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[Quardak]

I`ve been playing TT since 1995 with my friends. We created our own 3-D Landscape with Trees and Buildings. Played it old Style 3025 an made our own Multi-Fire-Rules for all Weapons which give the game a huge speed-up. AC/2 able firing 6 shoots in one round... make even the weakest mech interesting and bring us to new dimensions in Overheading . Also read almost all books and played all games. Specially loved Mechcommander2.

[Killian Samuels]

Played mechwarrior 3 back in the 90's, just scratching the surface of the table top game. Also I'm really looking forward to reading some mechwarrior/battletech books this summer.

[Stormdragon]

I started playing Battletech a couple years before the first Mechwarrior PC game was released...I have been hooked ever since.

[Toothman]

Whatever year the name switched from BattleDroids to BattleTech. Thats the year I started. I went to look at my original box and in my move to my new house I seem to have misplaced it. That had better get fixed soon :-)

[Giago]

Since first Mechwarrior on DOS.

Still rember how happy I was when I found out how rewading could be Mech salvage. My contract was always with nearly no credits, but a lot of salvage.. all the battle was about destroyng enemy legs to get more salvage from them

Edited by Giago, 18 May 2012 - 07:30 AM.

[The Birdeater]

Since 1995. Mechwarrior 2 DOS version

[Morgen Black]

I remember walking into my local game store "Game Castle" and seeing the original TT box with a Warhammer on the cover back in 1984. I had to have it and my friends and I started our Battletech/Mechwarrior addiction ever since. I remember my buddy getting the Battletech: The Crescent Hawks' Inception video game and being in complete awe that there was a living, breathing computer game about Battletech. The addiction continued in force over the years to the point where we had almost 2 of every Ral Partha lead miniature painted and ready for actual TT battles on the 12 3'x3' green felt covered pieces of plywood. Spending summers cutting out styrofoam for mountains and terrain and air brushing all the details for the most immersive experience necessary was exhausting but well worth the effort. At one point my mother told me we had to remove the gaming environment from the front living room after it had been there for months in all its glory.

All the other video games to date were fun and well worth the experience, but would never be as exciting as actually having real miniatures to bring you that much closer to the Battletech experience and lore. I am extremely looking forward to MWO and cannot wait to get the ol' gang back together for a lance reunion.

MB

Edited by Morgen Black, 18 May 2012 - 07:53 AM.

[Cuatrocon]

Started with MW2, around 1994 - 1995 ... and since I put my hands on that Vulture/Mad Dog, my first time piloting a mech, it was like... "this is definitely for me". I can't wait for this new release and Im hoping to meet another good mechwarriors like before.

[Victor MacGregor]

I started with Crescent Hawks Inception, but I truly became a mechwarrior when my father lent me his copy of Mercenary's Handbook. It may sound silly, but I fell in the with the Cost of Living side of gaming a mercenary unit...salaries, maintenance, consumables, and overhead. It gave the TT experience a whole new perspective.

[alex kelll]

i got stared playing mechwarrior 2 when i was 6 i then heard about battle tech when i was 9.

[Aenir01]

Been playing since the 90s (I dont remember which one, but it had the Rifleman IIC and its alternate Wire Frame Vision mode)

that was when I was a young kid, Did all the games and have been very lucky to get into the TT recently!

[Drakewolff Kerensky]

let see i start playing TT in the 1990 and still playing

[Vohveli]

I bumped into a pile of tabletop BattleTech boxes somewhere around 1990 but never really had anyone to play it with. Rules were a bit too complex to teach to my younger brothers and I was around 7 years old back then. Last winter was the first time I actually found out that some locals are TT fans.

I did see some MW2 action briefly but only really got into MechWarrior series when the third one came out and I actually had access to a computer capable of running it.

[Daetrin Voltari]

I played my first game of Battledroids in '84. I saved all year to buy a copy myself and saw it replaced by BattleTech just in time for my birthday in '85. I hung out a few times at the BattleTech Center at North Pier in highschool but I never gave up my love of the miniatures. Now I find myself painting up a new battalion for our local campaign.

[Kurenai]

I started working in a Crown Books, in Pleasant Hill, California summer of 1990 till December of 1993 and somewhere in there the Jade Falcon Trilogy came out i read and then read all the others that came out, now they are sitting in storage unit down in Harbor California.

[Marric]

I have been playing since college. I have played TT and PC. I believe I have played all of the PC versions. I do not think I played all of the additions for each game. Friend of mine got me a whole carton of mechwarrior game cards. I think I have 4-6 full decks, plus a bunch of additonal cards.

[Xuvios]

i played the old commodore 64/128 battletech game in 88 or 89, the beginning of the cresent hawk theme... in 90 or 91 i bought the boxed set for TT, kept me sane throughout a tough time of many many hospital visits.. the only battletech stuff that i haven't done is the mechcommander games and the simulators...

[VuDu666]

I've been playing/reading books since early 90's.


Crazybrave, I tried running latest MW on Win7 some time ago, couldn't get it to work as well

[oswin aurelius]

Let's put it this way, I was playing the NES before I knew how to read, and the first thing I learned how to do on my dad's computer was how to type CD:/Mech2 into DOS.

Edited by Oswin Aurelius, 23 May 2012 - 09:15 PM.

[Hellzoid]

Been playing mech games since Multiplayerbattletech on aol, It's been maybe 20 years give or take a year or two.