

How Did You Come To Know Battletech?
#101
Posted 28 February 2012 - 12:56 PM
#102
Posted 28 February 2012 - 01:14 PM
#103
Posted 28 February 2012 - 01:26 PM

#104
Posted 28 February 2012 - 01:51 PM
Several months later, I bought the $19.99 Battletech board game. Started playing it with my little brother who was more interested in chucking dice than playing. I pretty much understood the mechanics before I set out to buy my first metal figurine (they were made from lead back then). I painted that thing about 20 times before I was satisfied with my work. The amounts of spraycan vapors, along with the paint remover, would have been enough to kill a small village, not to mention the lead exposure; but I pressed on. I took my figurine to play an actual board game at a hobby store. It was 14 year-old me and 6 other people, all of whom were old enough to drink.
About an hour into the game I decided to pull a newbie maneuver against the most veteran player at the table. A 40 year old army captain who played this game with a strategist's passion. My light mech charged his assult unit in a flagrant disregard for my safety or my newly created pilot. I turned, rolled a skill roll, slipped, plowed into his unit's leg, toppled him, and then I exploded. It was technically a kill, but he didn't think so.
That's also the first time in my life that I thought an adult was going to beat me senseless, but it turns out we all had a good laugh. I was hooked on BT from that point on. Every now and then we still roll the old board game out, and we never fail to split our guts at some ridiculous move.
#105
Posted 28 February 2012 - 05:26 PM
I never really played the tabletop game, I have played around with megamek alot though, and have always found it fun.
Edited by Mastr, 28 February 2012 - 05:30 PM.
#106
Posted 28 February 2012 - 05:38 PM
#107
Posted 28 February 2012 - 05:45 PM
Edited by Rinsler, 28 February 2012 - 05:46 PM.
#108
Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:20 PM
#109
Posted 02 March 2012 - 09:43 PM
#110
Posted 02 March 2012 - 10:05 PM
I found them for sale online at http://paizo.com/sto...combatBookGames
Here's a pic of one of them

It was awesome for a 10 year old kid. Shortly after, I was introduced to the tabletop version by my brother. That was kind of a funny story. We were trying to play RPGs, my dad found out about it and told us it was of the devil, told us about a college student that got so into D&D that he became delusional and killed his parents. So while we couldn't play the Mechwarrior RPG, we could play Battletech as long as we didn't create fictional pilots. Funny stuff.
Played that as a teenager along with Mechwarrior 2 and 3.
#111
Posted 02 March 2012 - 10:06 PM
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#113
Posted 03 March 2012 - 02:17 AM
Marvin Martian, on 02 March 2012 - 10:05 PM, said:
I found them for sale online at http://paizo.com/sto...combatBookGames
Here's a pic of one of them

I still have a few of those books amongst my collection.
#114
Posted 03 March 2012 - 08:22 PM
Kristov Kerensky, on 25 December 2011 - 10:10 PM, said:
There was a cartoon series that came out during the late 80's about the Battletech Universe and the Battletech masters. I cant remember the name of the cartoon though. It is what led us into the mechwarrior universe.
#115
Posted 04 March 2012 - 03:15 AM
Downloaded the quick-start rules, purchased some LITKO wargame counter stands (as a stand-in for miniatures at this early stage), and gave it a few runs. I just received my hardback of Total Warfare a few days ago and bought a few technical readouts and printable record sheets. I'm pretty damn shiny~
#116
Posted 04 March 2012 - 03:39 AM
#117
Posted 04 March 2012 - 03:39 AM
I started back in the 80's like most of the posters I have so far read. I remember a friend at the time inviting me over to another friends house to play some game call Battletech and thinking why not AD&D, since that was what we normally did. They were all sitting on the floor, maps set out, lances all over the place and worksheets in everyone's possession! My friend set me up with a 'mech' and since then I was hooked. The turn based enviroment was more orderly than AD&D and seemed to keep a fair and balanced game.
After a while, I started making my own mech's following the rules in the books and after a time I was destroying those same friends on a regular basis and watching them scratch their heads and check the books only to find out the mech I was using was legit!
Years went by and eventually I married (talk about a mech war... but I digress) and I was going to a local game shop I frequented. Turned out they were having a "Gunslinger" event going on downstairs. Since I had nothing to do that day (being a weekend) I headed on down. the basement was full of people (about 50 people or so) and maps I had never seen were out with all kinds of painted figurines placed here and there.. it was exciting to see it all. I was told the rules by the game referee and went to choosing the mech i wanted to use. You only got one and could use it from the original game and the clan mechs... They had a point system that balanced out the game no matter what you used so I went with what I knew, the original mech's.
After about 12 games and getting late in the day, I finished off the last mech on the board with a head shot. Totally ticked the guy off but it was a fair play and I was titled "Gunslinger Champion" - got the shirt, certificate and trophy awarded to me. The game shop wanted to hold onto the trophy and display it and put my name on it but unfortunately they "lost" it (I think it was stolen by an employee.. but I digress) but I did get the T-shirt with the warhammer on the face in combat and the certificate saying I had won the tourney.
The shirt and certificate were lost during my last clan war (divorce) , with the lawyer mechs. Moving has a way of causing things to get lost or misplaced at the wrong time. But I still have the memories and those are all I really need. Looking forward to M.W.O even though I highly doubt I'll be what i was, I'll still enjoy it thoroughly!
See you on the fields!
#118
Posted 06 March 2012 - 11:22 PM
#119
Posted 07 March 2012 - 08:21 PM
#120
Posted 08 March 2012 - 02:29 PM
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