech assignment table Total Warfare 267Inner Sphere 1 aerospace assignment Total Warfare 272Inner Sphere 1 Total Warfare 271Inner Sphere 2 ‘Mech assignment table Total Warfare 268Inner Sphere 2 Total Warfare 270In-space refueling Strategic Operations 34-35INT (intelligence) operative training A Time Of War 72-73INT (intelligence) schools A Time Of War 72-73INT (intelligence) skill fields A Time Of War 83INT (intelligence) A Time Of War 35Intentional falls from above Strategic Operations 270Intentional fires Tactical Operations 43Intentionally targeted individuals A Time Of War 210Intercept late Strategic Operations 79-80Intercept Strategic Operations 78Interest A Time Of War 147-48Internal bomb bay Strategic Operations 195Internal communications Strategic Operations 250Internal space- combat vehicles TechManual 98Internal space- combat vehicles TechManual 95

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Internal structure battle armor TechManual 162Internal structure damage Tactical Operations 204Internal structure IndustrialMech TechManual 61Internal structure integrity values Tactical Operations 242-44Internal structure support vehicle TechManual 122Internal structure support vehicle TechManual 121Internal structure weight for Tactical Operations 242-45Internal structure A Time Of War 186Internal structure TechManual 224–25Internal structure damage FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 189-90Internal structure damage Mech Strategic Operations 176Internal weight capacity building Tactical Operations 129Interplanetary flight times Strategic Operations 69-70Interrogation A Time Of War 148Interstellar Operations A Time Of War 351Interstellar operations Strategic Operations 9Interstellar operations Tactical Operations 9Intervening terrain Strategic Operations 226Intervening terrain Total Warfare 100-102Into the fire Tactical Operations 174-177Introduced (affiliation) key TechManual 290Introduction date TechManual 287–88Introvert A Time Of War 121Inventory A Time Of War 37Investigation A Time Of War 148Irregular troops Strategic Operations 204-5Isolation Strategic Operations 258Issued gear A Time Of War 92-93I-swarm Strategic Operations 310I-Swarm Tactical Operations 81Jam transmission Strategic Operations 307Jets technician A Time Of War 157Jihad A Time Of War 31-32Jihad A Time Of War 29Jihad A Time Of War 27Jihad TechManual 14Jihad Total Warfare 11Jormungand-class Bluewater cruiser Strategic Operations 371-73Journalist skill field A Time Of War 82Jump booster TechManual 165-66

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Jump booster TechManual 257Jump capability TechManual 51Jump infantry TechManual 272Jump infantry TechManual 144Jump infantry TechManual 13Jump packs TechManual 257Jump infantry Total Warfare 23Jump jet attack Tactical Operations 90-91Jump jet critical hit Total Warfare 127Jump jets battle armor TechManual 164Jump jets combat vehicles TechManual 103Jump jets FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Jump jets hit Strategic Operations 381Jump jets IndustrialMech TechManual 69Jump jets IndustrialMech TechManual 62Jump jets ProtoMech TechManual 84–85Jump jets space TechManual 51Jump jets stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Jump jets support vehicles TechManual 131Jump jets table TechManual 51Jump jets technology base TechManual 51Jump jets TechManual 38–39Jump jets TechManual 225–26Jump jets TechManual 257Jump pack A Time Of War 311Jump points A Time Of War 29Jump sail(s) attacks Strategic Operations 99Jump sail(s) detaching Strategic Operations 277Jump sail(s) furling/unfurling Strategic Operations 276-77Jump sail(s) recharging Strategic Operations 87Jump sail(s) Strategic Operations 148-49Jump sail(s) Strategic Operations 290Jumping bog down rules Tactical Operations 62Jumping calculations Strategic Operations 88Jumping capability Tactical Operations 249Jumping disruption Strategic Operations 279Jumping game play Strategic Operations 89Jumping gravity damage Tactical Operations 55Jumping ice Tactical Operations 50Jumping Mechs-opportunity fire Tactical Operations 86

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Jumping miniatures Strategic Operations 389Jumping movement conversion Strategic Operations 355-56Jumping points outside game play Strategic Operations 86-87Jumping process outside game play Strategic Operations 89Jumping vibrabomb minefield and Tactical Operations 209Jumping A Time Of War 208-9Jumping A Time Of War 169Jumping Strategic Operations 403Jumping Strategic Operations 219Jumping heat Total Warfare 158Jumping MP Total Warfare 225Jumping stacking Total Warfare 58Jumping Total Warfare 53-54Jumping Total Warfare 160Jumping Jack A Time Of War 223JumpShip(s) attacks Strategic Operations 292JumpShip(s) battle value Strategic Operations 161JumpShip(s) charging outside game play Strategic Operations 87-88JumpShip(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358JumpShip(s) crew hit Strategic Operations 285JumpShip(s) damage Strategic Operations 361JumpShip(s) design Strategic Operations 143JumpShip(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175JumpShip(s) dynamics Strategic Operations 134JumpShip(s) dynamics Strategic Operations 131JumpShip(s) firing arcs Strategic Operations 94JumpShip(s) hit location Strategic Operations 95JumpShip(s) K-F jump capability Strategic Operations 148-49JumpShip(s) modifiers Strategic Operations 172JumpShip(s) movement Strategic Operations 276JumpShip(s) pigeons Strategic Operations 123JumpShip(s) repairing stranded Strategic Operations 130JumpShip(s) weight and unit classes Strategic Operations 143JumpShip(s) Strategic Operations 62-63JumpShip(s) Strategic Operations 122-26JumpShip(s) Strategic Operations 10JumpShips A Time Of War 29JumpShips Total Warfare 26Jungle A Time Of War 231Jungle Tactical Operations 31

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Jury-rigging Strategic Operations 187Just another day at office Total Warfare 162-65Kearny Thomas A Time Of War 25Kearny-Fuchida (K-F) drive A Time Of War 29Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) boom hit Strategic Operations 381Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) boom hit Strategic Operations 380Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) boom hit Strategic Operations 285Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) boom hit Strategic Operations 231Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) critical hit effects Strategic Operations 94Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) damage/hit Strategic Operations 130-31Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) damage/hit Strategic Operations 285Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) integrity Strategic Operations 148Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) jump capability Strategic Operations 148-49Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) sale limits Strategic Operations 149Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) Strategic Operations 350Kearny-Fuchida drive (KF) Strategic Operations 149Kerensky Aleksandr A Time Of War 26Kerensky Aleksandr A Time Of War 23Kerensky Nicholas A Time Of War 23-24Kerensky- Aleksandr TechManual 14Kerensky Clusters A Time Of War 23K-F boom Total Warfare 240Kick attacks Total Warfare 147Kittery Prefecture A Time Of War 15Knight bachelor A Time Of War 351Knight banneret A Time Of War 351-52Knightly orders A Time Of War 351Knives Total Warfare 290Knockdown checks A Time Of War 192Knockdown A Time Of War 180Knowledge of area Strategic Operations 264Ladder TechManual 243Lake hazardous liquid pools and Tactical Operations 49Lake water flow Tactical Operations 52Lance movement Tactical Operations 24Lance Tactical Operations 290Lance Tactical Operations 288Lance composition Strategic Operations 333-35Lance weight composition table Total Warfare 265Land tactics A Time Of War 156

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Land train cargo transport Total Warfare 289Landed aerospace units: stacking Total Warfare 78Landing advanced units Strategic Operations 71-74Landing damage Strategic Operations 223Landing gear damage Strategic Operations 33Landing miniatures Strategic Operations 392Landing modifiers Strategic Operations 25Landing on hull Strategic Operations 25-26Landing roll-atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 22-23Landing Strategic Operations 223Landing modifiers table Total Warfare 86Landing Total Warfare 87Landing aerospace unit clearing minefield Tactical Operations 211Landing area units in A Time Of War 208-9Landing deck Tactical Operations 319Landing deck Tactical Operations 318Language A Time Of War 363-64Language A Time Of War 148Language A Time Of War 90Large (LG) Strategic Operations 350Large airship advanced battle values Tactical Operations 379Large airship unit design Tactical Operations 238Large airship unit design Tactical Operations 237Large airship support vehicle fuel Tactical Operations 248Large airship support vehicle Tactical Operations 164Large craft abandonment Strategic Operations 27Large craft advanced sensors Strategic Operations 118Large craft collisions Tactical Operations 149Large craft communications equipment Tactical Operations 195Large craft crew hit Strategic Operations 285Large craft docking/launching Strategic Operations 254-55Large craft ECCM Strategic Operations 112Large craft ECM Strategic Operations 111Large craft engine hit Strategic Operations 285Large craft firing arcs Strategic Operations 287-88Large craft PPCs and Tactical Operations 103Large craft sensor shadows Strategic Operations 116Large craft sensor shadows Strategic Operations 114Large craft taking control of Tactical Operations 216Large craft targeting capital missiles Strategic Operations 117

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Large craft templates Strategic Operations 355Large craft evasive action Total Warfare 77Large craft heat Total Warfare 161Large craft weapon bays Total Warfare 234Large craft Total Warfare 74Large craft Total Warfare 20Large DropShip Strategic Operations 197Large DropShips Total Warfare 24Large engine Tactical Operations 308Large engine Tactical Operations 307Large ground support vehicle hit location table Total Warfare 206Large naval vessel advanced battle values Tactical Operations 379Large naval vessel grappling Tactical Operations 200Large naval vessel non-infantry boarding Tactical Operations 188-91Large naval vessel Record Sheet Tactical Operations 10Large naval vessel template Tactical Operations 13Large naval vessel turret installation Tactical Operations 244Large naval vessel unit design Tactical Operations 238Large naval vessel unit design Tactical Operations 237Large naval vessel support vehicle artillery hits Tactical Operations 184Large naval vessel support vehicle carrying units Tactical Operations 156Large naval vessel support vehicle combat Tactical Operations 157-59Large naval vessel support vehicle critical damage Tactical Operations 159Large naval vessel support vehicle flight decks Tactical Operations 156Large naval vessel support vehicle movement Tactical Operations 154-56Large naval vessel support vehicle shielding Tactical Operations 19Large naval vessel support vehicle stacking Tactical Operations 156Large naval vessel support vehicle surfacing Tactical Operations 173Large naval vessel support vehicle taking control of Tactical Operations 217Large naval vessel support vehicle taking control of Tactical Operations 216Large naval vessel support vehicle tractors Tactical Operations 156Large naval vessel support vehicle unit destruction Tactical Operations 159-63Large naval vessels advanced movement Strategic Operations 270Large support vehicle airship Strategic Operations 94Large support vehicle base damage Strategic Operations 362Large support vehicle conversion Strategic Operations 371-73Large support vehicles attacks against Total Warfare 110Large support vehicles collision avoidance Total Warfare 64Large support vehicles dismounting Total Warfare 225Large support vehicles mounting Total Warfare 224

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Large support vehicles physical attack Total Warfare 144Large support vehicles sideslipping Total Warfare 67-68Large support vehicles stacking Total Warfare 57Large support vehicles Total Warfare 99Large vehicle/vessel effectiveness Tactical Operations 107Large vehicle/vessel hull down Tactical Operations 21Large vehicle/vessel movement damage Tactical Operations 65Large vehicle/vessel template table Tactical Operations 241Large vehicles accidental falls Total Warfare 152Large vehicles moving through buildings Total Warfare 168Large WarShips Strategic Operations 10Laser anti-missile system Tactical Operations 381Laser anti-missile system Tactical Operations 322Laser anti-missile system Tactical Operations 319Laser heat sinks Tactical Operations 316-17Laser insulator Tactical Operations 381Laser insulator Tactical Operations 322Laser reflective armor Tactical Operations 281Laser reflective armor Tactical Operations 280Laser A Time Of War 29Laser TechManual 226–27Laser TechManual 258Laser microphone TechManual 258Laser-guided bombs Strategic Operations 309Laser-inhibiting (LI) arrow missiles Tactical Operations 356Lasers Tactical Operations 319-21Laser-variable speed pulse Tactical Operations 382Late-era units TechManual 288Lateral shift miniatures Strategic Operations 388Lateral shift Total Warfare 50Launch velocity bearings-only launch Strategic Operations 101Launching fighters Strategic Operations 30Launching Strategic Operations 254-55Launching Strategic Operations 325Launching: fighters: small craft Total Warfare 86Launching: fighters: small craft Total Warfare 84Law and order A Time Of War 360-63Lawyer skill field A Time Of War 82LB-X Tactical Operations 84LB-X autocannon Strategic Operations 360

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LB-X autocannon TechManual 207LB-X autocannons Total Warfare 143LB-X cluster ammunition TechManual 208Leader (LEAD) special ability Strategic Operations 261Leader (LEAD) Strategic Operations 350Leadership A Time Of War 148-49Leadership bonus Strategic Operations 264-65Leaping A Time Of War 169Leaping Strategic Operations 270Leaping Tactical Operations 22Leather wear A Time Of War 298Left side arc Total Warfare 105Leftover points optimization A Time Of War 87-88Leg attacks Total Warfare 220Leg attacks table Total Warfare 221Leg blown off Total Warfare 127Leg critical hit Total Warfare 126Leg damage Tactical Operations 24Leg damaged Mech Strategic Operations 176-77Leg destroyed Strategic Operations 381Leg destruction-hull down Tactical Operations 21Leg hip-foot actuator hit Strategic Operations 381Leg hits Total Warfare 124Leg Total Warfare 186Leg Total Warfare 127Legal means A Time Of War 256Legality ratings A Time Of War 255Leg-mounted weapons forward arc Total Warfare 105Leg-mounted weapons hull down Tactical Operations 21Leg-mounted weapons rear arc Total Warfare 105Legs destroyed Total Warfare 186Leopard A Time Of War 242Lethality reduction A Time Of War 192Level artillery and Tactical Operations 184Level engine explosion Tactical Operations 78Level physical combat Tactical Operations 90Level change Total Warfare 48-49Level Total Warfare 214Level Total Warfare 169Level Total Warfare 43

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Level change BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Level change differences (miniatures) Strategic Operations 396Level change miniatures Strategic Operations 402Level change miniatures Strategic Operations 401Level change miniatures Strategic Operations 388Level change miniatures Strategic Operations 388Level change mobile structures Tactical Operations 165Level change smoke and Tactical Operations 48Level difference missed shots Tactical Operations 83Level-bombing scatter diagram Total Warfare 245Levels building Total Warfare 167Levels diff erent Total Warfare 150Levels LOS Total Warfare 99-100Levels sideslipping Total Warfare 67-68Leverage A Time Of War 351Liao Aleisha A Time Of War 25Liao Sun-Tzu A Time Of War 21Lieutenant A Time Of War 358Lieutenant colonel A Time Of War 358Lieutenant commander A Time Of War 358Lieutenant general A Time Of War 358Life modules stage 0: affiliation A Time Of War 53-64Life modules stage 0: affiliation A Time Of War 52Life modules stage 1: early childhood A Time Of War 65-66Life modules stage 1: early childhood A Time Of War 52Life modules stage 2: late childhood A Time Of War 67-70Life modules stage 2: late childhood A Time Of War 52Life modules stage 3: higher education A Time Of War 70-74Life modules stage 3: higher education A Time Of War 52Life modules stage 4: real life A Time Of War 74-81Life modules stage 4: real life A Time Of War 52Life modules A Time Of War 51Life modules A Time Of War 49Life support Strategic Operations 256-57Life support critical hit Total Warfare 127Life support Total Warfare 240Life support/cockpit TechManual 41–42Lifeboat TechManual 227Lift equipment Tactical Operations 249Lift equipment TechManual 131

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Lift equipment TechManual 102Lift hoists TechManual 245–46Lift hoists Total Warfare 136-37Liftoff advanced units Strategic Operations 71-74Liftoff carrying units Total Warfare 90Liftoff miniatures Strategic Operations 392Liftoff Strategic Operations 223Liftoff Total Warfare 88Light Tactical Operations 58-59Light ’Mechs Total Warfare 21Light active probe (LPRB) Strategic Operations 350Light air-to-air (LAA) missiles Tactical Operations 359Light air-to-air Arrow IV missiles Strategic Operations 309Light autocannon TechManual 207Light buildings Strategic Operations 311Light buildings Total Warfare 33Light cover A Time Of War 172Light Cruiser Strategic Operations 10Light ECM (LECM) Strategic Operations 350Light engines TechManual 214Light ferro-fibrous armor TechManual 205–6Light fighters Total Warfare 24Light fluid suction system TechManual 248–49Light gale Strategic Operations 316Light gale Tactical Operations 61Light gauss rifle TechManual 219Light Gauss rifle Total Warfare 136Light machine gun TechManual 228Light PPC TechManual 234Light rainfall Tactical Operations 59Light sail Tactical Operations 323Light sail Tactical Operations 322Light smoke Strategic Operations 318Light snowfall Tactical Operations 60Light TAG TechManual 238Light tag (LTAG) Strategic Operations 350Light utility truck Total Warfare 289Light vehicles Total Warfare 22Light weapons TechManual 271Light weapons TechManual 20

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Light woods A Time Of War 231Light woods intervening terrain Total Warfare 100Light woods terrain modifiers Total Warfare 108Light woods Total Warfare 32Lightning bolt table Tactical Operations 59Lightning storm Tactical Operations 59Light-year A Time Of War 29Limb and organ replacements A Time Of War 314-16Limb damage Mech Strategic Operations 177Limb damage ProtoMech Strategic Operations 177Limb damage stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Limb swapping Total Warfare 294-95Limited amphibious Tactical Operations 302Limited functionality A Time Of War 193Limited targeting/tracking systems Strategic Operations 281Limited use alternate munitions Strategic Operations 308Limited warfare A Time Of War 29Line of sight (LOS) air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234Line of sight (LOS) air-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 235Line of sight (LOS) attacks in space Strategic Operations 236Line of sight (LOS) chart Tactical Operations 13Line of sight (LOS) combat damage Tactical Operations 66Line of sight (LOS) ground-to-air Strategic Operations 234Line of sight (LOS) large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Line of sight (LOS) large naval vessels and Tactical Operations 157Line of sight (LOS) miniatures combat Strategic Operations 393-94Line of sight (LOS) mobile structure combat Tactical Operations 171Line of sight (LOS) mobile structures Tactical Operations 165Line of sight (LOS) range Tactical Operations 85Line of sight (LOS) verification Strategic Operations 225-26Line of sight (LOS) verification Strategic Operations 409Line of sight (LOS) verification Strategic Operations 404Line of sight (LOS) verification Strategic Operations 282Line of sight (LOS) A Time Of War 171-72Line of sight (LOS) A Time Of War 175Line of sight (LOS) Tactical Operations 79-80Line of sight (LOS) Tactical Operations 83Line of sight. See LOS Total WarfareLink modifiers A Time Of War 35Linked attributes A Time Of War 140-41

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Linked attributes A Time Of War 37Linked scenarios aerospace units Strategic Operations 47-50Linked weapons Tactical Operations 85-86Lion A Time Of War 242Liquid fuel explosions Tactical Operations 134-35Liquid fuel leaks Tactical Operations 135Lithium-fusion (LF) Strategic Operations 350Lithium-fusion (LF) Strategic Operations 88Lithium-fusion battery Tactical Operations 323Lithium-fusion battery Tactical Operations 322Locale A Time Of War 360Location after attack Total Warfare 148Location after fall Total Warfare 68Location Total Warfare 150Location effects A Time Of War 191Location modifiers Strategic Operations 171Location restrictions- ProtoMech TechManual 87Logistics Strategic Operations 207-10Long range missiles (LRM X/X/X/X) indirect fire Strategic Operations 404Long range missiles (LRM X/X/X/X) Strategic Operations 350Long range missiles (LRM X/X/X/X) Strategic Operations 310Long Tom Tactical Operations 284Long-range missile (LRM) TechManual 229Long-range missile launcher TechManual 261Long-range targeting Strategic Operations 323Look-down radar Tactical Operations 340Look-down radar TechManual 227LOS (line of sight) ‘Mechs attacking inside Total Warfare 171LOS (line of sight) space combat Total Warfare 235LOS (line of sight) specialized attacks Total Warfare 112LOS (line of sight) VTOL Total Warfare 196LOS (line of sight) WIGE Total Warfare 199LOS (line of sight) Total Warfare 99-102Loss of leader Strategic Operations 297Loss of leader Strategic Operations 40Lost limb A Time Of War 120-121Lostech A Time Of War 29Low altitude drop Strategic Operations 313-14Low altitude map movement Strategic Operations 273Low altitude miniatures Strategic Operations 392

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Low technology worlds A Time Of War 369-70Low-altitude map Total Warfare 242Low-altitude map Total Warfare 74Low-altitude maps Tactical Operations 185Low-altitude movement Total Warfare 80-84Low-altitude table Total Warfare 81Lower arm actuator critical hit Total Warfare 127Lower arm and hand actuators Total Warfare 110Lower leg actuator critical hit Total Warfare 127LRM indirect fire Total Warfare 130-131LRM indirect fire Total Warfare 111-12Luck of the fox Strategic Operations 307Lucky critical hits Strategic Operations 284-85Lucky hits: aerospace units Total Warfare 239Luxury equipment A Time Of War 258Lyran Alliance affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 56Lyran Alliance covert operations A Time Of War 77Lyran Alliance A Time Of War 22-23Lyran Alliance A Time Of War 12Lyran Alliance Strategic Operations 14Lyran Alliance TechManual 15Lyran Commonwealth A Time Of War 25Mace Tactical Operations 290Mace Tactical Operations 288Machine gun TechManual 258Machine gun TechManual 228Machine gun array Strategic Operations 360Machine gun array Total Warfare 137Machine gun arrays TechManual 228Machine gun platoons Total Warfare 215Machine guns array Tactical Operations 102Machine guns A Time Of War 274Machine guns A Time Of War 273Machine guns A Time Of War 272Machine guns Tactical Operations 102Madness A Time Of War 111Magistracy of Canopus random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 56Magistracy of Canopus random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 54Magistracy of Canopus A Time Of War 12Magistracy of Canopus Strategic Operations 16

