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Animortis, 10 months ago

Joining in, I was introduced to BattleTech through the original MechWarrior games that were lighting up the gaming scene in the 90s. One of my friends got into the card game, and from then on I broke into the fiction and began reading it as much as I could. Though I took a hiatus through college, Harebrained Scheme's game soaked up hundreds of hours from me when I found it a few years ago. It dawned on me I #1) Loved the setting still and #2) This was a recreation of the tabletop game. So I bought a copy of the beginner's box, then A Game of Armored Combat... and onward. I spent the next year playing against myself, until I finally met some people in the local FLGS and we started playing together last winter. Since then I've taken up mini-painting, I read the fiction, I have lead MechWarrior: Destiny missions, and I own enough of the manuals I can write the sticky. I'm thrilled to help build our community here.

HidingCat, 10 months ago

I was first introduced to BattleTech back around 1990 or 1991, when the group I was playing D&D took a break from dungeon running to smash big mechs around. I recall taking the Warhammer, because you know, it had decent stats and had one of the cooler mech designs from Macross. Loved it when the PPC scored a hit.

One of my most memorable moments was when the GM of the group introduced the clan mechs to us blind. I remember the standee (we were too broke to get standalone minis) looked unfamiliar, and she narrated a bit of the situation when the mech (a Timberwolf) appeared. The damn thing just plain murdered us all with us in L1 3025 tech. Imagine a 75 ton heavy mech with max armour, moving like a medium mech of its time (5/8), and with lasers that did as much damage as a PPC with like 50% more range. When you're used to tactics and expectations with 3025 mechs, it was truly a paradigm shift. We thought she was cheating all something until the end of the game when she showed us the new source material.

I haven't played BT for some 20 years now, but it's part of my gaming background, and I'll always cherish the times piloting my big metal mounts.