ABC 26 - Atlanta BattleTech at Challenges
**Challenges Games and Comics** will host a small **Classic BattleTech** tournament at 3983 Lavista Rd, Tucker, GA 30084 in Atlanta, Saturday August 29 from Noon to 8pm.
This will be a light and breezy event, with 5000 BV per player and a max of 3 units. Fruit and veggie snacks will be provided, and the store sells other snacks and drinks. Still, we recommend you get an early lunch before we start.
Entry fee will be $20, paid the day-of. No registration is needed, but please notify the tournament organizer, at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) or u/RockRackus on the Georgia BattleTech server on Discord ([https://discord.gg/ZBKuaSnE8u](https://discord.gg/ZBKuaSnE8u)), and submit your force by Friday August 21. The Missions Packet will be shared on Saturday August 22.
# Ruleset
Though the new rulebook will have been released at GenCon in July, not everyone will have access to it, so we’ll be using the **BattleMech Manual** primarily, plus **Total Warfare** and **Tech Manual** for vehicles and battle armor.
A few missions will use elements of the new rules–fire, smoke, scanning, and buildings. Those rules will be produced in a rules appendix included with the Missions Packet.
Also, as a sort of celebration of the end of the current rules era, we’re allowing some weird equipment from **Tactical Operations: Advanced Units & Equipment** and **Interstellar Operations: Alternate Eras** for a few ilClan-era oddities. See the full player packet for details - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JnHXgiK5LyEvLaGVcPzlud94IL52eRly/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104683354071132376637&rtpof=true&sd=true](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JnHXgiK5LyEvLaGVcPzlud94IL52eRly/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104683354071132376637&rtpof=true&sd=true)
# Prologue
City of Atlanta Savannah system Free Worlds League July 3152
**Atlanta.** A storied city, a melting pot of every human culture, a hotbed of music, entertainment, and activism. No, not ‘old Atlannuh’ on Terra; the one in Marik space, in the Savannah system.
Today Atlanta is home to many famous corporations, including Technicron Industries, manufacturer of the *Quickdraw*, *Awesome*, and *Regent*; and Coca-Depot, humanity’s premier soft drink and home improvement company. It has the busiest spaceport within 60 light years, and is consistently rated #1 worst traffic in the Inner Sphere.
Clan Sea Fox recently took over the abandoned CNN Center (Comstar Network News) and brought the city’s Hyper-Pulse Generator back online, just in time for *the* premier interstellar sporting event of the year.
Welcome to Atlanta, players. And welcome to the Canopy Worlds Cup!
The Canopian BattleSports Association games, colloquially known as **Canopy**, has become a major rival to Solaris VII’s battlemech entertainment industry.
Played using powered down weapons, paint rounds, and similar modifications, Canopy was adopted by mercs as a safe way to show off their piloting and gunnery skills. They in turn spread it across the Inner Sphere to planetary garrisons, respectable house units, and even the stodgiest trueborn Clanners.
Now ’Mechjocks and their deadly war machines flock to Atlanta from every nation across the whole of human space – nations with all manner of vendettas and simmering bad blood. Tempers run short from sweltering summer heat, but surely everyone will get along peacefully in the spirit of the beautiful game, and nothing can possibly go wrong.
Join us at **Challenges Games and Comics** on August 29 to save Atlanta from disaster!