Tin Soldier is my answer to the problems I see in BattleTech.
Why didn't I just write house rules? Well, I started to, but the game is such a blunt instrument that it's hard to have subtle effects.
I saw this at The Battletech State forwarded from a sarna.net blog post, and thought I'd join in. "What are your five favourite 'Mechs from the original 3025 Technical Readout?"
I've written a set of rules that replace BattleTech. Why would I do such a foolhardy thing? Here I'm planning to write a bit about what's wrong with BattleTech.