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| Novel Information |
| Collection: |
BattleTech |
| Title: |
Threads of Ambition |
| Series: |
The Capellan Solution, Book 1 |
| Author: |
Loren L. Coleman |
| ISBN-10: |
0-451-45744-7 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-451-45744-8 |
| Publisher: |
Roc |
| Product ID: |
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| Copyright: |
© 1999 |
| Cover Art: |
©2024 Catalyst Game Labs |
| Description: |
Sun-Tzu Liao is the First Lord of the resurrected Star League. In the last year of his reign, he decides to milk his power for every ounce of benefit to himself. His dream to rebuild his Capellan Confederation at any cost is about to become a reality. His first victim: his own aunt, Candace Liao, who deserted the Confederation in the Fourth Succession War, taking the St. Ives Compact with her.
Answering Sun-Tzu`s call to battle is Warrior House Hiritsu, always ready to serve, and the Hustaing Warriors, who will do what is necessary to get the job done. As border skirmishes between BattleMechs turn bloody, military units rally to Candace Liao`s call to hold the line. Both sides are unyielding in this hard-fought war. And as Capellan fights Capellan, the high price of glory will be paid in full... |
| First Chapter Date: |
June 25, 3060 |
| Final Chapter Date: |
June 13, 3061 |
| Number of Reviews: 3 |
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| Average Member Rating: 4.17 |
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Member Review - StarRaven : 09-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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4.00 |
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This one is pretty good, even for people like me who aren't Capellan fans. Good combat sequences, believeable characters, and relatively good politics. The general feel of the book was good; a good civil war feel is the best way I can describe it. I liked the internal conflict that Aris Sung and the other characters deal with. |
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Member Review - Paul : 17-Nov-2003 00:00 |
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4.50 |
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The Capellan Solution semi-trilogy is one of the best set of books in BT. Coleman captures the important points very well, describing strategy, combat and politics with considerable skill.
The two novels go a long way towards adding depth to the Capellan Confederacy in general and Sun-Tzu Liao in particular.
The novel deals with a complex war environment, where STL has to juggle several fronts at the same time. It mostly focusses on the St Ives Compact, and the writer manages to capture some of the nuances and duality of civil war very well.
If you find absolutely nothing to enjoy in the Killing Fields and it's successor, Threads of Ambition, you might as well quit on the BT novel line.
I wouldn't recommend these books to the novice readers as there is a bit of a knowledge threshold to truly appreciate them, but at the same time matters get explained sufficiently for it to not be too big of a problem. |
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Member Review - Bo : 13-Sep-2003 00:00 |
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4.00 |
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For you Capellan fans, this novel is a must read. For those of you enjoy following the political struggle of the Inner Sphere, again a must read novel.
We pick up with Sun-Tzu Liao as the First Lord of the New Star League and his greatest personal enemy, Victor Davion, out of the Inner Sphere fighting the clans. Sun-Tzu’s overall goal in this book is to reunite the St. Ives Compact with the Capellan Confederation. His plots and his power as First Lord will attract attention as you watch (read) everything unfold and come together throughout the book. At the end of the book, the goal still unreached and we will continue the Capellan Solution in book two, “The Killing Fields”.
The novel has characters from “Blinding Force” so you may want read that novel before starting here. You do not need to, but it will provide deeper character depth when those characters are involved.
This book had a slow start for me. I had to get in about 70 or 80 pages before I felt involved. Also, there were several units involved in the many combat scenes that at times I felt lost; “Who are they again? Where were they before?”; that kind of stuff. The battlemech scenes were done well; not too simple and not over done. In my opinion, just right.
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