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[shotokan5]

Blast, Havoc I still remember the night you commanded our distrocution of Davion in Bt 3025. Saddly the day crew lost it. If this game is even close to 3025 then wow. I used the name Battousai in MechWarrior to the end. To make it simple in this one changed to Shotokan5, well forget the 5.. All who remember me we need to get together and see who is still around. We called our unist the Draconis combine. I have the shirt to prove it. Brewer is right we need to work together if possible. Fantastic we will be fighting after all these years. O, Are Joysticks allowed? Message me about it. .

[Pereset]

Hello everyone,

I have been hooked on Battletech/Mechwarrior since I started playing the rpg board game in 1989. As a former real life naval missile weapons specialist, it took a Signalman to introduce me to the Battletech board game. We would play regularly against each other, and against Navy teams from other ships in San Diego.

Later, about 1991 or so, when Virtual World opened up, I spent a lot of money and time playing missions (from Mechwarrior to Red Planet football). One of the first things I learned in tactics was how to keep my movement circular, torso twisted as I moved at full speed, to nibble away at an opponent's power plant's plexus.

I probably spent thousands, going to VW. In fact, I took my wife and her daughter on our first date to Virtual World to play the Red Planet races. Interesting thing is that I never changed my callsign. I've kept my "Pereset" moniker all these decades.

When FASA released the very first Battletech software game for the PC, I was one of the first in line to get it. The game was more like the board game. It was more strategy then, and not really designed for team play. And, you as the player, were pitted against House Kurita.

Later, when FASA released their subsequent Mechwarrior games, I bought those up as well, hoping to one day be able to play against others around the world from the comfort of my own home. The problems we had in those days, were that 5.7K baud modems were just not fast enough to transmit the kind of information that we needed to make a good game.

The day that Microsoft took the franchise and began to run with it, hardware began to catch up with my hopes and dreams, I was ecstatic when Mechwarrior 3 was released, overjoyed at the release of Mechwarrior 4, and downright fanatic about the premiere of MW Mercenaries and Black Knight. What I especially loved were the new additions of clan tech that were added to the flavor of the game.

House Kurita always appealed to me, and as a now grizzled old veteran, I am looking forward to representing the house with many victories.

I am looking forward to Piranha's new release of Mechwarrior Online, and am curious to see how it will play out as a free game. I'm especially curious to know if heat will play enough of a factor in the game, so that we do not come across "one-hit" wonders, who manage to configure their mechs like I used to see in past games. I'm hoping to see how Piranha's more realistic restrictions regarding power-to-heat ratios and realistic armor restrictions when being hit work out.

[Dankh]

Hi...it would seem that while I have been lurking the forums for a while, I haven't actually said hi here.

I've been playing Battletech in various forms for decades. I played table top for a few years but drifted towards pc gaming. On pc I started with Crescent Hawks: Revenge and went from there with pretty much all its various incarnations. However I have not played much recently as my pc stubbornly refuses to play most old games (pre 2005).

In reply to an earlier comment...I am neither a Takashi Kurita conservative nor a Theodore Kurita neo-samurai, more like a neo-yakuza

[Soviet Alex]

@Danke: Welcome to the Ghost Regiments.

Mechwarrior 3 does play in 64-bit Windows. It isn't totally stable, & my old joystick doesn't work so I'm practicing with an Xbox 350 pad, but it is playable.

[FireFace]

Hi all,
I am John from Atlanta in the US. I started playing BT 2nd edition tabletop way back in middle school. Played all the MW games, think MW2:mercs was my favorite. Looking forward to tearing up some 'mech-ers.

Also a test of my sig.

[azn]

Greetings
I've played Age of Destruction and pretty much every Mechwarrior videogame.

[KURlTA]

Greetings.

I have played a number of mech related games, including most if not all the MW games in the past, pc, ps2 etc. I only recently got back into them and saw that this was coming, an online mech game designed in CryEngine 3. Mostly been playing fast paced pc shooters like Blacklight Retribution and Tribes Ascend.

Couldn't resist.

Edited by KURlTA, 28 March 2012 - 07:10 AM.

[ULTRAGUNNER]

As long its free will be playing if not i will step out! Peace I declare war on my enemy foes !

[Hawkcrest]

JMcGuinness, on 30 December 2011 - 11:00 PM, said:

I headed the Draconis Combine at the outset of NBT-IV. Our unit, and there are others I know would agree, was one of the greatest of all time.

