Agreed, the very first Robotech book was really good. We played for many years but things stalled out after The Sentinels came out (bummer...the Inorganics were pretty cool and a recon / stealthy / ambush flavor was emphasized and looked fun).
The 1st Macross book had TONS of useable stuff and...
Lot's of great ideas here! I'll 2nd Torg as well...we had a lot of fun with it when it first came out (don't remember using the card deck that much though...).
I'd like to give a shout out for Palladium's Road Hogs book for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's After the Bomb setting. TMNT was pretty...