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[Isorla]

I used top play the game when it first came out and even battlemastered for a time. I stopped playing the game just after AOD and lost all of my collection back then. I am slowly building up my favorite faction of HK-DF and some SC-NC, HD-SS units. I'd love to play anyone in the chicago land area if they were interested.

[Halidon Drabek]

I started playing Mechwarrior right when the Fire for Effect wave was released. It was my first experience with table top gaming and I found the game play easy to learn and enjoyable. It wasn't long before I built up a huge collection of MW:DA pieces. It wasn't that the game had it's problems. Uber mechs and pieces were always an issue.

What killed MW:DA for me was Age of Destruction. I hung in there for a little bit after, but needing pilot and special equipment cards was too much. Especially since the only way it seemed to get them was to buy them off of someone else. Before, a unique would run you about $20. Now, it was $20 for the unique and $20 for the pilot and loadout. It was too much for me to keep up with.

It was a shame, because I have a really nice collection. I have around 100 boxed uniques( I can't remember what they called them). I have the Paladin Atlas(the first one) and the Mason Dunne MCIII.

I also managed to win the AURORA CLASS DROPSHIP at a 2000 point faction pure tournament. I got with a Dragon's fury army that ran all evades. It was awesome.

I still have everything, I just don't know what I'm going to do with it.

[brayn21]

I've never played the Mechawarrior clix game, but it seems like fun. What is the average length of time to play a game? Also, how much table top space would you need to dedicate to it? I've played HeroScape with a bunch of friends and that game takes FOREVER to set up, choose pieces and then eventually play. I'm hoping this is game is less time consuming because I love Battletech.

Brian

[RotS Targe]

The standard/ rules state a 50 min time limit, and played on a 3' by 3' board

[Halidon Drabek]

brayn21, on 02 April 2012 - 02:49 PM, said:

I've never played the Mechawarrior clix game, but it seems like fun. What is the average length of time to play a game? Also, how much table top space would you need to dedicate to it? I've played HeroScape with a bunch of friends and that game takes FOREVER to set up, choose pieces and then eventually play. I'm hoping this is game is less time consuming because I love Battletech.

Brian

Each player got 300 points to build an army in santioned play. Sometimes rules stipulated more. It depends on what the Wizkids set up for that month. Depending on the scenario, each play got to place a certain number of terrain piece(2D pieces cut out of felt usually.) The game map was 3ft X 3ft(usually felt also.) with deployment zones at either end. Each player gets one turn or order for every 150 pts. of army. This means you could only give a move order, vent order or a fire order to two units for each turn. Non-mech pieces could only take two consecutive turns before having to rest. Mechs could take constant orders at the risk of overheating. Basically, it's futuristic combat in slow motion. There was a 50 min. time limit for tournament play.

I played many non-sanctioned pick up games with large 1000 to 3000 point armies on big game tables with 3D terrain. Those games would last hours.

[brayn21]

Sounds pretty cool. I like the various kinds of strategy that are linked into such a game format. I hope I can find a good local supplier for clix boosters and starters. Do you guys recommend any specific sets? Or are there sets to stay away from if you're a newbie? If anyone one here is in the SF bay area, let me know. It might be fun to meet up and learn how to play from a seasoned veteran.

What sort of strategies do you guys employ when you play the clix game? Do you blitz the opponent? Surround them with hefty mechs? There's so many differnt ways to handle futuristic battle in slow motion. I was never overly patient and tended to run in guns blazing. That same strategy is why I suck at online games like Halo...

[RotS Targe]

Well, considering that the game has been out of production for a while, it comes down to what you can find. I'm in a group in Fremont, we play regularly. I would suggest going to the BT Forums, they have a Challenges and gatherings section, that's your best bet to finding anything closer, but groups are pretty dispersed, now.

[tynaiden]

roundtop, on 09 December 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

MW:DA... had good and bad aspects.

Spoiler

Full disclosure: I have played TT for a couple decades. I played DA from launch until just after AoD. I was a battlemaster at my FLGS too for it.

The first game and expansion (fire for effect) were the best time for this game. Not too many units, emphasized combined arms, and everyone was learning the system. It felt that mechs were powerful, but unsupported were dead meat.

