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[Jakebob]

when I was in college in the 80's.

[Catharsis]

I played Mechwarrior 2 from as young as I can remember. I loved the Nova and the Timby, and all the awesome MIDI music. Of course back then I did not really understand the story (I probably did not even stop to read the texts ) but the series has stuck with me through the years. I read a lot of the books when I was younger, but still I did not understand them too well.

My first real introduction to the canon was the Legend of the Jade Pheonix trilogy. I had a minor understanding of the lore by then, but that series really cemented my interest in Battletech and prompted me to go replay all of the MW games and reread all the books I could find.

I was never exposed to the board game, which is unfortunate, as along side 40,000, I would really have liked to have gotten into them.

[Isorla]

Through my cousin introducing me to the PC game Mechwarrior 2. I started playing it a lot with him and suddenly found out that it was a whole community that played this game with the Virtual Reality introduced in the 80's and thought it was cool. But I stopped playing it because I got older. Then I ran accross the Wizkids game of MW: Dark Age and found out that it was actually based off of the Classic BattleTech role playing game and started top find out more about it. I still never played the CBT game, but I'd like to learn it, if I knew anyone that played it in my area.

[Siden Pryde]

Started about 15 or 16 years ago with the Warrior Trilogy and then Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries. Haven't looked back since.

[Calon Farstar]

BT boxed set second edition. So late 88-89 I think my buddy and started playing and were hooked. A college buddy of mine and I played a "quick" two hour game today while the corned beef was cooking. Played on a new map I made with heavy metal map maker. Now if I only had that program 15 years ago! Greatly looking forward to MWO!!

[Pharaoh]

i don't know why i remember this so vividly, but i do. it was my spring semester at baylor university...1986. i came home from class, and my roommates were sitting at the dining room table with a board, and small cardboard pieces on little stands. now a junior in college, i really had not done any gaming much more elaborate than risk since high school, where the weekends were spent playing either: D&D, squad leader, panzerblitz, car wars, or dune. anyway, we set out to learn the complexities of combat with battlemechs. we played throughout the spring and had a great deal of fun. for one reason or another, we didn't pick it back up again the subsequent fall as our interests seem to lie elsewhere. i didn't really hear much about the universe again until i bought mechwarrior 2 (along with dark forces) for my shiny new pentium 90 in 1995. of course i bought mercenaries later, and mechwarrior 3 after that. i think i skipped mechwarrior 4, and the first mechcommander, but mechcommander 2 is still on my hard drive today. i never bothered with any of the mechassault variations, and although i know some people in my huge online gaming guild that play living legends, i was just too busy with other games, i suppose. very much looking forward to MWO, and anticipate spending a great deal of time with it.

[Kid Weeb]

My introduction to the Battletech universe was due to my love for military sci-fi. The year was 1991 and being an avid reader, I visited my local book store every week. I was drawn to a book titled "Way of the Clans". Seeing the big robot on the front and reading the synopsis on the back of the book, I knew that this book fit my style. An added bonus for me was that it stated it was a trilogy. Since I loved reading books in a series, I picked up that copy. HOOKED! From there, I proceeded to buy each novel as it came out. I soon discovered the Tech Readouts, manuals and other sourcebooks. That led into the TT game. After finding a store that carried the boxed set, it was just an avalanche of Battletech. I now own the entire CBT series of novels, the entire (okay it was only 6) Mechwarrior novel series, a vast collection of source books, over 100 miniatures (including two sets of the Plastech) and even a few of the Dark Age novels (never could get into the DA, but I will probably end up getting them for my Kindle). Some good friends and I played marathon TT games in the early 90's. Eventually, the TT faded due to RL getting in the way of our fun. They were great times though. Sometimes we played by the rules, but there were times we decided to go crazy and didn't use the heat scale rule. Nothing like a Kodiak coming at you with an Alpha Strike every turn!