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Magistracy of Canopus TechManual 16Maglev (MAG) Strategic Operations 350Magma crust Tactical Operations 36-37Magma eruptions Tactical Operations 37-38Magma liquid Tactical Operations 37Magma A Time Of War 233Magma Tactical Operations 36-38Magma crusts A Time Of War 234-35Magnetic clamps TechManual 259Magnetic clamps TechManual 167Magnetic clamps Total Warfare 229Magnetic clamps Total Warfare 227Magnetic claw manipulator swarm attack Total Warfare 220Magnetic claw manipulator Total Warfare 229Magnetic claw manipulator Total Warfare 222Magnetic claws TechManual 260Magnetic pulse Strategic Operations 310Magnetic pulse (MP) missiles Tactical Operations 370Magnetohydrodynamics TechManual 35Magnets Total Warfare 294-95Magscan sensors Tactical Operations 222Magshot gauss rifle Tactical Operations 314Main gun hits Total Warfare 186Main gun mount- ProtoMech TechManual 82Maintenance advanced unit engine Strategic Operations 72Maintenance advanced units Strategic Operations 71Maintenance check Strategic Operations 172Maintenance class refit kits Strategic Operations 188-89Maintenance repair and salvage check modifiers Strategic Operations 170-72Maintenance unit time table Strategic Operations 170Maintenance Strategic Operations 169-75Maintenance Strategic Operations 166Major A Time Of War 358Major general A Time Of War 359Major Periphery State affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 58Malagrotta Cooperative A Time Of War 15Malrite Company TechManual 112Manager skill field A Time Of War 82Maneuver failed Tactical Operations 26Maneuver Tactical Operations 18

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Maneuvering ace A Time Of War 223Maneuvers A Time Of War 169Manipulator adaptations TechManual 260Manipulator battle armor TechManual 166–68Manipulator TechManual 259–60Manipulator TechManual 246Manipulator adaptations TechManual 260Manipulators Total Warfare 229Map structure Tactical Operations 11Map sets Total Warfare 11Maps BattleForce Strategic Operations 214-15Maps A Time Of War 200-201Maps A Time Of War 167Maps A Time Of War 165Maps A Time Of War 32Mapsheets selection Total Warfare 262Mapsheets tables Total Warfare 263Mapsheets Total Warfare 91-92Mapsheets Total Warfare 31-33Mapsheets Total Warfare 264Mapsheets Total Warfare 75Mapsheets Total Warfare 43Margin of Failure (MoF) A Time Of War 212Margin of Failure (MoF) A Time Of War 42Margin of Failure (MoF) A Time Of War 19Margin of Success (MoS) A Time Of War 212Margin of Success (MoS) A Time Of War 42Margin of Success (MoS) A Time Of War 19Margin of success/failure (MOS/MOF) Total Warfare 42Marian Hegemony random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 56Marian Hegemony random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 54Marian Hegemony A Time Of War 14Marian Hegemony Strategic Operations 16Marian Hegemony TechManual 16Marik Thomas A Time Of War 22Marine skill field A Time Of War 84Marine A Time Of War 340Marine points score re-converting Tactical Operations 205-6Marine points score tables Tactical Operations 202Marine points score Tactical Operations 201-3

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Marines Strategic Operations 323Marines Tactical Operations 341Marines TechManual 177Marksman A Time Of War 220Marquis/marquessa A Time Of War 353Martial arts A Time Of War 149MASC conversion Strategic Operations 356-57MASC (myomer accelerator signal circuitry) Total Warfare 137MASC. See Myomer Acceleration Signal Circuitry TechManualMash equipment TechManual 228Mass A Time Of War 258Mass driver Vessel limits table Tactical Operations 322Mass driver Vessel limits table Tactical Operations 232Mass driver Tactical Operations 323Mass driver Tactical Operations 322Master chief petty officer A Time Of War 357Master Schools List A Time Of War 72-73Master Schools List A Time Of War 70Master sergeant A Time Of War 357Mastodon transport TechManual 113Maximum atmospheric speeds Strategic Operations 273Maximum damage threshold fighter squadron Strategic Operations 29-31Maximum slope A Time Of War 169-70Measurement conversion Strategic Operations 388Mech armor TechManual 33–34Mech armor modifier TechManual 315Mech atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54Mech Battle Value calculation TechManual 302–4Mech bay TechManual 240Mech cockpit TechManual 39–42Mech cockpit TechManual 211Mech data TechManual 24Mech data-advanced Tactical Operations 12Mech dragging Tactical Operations 99Mech drop pack Tactical Operations 292-93Mech ejection/abandonment Tactical Operations 196-97Mech engine TechManual 35–37Mech engine modifier TechManual 315Mech engine type modifier Tactical Operations 381Mech full-head ejection system Tactical Operations 197

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Mech gale Tactical Operations 61Mech gyroscope TechManual 34–35Mech gyroscope modifier TechManual 315Mech heat sinks TechManual 37–38Mech heavy industrial zone Tactical Operations 31Mech hit location table-advanced Tactical Operations 77Mech hit location table-advanced Tactical Operations 76Mech ice Tactical Operations 50Mech internal structure TechManual 46–48Mech internal structure TechManual 31–33Mech internal structure modifier TechManual 315Mech internal structure modifier table Tactical Operations 382Mech jump jets TechManual 38–39Mech level 1 foliage Tactical Operations 36Mech limbs-tearing off Tactical Operations 93Mech mortar Tactical Operations 324Mech mortar ammunition Tactical Operations 373-75Mech mounting large naval vessels Tactical Operations 157Mech mud Tactical Operations 50Mech on sinking vessel Tactical Operations 160Mech record sheets TechManual 24–25Mech Record Sheets-advanced Tactical Operations 12Mech rerouting heat sink coolant Tactical Operations 105Mech satellite uplinks Tactical Operations 194Mech Tactical Operations 161Mech TechManual 9'Mech gunnery A Time Of War 147'Mech piloting A Time Of War 152'Mech A Time Of War 360-61'Mech A Time Of War 29Mech attack direction Total Warfare 119Mech attacking inside Total Warfare 171Mech club attacks Total Warfare 145-46Mech cluster hits against Total Warfare 116Mech critical hits Total Warfare 124-28Mech data Total Warfare 27Mech death from above attacks Total Warfare 149Mech destruction Total Warfare 128Mech dropping to ground Total Warfare 49Mech falling damage to Total Warfare 68-69

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Mech heat Total Warfare 53Mech height Total Warfare 99Mech hiding Total Warfare 259Mech hit location Total Warfare 120Mech hit location table Total Warfare 119Mech infernos Total Warfare 141Mech kick attacks Total Warfare 147Mech kick location table Total Warfare 147Mech lifting capabilities Total Warfare 261Mech minimum movement Total Warfare 49Mech moving through buildings: Total Warfare 167-68Mech partial cover Total Warfare 102Mech physical weapon attacks Total Warfare 146Mech punch attacks Total Warfare 145Mech punch location table Total Warfare 145Mech push attacks Total Warfare 147Mech random assignment Total Warfare 266-71Mech record sheet Total Warfare 27Mech stacking Total Warfare 57Mech to-hit roll against Total Warfare 115Mech torso twist Total Warfare 99Mech Total Warfare 20Mech transport (MT#) Strategic Operations 351Mech(s) conversion Strategic Operations 368Mech(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358Mech(s) conversion Strategic Operations 259Mech(s) damage Strategic Operations 176-77Mech(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175Mech(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 231Mech(s) hull breach Strategic Operations 177Mech(s) overheat value Strategic Operations 362Mech(s) partial cover Strategic Operations 404Mech(s) sensor hits Strategic Operations 381Mech(s) status Strategic Operations 173Mechanical jump boosters Tactical Operations 293Mechanical jump boosters Tactical Operations 292Mechanical security A Time Of War 153Mechanics technician A Time Of War 157Mechanized (MEC) Strategic Operations 351Mechanized attacks Total Warfare 30

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Mechanized battle armor attack direction Strategic Operations 405Mechanized battle armor Strategic Operations 324-25Mechanized battle armor TechManual 167Mechanized battle armor swarm attack Total Warfare 220Mechanized battle armor Total Warfare 227-28Mechanized battle armor Total Warfare 222-223Mechanized infantry digging in Tactical Operations 108Mechanized infantry Platoon TechManual 310Mechanized infantry skill levels TechManual 314Mechanized infantry TechManual 144–45Mechanized infantry TechManual 272Mechanized infantry carriers Total Warfare 223Mechanized infantry Total Warfare 216-17Mechanized infantry Total Warfare 23Mechanized VTOL infantry Tactical Operations 324MechBuster TechManual 313MechWarrior damage A Time Of War 217-218MechWarrior hits Strategic Operations 177MechWarrior miniatures hexes Strategic Operations 387MechWarrior skill field A Time Of War 84MechWarrior A Time Of War 360-61MechWarrior A Time Of War 94MechWarrior A Time Of War 29MechWarrior Aquatic Survival System (MASS) Tactical Operations 325MechWarrior Aquatic Survival System (MASS) Tactical Operations 324MechWarriors damage Total Warfare 41MechWarriors survival Total Warfare 128MechWarriors Total Warfare 160Media A Time Of War 365Medical assistant skill field A Time Of War 82Medical care Strategic Operations 187Medical equipment A Time Of War 313Medical equipment A Time Of War 311Medical maintenance A Time Of War 248Medical maintenance A Time Of War 245Medical team dead Strategic Operations 176Medical team on battlefield Strategic Operations 169Medical team Strategic Operations 169Medicinal drugs A Time Of War 318Medium ‘Mechs Total Warfare 21

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Medium buildings Strategic Operations 312Medium buildings Total Warfare 33Medium cover A Time Of War 172Medium fighters Total Warfare 24Medium range missile (MRM) TechManual 229Medium range missile launcher TechManual 261Medium range missiles Strategic Operations 360Medium vehicles Total Warfare 22Medium weapon TechManual 271Medium weapon TechManual 20MedTech A Time Of War 149Meeting engagement maneuvering Strategic Operations 81-82Meeting engagement phase Strategic Operations 81-85Meeting engagement weapons fire Strategic Operations 82-84Megalosaurus tyrranus A Time Of War 244Melee attack damage A Time Of War 180Melee master A Time Of War 223-24Melee special effects A Time Of War 176-77Melee specialist A Time Of War 224Melee weapons A Time Of War 260-64Melee weapons A Time Of War 149-50Melee weapons A Time Of War 190Melee (MEL) Strategic Operations 351Melee combat limits A Time Of War 175Melee combat resolution A Time Of War 175-77Melee combat rolls A Time Of War 175Melee combat while grappling A Time Of War 176Melee physical attacks Strategic Operations 407Melee physical attacks Strategic Operations 232Mercenary random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 57Mercenary random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 55Mercenary review and bonding commission Strategic Operations 204Mercenary troops Strategic Operations 204Mercenary brat A Time Of War 68Merchant marine skill field A Time Of War 82Merchant master A Time Of War 78Merchant skill field A Time Of War 82Merchant A Time Of War 78Meteor showers Tactical Operations 56Meteorite defense Strategic Operations 124

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Metric system A Time Of War 91Metric system A Time Of War 29Micro-Copter VTOL platoons Tactical Operations 324Microgravity Strategic Operations 256Microlite VTOL platoons Tactical Operations 324Middle technology worlds A Time Of War 369Military academy A Time Of War 73Military enlistment A Time Of War 73Military ranks A Time Of War 356-59Military ranks A Time Of War 354Military school A Time Of War 73Military school A Time Of War 68Military scientist skill field A Time Of War 84Military skill field A Time Of War 84Military aerospace units Strategic Operations 37Military intelligence Strategic Operations 210-11Military organization BattleForce Strategic Operations 238-39Military organization Strategic Operations 329Military organization Total Warfare 34-35Military unit rearming Strategic Operations 99Military-standard combustion engines TechManual 214Military-standard fusion engines TechManual 214Mimetic armor TechManual 253Mimetic armor Total Warfare 228Mimetic armor system (MAS) Strategic Operations 351Mine attack-meeting engagement Strategic Operations 84Mine clearance equipment TechManual 260Mine clearance missiles Tactical Operations 370Mine clearing Tactical Operations 103Mine deployment-meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82Mine dispenser TechManual 260Mine dispensers Tactical Operations 325-26Mine dispensers Tactical Operations 324Mine Tactical Operations 364-67Mine dispenser (MDS#) Strategic Operations 351Mine dispenser (MDS#) Strategic Operations 289Minefield active probes Tactical Operations 99Minefield battle value table Tactical Operations 385Minefield clearing Tactical Operations 210-11Minefield combined Tactical Operations 210

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Minefield conventional Tactical Operations 208-9Minefield density table Tactical Operations 208Minefield types of Tactical Operations 207Minefield weapon-delivered Tactical Operations 210Minefield Tactical Operations 207-8Minefield Tactical Operations 386Minefield(s) atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 23Minefield(s) detonation/clearing Strategic Operations 310Minefield(s) detonation/clearing Strategic Operations 289Minefield(s) detonation/clearing Strategic Operations 268Minefield(s) location Strategic Operations 289Minefield(s) orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 106-8Minefield(s) Strategic Operations 287-89Mines A Time Of War 278Mines A Time Of War 277Minesweeper (MSW) special ability Strategic Operations 289Minesweeper (MSW) Strategic Operations 351Minesweepers Tactical Operations 326Minesweepers Tactical Operations 211Minesweeping engineers Strategic Operations 323Minesweeping engineers Tactical Operations 341Minesweeping engineers Tactical Operations 211Minesweeping engineers Tactical Operations 209Miniatures additional advice Total Warfare 286-88Miniatures aerospace movement Strategic Operations 391-93Miniatures aerospace units Strategic Operations 399-400Miniatures BattleForce Strategic Operations 214-15Miniatures BattleForce Strategic Operations 241Miniatures buildings Strategic Operations 396-97Miniatures combat Strategic Operations 393-96Miniatures components Strategic Operations 387Miniatures finishing touches Total Warfare 288Miniatures game playing Strategic Operations 387-88Miniatures ground movement Strategic Operations 388-91Miniatures infantry Strategic Operations 397-99Miniatures kitbashing Total Warfare 289-95Miniatures materials and tools Total Warfare 280Miniatures painting to match cover art Total Warfare 281-85Miniatures quick-strike rules Strategic Operations 400-409Miniatures rules Strategic Operations 386-87

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Miniatures support vehicles Strategic Operations 397Miniatures templates Strategic Operations 13Miniatures A Time Of War 167Miniatures A Time Of War 165Miniatures A Time Of War 32Minimum distance jumps Strategic Operations 89Minimum movement miniatures Strategic Operations 388Minimum movement Strategic Operations 402Minimum movement Total Warfare 57Minimum movement Total Warfare 49Minimum range damage adjustment Strategic Operations 361Minimum range modifier (miniatures) Strategic Operations 395Minimum range modifier Total Warfare 107-8Mining drill TechManual 246Mining drill Total Warfare 138MiningMech A Time Of War 29Minor houses A Time Of War 29Minor Periphery affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 57Miraculous feats A Time Of War 42Miscellaneous condition modifiers A Time Of War 176Miscellaneous condition modifiers A Time Of War 172Miscellaneous gear A Time Of War 307-11Miscellaneous gear A Time Of War 312Mis-jump Strategic Operations 278Missed shots buildings Tactical Operations 121Missed shots Tactical Operations 81-83Missile ammunition TechManual 261–62Missile ammunition TechManual 230–31Missile ammunition TechManual 171Missile Clearing minefield Tactical Operations 211Missile launchers Tactical Operations 326-27Missile launchers TechManual 261–62Missile launchers TechManual 229–31Missile launchers TechManual 171Missile launchers (ProtoMech) TechManual 88Missile munitions Tactical Operations 367-73Missile weapon TechManual 148Missile weapon battle rating TechManual 310Missile Tactical Operations 102-3Missile (MSL) Strategic Operations 351

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Missile ammunition Total Warfare 138Missile attacks: battle armor Total Warfare 218Missile launchers weapon A Time Of War 214Missile launchers A Time Of War 276Missile launchers A Time Of War 274Missile launchers Total Warfare 138Missing actuators Total Warfare 127Mission A Time Of War 331Mission equipment TechManual 262Mixed technologies Tactical Operations 377Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH#) Strategic Operations 351Mobile field base Tactical Operations 330Mobile field base (MFB) Strategic Operations 351Mobile headquarters (MHQ#) command point bonus Strategic Operations 266Mobile headquarters (MHQ#) Strategic Operations 351Mobile headquarters (MHQ#) Strategic Operations 314Mobile hyperpulse generators Tactical Operations 331Mobile hyperpulse generators Tactical Operations 330Mobile structure advanced battle values Tactical Operations 379Mobile structure armor Tactical Operations 266Mobile structure armor Tactical Operations 171Mobile structure artillery hits Tactical Operations 184Mobile structure buildings Tactical Operations 168Mobile structure carrying units Tactical Operations 170Mobile structure charging Tactical Operations 154Mobile structure clearing minefield Tactical Operations 211Mobile structure collisions Tactical Operations 167-68Mobile structure combat Tactical Operations 171-72Mobile structure crew Tactical Operations 264-65Mobile structure critical hits Tactical Operations 172Mobile structure damage threshold Tactical Operations 171Mobile structure design Tactical Operations 259-61Mobile structure destroying Tactical Operations 172Mobile structure equipment Tactical Operations 266-69Mobile structure fire (effects on) Tactical Operations 45Mobile structure flight decks Tactical Operations 170Mobile structure fuel capacity Tactical Operations 263-64Mobile structure heat sinks Tactical Operations 267Mobile structure ice Tactical Operations 50Mobile structure minefield Tactical Operations 209

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Mobile structure morale Tactical Operations 211Mobile structure motive systems Tactical Operations 263Mobile structure motive systems Tactical Operations 262Mobile structure movement Tactical Operations 165-67Mobile structure movement costs table Tactical Operations 156Mobile structure movement damage Tactical Operations 65Mobile structure mud Tactical Operations 50Mobile structure power systems Tactical Operations 263Mobile structure power systems Tactical Operations 262Mobile structure Record Sheet Tactical Operations 269Mobile structure special enhancements Tactical Operations 265-66Mobile structure stacking Tactical Operations 168-70Mobile structure swamp Tactical Operations 51Mobile structure template Tactical Operations 165Mobile structure template Tactical Operations 13Mobile structure type Tactical Operations 259-60Mobile structure underneath Tactical Operations 209Mobile structure unit design Tactical Operations 237Mobile structure unit displacement Tactical Operations 173Mobile structure weapons Tactical Operations 266-67Mobile structure Tactical Operations 143Mobile structure Tactical Operations 128Mobile structure Tactical Operations 10Mobile structure(s) advanced movement Strategic Operations 273Mobile structure(s) advanced movement Strategic Operations 270Mobile structure(s) base damage Strategic Operations 361Mobile structure(s) conversion Strategic Operations 357-58Mobile structure(s) conversion Strategic Operations 369Mobile structure(s) crew killed Strategic Operations 285Mobile structure(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175Mobile structure(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 285Mobile structure(s) orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 105-6Mobile structure(s) Strategic Operations 290Mobile structures Total Warfare 26Mobility limits- secondary weapons TechManual 151Moderate challenges A Time Of War 332Moderate gale Strategic Operations 316Moderate gale Tactical Operations 61Moderate rainfall Tactical Operations 59Moderate snowfall Tactical Operations 60

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Modern melee weapons A Time Of War 262-64Modern melee weapons A Time Of War 260Modern weapons A Time Of War 280-81Modern weapons A Time Of War 270-71Modifications: support vehicles Total Warfare 206-7Modified drop times Strategic Operations 313-14Modified piloting/driving skill Total Warfare 42Modified prerequisites A Time Of War 51Modified roll A Time Of War 19Modified target number Total Warfare 42Modified to-hit number Total Warfare 144-45Modified to-hit number Total Warfare 243Modified to-hit number Total Warfare 106Modified to-hit number Total Warfare 42Modifiers application A Time Of War 40-41Modifiers A Time Of War 19Modular armor Tactical Operations 380Modular armor Tactical Operations 281Modular armor conversion Strategic Operations 358Modular equipment adaptor TechManual 260Modular mounts TechManual 263Modular mounts TechManual 262Modular structure linkage Tactical Operations 265Modular structure power and motive Tactical Operations 264Modular technology Tactical Operations 275Modular technology TechManual 173Modular technology TechManual 171Modular technology TechManual 168Modular technology TechManual 165Modular technology TechManual 164Modular technology TechManual 163Modular technology TechManual 160Modular weapons Strategic Operations 195Mongoose TechManual 304Monthly expenses A Time Of War 336Monza light cruse liner TechManual 111Moonless night Tactical Operations 58Morale aerospace units outside game play Strategic Operations 39-41Morale broken Tactical Operations 212Morale checks A Time Of War 189-90

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Morale checks Strategic Operations 295-96Morale checks Tactical Operations 211-12Morale fatigue cycle Strategic Operations 38Morale recovering A Time Of War 190Morale recovering nerve Tactical Operations 213Morale tables Tactical Operations 212Morale Strategic Operations 295Morale Strategic Operations 294Morale Strategic Operations 261Morale ratings Strategic Operations 40Mortar TechManual 263Mortars A Time Of War 273Mosquito IX radar plane TechManual 112Mostly dead Strategic Operations 176Mothballs Strategic Operations 175Motive system Damage Tactical Operations 107Motive system damage table Tactical Operations 21Motive system mobile structures Tactical Operations 263Motive system mobile structures Tactical Operations 262Motive system damage table WIGE Total Warfare 199Motive system damage table Total Warfare 193Motive systems damage determination Strategic Operations 232Motive systems damage roll Strategic Operations 231Motive systems damage Strategic Operations 381Motive systems. See also Movement battle armor TechManual 164–66Motive systems. See also Movement conventional infantry TechManual 272Motive systems. See also Movement infantry TechManual 144–46Motorized infantry TechManual 12–13Motorized infantry TechManual 272Motorized infantry TechManual 144Motorized infantry Total Warfare 23Mountain troops Strategic Operations 323Mountain troops Tactical Operations 341Mountain troops Tactical Operations 27Mounting carriers Total Warfare 223-25Mounting support vehicles Total Warfare 207Mounting through bay door Tactical Operations 188Mounting units Strategic Operations 42-43Movement actions A Time Of War 208-9Movement actions A Time Of War 206