Then a few things happened. Power gamers started buying LE pieces which were much more powerful, the every 3 months expansions got very expensive (unless you had $$$$, see: Power Gamers), and the number of units increased substantially. The rules got more and more complicated as they added abilities and new options, and tried to fix "broken" rules.

By the time v2 of the rules came out (AoD), the game was dying, and the pilot cards / abilities did not help matters.

Our group, which had approx 10 people normally at least once/week had fewer and fewer players as the power gamer of the group pissed them all off. (He would go to several stores to get the LEs in games then ebay them off afterwards. He would customize his army for each player he faced too).

I don't really miss it. I'll go and play TT again.

I had pretty much the exact same experience. The CBT crew was no longer interested in the complex games we used to play so we all just sort of drifted away from anything Battletech short of the MW3 & MW4 games. Randomly while at the FLGS looking at the latest M:tG set of the time, I wondered over to the wargaming section and saw the DA display. "Rejoice, BT shall once again be played by us". Oddly enough we all ended up with almost pure factions through trading among ourselves and the small band of rotating players at the FLGS so the cost of getting what we were looking for was actually not bad.

Echo the time of the great revision with new rulebook, pilot cards etc along with rotating power gamers (near military base so there seemed to always be one that joined the games) and the increased cost of collecting and forming the factions we wanted [cant forget to suppliment with merc units of course] killed that inspiration along with the general decline not long after. A major contributor may have also been the ease of minmaxing through the system's flaws.

From what I remember -- I still liked the grouping, handling of combined forces, and artillery overall. The minatures were an odd scale overall to readily use premade terrain at the time but were not tiny fragile nor super obtrusive. The material used and prepainted status actually was desired to me and a few others as it took pressure off of transporting the vast armies we collected without fear of repeated wear or replacements. Some of us took liberties with a favored few units through custom paint of course and the larger models allowed us to take the customizing to more liberal and precise levels.

As mentioned in another thread in this TT section of the forums and lightly on this topic, a blend of the Clix figures and quicker rules along with expansion Tech Levels like CBT may be viable with some tweeks. Possibly even with another thread's idea of smart pieces that help track things likes stats and auto calculate charts n rolls.

Sadly, OT again, I just sold the last remaining pieces of my Dragons Fury army on Ebay not but a few months ago including two copies of the unique Jupiter, the unique Marauder II "Bounty Hunter", and the Blitz Hawk from the AoD starter that I kept because I loved it's looks. Had almost every Dragon's Fury unit up till the release of the Draconis Combine forces which I was going to switch to.

For those that still have their Clix figures -- I found a system to vary the terrain by happenstance of another game system: Heroscape. The terrain fits the Clix figures rather well and lends to some rules expansion along the lines of CBT.

[Jonas]

I couldn't ever get into it, I like the novels ( some anyway ) but I thought it was a step backwards why use I.C.E. engines when Fusion was better for everything. The republic of the sphere was a good idea.

[Hal Aglin]

Oh, you know... I played a little bit.

[Links432]

I finally had time to play my first game with my wife last night. I had a great time playing, I even won, which never happens when playing any board game against her.

[Larsh]

More recently myself and a group of my firends have pulled our pieces out of storage to begin playing this again. We were surprised at how cheap you can find boosters online and we've really gotten back into this (dead) game now. After buying some boosters in bulk we have a pretty good collection, and we play weekly, and keep finding new people who want to join.

Sometime next year we're thinking about hosting a small panel at our local anime convention, Tekkoshocon, located in Pittsburgh PA to see if we can rally more troops. This was one of my first introductions to the Mechwarrior universe and really enjoyed it, and I would love if Wiz Kids could bring it back.

[FLAKPANZER]

Ulric Kell, on 03 January 2012 - 08:26 AM, said:

I’m getting ready to start a new campaign so I’ll post the rules from this and some pictures of the board in a new thread in a couple of days.

I would be interested in seeing how you make the depth of the game closer to Battleteck. Please do!

Thanks.

[Argon3]

I played heavily just up into the pilot cards
I got laid off and had a child in the 2 years as it broke down
I found out it had died 6 months after it had folded

I tended to run pure Rebuplic faction
But I have a few pieces still around
Yes I have a Mason Dune
1 for play and 1 as a collectors still in box

[shameless]

I have complete sets for everything and more than one DS, including all non tournament awarded LE's loved to play, didn't get alot of chance to. my favorite army is the Repulic

[Donner]

I won an auction a few years back on ebay for 90 something bucks and I got a whole big box of mechwarrior tabletop pieces, even some of the rare unique mechs. It has a whole bunch of dark age crap in there too, and also vtols, sam sites, tanks, battle armor, etc.