I never really got into the games - too much of a bookworm, I guess. However, MWO looks AWESOME! I can see my wife becoming a BT widow when it goes live. I will have to break the news to her soon. I can't wait to play!

[Alexander Fury]

We have always been here! (in that funky voice from Kosh in B5)

[Sonic Rainboom]

Liked reading books...and found a Battletech Book - The Hunters. caight my eye with the stylish Raven on the cover, got hooked on it and played MW 3 / 4 after. Plus a lot more books, never got into the TT though.

[Seabear]

My son, who had always had a thing for big robot combat ever since a cartoon called Robotech first came out, got me interested. Back in those days we were into board wargames and could only afford a single game every so often. He convinced me that we should get a new game he found called Battletech. I wasn't too interested until I picked up one of the first BT novels (I can't even remember the name now) that he had purchased. I was hooked. As I read more BT novels, I was entraced by the depth and richness of the universe. I think I've read every one up thru the end of the Fedcom Civil War. I/we have every TRO and source book we can find and about 2 full regiments minatures, including most of the 1st boxed set from so many years ago. I guess I'm what one young forum author called "a Battletech TT old fogy" and am proud of it . I love to play in the BT/MW universe and like the lore and restrictions it applies to those in it. Regardless of the incarnation of this universe , I still consider the TT version the yardstick for them all.

[Bubba Gump]

I discovered BT in the mid 80's right when the clans was introduced and have been hooked sence then

[Rufus Ingram]

My friend in middle school got the boxed game and introduced me in '90 I think. We bought a lot of sourcebooks, TROs, etc., but only played a few matches before we got distracted. I kept up the book collection, bought, discarded, then repurchased all the print novels over the years and dabbled in the MW games. Loved the fiction. I think its the game I loved the most that I played the least.

[Myst Lynx]

I was given a game called BT: Crescent Hawk's Revenge and I loved it and then I was introduced to the TT by the same friend who gave me the game and my very first figure was the Stalker because of the cover of the game had it on it. Had hard time though finding people to play with me though

[Curon Hifor]

When I was ten years old, I saw my father play this odd-looking game with card-board cutouts of robots. And thus, I got curious and wanted to learn to play. From there on out, I was enthusiastic about all things BattleTech

[Vandul]

PnP Battletech games from 85'ish era, Played the simulators in Walnut Creek CA and Denver CO, of course the entire computer series, going back as far as Amiga stuff.

Also did some design work for FASA back in the day.

[Trevnor]

My first exposure to BT/MW was watching my half-brother play the original MechWarrior 2 on PC. On a ****** Windows '95 machine no less. I thought it was awesome, these giant robot things running around, blowing each other up. I was 12 at the time. I played MW2 myself for years, until the disc got a nasty scratch that could not be repaired.

Then, about 4 years after that, I found the novels in the provincial library. I read every book from the Twilight of the Clans mini-series to the end of the FedCom civil war. I am currently in the process of purchasing all the books, from the first one to the last, of Classic Battletech anyways. Not sure on the WizKids stuff.....

I also played MW:3 Gold edition for some time as well.

[Major Havoc]

I was walking through a local game store in 1985 and picked up the Battletech box because of the cool Warhammer picture on the front. The rest is history filled with table top games, strategy games, roleplaying games, video games, and computer games. Wouldn't trade a minute of it for anything.

[Wolfdawg]

From the beginning... Yes Battle Droids... cardboard cut outs and paper maps... Skipped D/A.... clix turnned me off for awhile... Rebuilding my metal collection again.... But shipping from Ohio, to Ohio sucks... its cheaper here from Jersey.... but the warstore can only get some mechs it seems...

[Victor Key]

When i was 16 (im 23 now) i went through my older brothers books and saw a book called Price Of Glory it had a big robot on the front and figured id give it a read. And the rest is history.

[Flametrace]

My dad playing MW3 when I was little... I wish I could get it to work right on Windows 7.