Author Topic: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)  (Read 36264 times)

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Absolutely nothing. Not that I play much now, but BattleTech is the last game that I still collect and read through the books. I have made exactly two non-BT game purchases in the past three years, and both purely for nostalgia's sake. If BattleTech was gone I'd leave the hobby entirely.
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  • GURPS (Especially Transhuman Space)
  • Warmaster (The recently-cancelled large scale 10mm fantasy/historical game)
  • Full Metal Anorak (Especially but not exclusively Dirtside)

Honestly, I during the Clix years, there was a BattleTech-shaped hole in the universe, as far as I was concerned. Dirtside was my replacement for BattleTech, and I still love it. The system is brilliantly clean and simple, and you have Stargrunt to "zoom in" for very small scenarios at 15mm. It's good even for playing in the BattleTech universe (its own universe is a little... skeletal, to but it charitably).

For RPG, I'd still pick GURPS over AToW, even for a battletech game. Transhuman Space is a great setting that has a unique feel that I greatly appreciate, and some of the best economics I've seen in an RPG. Eliminate the richness of 25 years of BT world-building, and I'd be playing THS exclusively.

GW cancelled Warmaster last week, but I still have the minis and love them (and there's significant historicals support for them as well from third parties). Haven't played in a long time, but presumably it would fill in some of the void.

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If the question is limited just to board games, Levs would probably lead the list, followed by anything from FFG.  Talisman and Descent are probably my favorites, though I enjoy Arkham Horror a great deal as well.

Without a physically-present RPG group, I don't see that being a real possibility, but virtually anything that catches my fancy is a possibility.  Still looking for a good spy RPG.

Video games, well, that's what I do with most of my large blocks of free time as it is.  Too many to name.

The loss of BattleTech would affect me severely in terms of having much less to read, so I would probably plow through some of the other novel series I have floating around here.

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Interesting.

Battletech is what got me into gaming, and what has connected me to most of my gaming friends.

So if Battletech never existed, I might not be a geek, or at least not much of one.


On the other hand, I did play a bit of Risk with my dad as a kid, and I was introduced to Settlers of Catan in college. So I guess it'd be more in the vein of those sorts of games.

Sheesh. Thank you Battletech from saving me from a very lame geekdom.  :/
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I would go back to playing Vampire: The Masquerade & Magein leiu  of AToW.  I would also play naval games 'cos I love black and blue navy stuff. Leviathans is a gimme. The occasional computer game like Masters of Orion. I cant sit still as long as I used to. 

Heck, more time spent riding my motorcycle and hiking were it not for this Mecha hobby.
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In no particular order:
Leviathans,
Warhammer 40K,
Robotech Tactics(when it comes out)

Actually, I would play more of those, since I already play all of those plus BattleTech
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No Battletech and especially no Clan Wolf.......(Gave up on Star Wars figures)....I guess I would be no gamer at all.And be considered "Normal"

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Absolutely nothing. Not that I play much now, but BattleTech is the last game that I still collect and read through the books. I have made exactly two non-BT game purchases in the past three years, and both purely for nostalgia's sake. If BattleTech was gone I'd leave the hobby entirely.
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1. Starfleet Battles.
2. One of the editions in Games Workshop's Epic scale games, not sure which.
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Over the years I have tried to start many additional miniature games but none of them every really stuck like battletech did. I figured it was a mixture of the story/universe and the giat robots that keeps me coming back.

If not for battletech (miniature/tabletop game-wise) I would be playing;

CAV
One of the futuristic 15mm massive army games (gruntz, future war, etc...)
Dropzone Commander

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1. Star fleet battles mixed with Attack Vector complex 3D and a history to go along with it!
2. Leviathans, well designed historical  >:D or maybe Dust, the others are to simple.
3. What ever the historical group is running this week.

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Gamewise? Leviathans, Starfire, maybe Dust. Never really thought about it. Battletech is my game.
lot mor Battlestar Galactica Online.
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...nothing.

When mood fits, that's once per century, I could read other fiction or play unrelated computer games, but not a lasting thing.

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Dust, Dust and more Dust.

I've really been getting into that game lately, and building an Allied army

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Car Wars, maybe? Home ruled mini game of Twilight 2K? Harpoon...

It's been 20 years since I played something else, for crissake...

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1. Advanced Civilization (boardgame) by Avalon Hill

2. Flames of War

3. Slaughterloo
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Assuming Battletech went to dust right now, gone before my eyes:
1. Guild Wars 2
2. Firefall
3. Some Indie Game title that catches my eye each month

I don't do many board games, I'd probably just keep trying out everything my group wants.
However my fanaticism would not stick to them. Only these three choices I listed.
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Infinity, board games, and maybe dust

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What are your first three game choices?

I'm not sure I can answer in just 3 choices, because BT provides for me 4 sources of relaxation.

1.  BT Novels:
2.  BT Board/Miniatures Game:
3.  BT RPG:
4.  BT Video Games:


But I can say what "Games" I have immersed myself in in the past in relation to those 4 catagories

1.  Novels:  Shadow Run +  D&D (Realms/Krynn)
2.  Board/Miniatures Game:  40K
3.  RPG:  Shadow Run +  D&D (Realms/Krynn)
4.  Video Games:  Heroes of Might & Magic & several Blizzard games (Warcraft/Starcraft/Diablo).
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In a world with no Battletech?

D&D
Shadowrun
World of Darkness
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Hmmm ....

Leviathans, W40K Epic, 1st edition AD&D
* No, FASA wasn't big on errata - ColBosch
* The Housebook series is from the 80's and is the foundation of Btech, the 80's heart wrapped in heavy metal that beats to this day - Sigma
* To sum it up: FASAnomics: By Cthulhu, for Cthulhu - Moonsword
* Because Battletech is a conspiracy by Habsburg & Bourbon pretenders - MadCapellan
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Leviathans
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There's nothing really around that get's my interest besides Battletech, though I guess if push came to shove I could get back into wargaming - WW2 & Napoleonic Wars tabletop games.

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