Myself and some buddies really want to play other people. We are new to the game and are tired of playing each other. If you live in the Norfolk Va. area and would like to play let us know.

I'm trying to remeber who else is in that area. But I'm drawing a HUGE blank.

Good luck man!

If you have a good sized group, try having a tournaments in a local game shop. That way others can see you play and might join in your fun.

This is our plan. Start playing in various local stores and people will flock to us. There has to be some people that frequent the stores that have a dusty army laying around.

Make sure it's interesting for the stores too: buy stuff. Maybe they still have boosters around, otherwise buy a few bottles of paint for your repainting projects.

Trust me, there isn't a store within 50 miles that has any more mechwarrior stuff. We have bought it all.

Also, it's hard to go into a store to play without leaving with a comic book or two.

Good to read, I like the dedication of you and your peers. By the way, if you're a bit tired of always playing with the same people, try to create a scenario or a campaign in order to spice things up. There's more than one way to add a bit of variation to the game.

bring it back!
great idea....but who is left??

I'd love to see it return, but the odds are slim to none now.

However, what I can see happening is the new WizKids taking the game engine and creating a new scifi property around it. For example, a world where robots of all shapes and sizes fight a war that ended for their creators hundreds of years ago. Something. You get the idea.

And to be immensely cool to us old-timers, make it 80-100% compatible with MW.

\o/

Thumper 2.0, your idea reminds me of a PC game from the nineties in which two factions of sentient machines continued to carry on their mission of cultivating worlds for humanity, despite the fact that the human race went extinct. Do I even need to explain that those two factions were hostile towards each other? I believe the game was called 'Machines', but I'm not 100% certain.

Personally I think a hypothetic new game, be it clix-based or not, should stay closer to the BattleTech/MechWarrior-origin, if only for marketing reasons. And compatibility with our old stuff would be nice, but it actually is not necessary. Call me an optimist if you want, but I think there are still enough creative juices around in the MW communities to whip up some hybrid rulesets if necessary.

*chuckles*

I know. Hardly an original idea, but you can see what I'm getting at.

If someone else makes a new MechWarrior/Battletech skirmish game, I agree 100%. AFAIK, WizKids/NECA didn't get the license for MW, so unless that changes, it won't be clix based.

And for me, a big part of the fun was the game engine itself. Barring the resurrection of MechWarrior, I'd rather have a new scifi game (MechClix, anyone?) that used the same rules than a new non-clix version of MW. I think I've been spoiled by the relative ease and stat-tracking that a WK clix game offers. lol

Oh I don't doubt that for a second! There are some exceptionally talented people on these boards (me=jealous).

But I think, just from a marketing prospective, it would be a huge boon to a new game if, at launch, there were hundreds of fully compatible figures that could be used in addition to the initial set. And it would act as kind of a tip of the hat to MechWarrior fans. Sort of a "We haven't forgotten about you guys. Thanks for all your support."

second'ing.

A resurection would be awesome but highly unlikely. Short of that I have been reduced to slightly more drastic measures.

I am the only mechwarrior player, and a new one at that, at my game shop so I was forced to improvise a bit. I have assembled an omniclix ruleset that encompasses meachwarrior aod, heroclix, and horrorclix (I'm working on mage knight and then actionclix) as a way to provide myself the widest range of competition I can get. So far it has worked well for the two playtests I have done. I hope to get people interested and bring some life back to some out of print games.

I would love it if they would let someone else bring it back and keep WizKids out of it!!!! They were the ones that screwed it up in the first place. They need someone who actually understands the battletech universe and plays to the strengths of that vs. the power creep crap tactics that WizKids did to push the sales of product! Battletech players were more interested in staying with their faction - not bouncing from one to the next because that was the new "broken" power monger...

If it was brought back - they should do the research on what mechs each house / clan used and keep with the history... that means that not every faction / clan gets every mech, vehicle, and infantry...

You could of course just bring out miniatures without any affiliation at all, that way there's more freedom for the players to do as they want. Seems easier too, if you ask me.

Personally - the whole game was to be based as part of the Battletech universe... Without that connection it falls short of why I played the game to start with...

but from a strickly game stand point... like 40000K or other miniture based games - it could be a good way of making it more universal...