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Movement actions A Time Of War 166Movement advanced unit sub-phases Strategic Operations 62Movement aerospace atmospheric Strategic Operations 220-23Movement aerospace unit Strategic Operations 47Movement combat vehicles TechManual 94–95Movement combat vehicles TechManual 96Movement combat vehicles Total Warfare 192Movement converting modes Strategic Operations 354Movement converting points Strategic Operations 355-57Movement costs A Time Of War 206-8Movement costs A Time Of War 168Movement costs Strategic Operations 217Movement costs table Total Warfare 52Movement damage: infantry carriers Total Warfare 224Movement damage-terrain factor Tactical Operations 65Movement dice/tips/suggestions Tactical Operations 27-28Movement direction Total Warfare 49Movement dogfights Strategic Operations 21Movement effects of gravity Tactical Operations 55Movement effects: buildings Total Warfare 167-71Movement effects-buildings Strategic Operations 312Movement effects-miniatures and buildings Strategic Operations 397Movement expenditure of points Tactical Operations 156Movement fighter squadron Strategic Operations 30Movement grapple A Time Of War 176Movement ground-basics Strategic Operations 216Movement ground-support Strategic Operations 19Movement heat TechManual 303Movement heat and Total Warfare 159-60Movement infantry A Time Of War 206Movement infantry Strategic Operations 218Movement infantry Tactical Operations 27Movement infantry Total Warfare 214Movement injury modifiers A Time Of War 182-83Movement jumping Strategic Operations 219Movement large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Movement large naval vessel support vehicles Tactical Operations 154-56Movement lateral and deceleration Strategic Operations 277Movement map (on/between) Strategic Operations 273-74Movement miniatures Strategic Operations 401-3

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Movement miniatures Strategic Operations 401-2Movement miniatures Strategic Operations 402Movement miniatures Strategic Operations 390Movement miniatures Strategic Operations 388Movement mobile structures Tactical Operations 165-67Movement mode Strategic Operations 355-57Movement modes A Time Of War 167-69Movement modes Tactical Operations 18-20Movement modifiers A Time Of War 230Movement modifiers A Time Of War 175Movement modifiers A Time Of War 172Movement MP: type Total Warfare 29Movement on pavement Strategic Operations 403Movement on pavement Strategic Operations 219Movement phase Total Warfare 37Movement phase (bearings-only launch) Strategic Operations 101-2Movement phase: piloting skill Total Warfare 59Movement phase-double-blind rules Tactical Operations 221-25Movement previous turn A Time Of War 170Movement ProtoMechs Total Warfare 184Movement rail support vehicle Tactical Operations 149-50Movement rates A Time Of War 168Movement record Tactical Operations 215Movement satellites Tactical Operations 148-49Movement scenarios Total Warfare 257Movement space drops in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24Movement type TechManual 118–19Movement underwater Strategic Operations 219Movement unit sequence A Time Of War 206Movement vehicle Strategic Operations 218Movement vehicles Tactical Operations 24-27Movement A Time Of War 165Movement Total Warfare 61MP hit Strategic Operations 407MP hit Strategic Operations 380MP hit Strategic Operations 285MP hit Strategic Operations 231MP loss Total Warfare 148MP reduction Total Warfare 227MP reduction Total Warfare 225

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MP reduction Total Warfare 53M-Pod Tactical Operations 331M-Pod Tactical Operations 330MRM "Apollo" fire control system Tactical Operations 331MRM "Apollo" fire control system Tactical Operations 330Mud heavy rainfall Tactical Operations 59Mud moderate rainfall Tactical Operations 59Mud torrential downpour Tactical Operations 59Mud A Time Of War 233-34Mud Tactical Operations 50Multi-hex building collapse Tactical Operations 123Multi-hex building collapse Tactical Operations 122Multi-hex items Tactical Operations 268Multi-hex support vehicles-fire effects on Tactical Operations 44-45Multi-hex units-weight of Tactical Operations 240Multi-level bridges Tactical Operations 117Multi-missile launcher Total Warfare 138Multi-missile launcher (MML) TechManual 229Multi-missile launchers Strategic Operations 360Multiple abilities pilot A Time Of War 219Multiple buildings Tactical Operations 133Multiple docking/grappling Strategic Operations 36Multiple targets autocannon Tactical Operations 100Multiple targets modifier Total Warfare 109-10Multiple traits A Time Of War 107Multiple-hex buildings Total Warfare 167Multipliers A Time Of War 19Multi-section buildings Strategic Operations 397Multi-tasker A Time Of War 220-21Multi-trac Strategic Operations 195Muskrat-379 TechManual 112Mutiny checks Strategic Operations 39Mutiny Strategic Operations 40Mutual advantage Total Warfare 154-57Myomer armor A Time Of War 289Myomer armor A Time Of War 287Myomer technician A Time Of War 157-58Myomer A Time Of War 29Myomer Acceleration Signal Circuitry (MASC) TechManual 232Myomer Acceleration Signal Circuitry (MASC) TechManual 52

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Myomers FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Myomers booster (ProtoMech) TechManual 85Myomers IndustrialMech TechManual 62–63Myomers TechManual 32–33Nail gun TechManual 247Nail/rivet gun Total Warfare 138NARC explosive pods TechManual 233NARC homing pods TechManual 233NARC missile beacon TechManual 232–33NARC TechManual 263NARC aerospace units Total Warfare 238NARC missile beacon Total Warfare 134NARC Total Warfare 138-39NARC Total Warfare 229Narc beacon Strategic Operations 360NARC-equipped missile Total Warfare 142Narcotics A Time Of War 318Narrow/low profile Strategic Operations 195Natural aptitude A Time Of War 121Natural grace A Time Of War 224Natural healing Strategic Operations 187Naval autocannons Tactical Operations 331Naval autocannons Tactical Operations 330Naval C3 Tactical Operations 332Naval Comm-Scanner Suite Tactical Operations 333Naval Comm-Scanner Suite Tactical Operations 332Naval gauss Tactical Operations 333Naval gauss Tactical Operations 332Naval laser Tactical Operations 333Naval laser Tactical Operations 332Naval PPC Tactical Operations 334Naval PPC Tactical Operations 333Naval repair facilities Tactical Operations 334Naval support vehicle fuel Tactical Operations 248Naval tractors Tactical Operations 156Naval tug adaptor Tactical Operations 335Naval tug adaptor Tactical Operations 334Naval units-sinking naval vessel and Tactical Operations 161Naval vessels-abandonment Tactical Operations 197-98Naval TechManual 116

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Naval C3 (NC3) ECCM Strategic Operations 112Naval C3 (NC3) orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 105Naval C3 (NC3) Strategic Operations 351-52Naval carriers dismounting from Total Warfare 225-26Naval carriers Total Warfare 225Naval combat vehicles Total Warfare 198Naval Comm-Scanner Suite Strategic Operations 118Naval Factor The Strategic Operations 14-17Naval movement miniatures Strategic Operations 403Naval movement Strategic Operations 218Naval movement Total Warfare 56Naval structure conversion Strategic Operations 359Naval vessels movement TechManual 94Naval vessels TechManual 113Naval vessels TechManual 12Naval vessels Total Warfare 22-23Naval vessels Total Warfare 25Naval warfare Strategic Operations 205Naval weapon conversion Strategic Operations 379Navigation A Time Of War 150Near-misses: ProtoMech Total Warfare 184-85Needler TechManual 266Ne'er do-well A Time Of War 78Negative design quirks Strategic Operations 196-99Negative traits elected A Time Of War 333Negative traits optimization and A Time Of War 87-88Negotiation A Time Of War 150-51Negotiations stockpiles Strategic Operations 180-81Nekohono’o-class DropShip conversion Strategic Operations 366-67Nemesis pod Total Warfare 142Neo-chainmail armor A Time Of War 287Nerve recovery Strategic Operations 297Nerve recovery Strategic Operations 294Net Margin of Success (Net MoS) A Time Of War 42Net Margin of Success (Net MoS) A Time Of War 19Neural impulse helmet (Neurohelmet) A Time Of War 29Neurohelmets TechManual 43New equipment A Time Of War 257No cooling jacket Strategic Operations 197No ejection system Strategic Operations 197

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No joy Strategic Operations 307No torso twist Strategic Operations 198No/minimal arms Strategic Operations 197Nobility A Time Of War 66Nolan venom A Time Of War 244Nolan A Time Of War 243-44Non-’Mech special combat rules Total Warfare 98Non-aerospace airborne units attack direction Total Warfare 119Non-aerospace airborne units attacking airborne aerospace units Total Warfare 107Non-aerospace airborne units firing arcs Total Warfare 104Non-aerospace airborne units hit location Total Warfare 120Non-aerospace airborne units LOS Total Warfare 99Non-aerospace airborne units specialized attacks Total Warfare 110Non-aerospace airborne units Total Warfare 243Non-aerospace elements attacking airborne aerospace elements Strategic Operations 405Non-aerospace elements attacking airborne space units Strategic Operations 385Non-aerospace elements attacking LOS and Strategic Operations 404Non-airborne units terrain displacement Tactical Operations 66Non-airship fuel TechManual 128–29Non-battle armor infantry A Time Of War 211Non-combat attire A Time Of War 297-298Non-DropShip aerospace units movement damage Tactical Operations 65Non-DropShip aerospace units mud Tactical Operations 50Non-DropShip aerospace units swamp Tactical Operations 51Non-ground movement TechManual 164–65Non-heavy weapons A Time Of War 211-12Non-hover ground vehicles ice Tactical Operations 50Non-infantry inside buildings Strategic Operations 312Non-infantry morale check Tactical Operations 211Non-infantry transport Strategic Operations 325Non-infantry units A Time Of War 208Non-infantry weapon damage against infantry table Total Warfare 216Non-liquid fuels Tactical Operations 136Non-Mech units tornado Tactical Operations 62Non-missile attacks: battle armor Total Warfare 218Non-mobile structure surfacing Tactical Operations 173Non-penetrating weapon TechManual 148Non-Player Character (NPC) Edge and A Time Of War 43Non-Player Character (NPC) to player ratio A Time Of War 339Non-Player Character (NPC) A Time Of War 336-40

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Non-Player Character (NPC) A Time Of War 19Non-spheroid aerospace unit atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54Non-spheroid aerospace unit gravel piles and Tactical Operations 31Non-spheroid aerospace unit heavy industrial zones and Tactical Operations 31Non-spheroid aerospace unit ice Tactical Operations 50Non-spheroid aerospace unit magma and Tactical Operations 37Non-standard lance weights Strategic Operations 334-35Non-standard organization Strategic Operations 334-35Non-standard parts Strategic Operations 197Non-standard troops Strategic Operations 204Normal fire A Time Of War 181Note-taking A Time Of War 20Novels A Time Of War 32Nuclear arms Strategic Operations 202Nuclear technician A Time Of War 158Nueva Castile A Time Of War 14Null-signature system Tactical Operations 382Null-signature system Tactical Operations 336Objective counter Strategic Operations 262Objectives Strategic Operations 261Objectives Strategic Operations 243Oblique attacker A Time Of War 221Oblique vectors diagram Strategic Operations 64Obscurant ammo Tactical Operations 362Odessan Raxx A Time Of War 244Offensive adjustment TechManual 316Offensive battle rating TechManual 303–4Officer candidate school A Time Of War 73Officer skill field A Time Of War 84Officer training A Time Of War 70Off-map movement commanders Tactical Operations 192Off-map movement mobile structures Tactical Operations 167Off-road (ORO) Strategic Operations 352Oil slick ammo Tactical Operations 362Olympus-class recharging station Strategic Operations 367Omni technology TechManual 19–20Omni units (weapons/equipment costs) TechManual 282Omni Total Warfare 20Omni (OMNI) design Strategic Operations 143Omni (OMNI) FrankenMechs and Strategic Operations 190

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Omni (OMNI) rearming Strategic Operations 186Omni (OMNI) refits Strategic Operations 189Omni (OMNI) stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Omni (OMNI) Strategic Operations 352OmniFighter armor TechManual 191OmniFighter control systems TechManual 189OmniFighter engine TechManual 184OmniFighter fuel capacity TechManual 186OmniFighter heat sinks TechManual 193OmniFighter record sheet TechManual 199OmniFighter structural integrity TechManual 188OmniFighter tech base TechManual 181OmniFighter weapons/equipment TechManual 196OmniFighter A Time Of War 29OmniFighter TechManual 183OmniFighters Total Warfare 242OmniMech armor TechManual 55OmniMech chassis design TechManual 44OmniMech cockpit TechManual 52OmniMech engine TechManual 48OmniMech gyroscope TechManual 50OmniMech heat sinks TechManual 53–54OmniMech jump jets TechManual 51OmniMech MASC and TSM TechManual 53OmniMech ProtoMech and TechManual 80OmniMech record sheet TechManual 59OmniMech weapons/ammunition TechManual 57OmniMech WorkMech and TechManual 64OmniMech A Time Of War 29OmniMech TechManual 9OmniMech- ProtoMech and TechManual 80OmniMech- WorkMechs and TechManual 64OmniMechs/OmniVehicles Total Warfare 227-28OmniPods Strategic Operations 182OmniTech TechManual 47OmniTech TechManual 14OmniVehicle airship structural integrity Tactical Operations 249OmniVehicle armor Tactical Operations 252-53OmniVehicle armor TechManual 134OmniVehicle armor TechManual 106

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OmniVehicle Battle Value TechManual 309OmniVehicle chassis in advanced support Tactical Operations 244OmniVehicle control systems TechManual 103OmniVehicle crew/control systems Tactical Operations 251OmniVehicle crew/fire control TechManual 132OmniVehicle design Tactical Operations 237OmniVehicle engine TechManual 126OmniVehicle engine TechManual 101OmniVehicle engine in advanced support Tactical Operations 247OmniVehicle fuel capacity TechManual 129OmniVehicle fuel in advanced support Tactical Operations 248OmniVehicle heat sinks Tactical Operations 252OmniVehicle heat sinks TechManual 133OmniVehicle heat sinks TechManual 104OmniVehicle internal structure TechManual 124OmniVehicle internal structure TechManual 99OmniVehicle lift/dive equipment/rotors TechManual 102OmniVehicle Record Sheet Tactical Operations 258OmniVehicle record sheet TechManual 139OmniVehicle record sheet TechManual 109OmniVehicle structural integrity TechManual 130OmniVehicle support vehicles TechManual 117OmniVehicle technology Tactical Operations 275OmniVehicle technology base TechManual 95OmniVehicle weapons/ammunition TechManual 107–8OmniVehicle weapons/ammunition TechManual 137OmniVehicle weapons/equipment Tactical Operations 255-56OmniVehicle A Time Of War 29Open-space construction Tactical Operations 138-39Opportunity fire Tactical Operations 86-87Opposed Action check A Time Of War 19Opposed Action A Time Of War 39Opposed traits A Time Of War 86-87Opposing traits A Time Of War 107Opposing vectors diagram Strategic Operations 64Optical/thermal detection Strategic Operations 119Optics A Time Of War 303-304Optimization process A Time Of War 87Optional rules Strategic Operations 166Orbital bombardment Strategic Operations 202-3

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Orbital obstacles Strategic Operations 44-45Orbital spotting Strategic Operations 280Orbit-to-surface attack diagram Strategic Operations 107Orbit-to-surface attack fire Strategic Operations 103-4Orbit-to-surface attack plot Strategic Operations 268Orbit-to-surface attack Strategic Operations 293-94Orca A Time Of War 242Ordering Total Warfare 11Ordnance A Time Of War 282-84Ordnance A Time Of War 285Ordnance A Time Of War 279Organized crime A Time Of War 78-79Out of contact A Time Of War 204-5Out of range A Time Of War 171Outbound jump Strategic Operations 278-79Out-of-control effects collision Strategic Operations 84Out-of-control effects miniatures Strategic Operations 393Out-of-control effects Total Warfare 93Outworlds Alliance random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 56Outworlds Alliance random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 54Outworlds Alliance A Time Of War 15Outworlds Alliance Strategic Operations 17Outworlds Alliance TechManual 17Ovan A Time Of War 377-80Ovan Slyack A Time Of War 244Overcharging PPC Tactical Operations 103-4Overdrive Tactical Operations 25Overheat value Strategic Operations 362Overheat value Strategic Operations 237Overheat value Strategic Operations 213Overheating Strategic Operations 236-37Overheating Strategic Operations 409Over-penetration weapons fire Strategic Operations 116Overrun forces Tactical Operations 193Oversized platoon TechManual 153–54Oversized platoon TechManual 146Overspeed Total Warfare 84Overtime Strategic Operations 167Package A Time Of War 348Pain resistance A Time Of War 184

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Pain resistance A Time Of War 121Paint/obscurant ammo Tactical Operations 362Panel painting Total Warfare 287-88Paper maps Strategic Operations 386Paper maps Total Warfare 9Parachutes A Time Of War 311Parafoil TechManual 266Paramedic equipment TechManual 233Paramedics dead Strategic Operations 176Paramedics Strategic Operations 323Paramedics Tactical Operations 340-41Paratroops Strategic Operations 323Paratroops Tactical Operations 341Partial cover Strategic Operations 393-94Partial cover Strategic Operations 404Partial cover Tactical Operations 87-88Partial cover Tactical Operations 36Partial cover terrain modifiers Total Warfare 109Partial cover Total Warfare 102Partial recovery A Time Of War 193Partial repairs Strategic Operations 182Partial wing TechManual 266Partial wing TechManual 166Partial wing TechManual 165Partial wings Tactical Operations 295Partial wings Tactical Operations 293Partial wings Tactical Operations 292Particle projector cannon (PPC) capacitor Tactical Operations 382Particle projector cannon (PPC) capacitor Tactical Operations 337Particle projector cannon (PPC) capacitor Tactical Operations 336Particle projector cannon (PPC) feedback table Tactical Operations 103Particle projector cannon (PPC) overcharging Tactical Operations 103-4Particle projector cannon (PPC) Tactical Operations 103-4Particle projector cannon (PPC) TechManual 233–34Particle projector cannon (PPC) TechManual 267Particle projector cannons (PPCs) A Time Of War 30Particles A Time Of War 236Parts attachment Total Warfare 292Party A Time Of War 19Passenger cockpit TechManual 41

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Passenger quarters TechManual 282Passenger quarters Tactical Operations 131Patch A Time Of War 258Patchwork armor Tactical Operations 377-78Patchwork armor Tactical Operations 382Patchwork armor conversion Strategic Operations 358Patient A Time Of War 121Paved hexes Total Warfare 259Paved terrain A Time Of War 232Pavement infantry movement on Tactical Operations 27Pavement movement on Strategic Operations 391Pavement Strategic Operations 403Pavement movement Total Warfare 61-68Pavement Total Warfare 32Pegasus Passenger VTOL TechManual 114People A Time Of War 359-60People A Time Of War 111-12Percentages TechManual 22Perception A Time Of War 240Perception A Time Of War 151Peregrine falcon A Time Of War 242Performance enhancers A Time Of War 321Performance enhancers A Time Of War 318Periphery covert operations A Time Of War 77Periphery force composition Strategic Operations 331Periphery lance organization Strategic Operations 335Periphery random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 52Periphery tour of duty A Time Of War 80Periphery A Time Of War 30Periphery A Time Of War 24Periphery Strategic Operations 10Permanent effect A Time Of War 194Permanent movement penalties Strategic Operations 357Personal armor degradation A Time Of War 186Personal armor repairs A Time Of War 259Personal armor stacking A Time Of War 188-89Personal armor A Time Of War 288-89Personal armor A Time Of War 185Personal armor A Time Of War 165Personal combat resolution A Time Of War 171

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Personal combat rules A Time Of War 189-92Personal combat weapons A Time Of War 211Personal data A Time Of War 37Personal hit locations A Time Of War 201Personal protective equipment A Time Of War 287-98Personal re-entry unit Strategic Operations 26Personal unit readying for deployment Strategic Operations 44Personal vehicles A Time Of War 324-25Personal vehicles A Time Of War 323Personal vehicles A Time Of War 321Personnel availability Strategic Operations 181Petty officer A Time Of War 357Phenotype A Time Of War 121-22Phenotype A Time Of War 30Phobias Strategic Operations 258Physical attack against VTOL vehicles table Total Warfare 198Physical attack heat damage modifiers Total Warfare 110Physical attack inside buildings Total Warfare 171Physical attack modifiers table Total Warfare 144Physical attack multiple targets modifier Total Warfare 110Physical attack phase Total Warfare 38Physical attack phase: piloting skill Total Warfare 61Physical attack ProtoMechs Total Warfare 186Physical attack VTOL Total Warfare 198Physical attack Total Warfare 144-45Physical attack Total Warfare 275Physical attacks direction Strategic Operations 229Physical attacks miniatures Strategic Operations 407-9Physical attacks miniatures Strategic Operations 396Physical attacks modifiers Strategic Operations 406Physical attacks modifiers Strategic Operations 283Physical attacks opportunity fire Tactical Operations 87Physical attacks simultaneous movement and Tactical Operations 216Physical attacks weapon Strategic Operations 396Physical attacks A Time Of War 218Physical attacks Strategic Operations 231-33Physical combat addendum table Tactical Operations 89Physical combat attack types Tactical Operations 88-91Physical combat charging Tactical Operations 91Physical combat death from above Tactical Operations 91

