Harebrained Schemes, the developer responsible for three successful Kickstarter campaigns (including Shadowrun: Hong Kong), is back at it again a fourth time for BattleTech. The BattleTech project is being led by Jordan Weisman, creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior; Mitch Gitelman, producer of the MechCommander series; and Mike McCain, creative director of Harebrained's Shadowrun games.

The BattleTech project is being described as "turn-based tactical 'Mech combat set in the classic 3025 era of the BattleTech Universe". According to the Kickstarter video, the team has already self-funded the first stage of development, which is a tactical skirmish game against AI opponents.

If the pledges hit $1 million, Harebrained will add a campaign. Crank it up to $1,850,000 and the dev will upgrade the campaign to be open-ended with side missions and procedurally generated missions, too. If demand is enough to get the game to $2.5 million, Harebrained says it will add a PvP mode.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, you can check out the Kickstarter page right here. The project has 34 days to go and, at the time of writing, had 9,500+ backers and has already made $686,000.