Battletech by Harebrained Schemes [coming 29/09/2015]

As the topic says Harebrained Schemes will be having a kickstarter to create a Battletech game near end of this month. You might not have heard name "Battletech" before. If you haven't then perhaps you've heard of Mechwarrior or Mech Commander - both of these games are spin-offs of Battletech franchise. And if you have no clue what the games in question are either, well... Battletech is a turn based tabletop game in which you have giant robots duke it out. I mean there is an elaborate backstory and long timeline explaining why exactly you have people riding giant metal robots and trying to murder each other but why do you care? There are giant robots! And they are fighting each other! That's all that you need to know! (Actually the backstory is quite interesting too, but there is too much to explain especially since I need to go to sleep soon).

As for more technical details (some of which might be lost on you if you don't know the franchise), what was revealed thus far:
- The game will be set in 3025. This means time inbetween 3rd and 4th succession wars. It also means no Clans.
- Turn based
- Open ended campaign with player being a mercenary
- There will be salvage and there will be managing mechwarriors
- During missions you'll control a 4 mech lance, although at least one interview mentioned possibility of bigger units as a stretch goal
- Multiplayer also mentioned as a potential stretch goals, possibly Solaris 7 matches

The developer, Harebrained Schemes probably doesn't need introduction. They made Shadowrun Returns/Dragonfall/Hong Kong in recent years and I'd say these are a pretty good portolio.

Website for the game: battletechgame.com (not much on it at this time except some wallpapers)