Rat Boy, are you crazy? Dark Age is the death blow to BattleTech, I am sorry to see such a promising series blown away because of corporate greed. Back when it was 3025, BattleTech was a great game, no side was good, no side was bad. Even when the Clans were introduced it didnt hurt it as much, the new technology unbalanced the game in some respects, but the premise was still sound. And then WizKids invented a new system, even though the novels still use the old system (its very obvious, that level of detail cannot be obtained with ClickTech), and expected us to swallow it. In a way, I sound like a core SFBer complaining about the changes in SFC3. Honestly though, ive never played SFB, although ive considered buying it several times. (the lack of other players was the main arguement against it) Ah well, theres always Mega Mek