Reddit reviews Battletech Total Chaos (Battletech (Unnumbered))

We have actually been playing a campaign at our FLGS for a couple years now. We used Starter Book: Sword and Dragon first http://bg.battletech.com/test/getting-started/starterbook-sword-and-dragon/ which introduces you to the warchest system: an abstract campaign management system. I think it's a good middle ground between tracking each c-bill and actuator, but still keeping you accountable for your damage. It also uses what is called Touchpoints. Basically what this means is that there are a bunch of generic missions you can do (like scouting, raiding supply lines, or participating in a frontal assault) against randomly generated OpFor, but when you choose (and have completed the pre-requisite mission) you can start a Touchpoint. It's a tough, usually high-risk-high-reward "story mission". Then you switch, your opponent picks a mission, you generate the OpFor and play until he/she completes a touchpoint mission. The final Touchpoint in Sword and Dragon pits your two now very experienced (or ragged and battered) companies against each-other. It made for one hell of a game.

From there we jumped off into Total Chaos https://www.amazon.com/Battletech-Total-Chaos-Unnumbered/dp/1936876434 which expanded on the Warchest system adding rules to buy infantry, battle armor, aero fighters, anything. It is set in the Jihad era, and covers multiple Touchpoints(and background missions you can choose to fill out each one) each year for the years 3067-3085ish.

Lastly, the newest book, Campaign Operations has rules for randomly generating mercenary, pirate, or house forces of any size from a single lance to a houses entire armed forces. It also contains rules for operating your unit: paying pilots, hiring people, buying supplies, defection, etc. As well as generating contracts, pay, level of operational intensity, negotiating salvage rights, you name it. It lets you roll a few dice and then just play battletech, or it lets you get nitty-gritty and randomly generate the weather and gravity conditions on the randomly generated planet for your randomly generated guerilla warfare contract.
http://bg.battletech.com/test/core-rulebooks/campaign-operations/

Sorry for the wall. If y'all have any more questions, please feel free to pm me or ask here. I'm not a catalyst rep, but I'll do my best. :)

I was actually trying to recommend Total Chaos - A Jihad campaign sourcebook.

https://www.amazon.com/Battletech-Total-Chaos-Unnumbered/dp/1936876434/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465911926&sr=8-1&keywords=total+chaos+battletech