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[tyrone dunkirk]

I remember the first time I came into contact with the Battletech universe was when I was 5, and I found one of my dad's old battletech TO's. The 3050 one, about the Clan Invasion era mechs. Return of Kerensky I think it was called. I later found and read the 3025 TO and fell in love with the sereis. My dad introduced me to MW2 Mercs later on, my first experience with Mechwarrior, and later MW3. I remember going to Best Buy and buying MW4 Vengeance, and Mercenaries when it came out, with my dad. He eventually lost the gaming bug and gave the games to me, and I proceeded to play them over and over and over. I still play the Free version of MW4 Mercs. since mine stopped working. Around the age of 12 I found and began reading the Warrior series of Battletech. I loved it, and when I finished I read through the Blood of Kerensky. I am in the process of re-reading the Twilight of the Clans series, and I'm currently at Shadows of War. I began to read the Fed Com Civil War Trilogy, but I could not find the third book, EndGame I believe it's called, anywhere and never finished it. This is my Battletech story, wanna share yours?

Edited by tyrone dunkirk, 25 May 2012 - 02:43 PM.

[Peryl]

I had just started ninth grade in Florida and was wandering a round a Waldenbooks when I saw the box game. The cover art of the walking Warhammer firing a lightning bolt is engraved in my memory. I started playing and having fun imagining these monstrous robots colliding in epic battles. That was October of 1988. I have been hooked ever since.

While I haven't been very good about constantly keeping up to date with fictional events, I have still been playing it when I can.

Game on!

[Canned_Dman]

My sister bought Crescent Hawks inception in 1988 and I've played every electronic version since then. I didn't start playing the table top version until the 90's when I was in junior high and found a group playing battletech and dungeons and dragons.
I still have a pile of lead figures and books and I also have a complete set of novels from The Sword and the Dagger to Ride the Chimera (Bonfire of worlds on pdf).

[Tannhauser Gate]

In about 1989, I was an avid D&D player commited to my craft but I some friends were also playing BT. I was intrigued by the storylines in BT so I went to check it out. They had a big game board with miniatures and were in the middle of a battle as I watched on. Unfortunately, there was alot of strategy and very little rpg I was looking for (of the storylines I heard about) so BT didnt grab at that time. Jump ahead nealy 10 years, married with very young kids, and I was looking for a game to play that was not bloody or too violent. I found MW2 and Mplayer. I played with the Ghost Legion lead by GunSlinger at the time. The politics and intrigue between clans was sort of its own rpg in a way so I had a great time. Jump ahead again 13 years or so to today, after playing Heavy Gear, MW3, MW4, SL, little bit of wow, and now Im looking forward to MWO. Its very possible I'll forsake all others for MWO.. except for D&D of course.

Edited by LakeDaemon, 25 December 2011 - 09:51 PM.

[Raven-kell]

I was playing D&D and a friend gave me city tech book, hooked ever since. I think that was 85' but so long ago.....I gave all my plastic and pewter figures to my son...they are all gone now lol.

[Bigfatasian]

I was 10 years old when I found my dad's stash of mechwarrior games. I was hooked from the start.

[Jeral Strongblade]

MechWarrior 2. I have no idea beyond that.

[that1fail]

Started playing MW3 when I was 7. Grew to love the game. Now I'm 14, almost 15, and am looking forward to MWO and wondering how the hell to get online with MW4: Mercs

[Kristov Kerensky]

High school..84 or 85, Battledroids, which was renamed and released as BattleTech in 85 due to a certain word in the title being copyrighted by Mr Lucas. Group of us in high school had been playing D&D for a while and we branched out into various other games in our last couple of years in high school, 84 and 85, picking up Battledroids, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Star Wars, Starfleet Battles..all kinds of stuff. Been hooked on BTech every since.

[Original ArchAngel]

I was a kid.. and they had these pods in the mall you could play on.. they were freaking amazing.. they had the corridors all painted up with bullet holes, fog machines.. it was amazing.. inside the pod you had the joystick, the speed stick, and about 40 buttons on the front that were all working.. it was intimidating at first, but after my first round i was second.. each time after that i was first.. i really had the knack for it.. so then i went on with mw4, mercs (which i still play) although i miss capture the flag.. I hope those days return with mechwarrior online.. please have capture the flag..

http://getinthepods.com/ (pods)

[C K Starbright]

Early 80's tabletop p-n-p, the original Mechwarrior pc wireframe version (loved taking out the battlemaster with a well aimed gauss-rifle shot to the head) all the Mechwarrior pc games and Mechcommanders. I'm addicted. The game is made for MMO and way too long in the coming....I soooooo can't wait.

[feor]

I can't be the only one whose first exposure to the Battletech universe was through the oldskool (I hesitate to use the term "classic") cartoon from the early 90s?

Though it kinda dropped off right after the show until one of my friends in middle school gave me a copy of MW2:Mercenaries, which triggered a response of "Wait, Federated Commonwealth? Draconic Combine? Clan Falcon? OMG this is from that awesome old show!"

And I've been pretty deeply in the universe ever since.

[Tifalia]

Mine was some 20 odd years ago when I stumbled upon a copy of either the Jade Phoenix trilogy of books or Main Event and remember being enthralled at the philosophy of the Clan way of life, backed up by an introduction to giant lumbering cans of metal that each packed enough firepower to bake a city.

[TheBillsta]

I was introduced by a friend to MW4 and came to enjoy it. I am an avid fan of board games of any kind, so when i found out mechwarrior was based on one, i decided to see if it was any good. When i realized the depth and possibilities i was instantly hooked to it

[Demi-Precentor Konev]

I watched the cartoon back in ... '95? The rest is history.

Edited by lahyenne, 25 December 2011 - 11:51 PM.

[hekoone]

1995 with MechWarrior 2

[Briareos02]

My first exposure to Battletech was seeing a Mechwarrior RPG rule book in a bookstore back in '87. Been a fan ever since. Played the Crescent Hawk's Inception, never finished it's sequel. Read the Grey Death Legion trilogy. Played pretty much all the Mechwarriors PC games except for Mechwarior 3. Played the first MechCommander game, but not the second. I guess I'm one of the Old Guard.

[Mchawkeye]

it was '95 and i honestly cannot remember what came first. I used to go to a wargames club, and literally the first game I played there was Battletech; it was me and three others. I was impressed with a) being asked to join in (they were, as so many wargamers are, friendly and accommodating) the very idea of battletech and c) the fact that I was on the winning team.

OR

I remember reading a PC magazine and seeing a review on mechwarrior 2. As an avid flight simmer (even back then, thanks to my dear old dad) a science fiction simulator looked awesome. And it was.

One of these came first. and possible educated the excitement for the other.

[David Decoster]

MechWarrior 2 -> MechWarrior 4 Series + MechCommander -> MWDA + Novels

[Kincaid]

Some of the guys I roomed with at university were avid MW fans and introduced me to the joys of MW3, and the possibilities of the MechLab (the moment we realised that the reason the lancemate that we had put in a Catapult loaded with as many LRM 20 racks as possible linked as an alphastrike kept screaming out was due to catastrophic heat overload was sheer hilarity...). From there Mechcommander, The MW4/ Black Knight/ MC2 pack, MW4 Mercs, the MW Dark Age novels & minis, Mech Assault 1&2 and back to MW4 when MekTek relaunched it.
Since then I've been tracking down complete copies of the previous games that I missed (MW2, Ghost Bears Legacy & the original Mercs), devouring the original line of BT novels, and trying to get into the main BT game.