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[Semyon Drakon]

Started in 1984, have played all it's iterations except MWLL (puter would scream and die). Also played TT, Battleforce and lots of other versions. Roleplayed mechwarrior a lot as well.

Sigh, I am such a nerd...

Semyon

[Jais]

25 years

[Kurohyou]

Started when Mechwarrior was released, played MW2-4, MPBT:Solaris AOL and Gamestorm. Took a break when EA got involved.

[KingCobra]

Started in like 1987 with a TT starter kit played MW1 in 1889 and started online with MW2 in 1995 been playing off and on till now 2012

To honor the new catapult we played mission play MW4mercinaries mektek version .30 on gameranger today with Stock Catapults then we moved on to more missionplay and some teambattles and teamdestruction.Anyone wishing to play with us can come online to http://www.gameranger.com/ and play. here is a how and what mechgames you can play.

For all you on these forums that still have any of these mech games come online to http://www.gameranger.com and lets play.

StarSeige
Total annihilation
Supreme commander
MechCommander
MechCommander gold
MechCommander 2
Mechwarrior 3
Mechwarrior 3 Pirates Moon
Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance
Mechwarrior 4 BlackKnight
Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries retail pr0
Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries retail pr1
Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries Mektek free mod version


I dont know if all of the people on this forum know where to play there old Mech type games but here it is
www.gameranger.com it is a simple version of the old MSN gamming zone.You can play MechCommander,MechCommander2,Mechwarrior3,Mechwarrior3 PiratesMoon,Mechwarrior4Vengeance,Mechwarrior4BlackKnight,Mechwarrior4Mercinaries,
Mechwarrior4MercinariesPR1,and the Mechwarrior4Mercenaries Free Mektek version also.

Here are the instructions to get the Mektek Free version to work on GameRanger

First go to gameranger.com download client and make account.The activation email will sometimes come in a junk folder.Activate your account and startup gameranger.
Visit www.mektek.net and download a free copy of Mechwarrior Mercinaries through the MTX or torrunt programs update it to version 3.1/30a-30c
Next go to your hardrive where your free copy of the Mektek mercinaries is installed(C:D:ECT\programfiles\mektek.net folder).
Next rename the folder(mektek.net)folder to (Mektek) delete the (.net).
Next go inside the newly renamed (mektek) folder and find the folder(Mercenaries-Mektek Mekpack)
Next rename the folder (Mercenaries-Mektek Mekpack) to (MercenariesMektek)all one word then go back to GameRanger on the gameranger bronze page go to edit then options find the game Mechwarrior Mercinaries on the games tab highlight it on list then hit the brows tab to open it point your link to your new C:\program files\mektek\MercinariesMektek\MW4mercs.exe
thats it now you can play on gameranger.

I would hope to see more of you on gameranger to let the community know where still here and ready to play MWO when it comes out.So dust off those old CD'S and lets rumble.IF no old cd's go to Mektek and grab the MTX downloader or torrents and install the free mercs version.

P.S happy new year may mechwarrior and PGI become the best game of the year.

Edited by KingCobra, 31 December 2011 - 11:10 PM.

[Johnathon Henrick]

well i started playing 89. yes i am old dog...lol never stop playing....i did take a break after my home world and unit was crushed by jade falcon ... then i got smart and joined up with waco's rangers..... well we know how that turn out....lol.... so I went way way way south....to regain my pride.......now that is going back to 3048 or 49.....its pay back time for clan....maybe this time i learned from something...i can call previous time a really bad dream ....lol.......this should be fun

[Grimm Wulf]

For me it depends sort of. It's either 16+ (which is the one I picked here since it was after all my first encounter with this IP), 12+, or 10+. Depends on which "moment" I pick.

My first encounter was in 95, when I saw the "BattleTech: The Animated Series". I really liked the series, and the computer animated stuff in it made me go "wooooooow O_o"... which is a bit funny really, weeing as it's pretty... weak... By this time my experience with "graphics" was Super Nintendo level of quality though. Anyway, I was still compleatly unaware of the existence of anything else connected to the BattleTech universe... untill...

...about 4 years later when I encountered a PC game named MechWarrior 3 when I suddenly connected it to the cartoon (I had seen atleast MW2 befor this to, maybe even MW1, but it was not until MW3 that I made the connection). It was due to having a particular memorable moment in the game. Got to a friends home, he was playing some mech game that looked cool. He needed to go do something, and then eat, etc, and asked if I wanted to play during it. I of course said yes, and went at it. In one mission I saw an enemy on the radar, saw he was heading for me. I of course turned towards him, but could not see him due to some hill. Got to the bottom of the hill just as the enemy crested the top of the hill, with the sun behind him. All I could really see at first was the siluett, a siluett that struck a chord with me... I knew I had seen it somewhere. As I got closer I started to se more details, and then it dawned on me... it was that same mech as the one from the cartoon that had become my favorite... the Mad Cat! (Back then I had no idea that it's actuall name was the Timber Wolf).

Unfortunatly for me though, my awe at seeing this mech in the game stunned me a bit, and when the Mad Cat opened fire on me I basicly had a slight panic and did everything wrong. Hitting wrong keys and what not... think I accidently double alpha striked (I was very energy weapon heavy), mech went into the shut down process due to heat, I quickly tried to hit override and then flushing coolent instantly after... but I missed both the keys, hitting something else instead... and at most 2 handful's of seconds after seeing the enemy mech cresting the hill, my mech blew to smitherines. XD

It was not until about 2001'ish though, when I encountered the MechWarrior RPG, that I started to realize there was more to this series then just the cartoon and the pc games. So after finding the MW RPG I looked around to see what I could find, and eventually encountered the BT figure games... and suddenly all the peices fell into place for me.

