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[1337Achilles]

The first time i came across it was when i saw a friends pewter madcat piece sitting on his desk. I look at him and said "cool mechwarrior piece." it was an early model and he mentioned that it was battletech. since then i havent stop playing. i just recently got into the books. Now on top of the table top i have a bigger money pit. BEST MONEY PIT EVER!!

[Paradat]

For me it was the origional table top game. Still have a lot of the books and mineatures. Then I think the first book I read was decision at thunder ridge. We played this a lot in the Army

Played the first few video games, then later mech commander.

[Tomtricity]

Friend's older brother had a copy of Battledroids from the mid 1980s. We wanted something newer so we picked up a copy of Citytech with the Archer crashing through the front of the box. That had to have been around 1989/1990. Pretty much hooked from there... Bought the expansions, the map packs, source books, every novel that came out... Man that was a long time ago. I still re-read the Warrior trilogy by Stackpole once in a while. Good to see the game getting some life breathed into it again.

[deathrollheng]

I am an old timer I played Battledroids until Fasa got sued by George Lucas and called it battletech. I still have the box and little plastic mechs a griffen and shadowhawk. I collected everything untill mwda, even bought some mechs but could not get into it at all. Only thing I never got was the boxed game Succession Wars boxed set I played mechwarrior thru all its iterations Cresent hawks thru mw4 my fav was mw3 it was more of a sim which I loved. I also played in mw4 league mercs and nbt4 for House Jurai the greatest Pirate house in the land we specialize in clan hunting =).

[Coolant]

Discovered Mechwarrior, not Battletech, back in 1993 with the original Mechwarrior on DOS while underway in the Navy. Somehow someone must've brought a diskette of it and stuck it in the shop's desk because I found it and played pretty much all WestPac. Didn't pick the franchise back up until the compilation pack in late 2004 that came with Black Knight and Vengeance, although I had tried the demo of MW3.

[sng ign]

Mechwarrior in 1989. Never liked the Battletech (Jason Youngblood) games, but this was still around the Windows 3.1 days and multiplayer computer games were a rarity.

MWo is probably going to blow Tekki Taisen and Steel Battalion Heavy Armor out of the way.

[Jakebob]

late 80's - tabletop. Some friends in college had played it before, and I got hooked. I think the day after I played it for the first time I ran out and bought TR3025.

[Yvraith]

A friend of mine had the old Boxed set with the (unseen) Warhammer on the cover, we had many battles over the hex maps.
He also had The Cresent Hawks Inception on Commodore 64 (That's an old computer for you young'uns).
From there I drifted away a little, got back into it with Mechwarrior 2, MW 4 etc.
Read some of Michael Stackpole's novels.

Then when I finished my military service in 2005, I discovered some other mates were into MW-RPG.
We've been campaigning ever since.
Which is where my thirst for filling in the blanks in the timeline came from, I love good background material.
You could say I really like the sci-fi/fantasy/historic fiction part of it all.

Edited by Yvraith, 11 May 2012 - 02:30 PM.

[Steelhill]

While in a supermarket i found a Mechwarrior 2 Battlepack box on sale. Around 1998 i think. God i need to find that Manual again


Heh i remember listening to the soundtrack by putting the cd's in the cd player

Edited by Steelhill, 11 May 2012 - 02:36 PM.

[Rottenshanks]

My history with Battletech started Christmas '89 when my friend was given Mechwarrior as a gift. We were juniors in high school at the time, and he installed it on the library computer (which had a black and white monitor.) We would come in before school to play, then after school we would go to his house and play some more. Later on, we discovered the table-top game and begin playing that. We started with a group of 4 of us playing, but by the time we graduated from high school we had 8 or 9 playing.

After that, the group drifted apart, but a couple of us would get together to play every now and then. In '97 I was able to get a couple of new friends playing. We would play every couple of weeks or so for about 2 years, until they moved away. At this point I started drifting away from Battletech. I played Mechwarrior 3 when it came out, but that was my last trip into this universe until I accidentally came across a video for what would eventually became Mechwarrior Online at Gamespot.

I still have all of my miniatures downstairs, close to 100 Mechs, I think. I'll have to brng them up and look at them. Then cringe at my horrible painting skills.

[Lord Perversor]

Mine started with a videogame magacine, there was a one page long new about an upcoming of a *mechwarrior 2* game with a mad cat on it.

I felt in love with it, then some time after i was able to get into a local ciber-coffee where the mw2 multiplayers battles happened all the day making me love it even more.

this reminds me i still have the MW2: mercenaries CD on my house.

[Kyuui]

My introduction was the PnP version way back in high school we played all summer long, It was great, still remember the 2 seat armored recon mech I designed. I loved that thing. Kinda want to get back into PnP, or maybe TT but no one around me, that I know of plays.

