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[Crue]

My folks sat me and my sister down on day and said we are going to play a game, next thing we were playing a game facing lights against each other. Not a memorable battle, but my first experience nonetheless.

[Noravar]

Some of my older friends for several years introduced me into Battletech one night. I wreck them almost every time we play anymore lol.

[WiCkEd]

93' spent 12 hours playing 2 stars against 3 lances...school was rough that day, but I spent the rest of the year designing mechs during class.

[Madddog]

Saw MW3 in the store when it first came out. Giant robots shooting lasers and missiles? No brainer. Was a avid reader to begin with so when i realized these battletech books that looked so cool was what that game was based on AND THERE WERE SO MANY i was in pure heaven. So for the past 13 years or so been a rabid BT fan. Glad to see through all the ups and downs with FASFA and Wizkids the franchise is still alive and kicking and the fanbase is as dedicated as ever. First post BTW

[Crow Splat]

Animated series. When they activated the enhanced imaging for the first time it blew my mind. I still have all the action fugures in a box somewhere in my parents attic.

[Evinthal]

I was introduced to it in a summer camp by some councilors of the camp. Played a few games, the most memorable being trying to scale a steep slope with a Timber Wolf and failing my piloting roll resulting in a critical hit to the machine gun ammo bin. Ouch! Didn't play any after that as I never really found out what exactly it was. Then I dipped into Mech Warrior 2 for the PC and loved it, followed by Ghost Bear's Legacy. Life got in the way again and I was re-introduced to it via the WizKids clicky tech game and now here I am.

[YoBadMama]

My love for Battletech just recently started, but I have known about it since I was little, I would pull out my dad's tactical readout books and just look at the pictures. After many years, I began to watch an old anime called "Robotech" and my love for giant robots began again, and I pulled down the books again, and was amazed that FASA actually based the Wasp and Marauder mech's after the show, and my mind was BLOWN. After that, I began playing Battletech with some of my friends, and I've been in love with it ever since.

[Meuric]

Some of you here make me feel really old. I started playing battletech in the late 80's when i was in high school. Kept it up when I got in the army where we used Succession War's to help generate our mech battles, a game within a game, that was a blast. I read and still own most of the Mechwarrior books but just kinda stopped playing until I ran across MWO. Then I pulled out the old books, called my friends and had an epic battle that lasted deep into the night. Thank god I never lost the gaming bug. Now I have the battletech bug again and can't wait for MWO to get up and going good. Think WoT may suffer my eternal neglect though.

[Gherrek]

I started in the late 80s, me and my friend Andrew always saw this copy of Battletech's starter box, the one with the ORIGINAL Warhammer on the front and the plastic models inside in a comic and games shop in Basildon (in the UK) and thought about getting it. So we saved up pocket money and bought it together.

What made us look at it was an old amiga game called Battleforce which was basically the Btech game on a top down, very basic hex display, the mechs were just black outlines and we cut our teeth playing that. We learned about overheating after my friend's Banshee exploded after it fired EVERYTHING at some poor unsuspecting mech and thats what got us started.

It was of course the start of the addiction. We got the Tech manuals, the when we had PCs out came the Mechwarrior games (and I still say the original Mechwarrior Mercs was the best), the metal models, the shabang, i've still got them somewhere at home, sadly i've not played in a long, long time But I still get the TROs

[Shivus]

The original battletech cartoon and the toys followed shortly by MW2. I still have a Mauler, Hunchback II-C, Bushwacker, and battle armor in my room somewhere.

There was also a book store at the mall. Whenever my mom took me I'd go in there to read the tech readouts for battletech and battlespace. I had to only be like 6 or 7 at the time.

[Neo Kell]

The first time I came to play this game was from the son of the co-owner of Catalyst games. AS all should know Catalyst games writes the rules for Battletech though Tops owns the game. I still remember my first game. It was the quick-strike rules and my friend had me play the Enforcr when he got the Hun, how cheap! I remember that I won that fight with a AC/10 to his head! Battletech is my favorite game, ever. People should check out the new game comming out called Levathians.

[Dovoid]

cresent hawks for the computer late 80's. then had to find table top version and played all computer and table top since.

