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[SOGNeon]

In the late 80's (88-89)I was out shopping with the family when i stumbled onto a bookstore called "the book monger" in montgomery, alabama. the owners brother in law (I think was the relationship) ran the gaming department. he was running a game in a corner of the store, and let me join in. I selected my lance from his mini's collection, and I basicly sellected them on appearance. I ended up with a stalker, a grasshopper, a locust, and something else I don't recall... it seemed like an o.k. game, and I played a couple more times with peter at TBM, but when they got the first clanbooks in 92 I was hooked. the game had suddenly changed for me from being a tactical boardgame with giant robots to being something with a culture... after that I started playing with a guy name james who literally needed a hand truck to carry his mech collection around and could recite and calculate complex modifiers from memory. sometime in the early 90's a friend sold me a company of his mechs (mostly unseen) as well as vehicles giving me a mini's collection of a reinforced company, to a light batallion. I have played with those and a few suplimental mechs ever since.

by 93 or 94 I was playing regularly... around 95 a coworker gave me MW2 for dos as soon as he grew tired of it... as soon as I could get my hands on MW2 ti I went online. and played up to 99 or so.

[Dodger79]

In 1989 a friend from school lent me a book. "The Mercenary's Star" was the first of many to come BT-novels. I remember stopping by the bookstore after school every month, waiting for new releases. In the 90's some friends and i played the boardgame, "City Tech" was my first own box. Through the years i made up my own bataillon of miniatures composed of 4 companies, together we had a whole regiment. But sadly, we never played it out in regimental scale combat because we lacked enemies, the three of us were almost alone in playing the boardgame in our town and we were too young to drive to tournaments held in the shop where we bought all the BT-stuff. Good old times

Edited by Dodger79, 03 July 2012 - 08:35 AM.

[NANOOK]

I purchased a video card (Matrox Mystique) for my 386DX40 and it came with a copy of Mechwarrior 2.
The rest is history.

[Twinr]

'93, collectible trading card game. After books, and more books. And few year ago mechwarrior 4.

[Mikhail Krisa]

MechWarrior 2, as I really love simulators and all the background that I thought was just for the game making it a very deep gameplay and giving it a scale that was awesome. The first book I read was The Warrior trilogy as I enjoyed Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing books.

[Glendel]

I was still in HS and just got my license, which of course let me get to the comic store anytime I wanted. As a long time fan of Robotech the comic guy said in 6 or 7 months this new game was coming out, Battletech. I checked in every week waiting for my reserved copy to finally get to the store. Was hooked on every single Battletech product from then on out. Played every video game that had anything to do with it and still own all of them. Played the table top version for decades. Qualified and went to National Championships for the Mechwarrior Card game. Was National champion for the Mechwarrior clix game. Guess that bout sums it up, love the entire genre of Battletech, whether it be cards, video, clix, minis, table top or "other" I can't get enough or ever step away from this franchise.

Glendel

[Virage]

One of my earliest Mechwarrior experiences was the SNES game Mechwarrior 3050. A little while after I started watching Robotech on Toonami and watched some old Macross movies. That really got me into mech on mech warfare and I revisited Mechwarrior. Somewhere in there I played Mechwarrior 2, don't remember the first one at all though I might have played it. But when Mechwarrior 3 came out I started buying Mechwarrior books, and I bought four of them which I still have in beat up condition. The Dying Time, Ghost of Winter, Roar of Honor and one other, I'm too lazy to go into the next room and look at the bookshelf.

Then I found the tabletop board game sort of thing at a comic shop and bought it for the sake of having such an old school piece of Battletech. They also sold technical readouts and tabletop miniatures but no one wanted to play with me lol. Everyone was playing Warhammer at the time. I also found my first deck of Battletech CCG. I bought a kit and a whole bunch of boosters and then a box of 450 cards from ebay and started bringing it to school and teaching my friends how to play. We had so much fun with the CCG and to this day that remains the biggest source of Battletech material for me, since there were so many cards; 'Mechs, mercs, famous heroes/people, quotes and sayings by 'Mech pilots. Two favorite mercs just because they had such awesome names, Gray Death Legion and Choas March. Although I don't know if Choas March was a merc company, it might have just been a battle. But there were Choas March pilot cards.

[Rolestra]

Was 13 and the only material was 3025 material, latter came the Grey Death legion novels and such. Always loved the game and still do.

[Barad]

I had just gotten out of the Army ('87), and my brother-in-law was constantly saying I should try it... So I tried it just to shut him up! lol I played an Archer against his Warhammer ( at least I THINK it was a Warhammer...). I remember geting next to him, and kicking his Mech, before he failed a Piloting Skill Check. His 'hammer never got back up. He beat the crud out of my Archer, and I barely won. Come to think about it... I think that was the only time I ever played an Archer... I eventually ended up running a BT tournament at a local gaming convention, years later, here in Spokane.

I've never played the Mech Warrior electronic games. They came out after I stopped playing due to burn out, but I'm REALLY looking forward to MWO and playing BT again!

