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[Magik0012]

Lymekiller, on 22 January 2013 - 02:02 PM, said:

Awesome....I have mine in a couple of boxes in the garage....I also have the City tech someone else posted and a third one that I want to say had space fighter rules but I can't remember. Might be getting Traveller or Silent Death mixed up in there. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

Aerotech?

[Lymekiller]

magik0012.....thank you thats it (I'm pretty sure). Now that I remember though I didn't get that I got the Solaris VII and Succession Wars games although i think one of those might have been a book.....oh &^%$# I'll just go dig it out of the garage....this thread has made me all nostalgic and my memory apparently has the same retention as an average kitchen sieve

[Sealawyer]

I don't remember Battldroids, But I do remember the 2nd Edition. The Citytech to. I had all those books. Deployed overseas for a few years with the military and my folks moved and threw away all my books I so lovingly packed away in airtight bags.

[Slade Deleportas]

That would be Battlespace, then it was re-released as Aerotech, and Aerotech 2, which AR2 is what's in the Total Warfare printings (more or less)

[Steinar Bergstol]

Yep. The box in the OP is the exact same one I had. In fact that was the first proper nerd game I ever bought with my own money back in the mid 80's after tiny gaming/comicbook shops started appearing in a few of the bigger Norwegian cities. I also bought issue 2 (I think) of BattleTechnology Magazine at the same time. The one with the painting of a Marauder and a Thunderbolt fighting on the cover.

[Weatherman]

I realized recently that it was Battletech that got me into gaming. It was the first tabletop game I ever played all the way back in 1994. It is my gateway drug.

[Elyam]

Used to have everything, foolishly traded it in the 90s for a car at a time when I had moved across the country and was trying to get established with pennies in my pocket. Only kept a few items. I never owned the BattleDroids box set, but had started during its time. bought everything thereafter. It was very extensive, including a reinformed regiment of mechs. Only kept about a company of that. Deep regrets, But desperate times lead to such things.

Strangely enough, still have al the Mekton stuff (in addition to a wide variety of hundreds of game systems)

[Bagheera]

chewie, on 22 January 2013 - 11:52 AM, said:

2nd edition for me, closely followed by these (my ones are in the loft so cant take pics for evidence)

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Ahh Citytech, Battleforce, and Aerotech. Good times. Never had those personally, but folks in the group I played with back in those days did.

[Kahoumono]

Mine should still be in the basement, mint. I probably still have a bunch of the resin pieces which I never put together. The Robotech/Battletech cross is what got me hooked. Just loved accumulating stuff I wouldn't use I guess. I should break out mechwarrior 1...

[gilliam]

I'm not old enough for that.

I got into the BT universe when I was like 8 or 10 with Mechwarrior 2.
I didn't first play the tabletop game until a couple years ago.

[Creepy]

Elyam, on 23 January 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

Used to have everything, foolishly traded it in the 90s for a car at a time when I had moved across the country and was trying to get established with pennies in my pocket. Only kept a few items. I never owned the BattleDroids box set, but had started during its time. bought everything thereafter. It was very extensive, including a reinformed regiment of mechs. Only kept about a company of that. Deep regrets, But desperate times lead to such things.

Strangely enough, still have al the Mekton stuff (in addition to a wide variety of hundreds of game systems)

I still have some Mekton stuff on a shelf somewhere. A friend of mine worked on the Tech Book. Mekton was one of the games I was never able to get my friends to play back in high school for some reason...

Weatherman, on 23 January 2013 - 07:24 AM, said:

I realized recently that it was Battletech that got me into gaming. It was the first tabletop game I ever played all the way back in 1994. It is my gateway drug.

It was AD&D for me back around 2nd grade. First wargame was Panzer Leader in middle school, unless you count "green army men" and arguments about invulnerable shields and weapons that could penetrate them.

Sedant, on 22 January 2013 - 01:50 PM, said:

Well used sir, well used!

25th anniversary edition just came out fyi.

