I wouldn’t get a chance to play the tabletop game until almost ten years later. My friend Jeromy and I met a man named Thomas Doughty at the local game store who played the game with his friend Dave. By the end of the evening, I was piloting a (slightly modified) RFL-5M against a Marauder II. It was a good night.

Battle Tech was one of them, but none of us really got into it like we did other games … we did have some pretty cool battles, but it didn’t really click with us then.

About a decade ago, I started building my own gaming computers and MW4:Mercs came bundled with a graphics card. This re-introduced me to BattleTech at exactly the wrong time (I wish it had been MW:3, and that I had played four or five video games instead of just one), but I have played through the single player campaign of MW4:Mercs probably 50 times since then.

Like most of us, when the MW5 concept trailer came out, I was breathless and could not wait … MW:O has me hooked.

the only thing i miss is a good tabletob game, so i try to get one of them with this series of giveaways

And the rest, as they say… is history.

The memories…

Took me to a guy’s house he knows who was into scale model trains and had built a giant diorama that took up his entire basement. We played BattleTech on the diorama instead of the standard hex board and I fell in love with it.

discussion point- Jump Jets and secondary effects.
Should there be secondary effects present when jump jets are employed. should there be a larger or longer lasting dust cloud effect on take off and landing, should the thermal signature be more prevalent when jump-jets are in use and would this increase the detection signature of a mech or negate the presence of Ecm coverage.

I was awestruck by his work, and he quickly became my favouritie all time mech artist. It was through his Deviantart page that I found out he’d been working with making art for battletech and that it actually was a tabletop wargame, and as a person who had been collecting Warhammer 40K models since I was 12, I knew I HAD to get some! Sadly, sweden isn’t exacatly known for being very active when it comes to the battletech tabletop game, but I managed to find the 25th Anniversery box in a local store and imidietly bought it! Although i was a little bit dissapointed in the quality of some of the minatures (not counting the Thor and Loki), the other contents managed to draw me in! Around the same time MWO’s main web page had gone up and I was looking through the factions, and when I saw that there was basicly a swedish/scandinavian faction I was like “Say Whaaaaaaaaa!?”, which drew me in even further. Then I found the Roleplaying game, MW: Living Legends and, well I was sold!

To be honest I truly got stuck on the series this and last years, but perticulary so these last three months, as it was during this time that I found out about Ral Partha Europe and that I could order minatures from them, and also when I first found out about you.

I must really thank you guys for the content you produce, It is awesome to listen to you guys talk about battletech stuff while I paint, and now even MAKE my own miniatures! (I’ve made a mech and an aerospace fighter and I found that I had a talent for making such things). I now got an Order from Iron Wind Metals on it’s way to look forward to (One word: Omega) and I recently bought the elite founders package for MW: Tactics.

It is hard being the only swedish Battletech fan I know of, but you guys are part of what makes it worthwhile!

So thank you!

PS. Totally buying that Awesome NGNG soundtrack.
PPS. Nevermind, I doesn’t let me finish the bloody transaction. It just tells me to contact the system admin. Oh well, there’s always later.