[Kal Raddick]

hi there... great thing that i've found this thread...ivebeen looking for over a week now where to find active threads about the miniature games. back in 2006, ive played the miniature game using STEEL WOLVES clan and won Sadia Wolf's Catapult and Innova Wolf's Madcat MK II. unfortunately the game was short lived in our community here in the Philippines and i have Geoff Bekker's Kodiak and Kendrik Fetladral Madcat MKIII, i have a very small unit cost not even reaching 900points. now i really want to collect the steelwolves lot and been looking through ebay but the shipping price were always double the price of the unit that i am eyeing(lol). i am a diehard steelwoves fan and would really appreciate it if anyone here is more than willing to let go of their steel wolves lot with a reasonable price, shipping cost, and trustworthy enough for trading someone from the PHILIPPINES.

i may not have players to compete with but i will forever treasure the STEEL WOLVES collection.

please respect my post.
thank you and regards to everyone.

may the black bear guide you.

reply to this post or feel free to mail me at lbauno@yahoo.com or facebook so we can be friends hehehe. just look under Lancer Dhie Bauno.

thank you.

[Kal Raddick]

tynaiden, on 23 April 2012 - 02:26 AM, said:

I had pretty much the exact same experience. The CBT crew was no longer interested in the complex games we used to play so we all just sort of drifted away from anything Battletech short of the MW3 & MW4 games. Randomly while at the FLGS looking at the latest M:tG set of the time, I wondered over to the wargaming section and saw the DA display. "Rejoice, BT shall once again be played by us". Oddly enough we all ended up with almost pure factions through trading among ourselves and the small band of rotating players at the FLGS so the cost of getting what we were looking for was actually not bad.

Echo the time of the great revision with new rulebook, pilot cards etc along with rotating power gamers (near military base so there seemed to always be one that joined the games) and the increased cost of collecting and forming the factions we wanted [cant forget to suppliment with merc units of course] killed that inspiration along with the general decline not long after. A major contributor may have also been the ease of minmaxing through the system's flaws.

From what I remember -- I still liked the grouping, handling of combined forces, and artillery overall. The minatures were an odd scale overall to readily use premade terrain at the time but were not tiny fragile nor super obtrusive. The material used and prepainted status actually was desired to me and a few others as it took pressure off of transporting the vast armies we collected without fear of repeated wear or replacements. Some of us took liberties with a favored few units through custom paint of course and the larger models allowed us to take the customizing to more liberal and precise levels.

As mentioned in another thread in this TT section of the forums and lightly on this topic, a blend of the Clix figures and quicker rules along with expansion Tech Levels like CBT may be viable with some tweeks. Possibly even with another thread's idea of smart pieces that help track things likes stats and auto calculate charts n rolls.

Sadly, OT again, I just sold the last remaining pieces of my Dragons Fury army on Ebay not but a few months ago including two copies of the unique Jupiter, the unique Marauder II "Bounty Hunter", and the Blitz Hawk from the AoD starter that I kept because I loved it's looks. Had almost every Dragon's Fury unit up till the release of the Draconis Combine forces which I was going to switch to.

For those that still have their Clix figures -- I found a system to vary the terrain by happenstance of another game system: Heroscape. The terrain fits the Clix figures rather well and lends to some rules expansion along the lines of CBT.

i really loved the old style sir in which the pilots are pre-fitted into the mech and fixed weapons.

i really hate the idea that some pilot are going to board a mech and arm new weapons.
if ever there will be a chance that i can buy steel wolves lot, ill play the old ruling since there is no hard and fast rule now that wizkids has been shut down. am i right?

[Okami Ryu]

wow it's been a while since i played this i started at the begining and played all the way till the end i went to tourniments whenever i could(never came close to winning any mind you) It was a great gamesystem my favorites still are the clan wolf madcat mk!V and my favorite is the Flavio Rodriguez Koshi which i always put somthing different in it's hand like a small plastic tree or one of thoughs small swords for cocktails

[Jokerman]

I was into it for a while! Really bummed when they stopped making them