From: taia_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Second Genyosha)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: Battletech: The Great Debate.
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:28:54 GMT
Reply-To: taia_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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In article <1992Dec10.162708.17347@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>, mmidura@ccs.northeastern.edu (Marc Midura) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.121121.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> hamilton_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>> Andrew Morris of Alberta Canada writes:
>> Well since I started playing years ago, the Battletech universe has under
>>gone some major changes. But none has had the dramatic effect that the Clans
>>have had on the game. Reading the net, alot of people seem to just go on
>>about Clan this, and Clan that, and Clan blah blah blah.
>> I've tried to write this post a couple of times now, and I just keep getting
>>to criticle of how much FASA has changed the game.
>> In a nutshell, I believe the game was better before the Clan invation, and
>>its damn hard to find people who feel like wise. So if you do, SPEAK UP!  

   [ Deleted past Btek campaigns etc...reread it :]

> Sure the combats went on a little long and nearly always came
>down to punching and kicking, but it was FUN.
>Then the clan tek came.

 I liked the game before the Clans as everyone should know now. The Clans
were a real spanner in the works for me. Though I was more upset at the
sudden jump from 3030 to 3050. Overnight the IS wasn't the Inner Sphere
anymore. Then the godless alliance with the Fedrats! When I first saw the
ads for _Lethal Heritage_, I sat there and said "Like Hell we are!" An
alliance with Davion? Where would these invaders come from? I thought that
it might come through the Outworlds Alliance, now the game is a completely
different ballgame. We face a difficult and powerful enemy, who have a
technological edge, that we cannot match. It isn't the same anymore :(
Now I look back to the nostalgic times of 3025 and sigh for the good old
days. I find the game now much more analytical in it's approach.

>IMO, the tek took something from the game.
>Don't worry, your PPCs and LRMs have no minimum range.
>Double heat sinks, your problems are over etc.
><I realize that more stuff may have been added since I've played, but
> this was my opinion at the time and it still holds with the information
> that I have SO FAR.  I might change if I got more.>
>I only played once with clan tek (the rest is just reading) and I haven't
>played since.(Actually, to be fair, it was time constraints, not the Clans
>that drove me away.)

 It took me two years to learn 3050, I still can't play Clanners well as
I'm a die-hard Inner Spherer and proud of it.

>I feel that when (if) I get time to play again, I'd rather not play with
>the Clans.  (And if I did play with the Clans, I would rather play AGAINST
>them rather than pilot them.)
>..marc

 Good to see that there are still some good old tekers around. Hope to see
you back and fighting soon in a mek.

This has been....
 Tony Taia                                    (Sho-sa of the Second Genyosha)
  TAIA_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
3055-3067: So little time, so many Clan meks to kill! :)        `|'Disclaimer!
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