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[Augustus Martelus II]

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[Burktross]

AUSwarrior24, on 14 November 2014 - 02:19 AM, said:

I'm not ashamed to say that I'm probably the youngest of the lot here at 18... it no doubt comes through some of my ranting and replies.

Despite that, my first MW game was still MW2:Mercs due to a lack of a decent computer when I was younger, then MW4, and then began the obsession with the TT. Though I've never actually played TT physically with another person because BT is a franchise sadly under represented within my age group.

You think you're the youngest? I'm 15.
That's right. I've no shame in this.

Mw4 got me into Mechwarrior, then from it I learned of Battletech. I play Megamek TT against bots every once and a while, but it's hard to find friends among my age group into DnD and Wargames to actually play with me.

Edited by Burktross, 14 November 2014 - 12:14 PM.

[Xmith]

Started playing online with MW3 at age 48.
Today, I'm still going strong at 62.

[Eximar]

Been involved with BT for 29 of my 52 years.

[mp00]

Physically feel 77

Mentally a am told 11

So between the two I am 44

[Nathan Foxbane]

28

[Brody319]

19

This was my first mechwarrior game.

Edited by Brody319, 18 November 2014 - 07:13 AM.

[627]

Xmith, on 14 November 2014 - 12:19 PM, said:

Started playing online with MW3 at age 48.
Today, I'm still going strong at 62.

o7

[Mothykins]

24, and getting owned by folks 50% older than me.

This seems like a recurring theme...

[Selene Lunaris]

17. Big into battletech and mechwarrior now, which I suppose fits well with my tendency to like nearly everything from the 20th century's last two decades.

[RockmachinE]

Cavale, on 14 November 2014 - 01:07 PM, said:

24, and getting owned by folks 50% older than me.

This seems like a recurring theme...

Well a lot of the older guys have many years head start on young dudes. Some of us old farts have been gaming for 30+ years so there's that.

[poohead]

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Started with reading the Gray Death trilogy sometime in the early 90s, then first game was MW2 Mercs.

God I loved that game. Especially how lax the customisation was and how you could use bugs to create ridiculous builds.

[Voivode]

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[MoonUnitBeta]

25 yr old
I grew up playing MW2, MW3, and MW4. Great times.

[Sprouticus]

45

BT when it came out (worked in a game store at the time)
I have played MW since MW I. I played just aboiut every BT video game out there, excluding the stupid console game.

[DONTOR]

25 here, when I was 6 my Mom got me a Red Thor toy, which I learned many years later was a battle mech. I started to play MW2 CGB Legacy when I was about 8, and have loved Mechwarrior ever since. Joined a CGB unit when I was 12 or so on MW4 mercenaries, and havent looked back.
MWO is also my favorite iteraton of the game, both in looks and feel. Never played MW:LL as It didnt feel like a sanctioned MW title to me.
Got some table top mini's when I was in mddle school painted them up and enjoyed them, but never actually got any rules to play the game.
Mini's were a random mix of ones I enjoyed from MW3 and ones I thought looked cool
Avatar
Viking
Battle Cobra
Bushwhacker
Nova, strange mix looking back on them lol.

[Bill Lumbar]

Burktross, on 14 November 2014 - 12:13 PM, said:

You think you're the youngest? I'm 15.
That's right. I've no shame in this.

Mw4 got me into Mechwarrior, then from it I learned of Battletech. I play Megamek TT against bots every once and a while, but it's hard to find friends among my age group into DnD and Wargames to actually play with me.

Well I guess times haven't change much than... I used to always have a hard time getting much more than just a few friends that lived around me or went to school with me to play much of anything. I used to try to get a few of them that did to play Hero Quest, or Advanced Hero Quest... and well, they just didn't have the attention span to even really grasp those simple games. Forget DnD or Shadow Run... or much anything else. lol. I did have a group of friends that I grew up with before I moved to Hillsdale Mi, from Elkhart IN, there was about six of us that was into BT TT, warhammer 40K, DnD, but friends like that was rare. We wasn't really considered normal... one of my friends dad's gave him a WWII armored ambulance for his freshmen year, and he drove it all the time for about a year and a half till his dad bought him a new 5.0 mustang. Most of us hung out with adults that was 4-20 years older than us and didn't have many friends our own age or younger.

Of course I had many friends that lived hours away or out of state that were my fathers gaming buddies sons and even more rare, daughters. Funny no matter how much things change or time goes by, many times its all the same.

Edited by Bill Lumbar, 14 November 2014 - 03:03 PM.

[Porcorosso101]

39 on my laptop on medium settings

[Clint Steel]

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[Buzzkillin]

22, started with the series with MW2 mercs, have almost ever single game, trying to collect the books. I wish people played table top here. I would trade my 40k IG pieces so fast.