[Zack Delphirian]

My dad had a box set called "battletech, a game of armored combat" and "plastech" (plastic figurines), it was all in english so I didn't understood anything, but I liked the robots (I think I was like 7 at the time). So in my mind, battletech was always linked to "super cool giant robots", and when I started reading, and reading english, I picked it up.

For mechwarior, it was the videogames, the first one on SNES where I didn't understand anything, I would just put every big weapons on my mech and everytime I fired, the mech overheated and couldn't move or died, I don't remember really well...

A few years later I found out about the books and read a couple, then bought the TT rules and started creating whole lances of mechs with special names and all to give it a little "rpg" side ; but in the end, my friends didn't really liked it so I haven't played it for a veeeeery long time...And now here I am ! Hoping to pretty much get sort a WoT with battlemechs and better F2P model

[Starlightguy12]

Started with MW1 when I found it in old box of my dads in 2002. I've been playing ever since and have read all of the books.

[Daetrin Voltari]

My birthday in 1984. I had just bought my first miniatures ever (dwarves with crossbows) and the guys behind the counter opened a store copy of a new game called Battledroids. They were going over the rules and I couldn't stop staring at the little cardboard robots and model kits. For the next year I saved my money and when my next birthday came around I went to buy a copy only to find that Battledroids was gone and BattleTech had taken the field. I spent many days after school sitting in Flying Tigers Hobby Shop, pouring over the Ral Partha catalog, deciding what to blow my birthday money on next.

I lost track of BattleTech when my FLGS closed but I rediscovered it in college. Now I play BattleTech every week or so and just finished painting a reinforced battalion (36 mechs, 24 vehicles, 12 infantry stands) for our next campaign.

The addiction never ends.

[LuisPa]

Perhaps my first encounter with the lore was on TV series.

MW3 was the first PC Game I owned. Few years ago it wasnt easy to find PC Games in Costa Rica. I can say in all honesty that the Intro cinematic of MW3 changed my perspective on the kind of Simulator games I would play from then on.
To my surprise, after I brought MW3 to my house, my DAD (which never video games at all) got interested and started playing it. That game gave us something to talk about. I know it may sound "silly" or "lame" to some people, but it really meant a lot to me!

As of today, he still has a P4 computer running Windows98 just to play this game!!!!

BTW... I almost have him convinced to join MWO

Edited by LuisPa, 21 June 2012 - 09:40 PM.

[Hythos]

Evinthal, on 28 May 2012 - 09:44 PM, said:

I was introduced to it in a summer camp by some councilors of the camp. Played a few games, the most memorable being trying to scale a steep slope with a Timber Wolf and failing my piloting roll resulting in a critical hit to the machine gun ammo bin. Ouch! Didn't play any after that as I never really found out what exactly it was. Then I dipped into Mech Warrior 2 for the PC and loved it, followed by Ghost Bear's Legacy. Life got in the way again and I was re-introduced to it via the WizKids clicky tech game and now here I am.

I too had a great appreciation for Robotech, but first found Battletech in '86 at Boy Scout summer camp. Ever since, I've tried to find friends to play table-top with, though most either aren't interested, or lose interest 'cause I might take it a bit too seriously... hehe
I built my first walking 18" tall Marauder out of legos in '87, using Expert Builder kits and electric motors; Began fabricating a 36" tall robot modeled after a Warhammer in '97, and have now increased that to 60" due to heavier-torque servos for quicker mobility, increased strength, etc. We'll see the real things (scaled, of course) walking around by the end of next year... and I'm not referring to BD's frail designs.

[Funkmachine]

I read Assumption of Risk and I was hooked for life

[corpse256]

SNES version of mechwarrior I don't remeber what age but I'm somewhat sure that it was the same year I played it that the game released. I was intrested in it but the game was little too hard for me at that age but since I played MW2 Mercenaries I've been addicted to the franchise for years.

[WP Wolfman]

Had to have been back in 1985. My little brother and I became addicted. We started playing the board game and began introducing friends to it. We must have read every novel and owned every piece of resource material out there. We probably played every Battletech/Mechwarrior computer game that was released. We even made a massive game board out of felt with with cut out foam hexes for battalion on battalion battles. Damn that was a long time ago.

Edited by WP Wolfman, 05 June 2012 - 11:30 AM.