
- BGG rank
- BGG #664
- BGG rating
- 7.9
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
- 2–4 players
- 30 min
- Complexity 1.9/5
- 2025

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Battletech: Mercenaries Box Set is an expansion for BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat released in 2024 for 2 players. Its main mechanics are Hexagon Grid and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game.
Whether wet-behind-the-ears recruits or grizzled veterans, mercenaries are the wild card that can tip the balance in combat. These MechWarriors run the razor's edge between immortality and destruction, and possess the elite skills and the right amount of luck to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Will you join an existing unit, or try to carve out your own place in the universe? The Mercenaries box include 8 high-quality, fully assembled BattleMechs, along with 4 vehicles of the same quality. It also includes a primer on the BattleTech universe, rulebook, punch-out tokens, game maps, pilot cards, and Battlefield Support cards. Fully revised Battlefield Support rules offer quick and easy ways to bring the flavor of combined arms tactics vehicles, aerospace strikes, artillery and minefields - to your tabletop, without slowing down the action. Finally, the box includes a campaign allowing you to build your own mercenary experience in any BattleTech Era. -description from Kickstarter campaign Included in the Box: Twelve high-quality, fully assembled (unpainted) BattleMech and Combat Vehicle miniatures Devastator Flea Firefly Caesar Quickdraw Starslayer Ostsol Chameleon two Maxim Hover Tanks two Galleon Light Tanks Two full color double-sided 18″ x 22″ Mapsheets: Scattered Woods/River Valley, Woodland/Lake Area Three punchboard of additional counters 32-page rulebook 24-page Record Sheets Booklet 16-page Mercenary Primer Booklet No One Left Behind, 36-page Fiction novella by Michael J. Ciaravella Eight double-sided MechWarrior Pilot Cards Katheryn Sandoval-Ito / Dana Wulff Fai Duan / Phoenix Marik-Steiner Esther Buscher / Deanna Horton Mylo Zagroski / Mako Inoue Ingo Blumentritt / Sycreeta Melander Pernilla Cederstrom / Rick Derring Kaori Amano / Rhonda Hylton Eduardo Kuchar / Edward Gilebrist Twelve double-sided Alpha Strike Cards Ninety-nine Battlefield Support Cards Heavy-stock reference sheet Double-sided laminated poster Two six-sided dice
Battletech: Mercenaries Box Set supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Battletech: Mercenaries Box Set belongs to these categories: Science Fiction and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Hexagon Grid and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The catalogue lists Battletech: Mercenaries Box Set as an expansion for BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat to use it. Check that your edition of BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.