Battletech 30: Impetus

by Blaine Lee Pardoe

The mercenary Northwind Highlanders are recruited to take an enemy-held supply planet. But when they arrive, they find their intelligence reports worthless, and the planet heavily-fortified and guarded by elite "Mech warriors! Outgunned and out-numbered, the Highlanders are left with only one option--a desperate plan that could turn the tide, or leave them smoking hulks on the 'Mech-littered battlefield.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451455290
• ISBN13: 9780451455291
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book

This book was my first book in the Battletech series and it got me hooked. The descriptions of actual battles are excellent. Blaine Lee Pardoe should definetly bring back the Northwind Highlanders in his next Battletech book. From what I gather this shows one of the few examples where the Inner Sphere works together instead of having internal strife. I also like the plan Jaffery comes up with; it shows imagination. I will definetly get all the books.

Simply great

Ever wander what a real clash between two clans that really hate each other is? You will have a great taste when Smoke Jaguars and Nova Cats just ignore one of the great mercenary units of the Inner Sphere (Highlanders) to fight to the death. This book make you comprehend what fighting the clans in their own land is like: you have to use every trick in the book and in your brain, expend every breath of your men and women (until they die, of course), not to win, just to stay alive to maintain hope... although, against the clans, either you win or you die.

Greatest BattleTech ever!!

This book is great! The war started at the beginning and ends at the end.It is just perfect!

Eat this, Clan Smoke Jaguar!

The Northwind Highlanders are some of the best mercinaries in the Inner Sphere. Now they've been hired by the Draconis Combine to attack the Combine's number one enemy, the ruthless clan Smoke Jaguar. The Highlanders travel to the distant planet of Wayside, far in the deep periphery. They expect it to be an unimportant planet, with only a token force guarding it. What they find is the Smoke Jaguar's newest, hottest military force, primed and ready for action. Their intel useless, the Highlanders must come up with a plan FAST or face destruction.This is defianatly one of the best Battletech novels available, and if you've read Highlander Gambit (or even if you haven't) you have got to try this book. It features many of the characters introduced in Pardoe's first novel, as well as introducing Kurt Blackard, Cullen Craig, chief tech Mitch Frasure, and clan bondsman Kerdon. This is a great sequel to Highlander Gambit.A note, this book has Stirling's Fussilers rather than Macleod's Regiment as the primary Highlander unit.

This is simply put, A great book.

I recomend this book to anyone who even remotely likes battletech. It is a great story and the plot and strategies used to the Northwind highlanders out of a jam. It is also a great breakthrough against the fight against the clans and a stroke of militry and tactical genious 5 STARS