[Biffa Buttocks]

Use to go around a mates in the 80's it was kind of a hippy commune they all played games of D&D parent's and all, infact I don't think anyone worked and they 'smoked' then they got BT and started playing that, it was a lot more fun around their house than my parent's.

[InADaze]

I remember returning Myst cause I could not figure it out for the life of me. I took it back and saw that iconic MW2 box. I picked it up and brought it home. I had to play on the lowest settings possible but i told all my friends about it. In no time we were all Battletech junkies, playing the card game, board game, PC games. It was an awesome time in my life.

[Revenant2428]

I started with playing the crap out of MW3 and also read several battletech novels. After that I played every following mechwarrior game I could get my hands on, but I never got into the tabletop stuff.

[SCAR ed]

must have been around 16 or 17, when my big brother gifted me a BT-box for christmas (hhhmmm, not so peaceful then, eh? ;D ). played BT from then on with friends. and i do not remember, if we had the novels before or after that (Blood of Kerensky trilogy beeing the first one in my bookshelf, ended up with one meter of books ...). Clans had already come to the IS, so my first sourcebook must have been 3052. I guess, I don't have to mention the PC-games, from MW1 on, where I was a special fan of Mech Commander 1 & 2.

[Jimmons]

My introduction to Batteltech was back in 1995, when I got the shareware demo of MechWarrior 2 in a copy of PCGamer magazine. I was 14. I played the heck out out of that 1 mission game until I was able to buy the full version a couple of months later.

Joined a MW2 netmech clan, played MW3 and MW4, and loved the series due to piloting-sim style. Played a bit of the Pencil&Paper RPG with friends in Jr High and watched the cartoon when I caught it in syndication.
Still keep the MW2 CD around for the music tracks. My buddy and I would drive around the backwoods in his jeep with that CD blaring on the stereo when we turned 16. It was like being on patrol in our own 'mech. (just don't try to play track 1)


... And then I watched Microsoft make the MechAssault games on the original Xbox and turn my beloved piloting sim series into a 3rd person action/shooter game, followed by MS sitting on the franchise and doing nothing with it for nearly a decade!


I had only heard about MW Living Legends about two months before the first MWOnline trailer back in February. Figuring LL was a fan mod that would get shut down soon by MS lawyers, I put it off to avoid sinking money into a Crysis game just to play LL, fully expecting LL to disappear on me immediately afterward. (not a fan of any of the crysis games) Then I saw the teaser trailer back in February, and I decided to wait until MWO this summer.

Now, I eagerly anticipate the return of this great series after a decade of waiting.

[Funman]

Started in 1991 with the original Battletech board game in High School. Then went onto the first computer game for the 286 of course it was called Mechwarrior. Still have a 3.5 floppy copy. After that I increased my board game items, played all computer games except for the Xbox games and also played the CArd game. I still have all computer games, All novels and my board game items ready for the come back of BattleTech

[Samson]

The game that came with my first computer was Mechwarrior 2. Already being a fan of giant robots (thanks Transformers) I was instantly in love. Come high school I became friends with some people who played the TT game and I just went deeper. I even played the CCG and the Clix-tech games

[Otto Cannon]

Had to choose a school club to join when I started secondary school, and chose the wargaming society. That led to me checking out the local wargames and RPG shop, called Dungeons and Starships (always makes me think of The Android's Dungeon in The Simpsons) where they had loads of different games.

My face when I saw Battletech on the shelf:

[Reapman]

Started on Crescent Hawks Inception (and been loyal to House Steiner since!) when I was pretty young, then slowly played most of the others, although the original Mechwarrior was what got me seriously hooked. I bought the TT and Readout games even though nobody else I knew was into it lol. Still with an active imagination as a kid I killed a ton of hours. Still have all my old TT stuff, including the Unseen models. Planning on digging those out and dusting off my knowledge of all this stuff.

[Bobthebarbar]

started to play mechwarrior 2 when it came out. played every mechwarrior game since. used to get lan party's together to play mw3 and just beat the snot out of eachother. those are the days i will never forget.

Also been reading quite a few of the books and love the storyline.

[Ramius Hazen]

Hard to recall that far back =P I had been playing Steve Jackson games as a kid in the early '80s after a convention in my hometown of Urbana, IL. Ogre, GEV, Car Wars, etc. An evolution from playing D&D. My first RPG. Quickly learned I was more about big stompy robots (well... tanks. Can tanks be stompy?) than swords and sorcery. I'm pretty sure I stumbled on the original BT table top in a hobby shop by accident shortly after that. The rest is history. Novels, miniatures, tech readouts, 1/35th models, Crescent Hawks, Btech3056, MW series, MPBT. All of which I have exactly zero of now. A product of my rinse & repeat lifestyle. (Except for MPBT: 3025. Out of my control. FU EA!) But all fond memories. Let's hope MWO gives us all several more years of fond memories.

Wow. That was too heartfelt. I need to go find another thread in which to be glib.

Edited by Ramius Hazen, 16 July 2012 - 10:21 PM.