Gaming Background?

Not to burst your bubble grab but Robotech's fanbase is far from huge. I dare say the bulk of it bought into the kickstarter. That aside....

My gaming background started with Top Secret SI. I had no one to game with so I made up stories using the game. Next up was the Star Wars RPG 1st ed by West End Games. Not long after was Rifts and then the rest of the Palladium line and some other games along the way.

Miniature gaming started with Battletech in the early 90's. That was followed by Battlespace, Aerotech, Heavy gear, Mekton Zeta, Jovian Chronicles and Star Blazers Fleet Batttles

Edsel - Since our anime origins seems to be similar (I too was big on Star Blazers), do you recall Battle of the Planets and Force Five?

I think you'd find yourself quite disappointed to the sales numbers. Believe me I've been involved in countless numbers of discussions on the matter.

Palladium is the sole example of actual successful robotech product. TSC (the animation) has only made money due to the 4 (or us it 5?) rereleased they've done. Most bought in similar numbers as previous version (or less) thus an indication of being the same people.

I am no less a fan but I am by no means not knowledgeable of the reality of robotech's place in anime or the size of its fan base.

Age-wise I think you are dead on. My daughter only likes Macross because I got her to watch it and by extension Robotech and then a some Gundam.

It's the older anime fans , like many of us here, that think back to "real" robot shows like Macross and Gundam as well as "super" robot shows like Getter Robo etc.

I think you may be thinking of Battle of the Planets. G-force was a later redo (Though they were called G-Force IN Battle of the Planets) by Turner Broadcasting that was......REALLY BAD (not that Battle of the Planets was a great transfer from Japan to North America to begin with). LOL

I was always more of a Starblazers (and thus Yamato) guy. Though Robotech got me into Macross.

Do you remember Force Five? (5 shows, shown on specific days of the week every week) Starvengers (Getter Robo G), Danguard Ace, Gaiking, Spaceketeers, and Grandizer.

Most of them were "super" robot shows so i can understand not remembering them. Starblazers and Robotech were more militaristic/"realistic" and they stuck with me more than the others as well.

I remember all of those...

As to my Gaming:  I started playing with the original D&D, just after the Advanced D&D was released.   Then my cousin and I created a game that we played for a little while(we were like 10 or something so it was stupid simple) Started Battletech followed by playing Rifts, Robotech, Macross II, TMNT, Nightbane(Nightspawn originally)and after the bomb.  Tried the Star Wars RPG from West End Games, and the entire White Wolf game set.  Didn't pick up 40K until the late 90's when I also played Vor The Maelstrom.  Did a stint with the Mage Knight, and the Mechwarrior Clix game.  Somewhere in there I played MtG, way back with the original cards were printed. 

The only games I still play are 40K and Battletech.  Hopefully Robotech will do well enough to get others interested.

I started playing board wargames (Panzerblitz) and miniature wargames around 1973 when I was 8. I then added in D&D around 1978. I am still doing all three types of gaming more than 40 years later. I got into Robotech when it was first broadcast in the US. There had really never been anything like it before and it had a huge impact in my RPG gaming circle. Fast forward 30 years and I have about 200 Robotech models to put together.

My dad was a D&D player since it came out in the 70s, raised me and my brother on it and Battletech. I discovered Palladium in the 90s, starting with Robotech then branching out into Rifts, Heroes Unlimited, etc. Palladium was the first system I got into that I felt like it was my own, my dad hadn't introduced me to it, I played it with my friends rather than my family and I played it online through the wonder of Play-By-E-Mail. Friends had also introduced me to Cyberpunk 2020 in the early 90s and through that I found the Bubblegum Crisis RPG and the Fuzion system. I bounced between Palladium and Fuzion for a couple years before d20 came out and blew everything wide open and the d20 system became my everything for a while.

I was always into Anime. Robotech, of course, which led to the far superior (IMO) Macross, then Gundam, Bubblegum Crisis, you name it. Start of a lifelong obsession there.

