Technical Readout: L E G E N D S
Introduction - Disclaimer - Page History - Other Online TRs - MISSING information / NO DATA - Return to Cover Page
Light Mechs - Medium Mechs - Heavy Mechs - Assault Mechs - PC Game Mechs - Non-Mech Page - Equipment

History and Contributors

As I've gotten into adding vehicles and equipment and multiple variants of the same units with only minor changes, I've decided to use existing text and table setups. With that in mind, from now on you'll be seeing portions of writeups, tables, data, and more excerpted and modified from those originally published at BattleTech Technical Archive and ChatterWeb. I stress again that anything on TRL is modified, corrected, and usually heavily reformatted from what appeared on those two sites, and that TRL-specific text and data replaces what appeared there as well. Only text formatting and table structures were borrowed, along with minimal-to-moderate data (weapon manufacturers, primary factories, etc.). I just felt it necessary to give credit where it's due, and I remind all that FASA frowns on all of this anyway.

History - Contributors

11 February 2000 - 1992/3 Update Flyer cover art added; Orion IIC variant added. Long "Mentioned Only Once" list added to MISSING page.

24 January 2000 - Wyvern variant added. A few mechs were removed for various reasons. Cleanups, file-size reductions, added artwork, fluff text, Editor's Notes, corrections, etc. to many pages.

12 January 2000 - 4 vehicles added to Non-Mech page; 1 mech each added to Light and Medium.

8 January 2000 - 6 Fluff-text mechs added from TR3060 and Field Manual: Comstar; numerous corrections on other pages.

28 October 1999 - Tons of small updates to the Mech pages - corrections, artwork added, etc., and several new entries as well. Updated Equipment and Non-Mech pages coming soon!

23 September 1999 - Fluff texts for Bombard and Flashfire added (thanks, James!). Will soon weed out fluff-text flyers that actually appeared in TR3057, and will add tons of missing artwork. I do still update the page, just bear with me...

9 August 1999 - Vehicles from the MechWarrior 1st Ed. RPG added, plus corrections and additions to several other pages.

3 August 1999 - Mech file formats updated, mechs on various lists sorted and weeded out; TONS of new vehicles added.

14 July 1999 - Sasquatch fluff added; units from MechWarrior 1st Edition added; 15 dual-cockpit mechs from MechWarrior Companion added, thanks to Jim Click.

6 July 1999 - More Equipment added, and all Solaris VII Boxed Set mechs updated and corrected.

20 June 1999 - 3 vehicles added to Non-Mech page, 2 more items added to Equipment section; MISSING list updated.

18 June 1999 - 8 vehicles added to Non-Mech page. Legendary Weapons and Equipment section started!

13 June 1999 - Early Rifleman added to Mediums, Thorizer and Behemoth added to Non-Mech. Missing List updated; will start adding Legendary weapons and equipment soon.

28 May 1999 - PNT-11K Panther added to Light Mechs, Vedette added to Non-Mech Page. Some cover art added.

19 May 1999 - Non-Mech Page added, starting with Fluff-text variants of TR3060's Donar, Hawk Moth, Svantovit, and Mars - largely thanks to Hedgehogey and Marimmar, who first suggested and later sent in info for this new page. The Non-Mech page covers vehicles and will eventually cover Aerospace and BattleSpace entries as well. Stay tuned! Artwork added to Bombard and Flashfire as well; all mechs for which artwork has ever existed now have artwork - anyone care to draw a DFN-3C Defiance?

17 May 1999 - Artwork added for all 3055-era mechs, plus a few more. Only the 1992 Update mechs (Bombard / Flashfire) are now missing mech and cover art.

16 May 1999 - Major overhaul! Standardized the Editor's Notes and Actuator info for all mechs. Added tons of missing mech pictures, corrected placement and alignment errors, eliminated all <pre></pre> HTML tags to fit more browsers and picture sizes. Corrections too.

13 May 1999 - Added art for 1993 Update Flyer and Solaris: The Reaches mechs. Added Sasquatch to Assault page.

24 April 1999 - Added Word of Blake Grand Crusader, plus Werewolf and Copperhead from Solaris: The Reaches.

7 April 1999 - Added Legend Killer Rifleman (90t, not MFUK's 70-tonner), early CRD-1R Crusader, and Cassandra Allard-Liao's jumping Cestus. Corrected some links and information.

4 March 1999 - Added ComStar Battle Cobra. Very minor corrections. PC Game Mechs need art fixed in many places, but I'm short on time.

4 Februuary 1999 - More corrections than I thought possible; art fixed and added in many places. Frames removed! Layout made friendlier for 640x480 users, though it's still best viewed at 800x600.

11 January 1999 - Added a wad of 3055 Fluff mechs, and began adding the tons of Sourcebook mechs I seem to have missed, beginning with the original Raijin from ComStar SB. Put all the PC Game mechs on their own page; seems to make more sense that way. Last count: 135.

8 January 1999 - Added early versions of Hellhound, Behemoth, and Galahad; removed Woodsman.

27 December 1998 - 122 mechs and counting, thanks to several 3025/50/55 Fluff mechs.

26 December 1998 - 111 mechs, with some Game additions, plus a few Christmas treats! Corrections and new art in several places.

22 December 1998 - 104 mechs now, with the addition of 17 unique mechs from Crescent Hawk's Revenge. Minor corrections elsewhere.

20 December 1998 - 87 mechs (Wildfire, Rifleman-Marik, 3 Panthers, all Solaris VII boxed set mechs). More corrections, additions, pics, fluff, etc. Added a "Status" column to the tables to inform people of a mech's legality level; will begin adding "Editor's Notes" to mech data. 3055 / 3058 fluff text variants (Berserker, Rakshasa, Dragon Fire, Enfield) removed, since they were finally printed officially in RS3060.

13 December 1998 - 72 mechs (Mandrake's Wasp LAM). Corrections, additions, more source pics and fluff everywhere. Wrote an Intro page, finally. Added "frame escape" lines to the bottom of each major page. Opened new GC account.

13 December 1998 - 71 mechs total with CGR-2K Charger and ENF-3R Enforcer. Contributions piling up!

12 December 1998 - 69 mechs (added Marauder IIC-B, Rifleman IIC, EXC-B1 Excalibur, SPT-N1 Spartan); corrected several, added much artwork and MISSING list link; missing dates added; GeoCities account full!

10 December 1998 - 65 mechs after adding AWS-9MA, Epimethus, Prometheus, and pre-Clan Defiance.

9 December 1998 - Uploaded TR:L to GeoCities, announced on rec.games.mecha; 61 mechs so far.

8 December 1998 - Mechs converted to HTML, artwork added, pages created.

7 December 1998 - First fluff texts roll in; added 1/2 the mechs to BattleMech Designer for HTML conversion.

6 December 1998 - Created Cover Page art, began collecting pictures.

History - Contributors - Return to Top

Some artwork was altered from standard Technical Readout scans by Matt McLaine; these and other pictures were downloaded from the sites listed on the Other Online Technical Readouts page. Artwork unavailable elsewhere was contributed by some of the above persons.

My thanks to each and every one of you, and if I forgot anyone, please let me know!

"Great web site! I like your website. Very nice and thanks for providing those mech files." - Rob Feehan, Co-Author of The Drawing Board and listed in FASA publications as Commander of the Wolverton Highlanders