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[Paul Kenig]

just 26, but fan from first 1991 Mechwarrior

[DoubleD]

23 here. I started playing the board game with my father when I was around eight years old.

[Stunner]

40 Here.. I've played the old crescent hawks game, the Mechwarior 2 and mw2:mercs as well and love it. Met the community in MPBT Solaris on AOL and Gamestorm and have been waiting for the community to rise again.

I've got a lot of the old sourcebooks and Technical readouts as well with many minatures that my wife actually painted. She enjoyed playing but liked to play as a clanner so I enjoyed playing IS to fight her.

Now I'm old enough to have a 16 year old son that I hope we run in a lance with me as we've played MW4 together many times.

I was formally known as Lt Col Stunner 6th Lyran Guard - RXO.

[Red Beard]

37 years young. Started with MW2 and went from there. Loved MA and still love BT today! House Marik for all MA veterans!

[Andrew Harvey]

When I turned 7, my folks took me to an Electronics Boutique and let me pick 1 computer game for a present. I was 7, so of course I picked the one with flames and a big robot. That game, of course, was Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Boogaloo. I was a Clan Trueborn in Alabama, and times were good. We moved to Pennsylvania a year later, and in the packing shuffle my game was lost. I was sad, but we weren't going back to Alabama to look for it. Eventually, I started to forget about 'Mechs and the Clans.

I walked over to the Walmart one day after my 11th birthday. With a wad of lawn-mowing money in my pocket I stalked the PC game aisle. I bought two games that day, the first I'd ever bought for myself. One was Homeworld, a very good RTS. The other was Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. I'd found it again. Mercenaries rekindled an interest that would span 7 Mechwarrior games from MW2 to MW4:Mercs with every Mechcommander in-between and over 60 Battletech novels.

Four moves from my home state of Texas has brought me here to the Midwest. I'm 23 now, majoring in Secondary Education, hoping to teach English language abroad once I graduate. But no matter what, I'll always enjoy Mechwarrior.

[invictus knt]

59.... Been playing since AOL MPBT and everything since....

[BigRed40Tech]

25 as of today, 26 come this april.

Played Battletech for the first time when I was 8, at my buddies house. Best game ever.

[Hellgardia]

Turned 20 two months ago

Been playing MW since i was 6
Played every single one since MW2 and loved them all ^.^

[Dr Hobo]

20ish

Been playing since Mercenaries. Thought the Xbox versions were OK.

[T S Hawk]

46 years of age. Been playing battletech since 1987. Played only MW4 Mercenaries of the MW stuff. Just love the campaign feel to the board game.

[Adridos]

wulf_of_awe, on 02 November 2011 - 08:54 PM, said:

Im 14, just turned in october

and i've been playing mechwarrior..... since.... last year... IT WAS SO ADDICTING WHEN I FIRST HEARD OF IT! DX im such a young warrior

My dream of being the youngest of the players is gone.
Now Im only almost youngest, but still, Ill post into my signature: "Almost youngest player here, but still the most pro of the younger warriors".
Its good that you almost never plaied Mechwarrior before.

[abetterpilot]

ragman is 74. his older brother cmeg is our khan at 78.

[Glare]

Nineteen. Simultaneously too old and too young to ignore the rest of the world in whatever fashion.

Edited by Glare, 07 November 2011 - 07:45 PM.

[wolf on the tide]

just turned 43, got the boardgame in 85,
once spent 2 hours watching a locust kill an atlas (which was amazing yet incredibly boring at the same time)

[Dozer]

38 and staring down the barrel of my PPC at the big forty in a couple years. Married for 12 years and with a nearly 3 year old daughter

Personally I believe you're only as young as the <insert here> you feel... did I say that <cough>

[Twilight]

25 years old, 26 in December.

I played Mech2/Mercs single player throughout my elementary school years, and played Mech4:Mercenaries all the time during my high school days.

Was one of the alpha/beta testers on MekPak 1 back when that was "Holy *** Awesome" material, kind of a **** back in that day too because of it. Better now.

