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If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« on: 03 May 2013, 19:53:38 »
Hi, there!

So, here's a new question from the BattleTech Line Developer for this month. Picture, if you will, the following scenraio: Your BattleTech books have turned to dust. Your BattleTech PDFs have been erased. Your miniatures have melted into worthless puddles of pewter, plastic, and resin. All that is BattleTech--and only all that is BattleTech--no longer exists. After overcoming the shock and horror, you pick yourself up and play ... something else.

What are your first three game choices?

This is not a poll, so answer away, but please try to keep to the basics of the question: In a world without BattleTech, what are your three most likely alternatives?

I figure we can run this question for....oh, let's say two months, ending on Sunday, 30 June 2013.

Thanks in advance,

- Herbert Beas
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #1 on: 03 May 2013, 19:56:57 »
Off the top of my head, board games.  Not the wal-mart toy aisle stuff, but game store stuff.  Like games from Fantasy Flight and Plaid Hat Games.


Maybe Dust or Warmachine if if I could talk some friends into it. 
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #2 on: 03 May 2013, 19:57:17 »
Miniatures: Warmachine

Board: Arkham Horror

Video Game: N/A

Sport: Hockey
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #3 on: 03 May 2013, 19:58:50 »
Shadowrun

Warhammer 40k

D&D

In that order.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #4 on: 03 May 2013, 19:59:35 »
Leviathans. I'd probably pick up Flames of war or GHQ.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #5 on: 03 May 2013, 20:00:17 »
D&D
Civilization (computer)
Acquire/Tigris and Euphrates/other board games
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #6 on: 03 May 2013, 20:00:40 »
I'd be on the streets selling drugs.

Oh, and playing Flames of War or something like that. While selling drugs.  ;D
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #7 on: 03 May 2013, 20:00:58 »
I play board games, but I LOVE the Arcanis universe of RPG.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #8 on: 03 May 2013, 20:09:40 »
Flames of War
GURPS
Leviathans

(no particular order)
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #9 on: 03 May 2013, 20:16:43 »
1- Leviathans

2- Finding something else to do other than play a board game, like spend more time at the archery range.

Seriously. I'm old and stuck in my ways. Not much in the game market even interests me now. I love the BT universe and game. I'm getting to love the Levs universe and game a lot.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #10 on: 03 May 2013, 20:18:16 »
40K, Leviathans, or something out of a big box from FFG
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #11 on: 03 May 2013, 20:22:14 »
If you consider just time spent playing:

Warmachine
Pathfinder(D&D)
Legend of Five Rings (CCG and RPG) 

If you don't include MegaMek, I already play all of those more often than BattleTech.

However, if you include the time spent reading up on some facet of the game or its history, developing adventures/scenarios, or just plain daydreaming about, BattleTech has always been my first game.  If that were to end, L5R would be my next obsession.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #12 on: 03 May 2013, 20:23:01 »
Quote from: JadeHellbringer on 03 May 2013, 20:00:40
I'd be on the streets selling drugs.

Oh, and playing Flames of War or something like that. While selling drugs.  ;D

You're doing better than me. I'd be sitting in the apartment, watching the paint peel.

Oh, and playing Borderlands. Definitely Borderlands.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #13 on: 03 May 2013, 20:25:46 »
Civilization or  Railroad Tycoon on the computer.

Dungeons & Dragons of some stripe for RPG.

If I picked up a new miniatures hobby it would probably be building model trains.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #14 on: 03 May 2013, 20:27:19 »
I'd play Heavy Gear.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #15 on: 03 May 2013, 20:30:52 »
D&D, Computer games and the ladies.  O:-)
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #16 on: 03 May 2013, 20:41:20 »
In no particular order:
ZynVaded!
Heavy Gear (must have Big Giant Robots!)
Pathfinder
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #17 on: 03 May 2013, 20:48:09 »
D&D
Traveller
And Civilization on my computer.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #18 on: 03 May 2013, 20:59:56 »
I am really not sure, although I do tend to float between various video games so it would probably be some combination of those.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #19 on: 03 May 2013, 21:30:46 »
I'd go with Flames of War and Civilization on my PC.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #20 on: 03 May 2013, 21:55:22 »
NetRunner
Munchkin
Zombies!
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #21 on: 03 May 2013, 22:03:01 »
In no particular order:
Mekton Zeta
CAV
Jovian Chronicles and/or Heavy Gear (nearly the same system, different settings)
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #22 on: 03 May 2013, 22:14:56 »
Heavy Gear Blitz

Dropzone Commander

Warmachine
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #23 on: 03 May 2013, 22:28:36 »
Dust Warfare, Carcassonne, and Fortune and Glory.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #24 on: 04 May 2013, 00:03:16 »
D&D or War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition.  Other than that, I've pretty much grown out of the gaming phase, so I'd probably spend a lot more time working on more mundane projects like hunting, fishing and gardening.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #25 on: 04 May 2013, 00:08:16 »
Heh, first post here.

1. Renegade Legion: any of the games in that FASA series

2. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

3. Warhammer Fantasy Battles
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #26 on: 04 May 2013, 00:13:43 »
Warmachine
ZynVaded!
Heavy Gear
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #27 on: 04 May 2013, 00:30:28 »
I wouldn't be a gamer at all
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #28 on: 04 May 2013, 01:06:43 »
Shadowrun first and foremost. love that game
Crimson Skies (I still play it) but since its dead, lets say Leviathans.
3rd? Various other rpg's. Deadlands. Warhammer fantasy roleplaying, warhammer 40k roleplaying. Hate the tabletop though. no strategy. just 'buy more'

need more shadowrun in our battletech. not the different races, or monsters, or magic. But... hacking. Battletech could use hackers.
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Re: If Not For BattleTech, I'd Play.... (Voting closes Sunday, 30 June 2013)
« Reply #29 on: 04 May 2013, 01:25:17 »
Various RPG's like we do now.

Oh, would my AToW be gone too? I've been thinking of adapting it to play in the Fallout universe, so if it's still around, that.

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