This article is about one specific product. For the series of game boxes that served as the core BattleTech product, and its iterations over time, see BattleTech boxed set.

BattleTech Introductory Box Set

Product information
Type	Core Game Set
Development	Randall Bills
Publication information
Publisher	Catalyst Game Labs
Product code	3500B
First published	2013
ISBN-13	978-1-936876-85-3
MSRP	$59.99
Content
Era	Succession Wars era

Preceded by	25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set
Followed by	BattleTech: Beginner Box

Description

The BattleTech Introductory Box Set is a physical game box containing the necessary pieces, papers, and material to play the classic tabletop version of Battletech. This edition of the box set contains newly molded miniatures made from a higher-quality plastic than the preceding 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set or the Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set. Several of these miniatures were also used in the Alpha Strike Lance Packs.

From the back cover

“

Strap yourself into the ultimate suit of armor: the BattleMech. Thirty feet tall and weighing up to a hundred tons, this humanoid engine of destruction is a walking arsenal with enough firepower to level a city block. The BattleTech game system takes you into the world of the 31st Century, where war has become a way of life. You are a MechWarrior. You are in command of the most powerful machine on the battlefield, and hold the fate of empires in your hand!

”

24 unpainted, ready-to-play plastic BattleMech miniatures
- COM-2D Commando
- SDR-5V Spider
- JR7-D Jenner
- PNT-9R Panther
- ASN-21 Assassin
- CDA-2A Cicada
- CLNT-2-3T Clint
- HER-2S Hermes II
- WTH-1 Whitworth
- VND-1R Vindicator
- ENF-4R Enforcer
- HBK-4G Hunchback
- TBT-5N Trebuchet
- DV-6M Dervish
- DRG-1N Dragon
- QKD-4G Quickdraw
- CPLT-C1 Catapult
- JM6-S JagerMech
- GHR-5H Grasshopper
- AWS-8Q Awesome
- ZEU-6S Zeus
- CP-10-Z Cyclops
- BNC-3E Banshee
- AS7-D Atlas
2 unpainted, premium-quality plastic BattleMech minis
- Clan Timber Wolf (Mad Cat) Prime
- BattleMaster BLR-4S from Technical Readout: Project Phoenix
One 12-page full-color quick-start rulebook will have players into the action in minutes
36-page book of pregenerated BattleMech Record Sheets
One 80-page full-color rulebook
Inner Sphere at a Glance, a 56-page full-color book of universe background and BattleMech technical data
One 16-page full-color Painting and Tactics Guide
Two heavy-duty cards of compiled tables
Two 18″ x 22" full-color gameboard-quality mapsheets, with four different maps
Two six-sided dice
One full-color poster-sized map of the Inner Sphere circa 3067

Notes

Seventeen of the twenty-four base miniatures in this box also appeared in one of the Alpha Strike Lance Packs that were published shortly after this box was introduced.
The base miniatures in this set were newly molded (as reported on the box back) and differed slightly from those appearing in 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set and Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set, yielding miniatures with crisper details. It has been revealed that these new models were created using masters from Iron Wind Metals models rather than from casts.^[1] Many of the multipiece miniatures from those prior box sets were now crafted as single-piece miniatures. See Miniatures - Catalyst Game Labs#BattleTech Introductory Box Set and Alpha Strike Lance Packs for some detailed comparisons.
Catalyst Game Labs had a miniatures replacement program for introductory box sets with damaged, miscast, incomplete, or missing miniatures. The replacement program was accessible through the Miniatures Replacement Form.