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Operation Revival archives the following alternate deck construction rules based on the "Eras" within the BattleTech timeline see: BattleTech Eras
Rules for "Period" Battletech By: Cabhammer
See the file I added in the files section under rules: BT-Era-List.xls
The purpose of this is to allow players to play BTCCG a little more realistically with relation to the timeline. The card list above organizes the cards which are legal from the following time periods:
3025 (Pre-Clan Succession Wars)
3050 (Clan Invasion)
3055 (Post Clan Invasion, Refusal War, Luthien)
3058 (The Star League, Task Force Serpent, Breakup of the FedCom)
3060+ (FedCom Civil War, Xin Sheng, etc etc)
Use the list to determine what cards are legal for the time period you want to play in. Any card not on the total list may be used in any time period. Any card with the "Clan" keyword may NOT be used in the 3025 period. *Note* In most cases you will be allowed to use obsolete technology in later eras.
Additional Deckbuilding Rules:
1) Inner Sphere decks may have a maximum of 4 of each non-support card in their decks, this reflects that most IS forces never have more than one lance of any given unit.
2) Clan decks may have a maximum of 5 of each non-support for the same reason.
3) Comstar decks may have a maximum of 6 of each non-support card.
4) The Star League decks must have at least 4 Unique Command cards in the deck to reflect the leadership required to hold the alliance together.
5) The Invading Clans decks must have at least 2 Unique Command cards in them to reflect the command elements of an invading force.
6 ) ARDC decks may not use Katherine Steiner-Davion, since she is technically the enemy of Morgan Kell and the ARDC.
7) Cards with the St. Ives keyword may be used in Davion decks in the 3060 time period.
8) You may not use the original card for any ‘Mech that was "Revised" in the CE set (Venom Revised, Spider Revised), you may only use the "Revised" version of that Unit in your decks.
9) I have corrected the dates in the timeline to allow only one copy of any given “Unique” personality in the deck at one time. By using the tables, you will see that Kai Allard-Liao and Kai, Champion of Solaris do not have any overlapping time periods.
Good Luck. I think that 3025 offers the largest challenge, since it has the most limited card selections. Hope to see some period deck designs soon...
-Cabby