Well, I just came over here from the CBT Forum where I've been in and out since it went up way back in I think about 2001. I was never really into Clickytech until this new Age of Destruction caught my interest. So, who all here is a CBT player who has been seduced by the siren call of already painted and assembled 'mechs? :cool:

Heh, well, it was natural progression, actually. I wouldn't call it seduced......I'd say it was more like evolve.......

I was seduced.

The rules took a long time to get used to ("what do you mean my mech can't fire if an infantry is basing it?!?!") but the collectable nature of the game really makes it hard to give up. Plus, with new stuff being released far faster than in CBT (which put out a new TRO every 4 years or so) there's a lot more to get excited about.

That said, I still play and love CBT. It will never be replaced, but now it has an alternative for a change of pace.

Amen, brother. :)

Well, CBT is still my bread and butter but I'm totally adverse to Mechwarrior. I tried out the Dark Age rules and they didn't really set well with me but the new AoD is looking mighty tempting. I'm still a fluff and collecting guy myself at heart though and it's all Battletech to me. :cool:

I was a CBT player from way back in the 80's and loved the game, playing all the way through college until about the mid 90's. When I heard WK was creating Mechwarrior (I already played MK) I was there on day one, actually before day one at GenCon 2002.

Lately however my interest has been waning in MW and I have been getting back into CBT over at that website and writing fan fiction and such. I even made my first CBT purchases in nearly 10 years this past weekend.

Both games are fun, just in different ways.

I could not find other CBT players, but I could find MechWarrior players. The painted miniatures do not entice me (I like painting them, or playing unpainted 'Mechs of any house or unit I want), and the inability to get certain units in my preferred factions annoys me. I do like AoD rules much better than Dark Age.

OTOH, I like the larger scale, and would love to find some N-Scale BattleTech games in the Indianapolis area.

-Andy_in_Indy,

i was a CBTer long before i was a MW:DA/MW:AoD player. heck.. we've even figured out how to used the MW mini's to play CBT. it's how we get all our best players too! so rock on mechwarrior. we'll keep seducing your players to the -REAL- game of Mechs and AC/20's!

i´m a MechWarrior player, but i take akwonledge from CBT 10 years ago.
unfortunely in portugal few persons play CBT so i´m playing MW... but i think CBT it´s much real. painting my ow mech.... WOOOW ehehhe

ps: sorry my english, i´m portuguese

I was introduced to CBT by a friend who played it back in the '80s. When I was learning how to play, I saw a MechWarrior booster pack in a store and bought it. I showed it to my friend and he said "Looking at these rules, this is Battletech Lite".

I have been playing Classic Battletech now for 5 years, and have been playing Mechwarrior since Lio Incursion was released. MechWarrior A.o.D. and CBT live hand in hand in my game room (although I lean more towards CBT because I like painting and customizing the pewter miniatures. I actually have alot of the MW pieces made by IWM for use in my Battletech wars.) A.o.D. is definitely closer to CBT than DA ever dreamed of being.

I have started playing Battletech in the early 90´s. Unfortunatelly, there were quite few players in Brazil and I have stopped some 5 years ago. Some 2 years ago I have started playing Heroclix and recently I have started in MW (I have postponed it several times for $$$ reasons). Nowadays, I play MW quite often and we have a small but active group of players here.

In my opinion Battletech is a more complex, complete and balanced game. Unfortunatelly, it is sometimes quite time consuming and tiring (lots of calculations and spreadsheet keeping).
MW is easy and more fun to play but not so balanced. DA rules were nothing but a version of MK. AoD rules were an improvement and the game now has something from Battletech on it. Unfortunatelly, a lot of commercially-driven decisions (retirement of pieces, cards on boosters, enormous collections with quite few usefull pieces) sometimes disappoint me about the game. Just to you have an idea, in Brazil we always play unrestricted and we share our cards. Normally we buy singles not boosters to save money on uselless figures.

I have already ready "Techwarrior" created by a guy from Italy that seems to be much better than the WK rules, but I have not tried yet.

Not really seduced seeing as I keep myself to reading the fiction and keeping an eye on some people over here.

Ive been into battletech since the 80's and have moved with cbt/clickytech :)
owever I don't have a lot of time to play either much ..I still do once in awhile and paint mt miniatures.