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Physical combat intentional falls from above Tactical Operations 91Physical combat new weapons Tactical Operations 88Physical combat weight class modifiers Tactical Operations 88Physical defense Tactical Operations 20Physical weapon dropping/setting down Tactical Operations 98Physical weapon picking up Tactical Operations 92-93Physical weapon throwing Tactical Operations 95Physical weapon Tactical Operations 89Physical weapon attacks table Total Warfare 146Pick pocket A Time Of War 152Picking up battle armor Tactical Operations 97-98Picking up inanimate objects Tactical Operations 92-95Picking up throwing objects Tactical Operations 92-99Picking up vehicles Tactical Operations 96-97Pilot abilities A Time Of War 222-24Pilot abilities A Time Of War 219Pilot aerospace skill field A Time Of War 84Pilot aerospace skill field A Time Of War 82Pilot aircraft skill field A Time Of War 83-84Pilot battle armor skill field A Time Of War 84Pilot crew accommodations-fighters TechManual 188–89Pilot damage A Time Of War 217-218Pilot data TechManual 28Pilot data TechManual 25Pilot data Total Warfare 28Pilot DropShip skill field A Time Of War 83Pilot exoskeleton skill field A Time Of War 83Pilot hit: VTOL Total Warfare 197Pilot IndustrialMech skill field A Time Of War 83Pilot JumpShip skill field A Time Of War 83Pilot special abilities A Time Of War 219-25Pilot tactical combat abilities A Time Of War 219-25Pilot WarShip skill field A Time Of War 84Pilot A Time Of War 151-52Pilot(s) crew on standby Strategic Operations 71Pilot(s) data Strategic Operations 12Pilot(s) generation/assignment Strategic Operations 334Pilot(s) hits-aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Pilot(s) hits-ProtoMech Strategic Operations 177Piloting skill conversions Strategic Operations 354

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Piloting skill fighter squadron Strategic Operations 29-30Piloting skill miniatures Strategic Operations 391Piloting skill tactical fuel efficiency and Strategic Operations 34Piloting skill roll table Total Warfare 60Piloting skill rolls Total Warfare 59-61Piloting skill Total Warfare 42Piloting skill Total Warfare 40Piloting skill Total Warfare 39Piloting skill rolls Tactical Operations 23-24Pilots transport bays Tactical Operations 218Pin vise Total Warfare 290Pinning Total Warfare 293Pintle mount TechManual 235Pintles advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 154Pintles Tactical Operations 267Pintles Tactical Operations 255Pintles TechManual 137Pirates random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 57Pirates random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 55Pistols TechManual 273Pitch black Tactical Operations 58Planetary assaults/combat operations Strategic Operations 249-50Planetary assaults/combat operations Strategic Operations 206-7Planetary conditions artillery Tactical Operations 186Planetary conditions artillery Tactical Operations 181Planetary conditions assigning Tactical Operations 29Planetary conditions atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 23Planetary conditions climbing and Tactical Operations 22Planetary conditions conflicting Tactical Operations 29-30Planetary conditions conflicting Tactical Operations 68Planetary conditions expanded movement cost Tactical Operations 32-36Planetary conditions expanded movement cost Tactical Operations 28-30Planetary conditions mapsheets table Tactical Operations 68Planetary conditions mobile structures Tactical Operations 165Planetary conditions modifiers Strategic Operations 171Planetary conditions tables Tactical Operations 69Planetary conditions A Time Of War 230-38Planetary conditions Tactical Operations 28Planetary surveyor skill field A Time Of War 83Planets A Time Of War 362-73

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Planted fields Tactical Operations 38-39Plasma cannon TechManual 234Plasma cannon Total Warfare 139Plasma rifle TechManual 234–35Plasma rifle TechManual 267Plasma rifle Total Warfare 140Plasma weapon rearming Tactical Operations 214Plasma weapons TechManual 234–35Plasma weapons Total Warfare 139-40Platoon nomenclature TechManual 154Platoon oversized TechManual 153–54Platoon oversized TechManual 146Platoon type TechManual 145–47Platoon weaponry TechManual 148–54Play preparation BattleForce Strategic Operations 238-41Play sequence Strategic Operations 401Play sequence Tactical Operations 220-21Player adjudication Tactical Operations 165Player adjudication Tactical Operations 9Player Character (PC) A Time Of War 19Player group A Time Of War 17Player-designed elements Strategic Operations 281Playing terms Total Warfare 42-43Playing unequal numbers of units Total Warfare 39Playing Total Warfare 36-37Playing area assembly Total Warfare 299Playing area Total Warfare 43Playing sequence Total Warfare 37-38Plot A Time Of War 344-45Plotting movement Tactical Operations 215Point defense weapons advanced Strategic Operations 96-97Point defense weapons base damage Strategic Operations 362Point defense weapons damage Strategic Operations 361Point defense# (POINT#) Strategic Operations 352Point value BattleForce Strategic Operations 238Point value calculations (squadrons) Strategic Operations 327Point value skill level Strategic Operations 238Point value Strategic Operations 213Pointblank attacks Tactical Operations 185Point-blank range A Time Of War 171

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Pointblank shots from hidden units Total Warfare 260Point-blank weapon Strategic Operations 396Point-blank weapon TechManual 148Points-only design system A Time Of War 89-90Poison creation A Time Of War 321Poison resistance A Time Of War 122Poison spray A Time Of War 243Poison treatment A Time Of War 320-21Poison A Time Of War 317-21Poison A Time Of War 181Poisonous atmosphere Tactical Operations 56Police academy A Time Of War 72Police forces A Time Of War 363Police officer skill field A Time Of War 83Police schools A Time Of War 72-73Police skill fields A Time Of War 83Police tactical officer skill field A Time Of War 83Police A Time Of War 81Political education Strategic Operations 211Politician skill field A Time Of War 83Politics A Time Of War 360Poor cooling jacket Strategic Operations 198Poor hearing A Time Of War 122Poor life support Strategic Operations 198Poor performance Strategic Operations 198Poor targeting Strategic Operations 198Poor vision A Time Of War 122-23Poor workmanship Strategic Operations 198Popping up opportunity fire and Tactical Operations 87Pop-up mine TechManual 267Pop-up mine Total Warfare 229Positive quirk Strategic Operations 193-96Postgraduate studies A Time Of War 79Power armor A Time Of War 30Power capacity (P-cap) A Time Of War 258Power management A Time Of War 350-51Power packs A Time Of War 306-7Power usage (P-use) A Time Of War 258Power A Time Of War 336Power amplifiers advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 154

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Power amplifiers mobile structures Tactical Operations 267Power amplifiers support vehicles TechManual 137Power amplifiers turbine-powered conventional fighters TechManual 195–96Power amplifiers Tactical Operations 255Power amplifiers Tactical Operations 131Power amplifiers TechManual 235Power amplifiers TechManual 107Power amplifiers TechManual 74Power collector and microwave transmitter Tactical Operations 337Power collector and microwave transmitter Tactical Operations 336Power generation- BattleMechs TechManual 35Power generators building Tactical Operations 133-34Power generators table Tactical Operations 134Power pack TechManual 268Power systems mobile structures Tactical Operations 262Power systems Tactical Operations 263Power systems Tactical Operations 131PPC capacitor Strategic Operations 361Precipitation A Time Of War 236Precision ammo Strategic Operations 309Precision ammunition TechManual 208Precision ammunition Total Warfare 142Pre-designated hexes artillery Tactical Operations 180Pre-determining satellite Tactical Operations 194Preflight check list cargo and Strategic Operations 42Preflight check list Strategic Operations 71Pre-generated maps Tactical Operations 128Preparatory school A Time Of War 68-69Pre-plotted artillery targets Strategic Operations 286Preprogrammed waypoint launches Strategic Operations 295Preprogrammed waypoint launches Strategic Operations 102Prestidigitation A Time Of War 152Preventative inoculations A Time Of War 248Preventative inoculations A Time Of War 245Primary threshold gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Primary weapons TechManual 150Prime minister A Time Of War 353Prisoners of war Strategic Operations 46-47Private A Time Of War 357Private first class A Time Of War 357

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Probe linked scenarios Strategic Operations 49-50Problem A Time Of War 361Prohibited attacks: swarm Total Warfare 220Prohibited terrain BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Prohibited terrain charge attacks Total Warfare 148Prohibited terrain location after attack Total Warfare 148Prohibited terrain miniatures Strategic Operations 402Prohibited terrain push attacks Total Warfare 147Prohibited terrain skidding into Total Warfare 63Prohibited units anti-’Mech attacks Total Warfare 220Prohibited units dumping ammunition Total Warfare 104Prohibited units high-altitude movement Total Warfare 80Prohibited units space drops in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24Prohibited units underwater movement Total Warfare 57Prone Tactical Operations 21Prone ’Mechs flipping arms Total Warfare 106Prone ’Mechs forward arc Total Warfare 105Prone ’Mechs movement Total Warfare 49Prone ’Mechs physical attacks by Total Warfare 151Prone ’Mechs rotating firing arcs Total Warfare 106Prone ’Mechs specialized attacks Total Warfare 113Prone Mech firing Tactical Operations 85Prone Mech hit location table Tactical Operations 77Prone target attacks Total Warfare 113Proper work Total Warfare 208-11Property administration A Time Of War 123Property trait A Time Of War 122-123Property A Time Of War 334-36Propulsion- IndustrialMech TechManual 68Propulsion- IndustrialMech TechManual 62Prosthetic trait A Time Of War 119-20Prosthetics A Time Of War 314-17Protected actuators Strategic Operations 195Protected crew Strategic Operations 36Protocol A Time Of War 152-53ProtoMech armor TechManual 86–87ProtoMech armor TechManual 205ProtoMech atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54ProtoMech autocannons Tactical Operations 286ProtoMech Battle Value TechManual 306–7

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ProtoMech bay TechManual 240ProtoMech bog down rules Tactical Operations 63ProtoMech bracing Tactical Operations 84ProtoMech chassis TechManual 81–83ProtoMech cockpit TechManual 211ProtoMech cockpit TechManual 85ProtoMech data TechManual 25ProtoMech designing TechManual 81ProtoMech ejection Tactical Operations 196ProtoMech engines TechManual 83–85ProtoMech engines TechManual 214ProtoMech extreme temperature Tactical Operations 62ProtoMech fire effects on Tactical Operations 43ProtoMech gravity damage Tactical Operations 55ProtoMech gunnery A Time Of War 147ProtoMech heat sinks TechManual 221ProtoMech heat sinks TechManual 86ProtoMech hurried movement Tactical Operations 20ProtoMech internal structure TechManual 82ProtoMech jump jets TechManual 84–85ProtoMech jump jets TechManual 225ProtoMech melee weapon Tactical Operations 337ProtoMech melee weapon Tactical Operations 336ProtoMech motive systems Tactical Operations 292-93ProtoMech myomer booster TechManual 232ProtoMech myomer booster TechManual 85ProtoMech partial wing Tactical Operations 380ProtoMech picking up/throwing objects Tactical Operations 92ProtoMech pilot training A Time Of War 79ProtoMech piloting A Time Of War 152ProtoMech R&D TechManual 77–79ProtoMech record sheet TechManual 89ProtoMech record sheet TechManual 25ProtoMech shielding Tactical Operations 19ProtoMech skill levels TechManual 314ProtoMech space TechManual 81ProtoMech structural costs/availability TechManual 279ProtoMech structure TechManual 225ProtoMech technology base TechManual 80ProtoMech terrain displacement Tactical Operations 66

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ProtoMech throwing Tactical Operations 95-96ProtoMech weapons/ammunition TechManual 87–89ProtoMech weight TechManual 80–81ProtoMech A Time Of War 30ProtoMech TechManual 19ProtoMech TechManual 10ProtoMech accidental falls Total Warfare 152ProtoMech anti-’Mech attacks Total Warfare 220ProtoMech assignment Total Warfare 271ProtoMech attack direction Total Warfare 119ProtoMech basements Total Warfare 179ProtoMech charge attacks Total Warfare 148ProtoMech collision avoidance Total Warfare 64ProtoMech critical damage Total Warfare 124ProtoMech damage recording Total Warfare 121ProtoMech data Total Warfare 28ProtoMech destruction Total Warfare 128ProtoMech firing arcs Total Warfare 104ProtoMech flipping arms Total Warfare 106ProtoMech game playing Total Warfare 184-86ProtoMech heat Total Warfare 158ProtoMech height Total Warfare 99ProtoMech hit location Total Warfare 120ProtoMech hit location table Total Warfare 185ProtoMech machine gun array Total Warfare 137ProtoMech moving through buildings Total Warfare 168ProtoMech myomer booster Total Warfare 187ProtoMech other combat equipment Total Warfare 187ProtoMech partial cover Total Warfare 102ProtoMech physical attack Total Warfare 144ProtoMech piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59ProtoMech pilots damage Total Warfare 41ProtoMech record sheet Total Warfare 28ProtoMech stacking Total Warfare 57ProtoMech TAG Total Warfare 142ProtoMech Total Warfare 21-22ProtoMech Total Warfare 49ProtoMech Total Warfare 40ProtoMech transport (PT#) Strategic Operations 352ProtoMech(s) base damage Strategic Operations 361-62

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ProtoMech(s) BattleForce Strategic Operations 238ProtoMech(s) BattleForce Strategic Operations 216ProtoMech(s) conversion Strategic Operations 380ProtoMech(s) conversion Strategic Operations 370ProtoMech(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358ProtoMech(s) damage Strategic Operations 177ProtoMech(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 380ProtoMech(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 231ProtoMech(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175ProtoMech(s) repairing Strategic Operations 182ProtoMech(s) status Strategic Operations 173Prototype Strategic Operations 198Proximity damage miniatures Strategic Operations 392Proximity damage point distance Strategic Operations 86Proximity damage Total Warfare 250Proximity damage Total Warfare 88Psychological considerations Strategic Operations 258Psychological operations Strategic Operations 211Pulse Tactical Operations 84Pulse laser TechManual 226Pulse weapon A Time Of War 214Pulse weapons Total Warfare 143Punch attack Tactical Operations 96Punch attacks Total Warfare 145Punching Total Warfare 151Punishments A Time Of War 363Punitive Strike Strategic Operations 90-93Purifier TechManual 311Push attacks miniatures Strategic Operations 396Push attacks Total Warfare 147Quad IndustrialMech TechManual 67Quad ProtoMech TechManual 82Quad weapon mount options TechManual 171Quad TechManual 166Quad TechManual 162Quad TechManual 47Quality TechManual 111Quality of success/failure A Time Of War 42Quality rating modifiers Strategic Operations 170Quality rating Strategic Operations 166-67

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Quantity-limited items Tactical Operations 268Quarters Strategic Operations 254Quarters Strategic Operations 252Quarters TechManual 236Quick charge failure Strategic Operations 87Quick charge Strategic Operations 87Quickdraw A Time Of War 152Quicksand A Time Of War 234Quicksand Tactical Operations 51Quick-strike rules Strategic Operations 400-409Radar map Strategic Operations 18-19Radar map Strategic Operations 20Radar map Strategic Operations 13Radar Strategic Operations 119Radio triangulation Strategic Operations 118Radiological atmosphere Tactical Operations 56Radius diagram Tactical Operations 183Raid scenario Strategic Operations 49Raider Strategic Operations 10Rail shielding Tactical Operations 19Rail systems Tactical Operations 10Rail Tactical Operations 51Rail (RAIL) conversion Strategic Operations 359Rail (RAIL) conversion Strategic Operations 357Rail (RAIL) Strategic Operations 352Rail support vehicle accidental falls from above Tactical Operations 154Rail support vehicle advanced battle values Tactical Operations 378Rail support vehicle carrying units Tactical Operations 150-52Rail support vehicle charging Tactical Operations 154Rail support vehicle chassis design Tactical Operations 238Rail support vehicle collisions Tactical Operations 149Rail support vehicle combat Tactical Operations 153Rail support vehicle fuel Tactical Operations 248Rail support vehicle movement Tactical Operations 149-50Rail support vehicle unit design Tactical Operations 237Rail support vehicle weight and Tactical Operations 237-38Rail support vehicle Tactical Operations 149-54Rail support vehicle Tactical Operations 51Rail systems Total Warfare 26Rail vehicle driving A Time Of War 147

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Rail vehicle piloting A Time Of War 152Railroads Total Warfare 33Rainfall (light/moderate/strong) Tactical Operations 59Rally to the flag Strategic Operations 307Ram attack damage A Time Of War 218Ram attack A Time Of War 240Ramming meeting engagement Strategic Operations 84Ramming Strategic Operations 96Ramming Strategic Operations 25Ramming Total Warfare 241Ramming attacks table Total Warfare 241Random aerospace assignment assignment Strategic Operations 334Random aerospace assignment assignment Strategic Operations 168Random aerospace assignment balancing with Strategic Operations 311Random aerospace assignment Clan Strategic Operations 53Random aerospace assignment engagement speed Strategic Operations 76Random aerospace assignment experience Strategic Operations 321Random aerospace assignment force generation Strategic Operations 328-29Random aerospace assignment Inner Sphere Strategic Operations 51-52Random aerospace assignment Mech assignment Strategic Operations 84Random aerospace assignment minor states Strategic Operations 56-57Random aerospace assignment movement (advanced vectors) Strategic Operations 66Random aerospace assignment skill ratings Strategic Operations 320-22Random aerospace assignment with target experience rating Strategic Operations 321Random aerospace assignment with target tech ratings Strategic Operations 321Random aerospace assignment with target weight base Strategic Operations 333Random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 50Random binary/trinary type Total Warfare 265Random encounters A Time Of War 340-41Random experience level table Total Warfare 273Random movement table Total Warfare 93Random movement Total Warfare 161Random movement Total Warfare 93Random skills table Total Warfare 273Random weight-class tables Total Warfare 265Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 404-5Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 226-27Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 406Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 360Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 283

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Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 282Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234Range air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234Range base TechManual 149Range extreme Tactical Operations 85Range final TechManual 152–54Range master A Time Of War 221Range modifier-advanced conventional infantry Tactical Operations 12Range modifiers A Time Of War 171Range A Time Of War 258Range A Time Of War 175Range A Time Of War 171Range Strategic Operations 409Range modifier aerospace units Total Warfare 235-36Range modifier Total Warfare 106-7Ranged attack damage A Time Of War 179-80Ranged attack modifiers A Time Of War 172Ranged attack resolution A Time Of War 171-75Ranged attack roll A Time Of War 171Ranged attack special effects A Time Of War 172-75Ranged attack A Time Of War 176Ranged weapons miscellaneous A Time Of War 272Ranged weapons miscellaneous A Time Of War 269Ranged weapons A Time Of War 176Rank benefits A Time Of War 350Rank A Time Of War 123-24Rank A Time Of War 336Rapid-fire mode autocannon Tactical Operations 100Rapid-fire mode machine guns Tactical Operations 102Rapid-fire mode Tactical Operations 84Rapid-fire weapon A Time Of War 213-214Rapid-fire weapons aerospace units Total Warfare 238Rapid-fire weapons Total Warfare 243Rapid-fire weapons Total Warfare 143Rapids A Time Of War 235Rapids Tactical Operations 59Rapids Tactical Operations 50Rat A Time Of War 242Rattlesnake venom A Time Of War 242Rattlesnake A Time Of War 242

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Reaction wheels TechManual 34–35Reactive armor Tactical Operations 282Reactive armor conversion Strategic Operations 358Real life A Time Of War 74-81Real life A Time Of War 52Rear admiral A Time Of War 358Rear arc Total Warfare 105Rear firing weapons TechManual 312Rear firing weapons TechManual 303Rear-firing weapons Strategic Operations 361Rearming Strategic Operations 98-99Rearming Strategic Operations 186-87Rearming under fire Tactical Operations 213-14Recharge rate A Time Of War 258Recharge stations Strategic Operations 138Rechargers A Time Of War 307Recoilless rifle TechManual 268Recoilless rifles A Time Of War 276Recoilless rifles A Time Of War 274Recon (RCN) Strategic Operations 352Recon camera Tactical Operations 337-38Recon camera Tactical Operations 336Recon raid Strategic Operations 50Reconnaissance combat vehicles TechManual 92Record sheet aerospace unit TechManual 182Record sheet basics TechManual 22–24Record sheet battle armor TechManual 172–73Record sheet BattleMechs TechManual 59Record Sheet building Tactical Operations 133Record sheet character and squad combat data A Time Of War 165Record sheet combat vehicles TechManual 109Record sheet combat vehicles TechManual 96Record sheet completing A Time Of War 93Record Sheet concealing Tactical Operations 219Record sheet fighters TechManual 198–99Record sheet IndustrialMech TechManual 75Record Sheet mobile structures Tactical Operations 269Record sheet nfantry TechManual 154–55Record sheet OmniFighter TechManual 199Record sheet OmniMech TechManual 59

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Record sheet ProtoMech TechManual 89Record sheet support vehicle TechManual 139Record sheet support vehicle TechManual 119Record Sheet support vehicle design Tactical Operations 258Record sheet table TechManual 23Record sheet types TechManual 22Record sheet A Time Of War 31Record Sheet Tactical Operations 10-13Record sheet TechManual 22–29Record Sheets aerospace Strategic Operations 11-13Record Sheets BattleForce Strategic Operations 214Record Sheets concealing Strategic Operations 280-81Record Sheets miniatures Strategic Operations 401Record Sheets single-element Strategic Operations 262Record Sheets Strategic Operations 261Record Sheets Strategic Operations 241Record sheets infantry Total Warfare 212Record sheets Total Warfare 26-31Record sheets Total Warfare 11Recovering Edge A Time Of War 43Recovering fighters Strategic Operations 30Recovering nerve Tactical Operations 213Recovering: fighters: small craft Total Warfare 86Recovery fatigue, unassisted A Time Of War 193Recovery levels A Time Of War 193-94Recovery A Time Of War 191Recovery costs Strategic Operations 325Recreation Strategic Operations 252Recruit A Time Of War 356-57Redeployment Strategic Operations 77-78Re-entry table Total Warfare 80Refit costs/availability Strategic Operations 188Refit installation Strategic Operations 188Refit kit Strategic Operations 188Refit types Strategic Operations 188Reflec/glazed armor Tactical Operations 281Reflec/glazed armor Tactical Operations 280Reflective armor conversion Strategic Operations 358Re-forming units Strategic Operations 322Refueling air-to-air Strategic Operations 35

