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BTech explosives are significantly more advanced than our own. They can even make microprocessors out of explosive, which is a key component of their micro-missiles.

I think it is important having a large mercanry company, the kind that has its own ASF, show up to bolster Earth's defenses for the first arc of the story.

No, that is jump ships. The reason most factions don't shoot down dropships is because they weigh tens of thousands of tons and a dropship's crash is as much the ground's problem as it is the drop-ships. Once the dropship is landed, they can end up threatened by artillery, but that also ends up...

No. The Inner Sphere is not Earth, and its economy, working or failed, reflects this. Ragnorock proofing is the result of interstellar economies demanding that product life span adapt to the pace of interstellar trade. Most planets have the population of a largish city and lack the manpower to...

Rock-paper-scissors: many technologies we have right now were hit with a hard counter so hard that they were completely abandoned for different technologies that were able to overcome that counter. The counter was eventually abandoned since it is not relevant against the new weapons systems...

My conversion of game scale to real scale for btech is long range x5 for effective range and x10 for maximum range. If we reverse this process on the bushmaster, it has a game scale long range of 20 hexes. Which puts it right between an AC/2 and light AC/2 in range, but it lacks the penetration...

I think I need to remind everyone that the game rules explicitly state that all weapon ranges are significantly reduced compared to their "real" performance for the sake of play-ability. While they didn't explicitly say what the real ranges are, based on comparing the AC/20 to a similar boar...

No, you are thinking about 70's computers. You already had the Apple II and IBM PC (the common ancestors of all modern desktop computers) at the start of the 80s. You also had the Atari, Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum in the 80s. Computers are small and you have the prototypes for the form factors...

No, I don't know where the meme comes from but Inner sphere computers are by no means huge bricks compared to modern hardware. The diagnostic computer, which the interprets the output form neurohelmet into something standardized that the mech can understand, is in a removable module around the...

I'm pretty sure the copyright in perpetuity in BTech was part of the mother doctrine. That is one of the things that really killed research.

Honestly, without the mother doctrine lostech just does not happen or at least is a localized phenomena.