Anybody out there into old-school Battletech? I'm talking the 3025; pre-Clans (and really, pre-4th Succession War) era.....the mid 80s FASA game about Giant Robots piloted by people who lived in a 31st Century Feudal Future spread across a 1,000 worlds (with no aliens) of 5 Ruling Houses battling it out with lost technology they didn't really understand anymore.....
If any of you have ANY idea what I'm talking about; I have spent much of the past 20 or so years trying to collect everything Battletech produced between 1985 or so and 1990. Now that I have almost everything made in that era....I was thinking of trying to actually USE some of it.
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One of the ideas I've had was to do a game that broke down into several different 'layers'....one of which would be Role-playing the members of a Mercenary Mech Lance (4 Mechs each with 1 pilot) or Company (12 mechs) as they made their way around the Galaxy getting into battles and what-not; while a second layer would be using (at least some) of the Boardgame elements (maneuvering the Mechs around a map in combat); AND a Strategic phase where the players would no longer be representing their individual characters but rather the 5 Great Houses who are duking it out (i.e. playing the Succession Wars game) and based on events in THIS game; stuff may trickled down into the RPG.
Obviously this would be a LONG TERM affair and I'm not the fastest of posters; so if you ARE interested, please understand you're committing to a long-term project. I'd need 3-5 players I think for this project; if it happens.....and if somebody out there also has a lot of the old products I'm talking about (Basically FASA products with the production codes between 1604 and about 1635 or so) and they're good at linking pictures, maps, etc.; that'd be a HUGE HELP. I'm NOT tied to any particular system (I.e. we don't have to use the Mechwarrior RPG system, I could use D6 or something else for that part)
Any other crazy people out there like me who might be interested in something like this?