[BaD JuJu]

I am a 33 year old parent, husband and long time MW fan, however I have never been one to get into the RP on any game and find it a little creepy when grown adults start RP'ing like I am already seeing. I look at MW as my all time favorite game, but that is it, an amazing game.
I just imagine some of you in your adult Zip-Up Pajamas looking in the mirror before you go to bed and saying, "Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada." ???

I understand your fan hood, but I feel the need for Triumph the insult dog for some of your!

[Twilight]

BaD JuJu, on 07 November 2011 - 11:28 PM, said:

I am a 33 year old parent, husband and long time MW fan, however I have never been one to get into the RP on any game and find it a little creepy when grown adults start RP'ing like I am already seeing. I look at MW as my all time favorite game, but that is it, an amazing game.
I just imagine some of you in your adult Zip-Up Pajamas looking in the mirror before you go to bed and saying, "Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada." ???

I understand your fan hood, but I feel the need for Triumph the insult dog for some of your!

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Seriously, I do what I do for fun. I personally find roleplaying in the Battletech universe fun. It doesn't mean I'm going to dress up in cardboard boxes and pretend to be a Shadow Hawk in real life, it's a fun escape.

If I want to be deadly serious, I'll go to work and intubate a 2 year old non-accidental trauma.

[ice trey]

I can pretty much guarantee the largest proportion will be the 22-32 crowd. We tend to be the ones who life hasn't hit as hard, yet.

The 33+ guys will likely be a good chunk of the guys that have probably been involved with Battletech since the first or second edition of the Battletech boxed set.

I'm 25, and most of the community makes me feel like a young boy by comparison - with no Battletech video games since 2006, and no impressive, mostly-true-to-the-battletech-franchise games made since 1999, there's been very little in the ways of new players for the past decade. At least I can proudly say that those of us who like the game love it for decades at a time.

Edited by ice trey, 07 November 2011 - 11:53 PM.

[ice trey]

BaD JuJu, on 07 November 2011 - 11:28 PM, said:

I am a 33 year old parent, husband and long time MW fan, however I have never been one to get into the RP on any game and find it a little creepy when grown adults start RP'ing like I am already seeing. I look at MW as my all time favorite game, but that is it, an amazing game.
I just imagine some of you in your adult Zip-Up Pajamas looking in the mirror before you go to bed and saying, "Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada." ???

I understand your fan hood, but I feel the need for Triumph the insult dog for some of your!

You're aware that Battletech is a boardgame in which no roleplaying is involved, right? Not unless you're using the roleplaying expansions. Games for me usually involve rolling dice and having chats about current events and other nerdy pursuits as we scoot our pieces around the board.

As for forum based roleplaying, let people do what they want.

Beyond that, I would suggest that you abandon your adherence to the idea of "Maturity". You're 33 years old - no Football Johnny is going to come by and pants you for having fun, especially not in the privacy of your own home. Better to sit around a table roleplaying and socializing with a group of friends than holing up in your basement playing videogames all day. There's clearly a flaw in that logic, brought on only because a large enough proportion of people became interested in videogames for it to become a socially-accepted norm. My own dad does the same damned thing to me whenever I'm not doing what HE thought was socially acceptable, which usually meant the exact same thing we're ALL about to be doing - playing computer games. The truth is, maturity is not dictated by what you do, but how you act in all situations. Someone can be more mature and have his stuff together better than the average joe, yet play these games of make-believe you seem to be deriding; Likewise, there are bound to be grown men who've forsaken all their childhood toys to put on their show for the rest of the world, but still manage to behave like inattentive, Ad-Hominem-using, tantrum-throwing manchildren.

Whether you're playing video games, Roleplaying Dungeons and Dragons, Going to the movies, Watching Television, or reading a fiction novel, it's all the same thing - Escapism for entertainment purposes. If you feel you don't like something, I think that's fine and well, but don't deride someone for their preference on how to go about acquiring the same overall experience.

Edited by ice trey, 08 November 2011 - 12:55 AM.