I belive this comment is very self serving, as all of us who led felt our teams were the greatest of all time. I could lay this claim as well for DCM given that NBT 1 activity ended simply because I moved from New York to Florida in 1997 and our unit totally dominated the Clans while simultaneously attacking Stiener, and Davion handling 4 planetary battles a night for months, and in the original NBT that equates to 2000 mechs dropped a night, far more complicated logistically and tracked with excel spreadsheets, you benefitted with automation developed through several incarnations of NBT prior to you. That being said, while I respect your experience, I feel that your claim to being the best of all time is simply untrue. Perhaps I would give you the best in your league during the timeline you played in, but you fought against IHx, and we know that they were the best in NBT IV.

[Steinar Bergstol]

Steinar Bergstøl here.

First bought the Battletech tabletop game back in '88 or '89 if memory serves. Haven't looked back since, be it around the table with my friends or on the computer. As for online play most of my experience with that comes from the textbased Battletech MU*s, mostly 3056 and 3034: The Battle for Bryant (if there's anyone around out there from the 3rd Proserpina Hussars, Nightmare Brigade unit in 3034 then a big, ol' hello from Retsudo Kagei and his Phoenix Hawk ) of the mid- to late 90's where, as always, I played as a member of the Draconis Combine. That was the faction I picked in my first tabletop game and I've stuck with it since.

And now I'm here. Older, not any wiser and still of the opinion that a good FedRat is a PPCed FedRat

[Pel Morba]

Hello, all.

I started playing the tabletop in the late 80's (yeah, I'm an oldster) and used to play a lot of MegaMeks. Never tried MW, but MC2 was an old favorite.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to serving the Dragon alongside all of you and hopefully getting a crack at some Capellan troops after we break the FedCom in half.

[Kaze105]

Hello,
Played MW a long time ago (either 1 or 2) and havent really since.　I did enjoy it when I first started playing on the pc and hope to enjoy this one too. I was primarily convinced to play this one when I actually saw the japanese faction haha. (being a japanese myself)

[Mooklord]

K-wa! Formally Chu-sa Messiah...wow, that was a long time ago...been around since AOL MPBT.. lookin' forward to MWOL!

[Capgama]

DEATHRAMPAGE, on 14 January 2012 - 02:44 PM, said:

hi all i would like to say i was so happy to see that this game is going to be like battlletech
i played thay for 4-5 years back then i was Chu-sa DEATHRAMPAGE house kurita 3ph and under warlord cobra on gamestorm i have read a lot of the post here and some times it i think i know him funny how seeing this bring back all the good times we had playing that 16 bit game and typeing out all you had to say now we use vent i still hang out with capgam and gorden and some time talk about the games we have played but bt is the one we wished would come back

Bows>>> to Chu-sa DEATHRAMPAGE
I have almost the same story as you Chu-sa DEATHRAMPAGE i cant wate to get to legging some one again j/k
Chu-sa DEATHRAMPAGE i think invented DFA or better yet DFU


Chu-sa Capgama out

Edited by Capgama, 15 April 2012 - 07:06 PM.

[Roughneck Rider]

[color=#222222]I have been waiting for MechWarrior to move beyond a linear format. I hope there will be depth and dynamic play. PvP would kick in a mech. [/color]

[Rejarial Galatan]

<bows> Greetings. I am Rejarial Galatan. I started my life in the BTU when MW2 came out. Moved to MW2 Ghost Bears Legacy, then onto MW2 Mercenaries. When MechWarrior 3 hit, I moved there, then onto its Mercenaries expansion. I then played Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance, then MW4 Mercenaries. My only real experience with a BATTLETECH game comes in the form of the Battletech TCG or CCG if you prefer. While I am loyal to House Kurita and the DCMS, I am also Loyal to Clan Wolf. And from a personal player perspective, IF and WHEN clan Play becomes an option, I will move to Clan Wolf. Until then, I shall bleed for the Dragon.

[Xandre Blackheart]

Havoc2, on 02 November 2011 - 07:50 AM, said:

Joined every MW league I could find and/or convince my buddies to join, made a bit of a name for myself/ourselves as mercs under the name Damage Inc., Metalus Gravis, and Black Death Union.

Someone mentioned the BDU. Hell has opened up an ice skating rink.

[Redwall]

Hi

I started playing with the cresents Hawks inception and just loved the universe, and enjoyed piloting commandos and Wasps in that game. skipping ahead my next experience was with Mechwarrior 2, 3 and mechcommander. Specifically bought a few MS sidewinder joysticks (various models), just to pilot the mechs properly at the time.
After that is just me diving into Dark Age and reading a few books.

Can't wait to fight for the Dragon

[Raven Starbinder]

Hi everyone, I am really excited about MWO, I started off with the pen and paper RPG. Then I moved on to the video games starting from MW2.

[Paladin Brewer]

Welcome to all the new folks.