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Refueling drogues Strategic Operations 35Refueling external tanks Strategic Operations 35Refueling in-space Strategic Operations 34-35Refueling cost A Time Of War 258Refurbishment Strategic Operations 189Regenerative cooling TechManual 35Regimental sergeant major A Time Of War 358Regional variation modifiers Strategic Operations 180Reinforced legs Strategic Operations 195Reinforced repair facilities Tactical Operations 335Reinforced repair facilities Tactical Operations 334Reinforced structure Tactical Operations 343Reinforced structure Tactical Operations 342Reinforced structure conversion Strategic Operations 358Reinforcements outside Tactical Operations 204Relativity non-player characters A Time Of War 337Religion A Time Of War 365-66Reload A Time Of War 258Remote sensor dispenser TechManual 268Remote sensor dispenser TechManual 236Remote sensor dispensers (RSD#) Strategic Operations 352Remote sensors double-blind rules Tactical Operations 223Remote sensors monitor table Tactical Operations 375Remote sensors A Time Of War 305Remote sensors Tactical Operations 374-75Remote systems Tactical Operations 305-6Renegade warrior A Time Of War 100Reorganization Strategic Operations 177-78Repair and replacement Strategic Operations 175-87Repair and replacement Strategic Operations 166Repair and salvage check modifiers Strategic Operations 170Repair gear A Time Of War 309-310Repair Master table Strategic Operations 183-85Repair A Time Of War 259Repair Strategic Operations 181Repelling Strategic Operations 290Replacement parts Strategic Operations 178-80Replacement personnel Strategic Operations 181Replacement Strategic Operations 181-82Reposing Total Warfare 294

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Reputation A Time Of War 124-25Request counter Strategic Operations 261-62Request eliminate Strategic Operations 269Request for command Strategic Operations 261Request pool Strategic Operations 261Request reveal Strategic Operations 269Resources A Time Of War 371-72Retractable blade Tactical Operations 104Retractable blade TechManual 236–37Retractable blade Total Warfare 139Retreat Strategic Operations 307Retreat scenarios Total Warfare 257Retreat Total Warfare 275Reunification War A Time Of War 26Reverse gear Tactical Operations 25Reversing arms Tactical Operations 88Reversing arms Tactical Operations 87Reversing arms Total Warfare 106RFL (reflexes) A Time Of War 35Rhinoceros A Time Of War 242Riding A Time Of War 143Rifle (cannon) Tactical Operations 338Rifles TechManual 273Right side arc Total Warfare 105Rim Collection A Time Of War 14Rim Commonality A Time Of War 14Rim Worlds Republic TechManual 14River hazardous liquid pools and Tactical Operations 49River water flow Tactical Operations 52Rivet gun TechManual 247Roads Tactical Operations 51Roads Total Warfare 54-55Roads Total Warfare 297Roads Total Warfare 32Robotic control crew hit/killed Strategic Operations 285Rock cutter TechManual 247Rock cutter Total Warfare 140Rocket launcher Strategic Operations 360Rocket launcher Strategic Operations 309Rocket launcher TechManual 261

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Rocket launcher TechManual 229Roleplaying game (RPG) overview A Time Of War 34Roleplaying game (RPG) power A Time Of War 349-50Roleplaying game (RPG) A Time Of War 16-17Roleplaying game (RPG) A Time Of War 331Rolling Total Warfare 77-78Rolling maneuvers: facing changes Total Warfare 84Rolling maps artillery Tactical Operations 179-80Rolling maps Tactical Operations 214-15Rotary AC weapons Strategic Operations 98Rotary autocannon TechManual 207–8Rotary autocannon Total Warfare 140Rotary tool Total Warfare 290Rotational vectors Strategic Operations 65-66Rotational vectors Strategic Operations 277Rotor damage: VTOL Total Warfare 197Rotor destruction: VTOL Total Warfare 197-98Rotors TechManual 131Rotors TechManual 124Rotors TechManual 102Rotors TechManual 98Rough terrain A Time Of War 232Rough terrain A Time Of War 169Rough terrain Tactical Operations 39Rough terrain Total Warfare 299Rough terrain Total Warfare 32Rounding Armor/internal structure and TechManual 22Rounding costs/Battle Value TechManual 22Rounding down TechManual 21–22Rounding normally TechManual 22Rounding space and TechManual 22Rounding up TechManual 21Rounding weight and TechManual 22Rounding Strategic Operations 213Rounding Strategic Operations 160Routed unit Strategic Operations 297Routine Strategic Operations 258RTC-215M Swiftran TechManual 114Rubble Tactical Operations 39Rubble Total Warfare 297

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Rubble Total Warfare 33Rule levels Total Warfare 10Rulebooks core A Time Of War 31Rulebooks Total Warfare 10Rules art vs. TechManual 9Rules changes TechManual 8Rules choosing Tactical Operations 9Rules fiction vs. TechManual 8–9Rules level Tactical Operations 275Rules fiction and Total Warfare 9Rules standard vs. advanced Total Warfare 10Rules Total Warfare 36Rules selection A Time Of War 33Rumble seat A Time Of War 113Running gravity damage Tactical Operations 55Running A Time Of War 167-68Running A Time Of War 153Running Total Warfare 53Running aground large naval vessel Tactical Operations 160Running aground Tactical Operations 154Rush jobs Strategic Operations 182Sabotage Tactical Operations 207Sacrifice Strategic Operations 307Safe passage Strategic Operations 203Sail deployment Strategic Operations 87Salary A Time Of War 335Salvage modifiers Strategic Operations 191Salvage quality equipment Strategic Operations 192Salvage Strategic Operations 191-92Salvage Strategic Operations 166Salvage arm TechManual 260Salvage arm TechManual 248Salvage arm Total Warfare 142Salvage gear A Time Of War 309-310Sand A Time Of War 234Sand Tactical Operations 39Sandbox A Time Of War 345-46Sandpaper Total Warfare 290Satellite advanced battle values Tactical Operations 378Satellite aerospace space movement Strategic Operations 276

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Satellite attacks Strategic Operations 292Satellite base damage Strategic Operations 362Satellite communications equipment Tactical Operations 194-96Satellite control Strategic Operations 276Satellite conversion Strategic Operations 358-59Satellite conversion Strategic Operations 367Satellite deployment Strategic Operations 276Satellite destroyed Strategic Operations 175Satellite discovery Strategic Operations 276Satellite double-blind rules Tactical Operations 224Satellite firing arcs Strategic Operations 292Satellite firing arcs Strategic Operations 94Satellite hit location Strategic Operations 94Satellite imagers Tactical Operations 338-40Satellite imagers Tactical Operations 195Satellite Record Sheet Tactical Operations 11Satellite stealing Strategic Operations 276Satellite support vehicle fuel Tactical Operations 248Satellite support vehicle weight Tactical Operations 237Satellite type table Tactical Operations 195Satellite unit design Tactical Operations 236-37Satellite uplink establishment Tactical Operations 194Satellite Tactical Operations 148-49Satellite Tactical Operations 193Satellite Tactical Operations 10Satellites Total Warfare 26Savant A Time Of War 338Saw (SAW) Strategic Operations 352Saws Total Warfare 290Scale BattleForce Strategic Operations 215Scale miniatures Strategic Operations 387-88Scale Strategic Operations 401Scale Total Warfare 238Scale Total Warfare 234Scale Total Warfare 76Scale Total Warfare 36Scaled damage building Tactical Operations 126-27Scaled damage building Tactical Operations 124Scaled damage building Tactical Operations 123Scanning Tactical Operations 219-20

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Scatter Tactical Operations 178-79Scatter Tactical Operations 182Scenario creation BattleForce Strategic Operations 242-43Scenarios clan honor Total Warfare 273-75Scenarios determining victory Total Warfare 257-58Scenarios ending game Total Warfare 257Scenarios forced withdrawal Total Warfare 258Scenarios general rules Total Warfare 256Scenarios mapsheet selection Total Warfare 262-64Scenarios movement: retreat Total Warfare 257Scenarios number of players Total Warfare 256Scenarios set-up Total Warfare 256Scenarios type table Total Warfare 259Scenarios types of Total Warfare 258-62Scenarios unit generation Total Warfare 264Scenarios Total Warfare 272-73Scenarios Total Warfare 266Scenarios Total Warfare 43Scholastic options A Time Of War 52School choices A Time Of War 70-71Science A Time Of War 153Scientist caste service A Time Of War 79Scientist skill field A Time Of War 83Scorched-earth A Time Of War 30Scout skill field A Time Of War 84Scout A Time Of War 98Screen (SCR#) attack-meeting engagement Strategic Operations 84Screen (SCR#) launchers Strategic Operations 292Screen (SCR#) Strategic Operations 352Screen launchers Total Warfare 251Scrub A Time Of War 231SCUBA (motorized) Tactical Operations 341SCUBA (standard) Tactical Operations 341SCUBA motorized Strategic Operations 323SCUBA standard Strategic Operations 323Sculpting Total Warfare 293Sculpting tools Total Warfare 291Sea navigation A Time Of War 150Sea tactics A Time Of War 156Sea vehicle driving A Time Of War 147

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Sea vehicle gunnery A Time Of War 147Sea vehicle piloting A Time Of War 152Sea-based minefield Strategic Operations 289Search and Rescue aerospace units Strategic Operations 45-47Search and Rescue modifiers Strategic Operations 46Search and Rescue units Strategic Operations 26Searchlight TechManual 269Searchlight TechManual 237Searchlight (SRCH) Strategic Operations 352Searchlight (SRCH) Strategic Operations 196Searchlights Tactical Operations 57-59Seating TechManual 236Second lieutenant A Time Of War 358Secondary targets: battle armor Total Warfare 219Secondary threshold gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Secondary weapons TechManual 150–52Security (BattleMech) TechManual 42Security officers A Time Of War 81Security systems A Time Of War 307-9Security systems A Time Of War 153Seismic sensors Tactical Operations 222-23Self-destruct sequence Tactical Operations 78Semi-deep snow A Time Of War 233Semi-guided LRM TechManual 231Semi-guided mortars Tactical Operations 374Semi-subsurface structures Tactical Operations 140-41Senior chief petty officer A Time Of War 357Sensor active Tactical Operations 219Sensor engineers Tactical Operations 341Sensor range tables Tactical Operations 222Sensor sheer cliffs movement Tactical Operations 39Sensor spotting Tactical Operations 221-22Sensor standard Tactical Operations 219-20Sensor storm Tactical Operations 61Sensor swamp Tactical Operations 51Sensor terrain displacement Tactical Operations 66Sensor throwing Tactical Operations 95-96Sensor tornado Tactical Operations 62Sensor operations A Time Of War 153Sensor systems BattleMech TechManual 39

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Sensor systems IndustrialMech TechManual 63Sensor(s) damage Strategic Operations 381Sensor(s) damage Strategic Operations 33Sensor(s) engineers Strategic Operations 323Sensor(s) shadows/ghosts Strategic Operations 198Sensor(s) shadows/ghosts Strategic Operations 118Sensor(s) shadows/ghosts Strategic Operations 116Sensor(s) shadows/ghosts Strategic Operations 114Sensor(s) spotting Strategic Operations 280Sensors critical hit Total Warfare 128Sensors ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 195Sensors improved Total Warfare 229Sensors Total Warfare 240Separation limits Strategic Operations 322Sergeant A Time Of War 357Sergeant first class A Time Of War 357Sergeant major A Time Of War 357Sergeant major of the Army A Time Of War 358Setting up BattleForce Strategic Operations 242Set-up concealing Tactical Operations 219Shadow war Strategic Operations 210-13Shape mobile structures Tactical Operations 261Shared technology TechManual 19Sharp shooters Tactical Operations 193Sharpshooter A Time Of War 221Sheer cliffs Tactical Operations 39-40Sherpa Armored Truck TechManual 114Shield Tactical Operations 89-90Shield Tactical Operations 19-20Shield Tactical Operations 382Shield Tactical Operations 291Shield Tactical Operations 288Shielding- fusion engines and TechManual 36–37Shifting gravity A Time Of War 238Shifting winds Strategic Operations 318Ship identification Strategic Operations 75Ship sizing Strategic Operations 253Ship's crew skill field A Time Of War 84Shipyard stations Strategic Operations 138Short range targeting Strategic Operations 323

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Short range Strategic Operations 281Short range Strategic Operations 225Short range missiles (SRM X/X/X/X) Strategic Operations 352Short range missiles (SRM X/X/X/X) Strategic Operations 310Short-range missile (SRM) TechManual 229Short-range missile launcher TechManual 261Shotgun microphone TechManual 269Shots A Time Of War 258Shoulder actuators: push attacks Total Warfare 147Shoulder critical hit Total Warfare 128Shoulder damage Mech Strategic Operations 176Shutdown BattleForce Strategic Operations 237Shutdown unit aerospace units Total Warfare 161Shutdown unit heat Total Warfare 160Shutdown unit Total Warfare 92Shutdown unit Total Warfare 40Sibko A Time Of War 30Sideslip Tactical Operations 25Sideslipping miniatures Strategic Operations 391Sideslipping battle armor Total Warfare 228Sideslipping Total Warfare 67-68Sideslipping Total Warfare 54-55Silver bullet gauss rifle Tactical Operations 314-15Silverfin coastal cutter TechManual 113Simca ambulance TechManual 308Simple actions A Time Of War 166Simple farmer Total Warfare 200-203Simultaneous movement Record Sheet Tactical Operations 13Simultaneous movement Tactical Operations 215-16Simultaneous movement Tactical Operations 220Single attribute checks A Time Of War 38Single-shot (OS) launcher TechManual 261Single-shot (OS) missile launcher TechManual 230Single-shot weapons rearming Strategic Operations 186Single-shot weapons Strategic Operations 360Single-shot weapons Strategic Operations 98Single-shot weapons: heat Total Warfare 160Sinking hex destroyed Tactical Operations 161Sinking rate-large naval vessel Tactical Operations 159-160Sinking ship diagram-example Tactical Operations 162-63

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Sitting A Time Of War 169Sixth sense A Time Of War 125Size combat modifiers A Time Of War 209Size mobile structures Tactical Operations 261Size stacking and A Time Of War 209Size weapon attack modifiers A Time Of War 210Skid modifiers table Total Warfare 63Skidding bog down rules Tactical Operations 63Skidding vehicle Tactical Operations 26Skidding Tactical Operations 23Skidding battle armor Total Warfare 228Skidding ProtoMechs Total Warfare 184Skidding Total Warfare 62-66Skill available A Time Of War 141-59Skill check A Time Of War 40-41Skill check A Time Of War 39Skill check A Time Of War 19Skill checks Strategic Operations 167Skill choosing A Time Of War 140Skill complexity A Time Of War 141Skill complexity A Time Of War 37Skill complexity A Time Of War 37Skill conversion A Time Of War 203Skill conversion A Time Of War 201Skill generation Strategic Operations 321-22Skill improvement (medical team) Strategic Operations 176Skill levels A Time Of War 37Skill linked attributes A Time Of War 140-41Skill modifier conversion A Time Of War 202Skill points-only system A Time Of War 89-90Skill purchasing A Time Of War 81-91Skill rating Strategic Operations 281-82Skill rating Strategic Operations 213Skill specialties A Time Of War 85-86Skill statistics A Time Of War 36Skill target number A Time Of War 141Skill target number A Time Of War 37Skill using A Time Of War 140-41Skill A Time Of War 333-34Skill A Time Of War 258

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Skill A Time Of War 19Skill A Time Of War 18Skill field civilian A Time Of War 82-83Skill field clan military A Time Of War 85Skill field intelligence/police A Time Of War 83Skill field military A Time Of War 84Skill field points-only system A Time Of War 89-90Skill levels TechManual 314Skill ratings Tactical Operations 386Skilled evading Tactical Operations 19Skills advanced conventional infantry Tactical Operations 12Skills default levels Total Warfare 40Skills improvement Total Warfare 40-42Skills table Total Warfare 40Skills warriors Total Warfare 39-40Skills Total Warfare 29Skye Pleasure Craft TechManual 115Slave A Time Of War 66Sleet Tactical Operations 60Sleight of hand A Time Of War 152Slow learner A Time Of War 125Slug thrower A Time Of War 30Small aerospace cockpit Tactical Operations 301Small aerospace cockpit Tactical Operations 300Small arms A Time Of War 264-72Small arms A Time Of War 153-54Small buildings Tactical Operations 118Small cockpit TechManual 211Small cockpit: critical hit Total Warfare 126Small craft advanced aerospace units Strategic Operations 154-55Small craft armor TechManual 191Small craft atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 220Small craft bay TechManual 240Small craft civilian vs. military TechManual 183Small craft conversion Strategic Operations 366-67Small craft conversion Strategic Operations 358Small craft deployment Strategic Operations 78Small craft docking/launching Strategic Operations 254Small craft ECCM Strategic Operations 111-12Small craft ECM Strategic Operations 111

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Small craft engine hit Strategic Operations 231Small craft facing Strategic Operations 221Small craft grappling Tactical Operations 200Small craft miniatures Strategic Operations 392Small craft sensor/FCS hits Strategic Operations 381Small craft structural integrity TechManual 187–88Small craft swamp Tactical Operations 51Small craft targeting capital missiles Strategic Operations 117Small craft transport bays/doors TechManual 196Small craft WarShips Strategic Operations 10Small craft weight TechManual 181Small craft A Time Of War 30Small craft Strategic Operations 67Small craft TechManual 180Small craft TechManual 13Small craft bay table Total Warfare 89Small craft carrying units Total Warfare 90Small craft crashes Total Warfare 81Small craft dismounting Total Warfare 91Small craft evasive action Total Warfare 77Small craft launching Total Warfare 84-86Small craft recovering Total Warfare 86Small craft Total Warfare 24Small craft transport (ST#) Strategic Operations 352Small DropShips Total Warfare 24Small items mobile structure Tactical Operations 267Smoke artillery/arrow missiles Tactical Operations 356Smoke diagram Strategic Operations 319Smoke dissipation Tactical Operations 48Smoke drift Tactical Operations 47-48Smoke effects resolution Strategic Operations 318Smoke grenades Tactical Operations 364Smoke heavy Tactical Operations 47Smoke light Tactical Operations 47Smoke missiles Tactical Operations 371Smoke mortars Tactical Operations 375Smoke resolution sequence Tactical Operations 46-47Smoke A Time Of War 237Smoke Strategic Operations 318Smoke Strategic Operations 310

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Smoke Strategic Operations 309Smoke Tactical Operations 45-46Smoke ultralight trike TechManual 112Sniper A Time Of War 221Sniper Tactical Operations 284Snow deep Tactical Operations 41Snow flurries Tactical Operations 60Snow thin Tactical Operations 52Snow Tactical Operations 60Snowfall (light/moderate/strong) Tactical Operations 60Snub-nose PPC TechManual 234Social general Strategic Operations 307-8Society A Time Of War 362-66Socio-industrial comparisons A Time Of War 366-367Soft terrain A Time Of War 233Solar flare Tactical Operations 58Solaris insider A Time Of War 79-80Solaris internship A Time Of War 72Solaris VII games A Time Of War 80Solaris VII A Time Of War 382-85Soldier A Time Of War 337-38Sovereign A Time Of War 353-54Sovereign's heir A Time Of War 353Space armor Strategic Operations 152Space armor Tactical Operations 252Space atmosphere interface Strategic Operations 23-24Space bombers/bombing Strategic Operations 116Space chassis design Strategic Operations 145Space combat Strategic Operations 393Space combat vehicle TechManual 98Space control systems/crew Strategic Operations 150Space dispensers Tactical Operations 325-26Space drop-for ground units in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24-26Space drop-for orbital insertion Strategic Operations 23-24Space drop-for orbital insertion Strategic Operations 314Space DropShip TechManual 181Space engine installation Strategic Operations 147Space engines Tactical Operations 247Space entering Strategic Operations 273-74Space facing change Strategic Operations 224

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Space fighter TechManual 181Space fuel Tactical Operations 248Space fuel capacity Strategic Operations 148Space heat sinks Strategic Operations 151Space heat sinks Tactical Operations 252Space hiding Strategic Operations 320Space IndustrialMech TechManual 67Space IndustrialMech TechManual 65Space map-ground map interaction Strategic Operations 224Space map-movement Strategic Operations 274Space mines Strategic Operations 289Space mines Tactical Operations 366Space mines table Tactical Operations 366Space movement-aerospace Strategic Operations 224Space movement-basics Strategic Operations 276-77Space navigation A Time Of War 150Space ProtoMech TechManual 81Space rounding and TechManual 22Space structural integrity weight Strategic Operations 146Space support vehicle TechManual 132Space tactics A Time Of War 156Space warfare Strategic Operations 205-6Space WarShips structural integrity Strategic Operations 148Space weapons Strategic Operations 153Space weapons and equipment Tactical Operations 254Space Strategic Operations 293Space Tactical Operations 244Space TechManual 18–19Space TechManual 47Space TechManual 45Space atmosphere interface Total Warfare 78-79Space combat Total Warfare 235-36Space map Total Warfare 75Space movement Total Warfare 76Space stations Total Warfare 26Space turn sequence Total Warfare 78Space Total Warfare 238-40Space Total Warfare 75Space defense system (SDS) attack Strategic Operations 295Space defense system (SDS) attack Strategic Operations 268

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Space defense system (SDS) Strategic Operations 352-53Space navies Strategic Operations 203Space operations adaptation TechManual 269Space ops adaptation (SOA) Strategic Operations 353Space Station(s) aerospace space movement Strategic Operations 276-77Space Station(s) attacks Strategic Operations 293Space Station(s) base damage Strategic Operations 362Space Station(s) battle value Strategic Operations 161Space Station(s) conversion Strategic Operations 367Space Station(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358Space Station(s) crew hit Strategic Operations 285Space Station(s) design Strategic Operations 142-43Space Station(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175Space Station(s) firing arcs Strategic Operations 292Space Station(s) firing arcs Strategic Operations 94Space Station(s) hit location Strategic Operations 95Space Station(s) locations Strategic Operations 139-40Space Station(s) oddities Strategic Operations 139Space Station(s) weight and unit classes Strategic Operations 143Space Station(s) Strategic Operations 137-41Space Station(s) Strategic Operations 63Space Station(s) Strategic Operations 10Spacecraft gunnery A Time Of War 147Spacecraft piloting A Time Of War 152Spaceflight (SPC) Strategic Operations 353Spaceman recruit A Time Of War 356-57Spaceman A Time Of War 357Spacer family A Time Of War 69Special ‘Mech hit location table Total Warfare 175Special abilities conversions Strategic Operations 345-54Special abilities damage Strategic Operations 381Special abilities descriptions/rules Strategic Operations 345-54Special abilities in BattleForce Strategic Operations 342-44Special abilities quick-strike Strategic Operations 409Special abilities Strategic Operations 342-44Special abilities Strategic Operations 213Special case rules A Time Of War 18Special circumstances: ProtoMechs Total Warfare 185Special enhancements mobile structures Tactical Operations 265-66Special enhancements Strategic Operations 151