Unfortunatly, none of my friends where ever interested in BT/MW that much, especialy not table toping or RPG'ing it (that was what I wanted to do the most, play the RPG, and use the BT rules for when/if we got to a point where mechs would be involved). I don't blame them though, we where already playing 4-6 other table top games (all of them Games Workshop games), and about some 3-4 (Swedish) pen and paper RPG's. So adding more to that was a bit to much, and to expensive as well. And of course I had a really hard time finding stuff to actually buy to begin with (all I have is the 3rd ed MW RPG, and some starters box set with paper mechs in it for BT, both of which I found at GothCon's "auction" one year)... not to mention by the time I found the RPG and table-top, my gaming group had already been heavily declining in gaming anyway (by 2003 we had almost compleatly stopped ).

So, with the exception of some several hours on a Swedish RPG convention (GothCon, Swedens oldest and biggest, yearly, RPG convention) around 2001-2002'ish, I have never actually really played neither the BT or the RPG. It was a German guy that was the GM for us. He and his wife had been invited to Sweden, by some friends of friends of friends of mine, to go to GothCon (specificly to play MW/BT if I remember correctly). These friends of friends of friends of mine, asked me and my friends if someone would like to come play some rpg with them (they needed atleast one more person to play). I asked what it was, and they said "You probably don't know it... it's an RPG called MechWarrior, but they combine it with the BattleTech figure game that MechWarrior is based on."... my reply was a pretty loud "YES!"

Edited by Grimm Wulf, 01 January 2012 - 03:15 PM.

[Xamot]

Heh, first started playing in the late '80's with the original Battletech Boxed set. Cardboard cutouts with the plastic stands, only about 3 mechs per weight class. I don't think there were even any assualt mechs in that first box set. 20+ years and I don't even want to know how much money later, still love playing tabletop.

[SilentWolff]

Update on the poll:
Well 65% of the people that voted have been in the BT universe for 16 plus years. Thats very impressive. Makes me proud to be in a community with such a loyal following.

[Nigel the Fist]

I was given the Cresent Hawks Inception on PC - was my first taste. I bought a pack that had Both cresent hawks games and the first mechwarrior which we played on a 386 sx system. I remember reading about MW2 and I bought a 486DX2-66 to play it on ( and to school&uni stuff) but MW2 got delayed heaps, when it was finally released the 486 struggled a bit. I enjoyed Mech Comander & MC2, and MW3 & MW4. I guess giant robots with giant guns never get old! I wish the same could be said for me - I turn 37 next month! I'm looking forward to playing MW with my kids!

[Nostromides]

Also started playing back in the mid-80s. Was a member of an online group on Prodigy, called the Quantum Bandits. Great times...

[Deckard2]

i've been at it since the table top days in the early to mid 80's

Edited by = Deckard =, 02 January 2012 - 02:03 PM.

[Threat Doc]

Feel free to visit my profile and read my information... been at this a VERY long time, though still not as long as some.

[Madam]

Back when the zone was the cool spot, ahh the memories. Gosh, I can't even remember how long ago that was. A good 10 to 12years I'd have to say.

[Slideways]

I have been and still play BattleTech weekly since 1986. There were a few years there that we didn't play but for the most part it has been continuous and fantastic. Really looking forward to the teamwork and Character specialization in MWO.

[Durant Carlyle]

I was hooked when I picked up Decision at Thunder Rift at the book store and read about my namesake getting killed. This was around Christmas of '86, so 25 years ago. They made me mad when they republished the book a few years later and changed the story around. I had to go hunting for the original version in used book stores. Took me a while to find it, but I did.

I've played most of the computer games, and read probably 95% of the novels.

Edited by Durant Carlyle, 03 January 2012 - 12:16 PM.

[DEVASTATOR]

I played MW first when it came out on SNES (Nintendo) back sometime in the early 90's (93?). Then I played all the MW PC games. Never been into the tabletop BattleTech games. So, that makes it almost 20 years.

Did they have PC's back then?

[1SgtChuckie]

I was playing the board game and painting mechs in 1986.. while I was in the Army..

So call it +21 as I refuse to do the math.

[Dagger6T6]

Starting playing the tabletop game... Battletech 2nd edition in middle school, late 90s... along with dabbling in Aerotech, Citytech... then Mechwarrior RPG and some SolarisVII... so at least 20 years or more. I would read technical readouts cover to cover, especially those early readouts with the great isometric drafting style artwork, and notable Mechwarriors. This was also the pewter age of lead metal mechs, of which I have a few... wish I had more of those originals. Read all the major books in the last few years or so as I had never really read them before or just needed a refresher rereading.

I do recall Battletech being banned from study hall because of excessive and loud celebration after successive SRM6 hits from my Warhammer to a Battlemaster's head in the opening salvo of a little skirmish me and some friends put together.

[Lazarus Jamal]

I started off with MechCommander, then bought the entire novel series while playing MW3 and 4.
Fell off a while ago though when it seemed like the community died out.

This game looks fantastic so far!! Hopefully things actually follow through not like the teaser last summer.

[Dragon Lady]

Let's see...

Over 20 years, that's for sure. I was in high school when someone in our gaming group bought the Battletech box set. Which was pretty cool, since so many of them were based on Robotech, which I had been a huge fan of.

Then I saw there were Battletech novels, and I've been hooked ever since.

*digs out novels*

My oldest ones are "Decision at Thunder Rift" and "The Sword and the Dagger," and I'm pretty sure I bought them at the same time, so that would make it 1987. So 24 years.

Wow.