Logistics Wins Wars - J-27 Ordinance Carrier
Logistics wins wars. While Battletech is a game of small scale armored combat if you have ever fought an extended campaign the reality of mechanized warfare becomes apparent - even with big, stompy, robots. If you can't bring up the autocannon and LRM ammunition, or the replacement parts and armor slabs then your campaign is going to be very, very short. In later years of development the game has (to my great delight as a campaign oriented player) introduced a number of logistics units to add to the complexity of game play. I will save my commentary for the distinct lack of clan logistics units for a later post - but one can only presume that the clan dominance of orbit allows resupply via drop-shuttle and dropship... but I digress. What I imagine the logistics from a typical Succession Wars planetary invasion would look like... i.e massive. Today we pay homage to the grand daddy of all Battletech logistic units - the J-27 Ordinance Carrie...