Hmm do we have a thread about that? if not, we really should,with all of us on here I'm sure we could figure something out.

[Fearful]

I was given the 2nd Edition Table Top as a Christmas present back in the Mid 80's. Been a fan ever since.

[Red October911]

I remember it when it was yesterday...

I was about 4-5 years old and my dad was playing on our old *** Macintosh. Curious, I got closer and saw him playing MW 2 I instantly fell in love with the franchise.

It was the first video game I had ever played in my life and i remember getting in the marauder but (being the kid i was at the time) I'd always get blown to smithereens. However, since I have "great memory" my MW 2 experience is quite blurred so i do not remember much of it(except tht maurauder and playing as a Timberwolf which also became my fav. mech). I do remember how it got trashed...My older brother wanted to play this horrible music interactive game and I wanted to play MW 2 which was ions better than that crap. So we ended up opening and closing the trey repeatedly until the great quality mac broke on us -.- (haven't used one ever since then). I still have never forgiven him about that incident XD

From then on i played: MW 4 Vengeance, MW 3 (only instant action, it was a burnt game and campaign didn't work), Mechcommander 2, Starseige (i know this isn't battletech but still a great 'mech'simulation) and MW 4 Mercs.

Nowadays, since I never really understood the story line of BT (nor have I taken the time to read it when I was young), I try to get a better understanding of it and I wouldn't mind reading more about it this time around.

All tho i'm not too familiar with the entire story line (I read a lil about the general story but I don't know all the details), I can't wait for the summer release of MW: O, the franchise has been my fav. ever since childhood and now it's being brought back to life for the first time in a long while (excluding Mech Assault, which was mediocre at best -.-)

P.S.: It sucks that I was born in the mid-90's I would of loved to play table top or all those old BT stuff you guys keep talking about XD

Edited by Red_October911, 12 May 2012 - 12:16 PM.

[Kingwolf]

Back when I was a wee lad in '97, my dad brought home MW2 Titanium Edition and loaded it up on his computer. I asked if I could get on after him. I played Mechwarrior for the first time and have never looked back since. Played MW3 when it came out, and I got MW4 for my 11th birthday, along with Black Knight and Mercenaries later in the years.

I downloaded the MekTek MW4: M pack so I could train up for MWO is the most recent in my MW/BT ordeals.

[Jinroda]

I got hooked on the whole giant robot thing when I found an old Robotech book in my uncle's closet, around '96 or so. After that, I picked up anything that I could get my hands on related to it. Around 2000 or so, I found a box of Battletech books at a yardsale, and I fell in love with the series.

[JazzySteel]

My older brother borrowed the books from a cousin who was into them. He bought MW4 when it came out and that was where I cut my teeth. I remember when I first started playing I was so bad I would just run into my enemies and alphastrike them to death at point blank with heat turned off and invincibility on.

Since then I have gotten considerably better (had a taste of nostalgia when I accidentally rammed my Uziel into a Vulture in LL the other day). And I have read several of the books, but its becoming harder to find them. Im intrested in TT, but havent played.

[Bleakheart]

Went to college in 89 and found the boxed set at a hobby shop called "something to do". Took a while to get players together, but found the game thoroughly enjoyable. Kept playing into my army days, but haven't played in over ten years now. After getting all excited for MWO to release, I cracked the boxed sets I own open again. Found a stash of Dragon magazines from 82. Ah, memories

[Micheal Hessek]

I saw BattleDroids at the store and had to buy it. Then BattleTech Came out. CrestHawks Inception was my first electronic title. I started playing with a MercForce group in 1991 in the North Florida area, "Hampton's Harrassors" but my real world name was different. We had a few Top 20 players. To become full-fledged member of the group players had to "Test Out", pick a mech and three others would pick lighter mechs the player had to defeat all three. Itw was not clan rules of engagement with one-on-one, it was three-on-one. Playing that set-up with Top 20 player is not easy, it took several time to "Test Out". We ran tournements at Huricon and Dragoncon in early 90's.

I look forward to playing an expansive game of Battletech style MechWarrior.

If any of the "Hampton's Harassors" are out there please drop me a message.

Edited by Micheal Hessek, 27 May 2012 - 05:15 AM.

[Arch Angel 09]

for me it was the original floppy disk Mech Warrior game that brought me into the universe. at the time it was pretty awesome and mech warrior 2 even better. playing those games made me want to learn more of the lore and cannon sp i started reading the book and looking into the TT game. sadly i never had a person to play the TT game with but I have loved the battletech universe ever since. I don't think you can find a more fleshed out history (future) in any other IP.