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Special enhancements Tactical Operations 251Special equipment conversion Strategic Operations 362Special forces operative A Time Of War 340Special forces skill field A Time Of War 84Special maneuvers Strategic Operations 66-68Special maneuvers Strategic Operations 274-75Special maneuvers table Total Warfare 85Special maneuvers Total Warfare 84Special munitions aerospace units Total Warfare 238Special munitions Total Warfare 140-42Special physical attacks Strategic Operations 232Special ProtoMech hit location table Total Warfare 185Special purpose weaponry TechManual 273Special rules Strategic Operations 308-26Specialized attacks mobile structure Tactical Operations 171Specialized attacks Total Warfare 110-13Specialized infantry Tactical Operations 340-41Specialties removing A Time Of War 86Specialties A Time Of War 36-37Specialties A Time Of War 141Specialties A Time Of War 40Specialty ammunition A Time Of War 285Specialty ammunition A Time Of War 284Specialty ammunition A Time Of War 279Specialty infantry Strategic Operations 322-23Specialty surgery A Time Of War 155Specific units: aerospace Total Warfare 251Speed declaring Tactical Operations 25Speed vehicles Tactical Operations 24-25Speed A Time Of War 258Speed demon A Time Of War 224Speed factor Strategic Operations 161Speed factor TechManual 315Spending money A Time Of War 336Spheroid aerospace units deep snow Tactical Operations 41Spheroid aerospace units gravel piles Tactical Operations 31Spheroid aerospace units heavy industrial zones and Tactical Operations 31Spheroid aerospace units ice Tactical Operations 50Spheroid aerospace units landing in planted field Tactical Operations 39Spheroid aerospace units magma and Tactical Operations 37

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Spheroid aerospace units mud Tactical Operations 50Spheroid aerospace units thin snow Tactical Operations 52Spheroid DropShip(s) air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234Spheroid DropShip(s) air-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 235Spheroid DropShip(s) attack damage Strategic Operations 408-09Spheroid DropShip(s) facing Strategic Operations 221Spheroid DropShip(s) firing arcs Strategic Operations 236Spheroid DropShip(s) ground movement Strategic Operations 223Spheroid DropShip(s) ground-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234Spheroid DropShip(s) liftoff/landing Strategic Operations 223Spheroid DropShip(s) space movement Strategic Operations 224Spheroid DropShip(s) Strategic Operations 220Spheroid DropShip(s) Strategic Operations 74Spheroid DropShips Total Warfare 84Spheroid small craft damage Strategic Operations 361Spheroid units firing arcs Total Warfare 104Spheroid units high-altitude movement Total Warfare 80Spheroid units Total Warfare 235Spikes Tactical Operations 291Spikes Tactical Operations 288Splash damage A Time Of War 179Splash weapons A Time Of War 190Splash weapons A Time Of War 175Splash damage Tactical Operations 123-24Sponson turrets Strategic Operations 361Sportsmanship Strategic Operations 386-87Spot welder TechManual 248Spot welder Total Warfare 142Spotters Strategic Operations 286Spotters TechManual 92Spotting phase double-blind rules Tactical Operations 221-25Spray primer Total Warfare 286Sprayer ammunition Tactical Operations 360-63Sprayer Tactical Operations 45Sprayer TechManual 248–49Sprinting A Time Of War 168Sprinting Strategic Operations 270Sprinting Tactical Operations 18Squad cohesion A Time Of War 211Squad combat record sheets A Time Of War 201

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Squad combat record sheets A Time Of War 93Squad initiative A Time Of War 165Squad deployment Tactical Operations 27Squad support weapon TechManual 311Squad support weapon TechManual 270Squad support weapon Total Warfare 229Squadron(s) creating Strategic Operations 326-28Squadron(s) in combat Strategic Operations 395Squadron(s) statistics Strategic Operations 327Squadron(s) Strategic Operations 326-28Squadron(s) Strategic Operations 775SRM infantry attacks Total Warfare 141Stabilizer: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 195Stable Strategic Operations 196Stacked armor A Time Of War 188-89Stacked terrain Total Warfare 49Stacking size and A Time Of War 209Stacking aerospace movement Total Warfare 78Stacking atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 23Stacking death from above Total Warfare 149Stacking ECM effects Strategic Operations 111Stacking expanded Tactical Operations 22-23Stacking failed landing location Strategic Operations 23Stacking infantry carriers Total Warfare 223Stacking inside building Total Warfare 169Stacking large airship support vehicles Tactical Operations 164Stacking large naval vessels Tactical Operations 156Stacking limit-commands and requests Strategic Operations 269Stacking miniatures Strategic Operations 389-91Stacking mobile structures Tactical Operations 168-70Stacking swarm attacks Total Warfare 220Stacking Strategic Operations 219Stacking Tactical Operations 216Stacking Total Warfare 224Staff sergeant A Time Of War 357Stalling Total Warfare 84Stand attempting to Tactical Operations 24Stand careful Tactical Operations 24Stand and shoot Strategic Operations 308Standard (conventional) mines (land/sea) Tactical Operations 366-67

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Standard armor TechManual 252Standard armor TechManual 205Standard armor kits A Time Of War 292-95Standard armor kits A Time Of War 291Standard autocannon TechManual 208Standard gauss rifle TechManual 219Standard laser TechManual 227Standard organization Strategic Operations 333-34Standard organization Strategic Operations 335Standard physical attacks Strategic Operations 407Standard physical attacks Strategic Operations 231Standard PPC TechManual 234Standard repair facilities Tactical Operations 335Standard repair facilities Tactical Operations 334Standard rules Strategic Operations 212Standard structure TechManual 225Standard weapons Strategic Operations 360Standard weapons Strategic Operations 359Standing buildings Strategic Operations 312Standing still Tactical Operations 18Standing still Total Warfare 53Standing up A Time Of War 169Standing up Total Warfare 50Standup fight Strategic Operations 242Standup fight Total Warfare 259Star League A Time Of War 30Star League A Time Of War 26Star League TechManual 14Star League TechManual 9Star weight composition table Total Warfare 265StarCorps Industries TechManual 112Starting positions BattleForce Strategic Operations 242Stat block Strategic Operations 213Static buildings Tactical Operations 128Station-keeping drives Strategic Operations 357Stealth double-blind rules Tactical Operations 224Stealth gear A Time Of War 297-298Stealth modifier table Tactical Operations 223Stealth A Time Of War 154Stealth (STL) Strategic Operations 353

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Stealth armor Strategic Operations 281Stealth armor TechManual 252Stealth armor TechManual 206Stealth armor TechManual 34Stealth armor Total Warfare 228-29Stealth armor Total Warfare 142Stealth armor Total Warfare 131Stealth equipment: infantry Total Warfare 215Steel viper venom A Time Of War 244Steel viper A Time Of War 244Stockpiles Strategic Operations 180-81Storage (cockpit) TechManual 41Storm Strategic Operations 316Storm Tactical Operations 61STR (strength) A Time Of War 34Strafing Tactical Operations 107-8Strafing Total Warfare 243-45Strafing attack(s) damage Strategic Operations 236Strafing attack(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 399Strafing attack(s) Strategic Operations 408-9Strafing attack(s) Strategic Operations 408Strafing attack(s) Strategic Operations 400Strafing attack(s) Strategic Operations 235Straight movement table Total Warfare 84Straight movement Total Warfare 92Stranded ground element Strategic Operations 325Strategic fuel efficiency Strategic Operations 34Strategic intelligence gathering Strategic Operations 211Strategic operations advanced rules Strategic Operations 8,9Strategic Operations A Time Of War 230Strategic Operations A Time Of War 18Strategic operations Tactical Operations 8-9Strategy A Time Of War 154Strategy Strategic Operations 206-7Streak LRM launchers Tactical Operations 327Streak missiles Strategic Operations 360Streak short-range missile TechManual 230Streak SRMs (short-range missiles) Total Warfare 138Street A Time Of War 69Street A Time Of War 66

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Streetwise A Time Of War 154Striking Total Warfare 245Striking attack(s) damage Strategic Operations 236Striking attack(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 400Striking attack(s) Strategic Operations 409Striking attack(s) Strategic Operations 408Striking attack(s) Strategic Operations 235Strong gale Strategic Operations 316Strong gale Tactical Operations 61Structural costs Strategic Operations 160Structural costs TechManual 274–82Structural costs TechManual 285Structural costs TechManual 283Structural degradation A Time Of War 186-87Structural integrity aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Structural integrity damage Tactical Operations 204Structural integrity fighter TechManual 187–88Structural integrity infantry vs. infantry actions Strategic Operations 37Structural integrity values Tactical Operations 242-44Structural integrity weight for Tactical Operations 242-45Structural integrity TechManual 224Structural integrity (SI) Total Warfare 238-239Structural integrity (SI) Total Warfare 75Structural tech rating Tactical Operations 242Structure Record Sheet Tactical Operations 11Structure Tactical Operations 342-43Structure Tactical Operations 382Structure Tactical Operations 110Structure conversion Strategic Operations 379-80Structure conversion Strategic Operations 358-59Stun A Time Of War 179-182Stun A Time Of War 184Stunning successes A Time Of War 41-42Sub-affiliation A Time Of War 52-53Sub-capital cannons Tactical Operations 343Sub-capital lasers Tactical Operations 343Sub-capital missile critical table Tactical Operations 344Sub-capital missile launchers Tactical Operations 344Sub-capital weapons Tactical Operations 343-44Sub-capital weapons Tactical Operations 342

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Sub-capital (SCAP) Strategic Operations 353Sub-capital weapons damage Strategic Operations 361Sub-capital weapons rearming Strategic Operations 186Sub-capital weapons Strategic Operations 359-62Sub-compact K-F drive system Tactical Operations 344Subduing attack A Time Of War 177Subduing attack A Time Of War 175Subduing damage A Time Of War 180Subduing damage A Time Of War 179Sublevels Total Warfare 43Sublevels Total Warfare 31Submarine vehicles TechManual 11Submarines BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Submarines miniatures Strategic Operations 402-3Submarines movement Strategic Operations 218Submarines movement Tactical Operations 154Submarines Total Warfare 56Submarines Total Warfare 49Submarines Total Warfare 23Submarines: height Total Warfare 99Submerged mobile structure Tactical Operations 173Submerged naval vessels: death from above Total Warfare 149Suboptimal worlds A Time Of War 373Suborbital flight times Strategic Operations 69Subordinate unit Strategic Operations 301Subordinate unit Strategic Operations 261Subskills A Time Of War 51-52Subskills A Time Of War 141Subskills A Time Of War 36Subsurface structures Tactical Operations 140-41Succession War Fourth A Time Of War 26Succession Wars A Time Of War 30Succession Wars A Time Of War 26Succession Wars A Time Of War 23Succession Wars TechManual 41Succession Wars TechManual 14Succession Wars TechManual 9Successor States A Time Of War 30Suffocation A Time Of War 181Super large (SLG) Strategic Operations 353

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Super large support vehicle(s) base damage Strategic Operations 362Super large support vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 371-73Super large support vehicle(s) crew hit Strategic Operations 285Super large support vehicle(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 285Super large support vehicle(s) firing arcs Strategic Operations 287-88Supercharger Tactical Operations 382Supercharger Tactical Operations 345Supercharger Tactical Operations 344Superchargers conversion Strategic Operations 356-57Super-heavy vehicle game rules Tactical Operations 378Super-heavy vehicle Record Sheet Tactical Operations 13Super-heavy vehicle Tactical Operations 378Super-heavy vehicle Tactical Operations 79Superhuman skills A Time Of War 40Superior units Strategic Operations 301-2Superior units Strategic Operations 261Superstructure establishment Tactical Operations 128-30Superstructure heavy metal Tactical Operations 137Supplies Strategic Operations 208-9Supplies Strategic Operations 40Support personnel experience Strategic Operations 187Support personnel experience Strategic Operations 168Support personnel Strategic Operations 168-69Support personnel Strategic Operations 166Support vehicle armor TechManual 134–36Support vehicle armor TechManual 206Support vehicle base engine compatibilities table TechManual 127Support vehicle base movement formulae TechManual 127Support vehicle chassis TechManual 118–25Support vehicle chassis modifications TechManual 117Support vehicle control systems TechManual 126–33Support vehicle crew accommodations TechManual 132Support vehicle crew table TechManual 131Support vehicle engine weight multipliers and fuel weight percentage table TechManual 127Support vehicle engines TechManual 126–33Support vehicle engines TechManual 215Support vehicle fire control systems TechManual 132Support vehicle fuel capacity TechManual 128–30Support vehicle fuel capacity TechManual 127Support vehicle heat sinks TechManual 137

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Support vehicle heat sinks TechManual 133Support vehicle internal locations table TechManual 124Support vehicle jump jets TechManual 131Support vehicle lift/dive equipment TechManual 131Support vehicle movement TechManual 116–17Support vehicle record sheet TechManual 139Support vehicle record sheet TechManual 119Support vehicle rotors TechManual 131Support vehicle space TechManual 132Support vehicle space TechManual 120Support vehicle structural costs/availability TechManual 280Support vehicle structural integrity TechManual 130–31Support vehicle structure TechManual 225Support vehicle technology base TechManual 119Support vehicle technology base TechManual 117Support vehicle weapons/ammunition TechManual 136–39Support vehicle weight/size TechManual 119–21Support vehicle weight/size TechManual 117–18Support vehicle A Time Of War 30Support vehicle TechManual 11–12Support vehicle TechManual 111Support vehicle TechManual 19Support vehicle (advanced) armor Tactical Operations 252-54Support vehicle (advanced) control/crew systems Tactical Operations 249-51Support vehicle (advanced) design steps Tactical Operations 238Support vehicle (advanced) design-chassis Tactical Operations 238-45Support vehicle (advanced) design-Record Sheet Tactical Operations 258Support vehicle (advanced) engine installation Tactical Operations 245-48Support vehicle (advanced) hazardous liquid pools Tactical Operations 49Support vehicle (advanced) heat sinks Tactical Operations 251-52Support vehicle (advanced) Record Sheet table Tactical Operations 239Support vehicle (advanced) structure tables Tactical Operations 243Support vehicle (advanced) structure values table Tactical Operations 244Support vehicle (advanced) types table Tactical Operations 239Support vehicle (advanced) weapons/ammo/equipment Tactical Operations 254-58Support vehicle (advanced) weight selection Tactical Operations 240-45Support vehicle (advanced) Tactical Operations 236-37Support vehicle (advanced) Tactical Operations 10Support vehicle(s) advanced movement Strategic Operations 270Support vehicle(s) BattleForce Strategic Operations 238-39

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Support vehicle(s) BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Support vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 371Support vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 358Support vehicle(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 397Support vehicle(s) movement Strategic Operations 402Support Vehicles armor-piercing ammunition Total Warfare 140Support Vehicles carrying units Total Warfare 207Support Vehicles chainsaw damage Total Warfare 134Support Vehicles combat rules Total Warfare 206-7Support Vehicles damage Total Warfare 41Support Vehicles dual saw damage Total Warfare 134Support Vehicles heavy-duty pile driver damage Total Warfare 136Support Vehicles mining drill Total Warfare 138Support Vehicles modifier Total Warfare 110Support Vehicles movement rules Total Warfare 204-5Support Vehicles record sheet Total Warfare 31Support Vehicles rock cutter Total Warfare 140Support Vehicles special maneuvers Total Warfare 84Support Vehicles wrecking ball Total Warfare 143Support Vehicles Total Warfare 48Support Vehicles Total Warfare 26Support Vehicles Total Warfare 25Support weapons A Time Of War 272-76Support weapons A Time Of War 154-55Support weapons TechManual 273Suppressing fire Tactical Operations 87Suppression fire A Time Of War 174-75Suppression fire A Time Of War 173Surface building collapses Tactical Operations 139Surface naval vehicles TechManual 11Surface naval vessels naval combat vehicles Total Warfare 198Surface naval vessels Total Warfare 23Surface-to-orbit fire Strategic Operations 109-10Surface-to-orbit fire Strategic Operations 295Surface-to-orbit fire Strategic Operations 103Surface-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 295Surface-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 110Surface-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 103Surfacing large naval vessel support vehicle Tactical Operations 173Surfacing large naval vessel support vehicle Tactical Operations 155

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Surfacing mobile structure Tactical Operations 173Surgery elective implants A Time Of War 317Surgery limb and organ replacements A Time Of War 316Surgery success levels A Time Of War 193-94Surgery A Time Of War 193-95Surgery A Time Of War 155Surrender Strategic Operations 203Surveillance gear A Time Of War 302-4Surveillance ships Strategic Operations 10Survival A Time Of War 156Swamp A Time Of War 234Swamp Tactical Operations 51Swarm Strategic Operations 310Swarm ammo shielding Tactical Operations 20Swarm attack damage Total Warfare 223Swarm attack fighting off Total Warfare 221-22Swarm attack hit location table Total Warfare 222Swarm attack modifiers table Total Warfare 221Swarm attack table Total Warfare 221Swarm attack Total Warfare 220-21Swarm LRM TechManual 231Swarm LRMs Tactical Operations 371Swarm LRMs Tactical Operations 81Swarmed units: attacks against Total Warfare 222Swarm-I LRM TechManual 231Swarm-I LRMs Tactical Operations 371Swarming Tactical Operations 217Swarming Tactical Operations 153Swimming A Time Of War 168-69Swimming A Time Of War 156Sword TechManual 237Syramon thunderbird A Time Of War 244System defense stations Strategic Operations 138-39System transit Strategic Operations 258-59Tabiranth A Time Of War 244Table reference TechManual 200Tables Total Warfare 30Tables Total Warfare 29Tactical analysis Tactical Operations 14Tactical armor degradation A Time Of War 186-87

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Tactical armor A Time Of War 185-86Tactical combat action phase A Time Of War 206-18Tactical combat action resolution A Time Of War 205Tactical combat action sequence A Time Of War 205Tactical combat addendum A Time Of War 18Tactical combat battle armor weapons A Time Of War 214-18Tactical combat end phase A Time Of War 218-19Tactical combat initiative phase A Time Of War 204-5Tactical combat margin of success/failure A Time Of War 212Tactical combat pilot abilities A Time Of War 219-25Tactical combat special pilot abilities A Time Of War 219-25Tactical combat turn A Time Of War 202Tactical combat weapon damage conversion A Time Of War 211-12Tactical combat A Time Of War 200-201Tactical fuel efficiency Strategic Operations 34Tactical genius A Time Of War 225Tactical initiative rolling A Time Of War 204Tactical intelligence gathering Strategic Operations 211Tactical kill A Time Of War 184Tactical Operations advanced rules Strategic Operations 8,9Tactical Operations A Time Of War 200-201Tactical Operations A Time Of War 238Tactical Operations A Time Of War 230Tactical Operations A Time Of War 18Tactical Operations Strategic Operations 8,9,10Tactical operations Tactical Operations 8Tactical scale A Time Of War 200Tactical skills A Time Of War 203Tactics A Time Of War 156TAG (targeting acquisition gear) aerospace units Total Warfare 238TAG (targeting acquisition gear) Total Warfare 229TAG (targeting acquisition gear) Total Warfare 142TAG (targeting acquisition gear) Total Warfare 131Tainted atmosphere Tactical Operations 56-57Taking control of unit Tactical Operations 216-17Talons Tactical Operations 291Talons Tactical Operations 288Tandem charge Strategic Operations 310Tandem-charge (TC) missiles Tactical Operations 372Tanker A Time Of War 95

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Target in same hex Total Warfare 236Target Total Warfare 42Target acquisition gear Tactical Operations 386Target acquisition gear (TAG) fighter squadron Strategic Operations 31Target acquisition gear (TAG) Strategic Operations 361Target acquisition gear (TAG) Strategic Operations 353Target acquisition gear (TAG) Strategic Operations 309Target acquisition gear (TAG) TechManual 314Target acquisition gear (TAG) TechManual 270Target acquisition gear (TAG) TechManual 238Target movement modifier Total Warfare 42Target movement Total Warfare 108Target number Total Warfare 42Target Number (TN) determination A Time Of War 40Target Number (TN) skills A Time Of War 141Target Number (TN) A Time Of War 19Target size modifiers A Time Of War 175Target size modifiers A Time Of War 172Target(s) hex Strategic Operations 104-5Target(s) modifiers Strategic Operations 406Target(s) modifiers Strategic Operations 284Target(s) movement miniatures Strategic Operations 395Target(s) movement modifier Strategic Operations 406Target(s) movement modifier Strategic Operations 283Targeting active probes Tactical Operations 99Targeting artillery Tactical Operations 180-82Targeting shielded hex Tactical Operations 20Targeting computer TechManual 238Targeting computer ProtoMechs Total Warfare 185Targeting computer Total Warfare 142-43Targeting computer Total Warfare 110Targeting computers Tactical Operations 102Targeting computers Tactical Operations 84Targeting systems Strategic Operations 323Targeting systems (BattleMechs) TechManual 39Tariq A Time Of War 244Taser effects table Tactical Operations 346Taser Tactical Operations 345Taser Tactical Operations 344Taser effects table Tactical Operations 346

