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How Did You Come To Know Battletech?


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#301 Burktross

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Posted 02 April 2015 - 10:16 AM

Being a (relatively) new peasant to BT, I started with Mechassault and Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. I love tabletop, but considering many people in my generation literally scoff at the prospect of a non-flashy game, I've no other options in terms of TT but playing Megamek.

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Posted 05 April 2015 - 09:05 PM

When I was a kid, I used to watch the transformers TV show. One day, they stopped airing transformers, and the Battletech series aired in it's place. I was hooked.

I was further hooked when I went to a computer store, and saw a big box with a Timberwolf on it. That was Mechwarrior 2, and that is a game I played continuously to this date.

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Posted 05 April 2015 - 09:50 PM

I was introduced to battletech by mechassault at a young age, I soon found out about the MechWarrior games, then about battletech as a whole.

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Posted 14 May 2015 - 06:21 PM

Mechwarrior 2 and Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris. I miss MPBT; had a great community on both AOL and Gamestorm

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Posted 15 May 2015 - 09:28 AM

I was introduced to the game by my gaming friends my Sophomore year in high school, back in late 1989. I was lukewarm about it at best the first few times, but my friends knew me well enough to give me the House Books and the newly minted novels to read. That got me hooked hard. Retrospectively, they weren't the best written pieces of fiction in the universe, but at 15 at the dawn of the 1990s, it was more than enough for me.

25 years later, I'm the only one who still plays. My shining moment with the game is in my signature below. AFFS since 1989, or 3028, if you go by in-game year. ;)

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Posted 15 May 2015 - 09:54 AM

I was actually introduced to it through a gaming club when I went to college. I was never much of a gamer, video or tabletop before that, but it kind of grabbed me with the melding of the various genres of the game.

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Posted 17 May 2015 - 02:22 AM

My folks bought me MW3 due to my early love for robots, I got this from Gundam. I played all of the MW4 stories and I started following NGNG back in closed beta. A few months ago I got a good computer and here I am.

#308 Joshua McEvedy

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 09:31 AM

About 1988, a high school buddy loaned me Decision at Thunder Rift and introduced me to the table top/pen and pencil game. I was hooked and never looked back.

Edited by Joshua McEvedy, 21 May 2015 - 09:31 AM.


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Posted 21 May 2015 - 09:47 AM

I remember a family friend let me watch him play MW3. A bit later I watched a few of the BT tv series episodes. I only really jumped into BattleTech when I found the book Flight of the Falcon one day in a used book bin. After devouring that, had to find out more. When I found out that the fierce and bloody engagements of the Dark Age were small potatoes compared to the earlier battles of the 4th Succession War, Clan Invasion, FedCom Civil War, and Jihad....I was hooked.

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 10:31 AM

More than 20 years ago I bought a book. It was Robert Thurston's "Way of the Clans", translated to russian.

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Liked it very much, had to buy more of this series...

Same years, while looking to buy new Sega Megadrive 16 bit game, I spotted this:

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Needless to say, every time I login into MWO mechlab and see my Dire Whale and Timbers, that brings some good childhood memories...

#311 Scout Derek

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 10:42 AM

Dad asked me one day to try this game out. Still remember it, MW3.

"Hey son, wanna try this game?"

"OK!"

From there he taught me the basics, and I took off into the wonderful world of non-cannon mechwarrior games :)

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 11:24 AM

"How Did You Come To Know Battletech?"

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#313 kosmos1214

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 07:04 PM

well the first time i heard of battletech was when pixelships covered it in an epsoide of ancent dos games he did mw1 then mw2 like a year later i think and eventuly found my way here and thats when i finaly got it to battletech

#314 bad arcade kitty

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Posted 23 May 2015 - 12:54 AM

well, i'm an avid reader, i read all kind of stuff from 'highbrow' (i especially like poetry) to sci-fi and fantasy and i happened to read some bt books
honestly, as a literature they are terrible... but giants robots somehow touched me and i liked them since

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Posted 05 June 2015 - 09:21 AM

For me it was Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, then 3, and then Mechcommander 1, around this time IIRC an uncle of mine who played introduced me to the table top game. Then played MW 4 and MC2.





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