Field Guide: Black Talon (2e)
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"Move it!" Vesping cried to the Liberati. "The path's clear!"
The engineers ran across the smoking field to the power relay. Within seconds after reaching it¸ they had the generator off-line and the lights surrounding the base went dark. As they ran away into the night¸ the generator relay blew in a mighty shower of sparks.
Like a trap-door spider released by the force of the blast¸ first one Gear-like vehicle crawled out of an underground bunker¸ then two. The flames reflected off their dark red hulls and the ominous black of their weapons¸ giving them the appearance of demons just escaped from the bowels of the earth.
"Here come the reserves!" Wallis hollered¸ as a new cluster of the massive machines came out of the base¸ firing at the engineers. "Dammit - they've got Gears!"
Faced with the prospect of war with Earth again¸ the Terranovan leagues set aside their differences and created the Black Talon program¸ a mission to gather military intelligence on the lost colonies of Mankind.
In addition to a basic history of the Black Talon program¸ the Field Guide contains the game statistics of the vehicles that are likely to be encountered by Talon teams in their missions. This book ties in with the Heavy Gear 2 computer game from Activision and follows the events that took place in Return to Cat's Eye ¸ the third Heavy Gear Storyline Book.
This sourcebook includes:
- A complete history of the Black Talon program;
- Full writeups for the 1st Black Talon;
- Descriptions and game stats for the Black Talon vehicles and weapons;
- Descriptions and game stats for the combat vehicles of the Colonial Expeditionary Force and Caprice;
- Sample campaign set-ups;
- New equipment.