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Taurian Concordat random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 57Taurian Concordat random Mech assignment Strategic Operations 55Taurian Concordat A Time Of War 15Taurian Concordat Strategic Operations 17Taurian Concordat TechManual 17TDS (transit disorientation syndrome) A Time Of War 127Team casualty modifiers Strategic Operations 171Team initiative A Time Of War 165Tear gas SRM TechManual 231Tear gas SRMs Tactical Operations 372Tech empathy A Time Of War 125Tech level A Time Of War 254-55Tech requirements readying for deployment Strategic Operations 44TechManual mobile structures Tactical Operations 266TechManual weapons and equipment Tactical Operations 254TechManual weapons/ammo/other equipment Strategic Operations 153TechManual Strategic Operations 8,9,10Technical college A Time Of War 72Technical personnel Strategic Operations 168Technical Readouts A Time Of War 31Technical readouts Total Warfare 10-11Technical team dead Strategic Operations 176Technical team on battlefield Strategic Operations 168Technician aerospace Strategic Operations 168Technician aerospace skill field A Time Of War 83Technician battle armor Strategic Operations 168Technician civilian skill field A Time Of War 83Technician Mech Strategic Operations 168Technician 'Mech skill field A Time Of War 83Technician mechanic Strategic Operations 168Technician military skill field A Time Of War 84Technician type modifiers Strategic Operations 171Technician vehicle skill field A Time Of War 83Technician A Time Of War 157-58Technological sophistication A Time Of War 368-69Technology ratings A Time Of War 255Technology A Time Of War 366-68Technology A Time Of War 360Technology base combat vehicle TechManual 97Technology base combat vehicle TechManual 95

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Technology base DropShip TechManual 181Technology base fighter TechManual 181Technology base IndustrialMech TechManual 64Technology base ProtoMech TechManual 80Technology base support vehicle TechManual 117Technology base TechManual 200Technology base TechManual 19Technology base/rating advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 239Technology base/rating armor Strategic Operations 152Technology base/rating armor Tactical Operations 252Technology base/rating chassis design Strategic Operations 144Technology base/rating control systems/crew Strategic Operations 150Technology base/rating control/crew systems Tactical Operations 251Technology base/rating engine installation Strategic Operations 146Technology base/rating engine types Tactical Operations 247Technology base/rating fuel capacity Strategic Operations 148Technology base/rating fuel tanks/fuels Tactical Operations 264Technology base/rating fuel tanks/fuels Tactical Operations 248Technology base/rating heat sinks Strategic Operations 151Technology base/rating heat sinks Tactical Operations 252Technology base/rating mobile structures Tactical Operations 266Technology base/rating mobile structures Tactical Operations 265Technology base/rating mobile structures Tactical Operations 260Technology base/rating modifiers Strategic Operations 170Technology base/rating special enhancements Tactical Operations 265-66Technology base/rating structural integrity weight Strategic Operations 146Technology base/rating table Tactical Operations 242Technology base/rating unit Strategic Operations 169Technology base/rating unit design Tactical Operations 237Technology base/rating weapons and equipment Tactical Operations 254Technology base/rating weapons/ammo/other equipment Strategic Operations 153Technology base/rating Strategic Operations 143Technology base/rating Tactical Operations 128-31Technology base/rating Tactical Operations 275Technology base/rating Tactical Operations 244Technology base/rating Tactical Operations 237Tele-operated missiles Total Warfare 251Teleoperated missiles (TELE) ECM and Strategic Operations 112Teleoperated missiles (TELE) sensor shadows and Strategic Operations 114Teleoperated missiles (TELE) Strategic Operations 353

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Teleoperated missiles (TELE) Strategic Operations 295Temperature extremes A Time Of War 237Temperature A Time Of War 91Temperature Strategic Operations 315Temperature Strategic Operations 257Temporary configurations Strategic Operations 323Tensions Strategic Operations 258Tents Tactical Operations 116Terra A Time Of War 30Terrain 3-D Total Warfare 9Terrain 3-D terrain Strategic Operations 386Terrain altitude Total Warfare 80-81Terrain base Tactical Operations 29Terrain charging Tactical Operations 91Terrain conditions A Time Of War 233Terrain conditions Tactical Operations 54-57Terrain conditions Tactical Operations 29Terrain conversion Strategic Operations 323-24Terrain conversion Strategic Operations 354Terrain damage-placement Tactical Operations 67-68Terrain difficult or prohibited Total Warfare 48Terrain displacement Tactical Operations 66-68Terrain effects Tactical Operations 31Terrain factor Strategic Operations 323Terrain factor: conversion table Total Warfare 112Terrain features/miniatures Strategic Operations 387Terrain fires and Tactical Operations 45Terrain gale Tactical Operations 61Terrain geyser Tactical Operations 48Terrain height and depth Total Warfare 99-100Terrain height/depth Strategic Operations 225-26Terrain height/depth Strategic Operations 282Terrain ice Tactical Operations 50Terrain lightning storm Tactical Operations 59Terrain LOS Strategic Operations 394Terrain meteor showers Tactical Operations 56Terrain miniatures Strategic Operations 401Terrain mobile structures Tactical Operations 167Terrain modifications Tactical Operations 40-53Terrain modifications Tactical Operations 29

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Terrain modifiers Strategic Operations 406Terrain modifiers Strategic Operations 283Terrain modifiers Total Warfare 108-9Terrain movement Strategic Operations 402Terrain movement damage Tactical Operations 65Terrain orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 106Terrain preparation Total Warfare 295-97Terrain rules Tactical Operations 64-68Terrain rules: stacking Total Warfare 57Terrain salvage Strategic Operations 191Terrain skidding into Total Warfare 63Terrain storm Tactical Operations 61Terrain Terran System navigation Strategic Operations 132-33Terrain tornado Tactical Operations 62Terrain types A Time Of War 230-31Terrain A Time Of War 200-201Terrain A Time Of War 169-70Terrain A Time Of War 32Terrain Total Warfare 299Terran Alliance A Time Of War 25Terran Hegemony affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 62Terran Hegemony covert operations A Time Of War 76Terran Hegemony A Time Of War 25-26Terran Hegemony A Time Of War 30Terran Hegemony TechManual 14Terrestrial creatures A Time Of War 241-42Tharkad TechManual 14Thick-skinned A Time Of War 125-26Thick-skinned A Time Of War 237Think tank A Time Of War 80Thin-skinned A Time Of War 237Thin-skinned A Time Of War 126Thrashing attack Total Warfare 151Thresholds gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Throwing battle armor Tactical Operations 98Throwing capabilities Tactical Operations 92Throwing distance table Tactical Operations 92Throwing objects-inanimate Tactical Operations 94-95Throwing vehicle Tactical Operations 97Throwing Mechs/ProtoMechs Tactical Operations 95-96

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Thrown weapons A Time Of War 158Thrust expending Tactical Operations 200Thrust points-aerospace atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 220Thrust points-lost Strategic Operations 381Thrust points-space movement Strategic Operations 224Thrust rating Strategic Operations 24Thrust points A Time Of War 206Thrust points Total Warfare 76Thruster Total Warfare 240Thruster damage/hit Strategic Operations 380-81Thruster damage/hit Strategic Operations 231Thruster damage/hit Strategic Operations 33Thrusters Tactical Operations 149Thug A Time Of War 337Thumper Tactical Operations 284Thunder artillery/arrow missiles Tactical Operations 357Thunder bombs Tactical Operations 360Thunder LRMs Tactical Operations 372-73Thunder Strategic Operations 309-10Thunder bombs Strategic Operations 309Thunder LRM TechManual 231Thunderbolt missile launcher Tactical Operations 347Thunderbolt missile launcher Tactical Operations 346Tiered skill A Time Of War 148-50Tiered skill A Time Of War 144-45Tiered skill A Time Of War 152Tiered skill A Time Of War 141Tiered skill A Time Of War 37Time limit plotting movement Tactical Operations 215Time of War: A Total Warfare 14-19Title benefits A Time Of War 350Title rank equivalency A Time Of War 355Title A Time Of War 126-27To-hit modifiers support vehicles Total Warfare 206To-hit modifiers VTOL Total Warfare 196-97To-hit modifiers WIGE Total Warfare 199To-hit modifiers Total Warfare 106-10To-hit number air-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234To-hit number air-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 409To-hit number air-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 235

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To-hit number attacks in space Strategic Operations 236To-hit number bombing Strategic Operations 409To-hit number determination Strategic Operations 405To-hit number determination Strategic Operations 282To-hit number ground-to-air attacks Strategic Operations 234To-hit number ground-to-ground attacks Strategic Operations 234To-hit number modifiers Strategic Operations 406To-hit number modifiers Strategic Operations 361To-hit number roll Strategic Operations 408To-hit number roll Strategic Operations 405To-hit number roll Strategic Operations 284To-hit number roll Strategic Operations 232To-hit number roll Strategic Operations 228To-hit number Strategic Operations 227-28To-hit number Strategic Operations 408To-hit number Strategic Operations 232To-hit roll Total Warfare 114-16Tonnage-based items Tactical Operations 267Tools (IndustrialMech) TechManual 63Tools of the trade A Time Of War 255Top-down collapse building Tactical Operations 122Tornado diagram Strategic Operations 317Tornado F1-F3 Tactical Operations 61-62Tornado F4+ Tactical Operations 62Tornado force Strategic Operations 316Tornado Strategic Operations 316Torpedo (TOR) bombs Strategic Operations 309Torpedo (TOR) Strategic Operations 359-60Torpedo (TOR) Strategic Operations 353Torpedo bombs Tactical Operations 360Torpedo launcher TechManual 230Torpedo launchers Total Warfare 138Torpedoes TechManual 262Torrent Tactical Operations 59Torrent Tactical Operations 52Torrential downpour Tactical Operations 59Torso critical hit Total Warfare 126Torso destruction Total Warfare 121-22Torso hits Total Warfare 124-25Torso twist Total Warfare 37

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Torso Total Warfare 98-99Torso Total Warfare 186Torso Total Warfare 38Torso-mounted cockpit Tactical Operations 301Torso-mounted cockpit Tactical Operations 300Tortuga Dominions A Time Of War 15Total Warfare piloting/gunnery skills Strategic Operations 354Total Warfare template conversion Strategic Operations 356Total Warfare A Time Of War 230-231Total Warfare A Time Of War 200-202Total Warfare A Time Of War 219Total Warfare A Time Of War 18Total Warfare Strategic Operations 8,9,10,213,386Total Warfare Strategic Operations 386Total Warfare Strategic Operations 213Total Warfare (TW) TechManual 68Total Warfare (TW) TechManual 64Total Warfare (TW) TechManual 44Total Warfare (TW) TechManual 9Total Warfare (TW) TechManual 8Toughness A Time Of War 184Toughness A Time Of War 127Tour of duty A Time Of War 80-81Towing Strategic Operations 277Toxic atmosphere Tactical Operations 56-57Toxic/tainted atmosphere troops Tactical Operations 351Toxic/tainted atmosphere troops Tactical Operations 350TP rating for squadron Strategic Operations 326Trace atmosphere Tactical Operations 54Trace taints A Time Of War 238Tracer ammo Strategic Operations 309Tracer autocannon ammo Tactical Operations 353Tracked vehicle movement TechManual 94–95Tracked vehicle support TechManual 11Tracked vehicle TechManual 116Tracked vehicle TechManual 114Tracked vehicle TechManual 10Tracked vehicle Total Warfare 25Tracked vehicle Total Warfare 22Tracked/wheeled movement Strategic Operations 218

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Tracked-based infantry TechManual 145Tracking A Time Of War 158-59Tracking A Time Of War 240Tracking systems Strategic Operations 323Tracks TechManual 249Tracks Total Warfare 143Tractor/trailer detachment engine requirements of Tactical Operations 247Tractor/trailer detachment Tactical Operations 149Tractor/trailer vehicle TechManual 98–99Tractor/trailer vehicle TechManual 126Tractor/trailer vehicle TechManual 101Tractors Total Warfare 205Trade school A Time Of War 72Trailer hitch Strategic Operations 196Trailers stacking Total Warfare 57Trailers Total Warfare 205Training animals A Time Of War 143Training rating A Time Of War 141Training A Time Of War 334Training A Time Of War 159Trait character and vehicle A Time Of War 106Trait damage effects A Time Of War 184Trait descriptions A Time Of War 108-29Trait master list A Time Of War 107Trait multiple A Time Of War 107Trait points A Time Of War 106Trait points-only system A Time Of War 89Trait positive/negative/flexible A Time Of War 106-7Trait purchasing A Time Of War 81-91Trait A Time Of War 18-19Trait A Time Of War 201-2Trait A Time Of War 351Trait A Time Of War 333Transit times Strategic Operations 68-70Transit times Strategic Operations 133Transport bays TechManual 239–40Transport bays/doors (advanced aerospace units) Strategic Operations 155-57Transport combat vehicles TechManual 93Transport elements (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 238-39Transport ships Strategic Operations 10

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Transport special abilities Strategic Operations 325Transport Strategic Operations 208Transport bay attacks Tactical Operations 189Transport bays/doors Tactical Operations 268-69Transport bays/doors Tactical Operations 217-18Transport bays/doors Tactical Operations 256Trapped vehicles: basements Total Warfare 179Travel A Time Of War 366Travel A Time Of War 81Trees Total Warfare 296Trench/fieldworks engineers Strategic Operations 323Trench/fieldworks engineers Tactical Operations 341T-Rex II A Time Of War 244Trial of possession Total Warfare 70-73Triple strength myomer (TSM) salvaged Strategic Operations 192Triple strength myomer (TSM) Strategic Operations 353Triple Strength Myomer (TSM) TechManual 52–53Triple Strength Myomer (TSM) TechManual 240–41Triple Strength Myomer (TSM) TechManual 70Tripping Tactical Operations 91Trivial tasks A Time Of War 332Troop drops advanced initiative Strategic Operations 63Troop drops atmospheric Strategic Operations 22-23Troop drops BattleForce Strategic Operations 313-14Troop drops for orbital insertion Strategic Operations 23-24Troop drops space for ground units in zero-g operations Strategic Operations 24-26Troop drops Strategic Operations 36-37Troop drops Total Warfare 89Troop types Strategic Operations 202-5Trooper high budget A Time Of War 339Trooper low budget A Time Of War 340Troopers: attack damage Total Warfare 228True random Strategic Operations 333True random Strategic Operations 321Trueborn (exclusive bloodname) Clansman A Time Of War 66Trueborn (exclusive bloodname) sibko A Time Of War 69-70Trueborn (exclusive bloodname) A Time Of War 355Trueborn (exclusive bloodname) A Time Of War 109Trueborn (exclusive bloodname) A Time Of War 30Truly dead Strategic Operations 176

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Truly destroyed unit Strategic Operations 175-76TSM (triple-strength myomer) Total Warfare 143Tukayyid TechManual 14Tundra A Time Of War 234Tundra Tactical Operations 40Tunnels Tactical Operations 141Turn aside Strategic Operations 80Turn modes-vehicles Tactical Operations 25Turning A Time Of War 169Turning in place A Time Of War 169Turret blown off : ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 195Turret destruction-large naval vessels Tactical Operations 159Turret grabbing Tactical Operations 90Turret hits: ground combat vehicles Total Warfare 192Turret jam Tactical Operations 120Turret jam: ground combat vehicle Total Warfare 195Turret jam-mobile structure Tactical Operations 172Turret locks Tactical Operations 120Turret locks-mobile structure Tactical Operations 172Turret mobile structure Tactical Operations 267Turret mobile structure Tactical Operations 171Turret rotation Total Warfare 98-99Turret structural integrity values Tactical Operations 244Turret twist Total Warfare 37Turret Tactical Operations 347-48Turret Tactical Operations 382Turret Tactical Operations 255Turret TechManual 137Turret TechManual 124Turret TechManual 107Turret TechManual 98Turret Total Warfare 38Turret (TUR) Advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 154Turret (TUR) mobile structures Strategic Operations 360Turret (TUR) non-mobile structures Strategic Operations 360Turret (TUR) Strategic Operations 353-54Turret gunnery A Time Of War 147Turret mount TechManual 263Turret mount TechManual 262Turret mount TechManual 240

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Two Seconds Strategic Operations 382-85Ultra AC weapons Strategic Operations 98Ultra autocannon TechManual 208Ultra autocannons Strategic Operations 360Ultra-heavy woods A Time Of War 231Ultra-light BattleMechs Tactical Operations 378UMU MP Total Warfare 225Unarmed melee damage A Time Of War 180Unattractive A Time Of War 128Unbalanced Strategic Operations 198Unconscious A Time Of War 179Unconscious unit piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59Unconscious unit Total Warfare 40Underdeveloped worlds A Time Of War 371Underground building collapses Tactical Operations 139Underground/underwater building collapse Tactical Operations 139Underwater attacks Total Warfare 102Underwater dumping ammunition Total Warfare 104Underwater movement Total Warfare 56-57Underwater MP Total Warfare 57Underwater operations: plasma weapons Total Warfare 139Underwater range table Total Warfare 107Underwater units: damage Total Warfare 121Underwater combat building collapses Tactical Operations 139Underwater combat extreme depths Tactical Operations 42-43Underwater combat structures Tactical Operations 140-41Underwater combat Tactical Operations 224Underwater maneuvering unit (UMU) conversion Strategic Operations 357Underwater maneuvering unit (UMU) Strategic Operations 354Underwater Maneuvering Units (UMUs) TechManual 270Underwater Maneuvering Units (UMUs) TechManual 167Underwater Maneuvering Units (UMUs) TechManual 165Underwater movement miniatures Strategic Operations 403Underwater movement Strategic Operations 219Undeveloped worlds A Time Of War 371Undocking Strategic Operations 67Uni CargoMech TechManual 305–6Unit cost/ Battle Value TechManual 21Unit data TechManual 22–23Unit data TechManual 28

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Unit space (critical) TechManual 18–19Unit technology base TechManual 19Unit type modifier TechManual 316Unit weight/mass TechManual 18Unit TechManual 9–13Unit assignment tables A Time Of War 130-35Unit data satellite Tactical Operations 11Unit design (advanced) support vehicles Tactical Operations 236-38Unit design (advanced) technology base Tactical Operations 237Unit design (advanced) weight Tactical Operations 237-38Unit design (advanced) Tactical Operations 236-69Unit destruction large naval vessel Tactical Operations 159-63Unit displacement mobile structures Tactical Operations 173Unit size volume A Time Of War 208Unit(s) data-aerospace units Strategic Operations 12Unit(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 396Unit(s) detaching Strategic Operations 267Unit(s) details-BattleForce Strategic Operations 214Unit(s) displacement-miniatures Strategic Operations 396Unit(s) heights Strategic Operations 225Unit(s) identification Strategic Operations 280Unit(s) limitations-BattleForce Strategic Operations 239-40Unit(s) maintenance worksheet Strategic Operations 13Unit(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 387Unit(s) quality Strategic Operations 167Unit(s) recovery time table Strategic Operations 191Unit(s) re-forming Strategic Operations 267Unit(s) splitting Strategic Operations 267Unit(s) symbology Strategic Operations 339Unit(s) weight/size class (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 241Unit(s) Strategic Operations 213Units carrying battle armor- attacks on Tactical Operations 98Units carrying vehicles-attacks on Tactical Operations 97Units planetary conditions and Tactical Operations 29Units type modifiers table Tactical Operations 381Units carrying Total Warfare 207Units destruction Total Warfare 128Units displacement Total Warfare 151-53Units heights stacking Total Warfare 58Units heights table Total Warfare 99

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Units rules: stacking Total Warfare 57Units skidding Total Warfare 63Units unequal numbers of Total Warfare 39Units Total Warfare 20-26Universal fixed experience points A Time Of War 52-53Universal Socio-Industrial Level Reference A Time Of War 366-367University A Time Of War 72Unlimited warfare A Time Of War 30Unlucky A Time Of War 128Unprotected crew gravitational effects Strategic Operations 36Unstable slopes A Time Of War 235Un-streamlined Strategic Operations 198Unsung technologies Tactical Operations 227-235Untrained skill checks A Time Of War 39Untrained skill A Time Of War 40Unused weight TechManual 18Unusual targets charge attacks Total Warfare 148Unusual targets damage Total Warfare 148Upper arm actuator critical hit Total Warfare 128Urban terrain A Time Of War 232-33Urban tracking A Time Of War 159Urban combat TechManual 93Urban warfare Strategic Operations 205Urban warfare restrictions Strategic Operations 203Used equipment A Time Of War 257Vacuum sealing Tactical Operations 302-303Vacuum A Time Of War 238Vacuum A Time Of War 181Vacuum Tactical Operations 54Vacuum/trace atmosphere troops Tactical Operations 351Vacuum/trace atmosphere troops Tactical Operations 350Value TechManual 111Variable range targeting (VRT) Strategic Operations 354Variable range targeting (VRT) Strategic Operations 323Variable range targeting (VRT) Strategic Operations 196Variable speed pulse (VSP) lasers Tactical Operations 321Variable to-hit modifiers Strategic Operations 361Variable winds Strategic Operations 317Variable-damage weapons Strategic Operations 361Variable-level traits A Time Of War 107

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Vector-based movement Strategic Operations 277Vegetation A Time Of War 231Vehicle abandonment Tactical Operations 197Vehicle atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54Vehicle Battle Value TechManual 307–9Vehicle bay TechManual 240Vehicle combat Tactical Operations 107-8Vehicle commander TechManual 92Vehicle control systems TechManual 212Vehicle crews Tactical Operations 218-19Vehicle crews Tactical Operations 103Vehicle data A Time Of War 37Vehicle data TechManual 26Vehicle DropChute Tactical Operations 349Vehicle DropChute Tactical Operations 348Vehicle dual turret Tactical Operations 347Vehicle effectiveness Tactical Operations 107Vehicle extreme temperature Tactical Operations 62Vehicle fire effects on Tactical Operations 43-44Vehicle flamer TechManual 218Vehicle gravel piles and Tactical Operations 31Vehicle hull down Tactical Operations 21Vehicle hurried movement Tactical Operations 20Vehicle jump jets Tactical Operations 382Vehicle jump jets Tactical Operations 349Vehicle jump jets Tactical Operations 348Vehicle level A Time Of War 128-129Vehicle minefield Tactical Operations 209Vehicle missiles Tactical Operations 103Vehicle movement A Time Of War 167Vehicle movement Tactical Operations 24-27Vehicle movement costs A Time Of War 207Vehicle personal combat weapons A Time Of War 211Vehicle record sheets TechManual 26Vehicle sheer cliff s movement Tactical Operations 39Vehicle Sponson turret Tactical Operations 348Vehicle stealth armor Tactical Operations 380Vehicle stealth armor Tactical Operations 282Vehicle stealth equipment A Time Of War 218Vehicle turn modes A Time Of War 208

