My son is now five and a half years old, clearly too young for boardgame BattleTech... but he loves boardgames of all kinds, and has been asking me to play BattleTech for many months. So I set up a quick game on a single board today.
He insisted on the Lake Area map, and that we should duel in 100-tonners. He picked an AS-7D Atlas for himself and assigned me a CGC-0000 King Crab.
I took away from that game that I've not improved much as a player over the last 25 years. The fight was generally much much closer than I had ever anticipated it would be, with both 'Mechs being shot to hell and back... but in the end a hit from his rear-mounted medium lasers destroyed my King Crab's gryo.
Yeah, my five year old just beat me in a fair standup BattleTech fight. :D