CASPer Alamo

Revelations Cycle Series, Book 9

By: Eric S. Brown, Jason Brannon

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

CASPers - Combat Assault Systems, Personal - are the lords of the future battlefield. The massive mechs were created to give humanity an edge against the rest of the mercenary forces in the Galactic Union.

Just like today's tanks, though, massive amounts of armor and weaponry just make the CASPers "hard to kill", not "invulnerable". There are things in the galaxy even stronger than the CASPer, and when humans run up against them, it's up to the human inside to figure out a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

CASPer Alamo includes two new stories by Eric S. Brown and Jason Brannon, loosely recreating the Battles of the Alamo and Isandlwana on a galactic scale. When all seems lost, it's up to the mech operator to save the day!

©2018 Eric S. Brown and Jason Brannon (P)2018 Tantor

Good addition to 4HU

Biggest disappointment was so few stories. otherwise great. Narrator was a little flat on expressing feelings sometimes.

Not bad....

The companies get thier asses kicked. There is some character development but not enough to care are even remeber their names. The Caspers are supposed to be superior tech but are just basic gun chassis.
Synopsis, cocky mercs underestimate the enemy and the obvious happens.

Story is super weak and drags on

I tried to finish the story and made it half way before I couldn't take it anymore. The plot is super thin and is just dragged out. In my opinion the only connection this story has to the main universe is it has the Caspers. save your time and money and skip this book

Thin and plodding

There was one character that wasn’t utterly forgettable, and he was barely more than a one dimensional counterpart to a stereotypical arrogant asshole.

The military TOE and tactics used by these “seasoned veterans” would be recognized as terrible by anyone who has been in an Infantry unit more than a month, and are just pants on head stupid. Maybe if your only experience with military matters is an FPS, this might be entertaining, but if you’ve spent any time in a combat arms unit, your eyes will roll so far back in your head that your optic nerve will snap. Hell, anyone who’s played a military strategy or tactical game will know this.

The worst of the already rather weak Four Horseman universe.

Skip this one

I loved the 4 HorseMen books. The short story collections were a mixed bag. This one is just not even close to par.