BattleTraxx

After a couple of years since the last time I played Battletech, I find myself getting interested in the game once more. Recently I came across a lot of my old Battletech stuff and decided to go ahead and make an homage site to CBT. The recent news of Mechwarrior 5 has also added to my rekindled interest. So with all that comes an easy way to update the forthcoming BattleTraxx page: a blog.

I first started playing Battletech back in 1986 with my brother. I even remember seeing the old Battledroids box before either of us got into actually trying the game out. Yes, I'm ancient to some of you young pups getting into the game now. Pretty much got into every aspect of the game from the Mechwarrior RPG to the computer games and miniatures. Even got the patches. Heh. My interest started to wane as it got more difficult to find local sellers and I admittedly took a instant dislike to Mechwarrior: Dark Age. Perhaps more on that another time. I even got into the online Mechwarrior games for a little bit but finally gave up on that more due to my terrible internet connection than anything else at the time. Met lots of nice folks though.

So why BattleTraxx? I was working on an AeroTech 2 editor as a personal project to get back into programming and my brother suggested creating a vehicle editor. I jokingly made the comment that I'd call it BattleTraxx, which we both liked. While the vehicle editor has one by the wayside of other projects I decided to adopt the name as my Battletech webpage. So as soon as I start posting things at the site, I'll post the link here.