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Peeking - a very common defensive tactic of only exposing just the arm (and/or side torso) of your mech briefly so that you can fire at the enemy with as small an exposed profile as possible to minimise damage from return fire.More likely to total the unlucky victim due to Gravity being merciless in claiming her pound of flesh and steel. Lawn Darting - A dreaded counterpart to the Seatbelt Check, mostly used for ASF aircraft failing to remain airborne (due to AA fire from Autocannons loaded with Flak rounds or unlucky rolls), but sometimes used for either 'mechs failing to complete Jumpjet operations or LAMs (Land-Air Mechs) failing to stay aloft and faceplanting.Failing it can mean pilot wounds and/or even death. Seatbelt Check - A dreaded piloting roll when your mech loses its balance and falls over.Crit Padding - The practice of loading less-critical subsystems (like extra heat sinks and jumpjets) into a body component that has vital weapons installed, so critical hits have a chance to break them instead of either breaking your guns or torching your ammo.Machine guns, LRMs, SRMs, LBX Autocannons (loaded with cluster ammo), and large batteries of Small or Micro Lasers are popular for this sort of thing. Critseeking - a general strategy of using a large volume of burst/volley fire weapons that can roll multiple times for critical hits, such that once you breach enemy armor you have a fairly good chance to hit something vunerable and disable them.Can Opener - Often used to refer to powerful weapons that can knock off entire sections of armor in a single hit, such as the PPCs, AC/20, and the Gauss Rifles.

Headcapper - a weapon suited for such hits - most commonly a AC/20, Clan ER PPC, or Gauss weapon, but anything that can one-shot a mech with a lucky head crit may be referred to as such especially if a player is skilled enough to keep landing headshots.Headcapping - taking a mech by destroying the head/cockpit or scoring a lethal crit on the pilot.Kneecapping - defeating mechs by taking out their legs.

Coring - Taking out a mech by destroying the center torso.

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Thanks to their emblem of a purple eagle, members of the Free Worlds League get made fun of with similar bird-themed insults.

The more fanatical members of Clan Jade Falcon are often made fun of by everyone, commonly referred by such names as 'green canaries', 'bird-brains', and such.

Snakes - A common insult fired at Draconis Combine citizens for perceived treachery and viciousness, in particular by FedSuns citizens from the Draconis March.

Bulls - a non-flattering way for Feddies to disparage Taurians due to their stubbornness and aggressive resentment of the Suns.

Fedrats - a slur against members of the Federated Suns, most commonly bandied by Capellans, Draconis Combine citizenry, and Taurians.

Crappies - a slur against Capellans and in particular House Liao members that are incompetent.

There's a lot of Fantastic Slurs against members of opposing Great Houses, due to bad blood from atrocities committed during the Succession Wars:.

And then finally, at long last, on August 6, 2021, The Ilclan was finally published, putting an end to years of waiting. Finally, starting from mid-2020, 'Recognition Guides' for the ilClan era were published (containing info on new 'Mech designs, as well as new variants of old ones), and on New Year's Day 2021, the book which officially moved the game into the ilClan era (warning: Spoiler Title), Hour of the Wolf was published. Eventually, the delay got so long they decided to split it into two parts, with the first part becoming the Shattered Fortress which was released on August 2018 and the planned second part retaining the ilClan name. This may finally be subsiding as Word of God says that the reason for the delay is they're still trying to tie up loose ends and come up with a new, post- ilClan metaplot to avoid the deadly question ' And Then What?'. Since this is a book that's been awaited for years, you may need to stop, either voluntarily or involuntarily after a short while. Search for 'ilClan.' Take a shot every time a post asking what the progress on it is appears.

Here's a fun drinking game: Go to the official Battletech forums.

Development Hell: Handbook: House Kurita, and to the lesser extent Interstellar Operations.

It was later made canonical with the release of Technical Readout 3085

Ascended Fanon: The Deimos Clan Heavy mech was originally a non-canon mech introduced by Mektek's free re-release of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries.

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