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Frabby

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Teaching the next generation
« on: 04 March 2017, 07:58:15 »
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
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Re: Teaching the next generation
« Reply #1 on: 04 March 2017, 08:21:40 »
Youth and brashness triumphs over age and wisdom. Your sibko has bred true, warrior. Your assignment to a Solahma Cluster is being processed as I type this. :D
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Re: Teaching the next generation
« Reply #2 on: 04 March 2017, 11:57:56 »
My kids often win at games of dice just by being vastly luckier than I've ever even dreamed of being (their uncle, my brother, was famous for taking the Vulture C and collecting scalps).

Now, when your kids beat you at a game like chess that involves no luck (as mine have) then it's time to start filling out your transfer papers. 
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Re: Teaching the next generation
« Reply #3 on: 24 April 2017, 14:44:48 »
Great story thanks for sharing
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Re: Teaching the next generation
« Reply #4 on: 18 December 2017, 15:30:49 »
You got into a fair fight in Tabletop Battletech? Why? This is where old age and treachery shine!
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