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At least in the tabletop game, the default assumption in BT is that everybody knows precisely where everybody else is before the first shot is fired. And there's not really much in the way of collaborators. Look again to the aforementioned Gray Death Legion campaign on Verthandi, about as...

The problem is that again, the armor and sensor density don't allow that. The guerrillas aren't going to get the chance. Imagine that you've got, say, the US in Iraq but this time they have 'mech sensors. Magscan means they can pick up anything metal at a kilometer away or more (BT ranges...

I will say I don't think BattleTech supports guerrilla warfare in general. A cornerstone of such warfare is that three guys in a truck with a cheap rocket launcher can destroy or disable an AFV, and you can improvise an explosive device powerful enough to do similar damage using a machine shop...

While I'd agree with that in general, BattleTech Ragnorok-proofing makes logistics easier in general. It doesn't help with actual consumption but storing stuff in caches for later use can greatly ease a planned invasion later... or lead to somebody popping the cache open 200 years later for the...

While the trips to the Americas weren't a year, trade routes around the Cape of Good Hope did run that long or even longer. The Brouwer Route famously halved the time from the Cape of Good Hope to Jakarta, from 12 months to only 6, and that was after a ship had already sailed from Europe to...

Kerensky's route wasn't straight, he went in a big semi-circle. The route back's still long but not quite a year, more like about 30-35 jumps by my measure, which isn't exactly quick but not a full year either. This does lead to the odd question of how Kerensky was able to follow a route...

Meh, he had most of the Inner Sphere to recruit from, couldn't have been that hard to plunk down half a dozen Monarchs and Mules on some world that had it's cropland wrecked by Amaris and promise new land to them.

Kerensky had his insane duels that eventually turned into the trial system because he needed to turn most of the warriors he'd brought into barely-above-subsistence farmers to produce food on the trashworlds the (future) Clans settled. If they had garden worlds that didn't need most of the...