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Vehicle weight class key A Time Of War 129Vehicle A Time Of War 201-2Vehicle TechManual 9Vehicle and battle armor dispensers Tactical Operations 325Vehicle transport (VTX#) Strategic Operations 354Vehicle(s) bat type Strategic Operations 325Vehicle(s) conversion Strategic Operations 365Vehicle(s) damage Strategic Operations 177Vehicle(s) damage status Strategic Operations 173Vehicle(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175Vehicle(s) engine hit Strategic Operations 231Vehicle(s) miniatures movement Strategic Operations 403Vehicle(s) movement Strategic Operations 217-18Vehicle(s) sensor hits Strategic Operations 381Vehicle(s) stockpiles Strategic Operations 180Vehicles anti-’Mech attacks Total Warfare 220Vehicles armor-piercing ammunition Total Warfare 140Vehicles attack direction Total Warfare 119Vehicles basements Total Warfare 179Vehicles CASE damage Total Warfare 134Vehicles charge attacks Total Warfare 148Vehicles cluster hits against Total Warfare 116Vehicles critical damage Total Warfare 124Vehicles damage Total Warfare 148Vehicles data Total Warfare 28Vehicles destruction Total Warfare 128Vehicles displacement Total Warfare 151Vehicles drivers damage Total Warfare 41Vehicles forward arc Total Warfare 105Vehicles heat Total Warfare 158Vehicles height Total Warfare 99Vehicles hit location Total Warfare 120Vehicles infernos Total Warfare 141Vehicles kick attacks Total Warfare 147Vehicles moving through buildings Total Warfare 167-68Vehicles multiple targets modifier Total Warfare 110Vehicles physical attack Total Warfare 144Vehicles piloting: driving skill Total Warfare 59Vehicles rear arc Total Warfare 105Vehicles rotating firing arcs Total Warfare 106

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Vehicles skills Total Warfare 39Vehicles swarm attacks Total Warfare 220-21Vehicles to-hit roll against Total Warfare 115Vehicles turret rotation Total Warfare 99Vehicles water hexes Total Warfare 102Vehicles Total Warfare 222Vehicles Total Warfare 20Vehicular combat action complexity A Time Of War 205Vehicular combat rate of fire A Time Of War 209-10Vehicular combat targeting infantry A Time Of War 210Vehicular weapons attack modifiers A Time Of War 210Vehicular weapons battle armor infantry A Time Of War 211Vehicular weapons missiles A Time Of War 213Vehicular weapons non-battle armor infantry A Time Of War 211Vehicular weapons range conversion A Time Of War 210Vehicular weapons A Time Of War 212-14Velocity aerospace atmospheric movement Strategic Operations 220Velocity record Strategic Operations 13Velocity space movement Strategic Operations 224Velocity A Time Of War 206Velocity changing Total Warfare 76Velocity loss Total Warfare 84Velocity record Total Warfare 30Velocity Total Warfare 75Velocity record TechManual 28Vertical landing/liftoff water landing Strategic Operations 73-74Vertical landing/liftoff water liftoff Strategic Operations 74Vertical landing/liftoff Strategic Operations 72-73Vertical liftoff modifiers table Total Warfare 88Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle battle armor TechManual 164–65Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle equipment TechManual 271Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle movement TechManual 95Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle TechManual 10–11Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle TechManual 117Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle TechManual 114Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle TechManual 91Very large (VLG) Strategic Operations 354Very large element crew hit Strategic Operations 285Very large element engine hit Strategic Operations 285Very large element firing arcs Strategic Operations 287-88

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Very large support vehicle base damage Strategic Operations 362Very large support vehicle conversion Strategic Operations 371-73Very-Short Take-Off and Landing (VSTOL) TechManual 190Vessel data Total Warfare 30Veterinary MedTech A Time Of War 149Vibrabomb minefield Strategic Operations 289Vibrabomb minefield Tactical Operations 367Vibrabomb minefield Tactical Operations 209Vibrabomb minefield Tactical Operations 208Vibroblades Tactical Operations 292Vibroblades Tactical Operations 288Vibro-claw TechManual 260Vibro-claw manipulator battle armor Total Warfare 218Vibro-claw manipulator leg attacks Total Warfare 220Vibro-claw manipulator swarm attacks Total Warfare 223Vibro-claw manipulator Total Warfare 229Vice admiral A Time Of War 358Victory base attack Strategic Operations 50Victory campaign Strategic Operations 49Victory conditions (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 243Victory points (BattleForce) Strategic Operations 243Victory probe Strategic Operations 50Victory recon raid Strategic Operations 50Viscount A Time Of War 352Visibility A Time Of War 236-37Visual inspection Tactical Operations 220Visual range tables Tactical Operations 221Visual spotting Strategic Operations 280Visual spotting Tactical Operations 221Void-signature systems Tactical Operations 382Void-signature systems Tactical Operations 349Void-signature systems Tactical Operations 348Volcanic eruptions Tactical Operations 37-38Volume A Time Of War 91VSTOL (VSTOL) Strategic Operations 354VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) carriers Total Warfare 224VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) carrying units Total Warfare 90VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) combat vehicle Total Warfare 196-98VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) combat vehicle critical hits Total Warfare 196-98VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) combat vehicle hit location Total Warfare 196-98

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VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) crashes Total Warfare 68VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) dismounting from Total Warfare 91VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) driving skill Total Warfare 67VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) large support vehicles: hit location Total Warfare 206VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) movement Total Warfare 54-55VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) MP Total Warfare 225VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) table Total Warfare 196VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) table Total Warfare 196VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) Total Warfare 225VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) Total Warfare 49VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) Total Warfare 25VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) Total Warfare 22VTOL vehicle atmospheric pressure Tactical Operations 54VTOL vehicle blowing sand Tactical Operations 62VTOL vehicle chin turret Tactical Operations 348VTOL vehicle effectiveness Tactical Operations 107VTOL vehicle gale Tactical Operations 61VTOL vehicle jet booster Tactical Operations 382VTOL vehicle jet booster Tactical Operations 350VTOL vehicle mast mount Tactical Operations 382VTOL vehicle mast mount Tactical Operations 350VTOL vehicle mud Tactical Operations 50VTOL vehicle opportunity fire Tactical Operations 86VTOL vehicle picking up Tactical Operations 96VTOL vehicle Record Sheets-Advanced Tactical Operations 12VTOL vehicle shielding Tactical Operations 19-20VTOL vehicle sinking vessel Tactical Operations 160VTOL vehicle special attacks Tactical Operations 107-8VTOL vehicle storm Tactical Operations 61VTOL vehicle swamp Tactical Operations 51VTOL vehicle tornado Tactical Operations 62VTOL vehicle A Time Of War 30VTOL(s) atmospheric drops Strategic Operations 22VTOL(s) bombers Strategic Operations 290VTOL(s) conversion Strategic Operations 357VTOL(s) in BattleForce Strategic Operations 216VTOL(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 402-03VTOL(s) movement Strategic Operations 218VTOL(s) rotor arrangement Strategic Operations 196VTOL(s) strafing Strategic Operations 290

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Walking A Time Of War 167Walking Total Warfare 53Walls Strategic Operations 313Walls Tactical Operations 129Walls Tactical Operations 116War and Its Makers Strategic Operations 200-211War orphan A Time Of War 66Warfare rules Strategic Operations 202-3Warfare Symbology Strategic Operations 336-41Warm status engine Strategic Operations 72Warrior data advanced Mech Tactical Operations 12Warrior data TechManual 24Warriors A Time Of War 201Warriors consciousness table Total Warfare 42Warriors data Total Warfare 27Warriors Total Warfare 39-42Warriors Total Warfare 39-42WarShip A Time Of War 30WarShip A Time Of War 26WarShip(s) aerospace space movement Strategic Operations 277WarShip(s) base damage Strategic Operations 362WarShip(s) battle value Strategic Operations 161WarShip(s) charging drive outside game play Strategic Operations 87-88WarShip(s) conversion Strategic Operations 373-74WarShip(s) crew hit Strategic Operations 285WarShip(s) design Strategic Operations 143WarShip(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 175WarShip(s) emergency combat heading operation Strategic Operations 113-14WarShip(s) firing arcs Strategic Operations 94WarShip(s) hit location Strategic Operations 95WarShip(s) K-F jump capability Strategic Operations 148-49WarShip(s) modifiers Strategic Operations 172WarShip(s) operations Strategic Operations 246WarShip(s) rearming Strategic Operations 99WarShip(s) structural integrity Strategic Operations 148WarShip(s) weight and unit classes Strategic Operations 143WarShip(s) Strategic Operations 126-30WarShip(s) Strategic Operations 293WarShip(s) Strategic Operations 293WarShip(s) Strategic Operations 63

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WarShip(s) Strategic Operations 10WarShips TechManual 14WarShips Total Warfare 26Washes Total Warfare 286-87Waste systems TechManual 41Watch cycles Strategic Operations 251Watchdog (WAT) Strategic Operations 354Watchdog composite electronic warfare system (CEWS) Tactical Operations 278Water depth Strategic Operations 226Water in BattleForce Strategic Operations 216Water landing/liftoff Strategic Operations 73-74Water miniatures Strategic Operations 393Water miniatures movement Strategic Operations 402Water movement Strategic Operations 273Water orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 106Water A Time Of War 372-73Water A Time Of War 232Water Strategic Operations 257Water active probe Total Warfare 129Water airships Tactical Operations 164Water ammo Tactical Operations 362-63Water artillery Tactical Operations 184Water battlefield wreckage Tactical Operations 187Water crashes Total Warfare 81Water ejection Tactical Operations 197Water engine explosion Tactical Operations 78Water heat Total Warfare 159Water hexes Total Warfare 48Water hurried movement Tactical Operations 21Water intervening terrain Total Warfare 100Water movement Total Warfare 55Water physical attack Total Warfare 144Water skidding into Total Warfare 63Water swarm attack Total Warfare 222Water Total Warfare 296-97Water Total Warfare 102Water Total Warfare 100Water Total Warfare 53Water Total Warfare 32Water flow large naval vessel Tactical Operations 160

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Water flow Tactical Operations 52-53Water flow Tactical Operations 50Water hexes gale Tactical Operations 61Water hexes hazardous liquid pools Tactical Operations 49Water hexes storm Tactical Operations 61Water hexes tornado Tactical Operations 62Water mobile structure carrying units Tactical Operations 170Water mobile structure collisions Tactical Operations 167Water mobile structure line of sight Tactical Operations 171Water mobile structure Tactical Operations 165Water mobile structure collisions Tactical Operations 167Waves A Time Of War 235Weak head armor Strategic Operations 198Weak legs Strategic Operations 198Weak undercarriage Strategic Operations 198Wealth resource A Time Of War 111Wealth trait A Time Of War 91-92Wealth A Time Of War 128-129Wealth A Time Of War 334-36Weapon accessories A Time Of War 285-86Weapon advanced Tactical Operations 380-85Weapon advanced firing Tactical Operations 84Weapon advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 254Weapon attack modifiers A Time Of War 210Weapon damage conversion, tactical combat A Time Of War 211-12Weapon destroyed Tactical Operations 121Weapon heavy and capital Tactical Operations 131Weapon light and medium Tactical Operations 131Weapon malfunction Tactical Operations 121Weapon mobile structures Tactical Operations 266-67Weapon range conversion A Time Of War 210Weapon resolution dice Tactical Operations 109Weapon specialist A Time Of War 221-22Weapon technician A Time Of War 158Weapon A Time Of War 165Weapon Tactical Operations 255Weapon Tactical Operations 172Weapon Tactical Operations 172Weapon attack boarded units-large naval vessels Tactical Operations 157Weapon attack cargo bays Tactical Operations 188-89

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Weapon attack damage Tactical Operations 83-84Weapon attack dead zones Tactical Operations 79-80Weapon attack double-blind rules Tactical Operations 225Weapon attack extreme range Tactical Operations 85-87Weapon attack fire-deep snow conditions Tactical Operations 41Weapon attack fire-ice conditions Tactical Operations 50Weapon attack fire-thin snow conditions Tactical Operations 52Weapon attack glancing/direct blows Tactical Operations 80-81Weapon attack gravity Tactical Operations 55Weapon attack line of sight Tactical Operations 85-87Weapon attack line of sight Tactical Operations 79-80Weapon attack missed shots Tactical Operations 81-83Weapon attack partial cover Tactical Operations 87-88Weapon(s) advanced aerospace unit Strategic Operations 153-59Weapon(s) aerospace unit Strategic Operations 177Weapon(s) attacks -miniatures Strategic Operations 404Weapon(s) base rating Strategic Operations 160-61Weapon(s) bays Strategic Operations 154Weapon(s) conversion Strategic Operations 359-62Weapon(s) costs Strategic Operations 160Weapon(s) damage Strategic Operations 33Weapon(s) delivered minefield Strategic Operations 289Weapon(s) destroyed Strategic Operations 381Weapon(s) fighter squadron Strategic Operations 28-29Weapon(s) fire- miniatures Strategic Operations 395Weapon(s) FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 190Weapon(s) hit Strategic Operations 380Weapon(s) hit Strategic Operations 231Weapon(s) individual Strategic Operations 114Weapon(s) Mech Strategic Operations 177Weapon(s) miniatures Strategic Operations 396Weapon(s) ProtoMech Strategic Operations 177Weapon(s) range/meeting engagement Strategic Operations 82Weapon(s) resolution/aerospace unit Strategic Operations 47Weapon(s) resolving Strategic Operations 225Weapon(s) vehicle Strategic Operations 177Weapon(s) zero-g ground unit combat Strategic Operations 120Weapon-delivered minefield Tactical Operations 210Weapon-delivered minefield Tactical Operations 208Weapons aerospace BV TechManual 318

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Weapons aerospace classes TechManual 331Weapons anti-personnel TechManual 271Weapons base range TechManual 149Weapons battle armor TechManual 170Weapons battle armor TechManual 161Weapons bays TechManual 194Weapons Clan BV TechManual 318Weapons combat vehicles TechManual 107–9Weapons conventional infantry TechManual 328–31Weapons conventional infantry TechManual 298–301Weapons conventional infantry TechManual 272–73Weapons DropShips TechManual 176–77Weapons fighter space TechManual 192Weapons fighters TechManual 194–98Weapons fighters TechManual 179Weapons IndustrialMech TechManual 74–75Weapons IndustrialMech TechManual 63Weapons infantry TechManual 148–54Weapons Inner Sphere BV TechManual 317Weapons inventory TechManual 25Weapons ProtoMech TechManual 87–89Weapons space TechManual 57Weapons support vehicles TechManual 136–49Weapons technology base TechManual 57Weapons weight TechManual 149Weapons TechManual 58–59Weapons TechManual 20–21Weapons TechManual 201Weapons aerospace units Total Warfare 236Weapons attacks Total Warfare 37-38Weapons critical hits Total Warfare 128Weapons destroyed Total Warfare 195Weapons firing Total Warfare 37Weapons heat Total Warfare 160Weapons infantry Total Warfare 214Weapons inventory Total Warfare 28Weapons malfunction Total Warfare 196Weapons piloting skill Total Warfare 61Weapons ProtoMechs Total Warfare 184Weapons Total Warfare 119-23

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Weapons Total Warfare 113-14Weapons Total Warfare 106-16Weapons Total Warfare 103-4Weapons Total Warfare 240Weapons Total Warfare 238Weapons Total Warfare 149Weather conditions A Time Of War 236-37Weather conditions Tactical Operations 57-68Weather conditions Tactical Operations 45Weather conditions Tactical Operations 29Weight advanced support vehicles Tactical Operations 240-45Weight chassis design Strategic Operations 145Weight FrankenMechs Strategic Operations 189Weight minimum engine Tactical Operations 247Weight minimum engine Tactical Operations 245Weight mobile structure Tactical Operations 261Weight size class Strategic Operations 327Weight structural integrity Strategic Operations 146Weight table Tactical Operations 241Weight unit classes and Strategic Operations 143Weight A Time Of War 91Weight Strategic Operations 355-56Weight Tactical Operations 237-38Weight (mass) classes TechManual 46Weight (mass) classes TechManual 45Weight (mass) combat vehicles TechManual 97–99Weight (mass) DropShips TechManual 181Weight (mass) fighters TechManual 181Weight (mass) IndustrialMech TechManual 64–65. 66Weight (mass) ProtoMech TechManual 80–81Weight (mass) rounding and TechManual 22Weight (mass) support vehicles TechManual 119–21Weight (mass) support vehicles TechManual 117–18Weight (mass) TechManual 18Weight class physical attack modifiers Tactical Operations 88Weight class physical attack modifiers Tactical Operations 23Weight class piloting skill roll modifiers Tactical Operations 90Wheeled vehicle Total Warfare 25Wheeled vehicle Total Warfare 22Wheeled vehicles in thin snow Tactical Operations 52

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Wheeled vehicles movement TechManual 95Wheeled vehicles support TechManual 11Wheeled vehicles TechManual 117Wheeled vehicles TechManual 115Wheeled vehicles TechManual 91Wheeled vehicles TechManual 10White collar A Time Of War 66White shark A Time Of War 242WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect) carriers Total Warfare 224WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect) crashes Total Warfare 68WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect) movement Total Warfare 55-56WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect) vehicles Total Warfare 199WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect) Total Warfare 25WIGE (Wing in Ground Effect) Total Warfare 22WiGE vehicle atmospheric pressure and Tactical Operations 54WiGE vehicle blowing sand and Tactical Operations 62WiGE vehicle bonus MP and Tactical Operations 25-26WiGE vehicle careful movement and Tactical Operations 64WiGE vehicle gale and Tactical Operations 61WiGE vehicle mobile structure and Tactical Operations 173WiGE vehicle mud and Tactical Operations 50WiGE vehicle storm and Tactical Operations 61WiGE vehicle swamp and Tactical Operations 51WiGE vehicle tornado and Tactical Operations 62WIL (willpower) A Time Of War 35Wilds tracking A Time Of War 159Wind condition Tactical Operations 55Wind condition Tactical Operations 54Wind direction Strategic Operations 317Wind direction Tactical Operations 57Wind forces Strategic Operations 316-17Wind shifting Tactical Operations 57Wind strength table Tactical Operations 47Wind A Time Of War 236Wind Strategic Operations 316-17Wind Tactical Operations 61-62Windancer Marine Technologies TechManual 113Wing-in-ground effect (WIGE) movement miniatures Strategic Operations 403Wing-in-ground effect (WIGE) movement Strategic Operations 218Wing-in-ground effect (WiGE) vehicle A Time Of War 30

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Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIGE) vehicle TechManual 117Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIGE) vehicle TechManual 115Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIGE) vehicle TechManual 95Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIGE) vehicle TechManual 91Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIGE) vehicle TechManual 11Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIGE) vehicle TechManual 10Withdrawal infantry vs. infantry actions Tactical Operations 204Wolf A Time Of War 242Wolf on Mountain Total Warfare 44-47Wood-burning generators Tactical Operations 135Woods clearing Strategic Operations 395Woods engine explosion Tactical Operations 78Woods height/depth Strategic Operations 225Woods miniatures Strategic Operations 393Woods orbit-to-surface fire Strategic Operations 106Woods terrain Strategic Operations 387Woods A Time Of War 231Woods Strategic Operations 282Woods Tactical Operations 40Woods crashes Total Warfare 81Woods infantry Total Warfare 214Woods partial cover Total Warfare 102Woods Total Warfare 100Word of Blake affiliations/subaffiliations A Time Of War 64Word of Blake chain of command Strategic Operations 298Word of Blake covert operations A Time Of War 76Word of Blake force composition Strategic Operations 332Word of Blake lance organization Strategic Operations 335Word of Blake random aerospace assignment Strategic Operations 52Word of Blake service A Time Of War 76Word of Blake A Time Of War 30Word of Blake A Time Of War 27Word of Blake A Time Of War 23Word of Blake A Time Of War 15Word of Blake Strategic Operations 300Word of Blake Strategic Operations 17Word of Blake TechManual 17Word of Blake TechManual 14Word of Blake Total Warfare 266Work A Time Of War 364-65

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BattleTech Core Rules Master IndexTopic Subtopic Book Page

WorkMech TechManual 43Worlds A Time Of War 359Wound effects specific A Time Of War 191-193Wounded checks Strategic Operations 45Wrecking ball TechManual 249Wrecking ball Total Warfare 143Xenoplanetary condition-trained troops Tactical Operations 351Xenoplanetary condition-trained troops Tactical Operations 350XL gyros Total Warfare 126X-pulse lasers Tactical Operations 321X-pulse lasers Tactical Operations 319XXL fusion engines Tactical Operations 309XXL fusion engines Tactical Operations 308Yawing Strategic Operations 277Yawing Strategic Operations 66Zellbrigen Total Warfare 274Zero barriers A Time Of War 188Zero-g operations BattleMechs in Strategic Operations 120Zero-g operations control rolls in Strategic Operations 122Zero-g operations defending troops in Strategic Operations 120-21Zero-g operations docked units in Strategic Operations 120Zero-g operations fuel space drops in Strategic Operations 24-25Zero-g operations grappling units in Strategic Operations 120Zero-g operations ground unit combat in Strategic Operations 119-21Zero-g operations ground units in Strategic Operations 24-26Zero-g operations ground units in Strategic Operations 291Zero-g operations ground units in Strategic Operations 279Zero-g operations ground units in Strategic Operations 89Zero-g operations space drops in Strategic Operations 24-26Zero-g operations weapon attacks in Strategic Operations 120Zero-g operations A Time Of War 159Zip lines Tactical Operations 219Zipline drop Strategic Operations 314Zone of control battlefield wreckage Tactical Operations 187Zone of control careful movement Tactical Operations 64Zone of control conversion table Tactical Operations 64Zone of control piloting skill modifiers Tactical Operations 21Zone of control reduction-mobile structures Tactical Operations 165Zone of control Terrain factor Tactical Operations 21Zone of control Tactical Operations 193

Last updated: 2/21/2011