Author Topic: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)  (Read 36265 times)

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Presume BattleTech in all forms is gone. That would also mean no computer/video game renditions, and no RPG. It all went poof, and there's a BattleTech/WechWarrior-shaped hole in the universe.

Thanks,

- Herb

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Hi,

Presume BattleTech in all forms is gone. That would also mean no computer/video game renditions, and no RPG. It all went poof, and there's a BattleTech/WechWarrior-shaped hole in the universe.

Thanks,

- Herb

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I'm primarily into BT for the storyline, and get to actually play around once a year. If this universe would vanish, I'd channel my energies and spare time into reading other books and playing RPGs. No other miniature game/boardgame would take its place.
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Haven't got a clue, but it would have to a universe as well developed as the BT Universe. It was the novels that got me into this game and that's what it would take for me to get into a new one. I know I wouldn't be playing Warhammer (too many rules change, too mcuh money, WYSIWYG). I'd probably go back to play D&D or just give up gaming altogether
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Well I need in my life: Spaceships, Missiles and Mecha.

Battletech is the only game that give all of these (with good aesthetics). In fact it is the only boardgame that I play, this is partly because I can't into fantasy (often looks too silly to me) or historical stuff, I am pretty much a hardcore scifi fan.

Videogames: EVE Online  (Spaceships & missiles), and I would continuously seek a new mecha game that would offer a good storyline.
Boardgame: Would likely give Infinity a go, but would likely also try to make my own game, would likely base it upon anime such as: Bubblegum Crisis, Gasaraki, Patlabor.
Herb: "Well, now I guess we'll HAVE to print it. Sounds almost like the apocalypse I've been working for...."

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If BattleTech had never existed, I'd not spend a fair amount of my spare time updating Sarna. So, my best guess is that I'd end up playing more boardgames, mostly Arkham Horror and Android... in fact, Arkham Horror in particular as I sometimes moderate Play By Forum games over on boardgamegeek (although there are a stack of games I'll happily play, like Zombicide/Small World/Elder Sign/Stone Age/Drum Roll).

I'd probably spend more time playing Magic: The Gathering, and I'd hope to get more time in with my local Dark Heresy RPG group. It's difficult to pick three games in particular though, because I'd rather play most games than not play anything at all. I've been given a few computer games over the years that I've never had the time to sit down and play, so maybe I'd play more PC games, like I was 10 years ago or so.

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I play a lot of wargames, so based on my current ones:

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Leviathans.

Starmada, plus a smattering of other starship games.

Some sort of WWII game, such as A&A Minis, GHQ, FoW, or whatnot.
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Ooh, tough one. For simplicity, I'm going to stick to miniatures-based tabletop wargames that incorporate building and painting into their structure.

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Hi,

Presume BattleTech in all forms is gone. That would also mean no computer/video game renditions, and no RPG. It all went poof, and there's a BattleTech/WechWarrior-shaped hole in the universe.

Thanks,

- Herb

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If this were a question of "If I hadn't gotten my start in BT, then what would it be...", then my answer would be card games and board games, including the stuff in the Wal-mart toy aisle. That's what I grew up on. My grandmother was a master at Yahtze. My dad got me into RPGs for a short time, so I might have gone that way, too.

However, if this is a matter of "If it were to happen today, after all I've seen and done and been...", then my answer would be, I wouldn't give it up. I'd have to have amnesia to not recreate the game in some fashion, and I would do just that. I have plenty of starts in other games that I could fashion my own miniatures and everything.

I like the system too much to give it up, and I'm one that's been looking at ideas of my own, and helping people out with ideas of theirs.

There's just nothing else that compares.

If I had to go quick and dirty in the mean time, I'd probably go with some other giant robot game, like Heavy Gear or Jovian Chronicles, or even the new Robotech game... or the old Palladium one. I've been exposed to enough stuff that I have lots of fall-back options when I'm bored. Even card games like Magic: The Gathering. Yes, I've dabbled in 40k and other games like it (Vor), and I've seen other hex-games like the Renegade Legion suite and OGRE and Leviathans. Still look at new stuff, too.

But, super tanks and flying battleships don't interest me as much as giant walking Avatars of destruction, especially ones that can take lots of hits and dish out lots of punishment in return.

The idea is now stuck in my head, I'd find a way to recreate it from scratch if I had to.

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D&D (a homebrew 3.25 most likely, though we are finsihing a very old 2nd ed campaign at the moment) or some other d20 system (Star Wars d20,

Magic: The Gathering. My friend got me hooked.

I'd like to get going with a good Shadowrun campaign again. I played for a bit a while back but the group scattered because of life and etc.


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EDIT: And I would be fiddling around with HG, because I hate the MOS rolls, and DZC would be bought for the figures.
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Robotech, Mekton Zeta, Heavy Gear...maybe Traveler.  In addition to the things i play already like Shadowrun and L5R.

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Wellsir, I'd likely go with Steam, and get back into Flash gaming, and never see the light of day again.  Of course, there would be regular meets at my place for Shadowrun, Big Eyes, Small Mouth, and Human Occupied Landfill.


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Warhammer 40K
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Star Craft.

Portal.

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I'm not sure if "play" is the operative term in my case; since I got properly into BattleTech as a setting, I've been collecting books mostly for the background material included. (While I plan to get Alpha Strike at some point, I don't yet know if I'll be in a position to actually play it.)

Tabletop/RPG/background-wise, I'm already into the Star Fleet Universe, so I'd pretty much stick with that if the BT-verse did not exist. I used to play other franchises, but faded away from them a number of years ago. (I did get The Sixth World Almanac for Shadowrun, the rule books for A Call to Arms: Noble Armada, and a few of Holistic's older sourcebook PDFs for Fading Suns, but I wouldn't say that I'm really "into" either setting the way I am with the SFU and the BT-verse.)

I haven't really played any of the computer games in this franchise either, so I probably wouldn't be missing out on those either way.
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assuming I was playing anything anymore
I would do Warhammer Fantasy with Mordhiem for small stuff
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Blood Bowl/Mordheim/Necromunda for my miniatures fix.  I've tried 40k, fantasy, warmahordes, etc, but there's something about the rag tag unit of mercenaries, with more detail and less figures (and some RPG elements) that really works for me.  I'd miss mech customization like hell, but RPG elements in the specialist games would help make up for it a little.

Various board games, but in particular something co-operative /and/ competitive, like Fury of Dracula, Shadows Over Camelot, or Battlestar Galactica.  I like and play these already, but would probably step it even more into gear.  (In a perfect world, there's a board/card game involving a crack group of comguards during the Jihad, one of which might be working for the WoB which you guys put out.  I would give you AllMyMoney)

Something with a deep universe to read a ton of.  Something like L5R, though it would be a whole lot more reading, than playing.  And I'd read Dune a bunch.  And maybe some more of the 40k novels set during the Horus Heresy.  But again, as a setting, less as an actual game.