Yeah, I had to snag a copy when I heard about it

Slade Deleportas, on 22 January 2013 - 09:59 AM, said:

SF3D, interesting, my one slightly local model store has 5 or 6 of the models... Are they anything special now, or still being produced etc.?

Some of the old model molds were reportedly destroyed in a fire but I think whatever survived is still being produced along with some newly tooled kits. There are also some resin kits that I think are fan made and will cost you an arm and a leg...

OldManMonza, on 21 January 2013 - 06:48 PM, said:

S.F.3.D now that brings back some memories. I remember spending waaaay more money than I had to pick up the model kits. I saw the game only once back in '86 and haven't seen it since. I know it was imported by TCI, may a thousand praises be upon them for helping me survive high school. Even today when I take my kids to any number of Anime Con's I hit the dealers room in the hopes that someone may have an old copy I can buy for slightly less than a Bentley.

You can probably get a copy for an "okay" price on Ebay as I know they pop up once in a while?

Edited by Creepy, 28 January 2013 - 03:20 AM.

[Sadistic Savior]

I came in around 1985, right after Battledroids tuned into battletech. I did not know anyone else who had played it when I first bought the boxed set.

Creepy, on 18 January 2013 - 11:47 AM, said:

I was cleaning things up a couple of weeks ago and this guy popped up. I knew I had it but I just didn't remember where. The rest of the set is scattered though, and I'm not sure if I have it all anymore..

Careful posting images of the unseen like that. Harmony gold might QQ and send you a cease and desist letter.

[Fabian Wrede]

I was

[Fiachdubh]

That was real subtle releasing the game with another IPs mech on the cover, anyone know what mech is on the 25th anniversary box? It does not seem to be one of the ones included.

[Steinar Bergstol]

Fiachdubh, on 11 February 2013 - 05:46 PM, said:

That was real subtle releasing the game with another IPs mech on the cover, anyone know what mech is on the 25th anniversary box? It does not seem to be one of the ones included.

Well, they'd licensed the images of what's now known as the Unseen (including that Warhammer on the box) from the Japanese owners of those images, and yes, they did it before HG got the Macross license from someone who the Japanese courts later ruled did not have the right to sell that license. That said, the whole Unseen saga is a lengthy bloody mess which has been explained better in several other threads dedicated to that. Suffice to say FASA was never ruled against concerning the unseen, but the cost of lawsuits are such that a relatively small company like that often can't really afford to fight a wealthier opponent willing to spend the money to keep the case going, so they overreacted and settled with HG out of court by removing every licensed image they had ever used.

The mech on the 25th anniversary box from Catalyst Game Labs is the Reseen Warhammer. Which makes it odd, I agree, that it's not one of the mechs in the box, even if I don't particularly like the Reseen 'Hammer much.

[Escef]

Steinar Bergstol, on 12 February 2013 - 01:25 AM, said:

The mech on the 25th anniversary box from Catalyst Game Labs is the Reseen Warhammer. Which makes it odd, I agree, that it's not one of the mechs in the box, even if I don't particularly like the Reseen 'Hammer much.

I thought it was a Hammerhands?

[Bishop Steiner]

Creepy, on 18 January 2013 - 11:47 AM, said:

I was cleaning things up a couple of weeks ago and this guy popped up. I knew I had it but I just didn't remember where. The rest of the set is scattered though, and I'm not sure if I have it all anymore..

Well, started playing in 1987, so I guess I would qualify. Still love the TT.

[Wittyname Terribad]

Started in ~93 at the ripe old age of 8, saw the Btech and citytech boxes and fell in love. I still have a terribly painted plastic Wolverine and Battlemaster on my work desk. Eventually had almost 2 battalions of pewter mechs, which have vanished into the depths of my childhood home's basement. Still have most of the Btech, mw, and mw:da novels, though

[Viper69]

I was around but playing Dungeons and Dragons at the time. Got into Battletech in the early 90s.

[Paula Fry]

Played TT when i was 14. So 1988. Still got the Hexmaps and the Mechsheets....but cant find the Mechs. All i found was a Pweter AC 20 Arm of my old beloved Victor......