History BattleTech / TropesPToZ

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility in ALighterShadeOfGrey TheFederation USA/UK/France (Federated Suns), a crazed space samurai police state Japan (Draconis), a sociopathic, unhinged nobility with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in police state China/Russia (Capellans), an outrageous space Germany (Lyran Commonwealth), a bunch of worlds too busy fighting each other to notice anything else (Free Worlds League) and a glorified phone company in the middle of it all (Comstar), who might actually be [[MachineWorship a cult]]. Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. And then you have the periphery like Space Texas (Taurian Concordat). All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility in ALighterShadeOfGrey TheFederation USA/UK/France (Federated Suns), a crazed space samurai police state Japan (Draconis), a sociopathic, unhinged nobility with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in police state China/Russia (Capellans), an outrageous space Germany (Lyran Commonwealth), a bunch of worlds too busy fighting each other to notice anything else (Free Worlds League) and a phone company in the middle of it all (Comstar), who might actually be [[MachineWorship a cult]]. Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. And then you have the periphery like Space Texas (Taurian Concordat). All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility in ALighterShadeOfGrey TheFederation USA/UK/France (Federated Suns), a crazed space samurai police state Japan (Draconis), a sociopathic, unhinged nobility with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in police state China/Russia (Capellans), an outrageous space Germany (Lyran Commonwealth), a bunch of worlds too busy fighting each other to notice anything else (Free Worlds League) and a glorified phone company in the middle of it all (Comstar). Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. And then you have the periphery like Space Texas (Taurian Concordat). All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility in a pseudo-TheFederation USA/UK/France (Federated Suns), a crazed space samurai police state Japan (Draconis), a sociopathic, unhinged nobility with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in police state China/Russia (Capellans), an outrageous space Germany (Lyran Commonwealth), a bunch of worlds too busy fighting each other to notice anything else (Free Worlds League) and a glorified phone company in the middle of it all (Comstar). Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. And then you have the periphery like Space Texas (Taurian Concordat). All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility pseudo-TheFederation in space USA/UK/France (Federated Suns), a crazed space samurai police state Japan (Draconis), a sociopathic, unhinged nobility with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in police state China/Russia, an outrageous space Germany (Lyran Commonwealth), a bunch of worlds too busy fighting each other to notice anything else (Free Worlds League) and a glorified phone company in the middle of it all (Comstar). Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. And then you have the periphery like Space Texas (Taurian Concordat). All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility in space USA/UK/France (Federated Suns), a crazed space samurai police state Japan (Draconis), a sociopathic, unhinged nobility with ChronicBackstabbingDisorder in police state China/Russia, an outrageous space Germany (Lyran Commonwealth), a bunch of worlds too busy fighting each other to notice anything else (Free Worlds League) and a glorified phone company in the middle of it all (Comstar). Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. And then you have the periphery like Space Texas (Taurian Concordat). All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility, space samurai, with a glorified phone company full of schemers as well. Then you have literally vat-grown people who are the ProudWarriorRace Clans. All fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict with scheming neo-feudal nobility, space samurai, a glorified phone company, and ProudWarriorRace Clans, all fighting each other with giant robots.

* WorldofHam: A CrapsackWorld in a constant state of conflict scheming neo-feudal nobility, space samurai, a glorified phone company, and ProudWarriorRace Clans, all fighting each other with giant robots.

** Interestingly, the Hell's Horses are the only Clan that leans heavily on the Soldier side (though they still uphold strong Warrior traditions) because of their centuries-old philosophy of combined arms warfare which favors the effective, tried-and-true mixed deployment of infantry and armored vehicles with their [=BattleMechs=] operating as support units rather than front-line units. This is considered rather peculiar among the other Warrior-minded Clans because ever since the development of the [=BattleMech=], they thought it would obsolete the old combined arms approach to warfare and derided the Hell's Horses as being doomed to fail with their "obsolescent" philosophy. The aforementioned failure of Operation REVIVAL proved that the Hell's Horses were smart enough to uphold their philosophy, even though the Horses themselves did not participate in that mission. Inner Sphere combined arms forces, particularly the Federated Commonwealth's Regimental Combat Teams (a regiment of [=BattleMechs=], three regiments of combat vehicles, five of infanty, two wings of [=AeroSpace=] fighters, and a batallion of artillery, with other assets like engineers and marines assigned as needed, and all trained and drilled to work together with maximum efficiency) proved capable of wrecking the Clans when they deployed 'Mechs, ''maybe'' backed up with Elementals and/or fighters. [[ZergRush Infantry Swarm attacks]], artillery bombardment, and strafing runs from fighters were all great ways to curb the tech advantage the Clans enjoyed.

* TheScottishTrope: The Not-Named Clan [[spoiler:Wolverine]].

* WeaponizedCar: The Star League-era Rotunda scout car, which is a combat vehicle disguised as a luxury sports car or other civilian vehicles, and is armed with a large laser...and an SRM-2 missile rack.
** Amusingly, its official gameplay stats give it a canonical weight of ''twenty tons''...fairly light as BT combat vehicles go, to be sure, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfMass but by civilian road and traffic standards?]]

* UnreliableCanon: Not as a whole, but some information is explicitly presented as "Canon Rumor" -- the in-universe equivalent of conspiracy theories and alternate interpretations of widely-known canon events. The ''Interstellar Players'' sourcebooks frequently reference them, and just about anything related to the Word of Blake Jihad tends to have rumors and half-truths thrown into the mix as well.