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[TheRulesLawyer]

I started in middle school which would have been the late 80's I'm probably 21-22 years.

[Stormwolf]

15 years, bordering on 16. I started in the mid 90's.

[Gatheron]

i really dont remember when it was...i think it was with "The Crescent Hawks Revenge" on PC...1990??

[MGAvellar]

I'm not sure the exact year, but it would have been somewhere around 1984-1986.

[GrimJim]

Found a 1985 catalogue from FASA the other day pimping the likes of Doctor Who, Star Trek and a new "Game of Armored Combat." I think a friend got the box set a week later based off of the Robotech coverart.

Interestingly enough I remember us being so besotted by role-playing and so bored by the enormous length of turns, adding and subtracting on convoluted charts, missing paper counters, vague 2D map sheets -- that we eventually dropped the physical elements altogether. What was left was basically D&D hack n' slash scenarios in 30 foot tall robots.

MWO a quarter century b4 its time!

(Here's hoping the game attracts some fresh blood....under thirty)

[CG Anastasius Focht]

I started in 1986 with the cardboard foldover standups, then lead figures, then crescent hawks inception, and just about everything since.
Even upped the scale and played CBT outdoors.




TRO's Toys and novels.
Love the genre always have, always will.

Edited by [CG]Anastasius Focht, 23 November 2011 - 12:59 PM.

[Demi-Precentor Konev]

Wasn't really sure what to vote. I watched the old cartoon and played MW3050 and MW3 & 4, but after that game sort of died out I didn't touch anything BT related until about a month or two ago when I got back into the tabletop game.

[Emilie Cameron]

I think I was thirteen or fourteen when I first played. My friend showed me the ropes and was so kind as to take a Marauder against the Archer I had picked out. I was on the ropes (surprise!) and luck shined down on me. One missile from an LRM-20 popped a critical to the cockpit, killing the pilot! It's better to be lucky than good when you don't know what the hell you are doing!

I really liked the ships though when he got the 2750 tech readout. Ah, days and nights building ships without any rules to govern it, those were good times.

Oh yeah, so its been 23-24 years I guess.

Edited by Emilie Cameron, 23 November 2011 - 01:30 PM.

[h0UNd]

I was introduced to the BT universe in 1986 at a local game club weekend - was given leadership of a recon lance (in a Locust) in a game that spanned more than a few boxed sets worth of maps and a couple of trestle tables - a company level skirmish (12v12).

I remember watching the wolverines in the fire lance with fascination, thinking to myself - I need to pilot one of those - I think it was the 'swamp' camo on the folding cardstock (I would love to see this again if anyone has an image to share) that did it, that and the jump jets.

The game took a good portion of the night to conclude, but I was hooked. I began playing more frequently in the summer of 86/87 when my more affluent friend from the next 'burb insisted on purchasing everything that became available. Gradually we implemented the mechwerrior, aerotech, citytech, reinforcements and battletroops.

I was afk for ther microsoft MW games (but still managed to play the SP campaigns on mates machines) and turned a blind eye to MAssault.

I, for some time have been an ardent supporter of MWLL and its rendition of CBT's combined arms approach.

[CGB Radar]

Like Silent Wolf, I have been playing since 1986.
I'm 53, some guys in my unit have been playing almost as long.

We are so OPC, the clans would have put us in a Sholama unit years ago.

Wow, time it do fly.

[DCleric]

Since Battledroids. Every one of the computer games (all hail Ford Prefect! and Clan Black Sheep), all of the novels and source books up to the Dark Ages and even a few of them. I can't tell you how good it is to "see" some of the people online for this.

[SMDMadCow]

17 years, starting with MW2 and the Cartoon in the 90's. I've been playing the table top for years and I think I have over 100 mini's, and I've read every novel I can get my hands on - I keep finding some at second hand book stores.

[SilverSble]

Let us just say long enough that apparently my Jenner is still spoken of. Other than that it would date me to much to reply to that line of inquiry.

Hey y'all. Glad to see some old names on here. Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving.

Edited by SilverSble, 24 November 2011 - 12:26 PM.

[kevin roshak]

I started playing when i was about 8, im 20 now. damn 12 years

[ice trey]

Been following the franchise since Mechwarrior 2, but first introduced to the franchise since the Cartoon.

I was 8 years old for both. I am now 25, so a good 17 years or so.

I was collecting the CCG at 11 years (1997), and finally got into the tabletop at 19 years (2005).

[Arnold Carns]

Got the German Issue from BattleTech published by Fantasy Productions in Winter 1989 as a birthday gift from a pal who used to work at a local book- and gamestore. We used to play Pen&Paper RPGs like "Das Schwarze Auge" ("The Dark Eye" in US), AD&D, Cthulhu, , MERP, Traveller and others theese days. A Tabletop/Boardgame was something we weren't that much used to, so we doesn't play it much. The ignition came in May 1990, when the BT Novels were published by Heyne. That's been the point we came addicted to the BattleTech Universe .
From that day on we played the Boardgame regularly. I read most of the Novels (don't like Victor Milans' writing style) collected most of the Sourcebooks, even got one of theese Steiner-Patches (Yah, i know! But FedSuns and Clan Wolf were already sold out ), PlasTech, Cut-Away Posters....
I played MW2 on PS One and PC, GBL, MechWarrior2: Mercenaries (both the Regular and the 3DFX-Version), Activisions MechWarrior and the other 2 DOS-Games. MechWarrior 3 and Pirates Moon, MW4: Vengeance and Mercs (never ever let Microsoft get a Hand on a MechWarrior-Game again! ), MPBT 3025 (*** **** EA for buying out Kesmai and Microsoft for beeing greedy!). Led a german RP-Clan for several years in the old days of MW3 and MW4.

Now we're playing LotRO, WoT and other games, waited for the Reboot and now waiting to get back in the cockpit in MWO. If it does support Leagueplay in some way I'd really be happy. If they doing it right and they create that immersive MechWarrior-Game they promise...
It would be like getting home again after a long, long journey.

Many thanks to Russ Bullock and Bryan Ekman for not giving it up when things got complicated!
If we finally get another fresh MechWarrior-Game, it's just for their tenacity.

Edited by Arnold Carns, 24 November 2011 - 01:33 PM.

[Mason Grimm]

Since Battletech Second Edition came out I've been jumping into the cockpit any chance I get! I also remember when Mechwarrior (Activision) required an EGA monitor and I had to upgrade from my old CGA.

[JadeTiger]

Been playing since '90. Still in contact with at least a couple of members of my old crew. Can't wait to play again!

[Ivan Tseng]

Started playing Battletech back in 1986 and even played the original Mechwarrior on a 286. When MW2 came out played for a bit on MPlayer and then gradually went over to Kali. And joined up with The Minnesota Tribe for MW2 Mercs all the way to MW4 with a really long break between MW3 and MW4. Drifted away to play WoW and Eve. Just now coming back to the mother game. So I guess it's been 25+ years for me.

[Riddlin]

Started with Battletech in 1987...when the Mechwarrior RPG hit my group used this as the "down-time" game for our AD&D campaigns. Played through the rest of the '80s and into the mid '90s but lost interest when they shifted direction to the clans...I am old school and really liked the five houses and the 3025 Tech Readout mechs.

That just FEELS like Mechwarrior to me...