On the Wargaming front, as I said, I was doing Battletech for as long as I can remember. My dad had a game store in the early 90s and I was buying Warhammer minis at cost with my allowance because I thought they looked cool, grabbed a couple of the 2nd edition codices because of all the art and fluff, but didn't actually start playing until 3rd edition. About the same time I also got into Necromunda and Mordheim because they were cool and I liked the skirmish style rules. I played off and on over the years until I got involved in some of the 40k forums. The old one GW had for a little while, then when they closed it someone told me about Bolter & Chainsword...then I got a PM from Jezlad who saw I was outspoken and involved but was wanting more than B&C's format allowed, he recruited me to the forum he had started called Heresy-Online where I quickly ended up becoming a mod, influencing a lot of the forum rules and layout before becoming Co-Admin with Jezlad. I spearheaded a lot of innovative projects at the time (The hypertext glossary, the Combat Calculator, the Adoptables, etc) and generally acted as the voice of Heresy since Jezlad's personality didn't lend itself to public relations...he started heresy after he got banned from everywhere else LOL. But eventually I got a new job with a different schedule, suddenly I didn't have time for Warhammer, wasn't online at the same time as my British colleagues (I worked graveyards, which meant my 'daytime' was about the same as theirs across the pond) eventually I stopped playing, stopped contributing, stopped wargaming.

When I was on Heresy I was somewhat famous for my modeling and conversions and infamous for my inability to paint.

Last few years I've been doing boardgames and squeezing in some RPG sessions when I can. RTT is the first time I've sat down at a wargaming table in a few years and it has been pretty fun so far.

Started playing Battletech maybe around '91 or '92. Picked up Mechwarrior 2nd edition, but my buddies and I didn't really understand "roleplaying" so we just used it to build pilots that we'd then use in Battletech. Was then introduced to D&D in maybe '94 or '95. Got into Champions in '96 and stuck with that for a long long time. Played around with 40K off and on over the years. I have about half a chapter of Space Marines. People call them the Dust Angels because of the amount of playing time they don't get. It's been two or three years since I took them out of their boxes.

I don't play much of anything anymore unless it's with a small handful of friends. Every few weeks we'll get together and play something, but being an adult and having responsibilities sucks. I'm hoping Robotech will be a faster game to play than Battletech.

I'm a long-time TFG/ADB Star Fleet Battles/Federation Commander player and contributor, so I come from a tactical (hex-based) tabletop "war game" background. Dabbled with Battletech and many other games, back in the day.

Recently played a lot of Fantasy Flight's X-Wing minis game (hexless) and have been doing a lot of work on ADB/Mongoose's A Call to Arms Star Fleet (hexless).

RPGs and me have never been a long-term mix. I do end up buying a lot of the sourcebooks as reference for other things, so I have all the old Robotech RPG books, etc.

I've always been a huge anime fan, especially "giant robo" stuff, since being turned on to them by the Shogun Warriors here in the US (which were really Go Nagai's creations) along with Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato. Robotech hit about a decade later for me, and I instantly fell in love with Studio Neu's iconic mecha designs. Loved the Macross saga, especially every scene Minmei was not in.

My oldest brother was real big into gaming, especially D&D. This rubbed off on me, especially the books I enjoyed reading (Elric of Melnibone was the first series I read after finishing Encyclopedia Brown). So, I've had that "world" in my head from about the age of 12, maybe earlier.

I remember watching Voltron alongside He-Man and GI Joe. That was the first time I'd ever seen a stompy robot and thought it was great, but disliked the formulaic battles. (seriously, just make the huge sword and chop the monster in half from the get-go!)

Had very few friends as a kid, so it was the computer that introduced me to games. Started with really simple games in the early 80's. I remember playing Mech Warrior in the late 80's. I loved being in control of the huge stompy robots; from choosing the weapons load out, to using terrain to get advantage on the enemy. That game was just too much fun. I never had any direct contact with Battletech, but I wish I had. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it.

I watched all of Macross (I think that was the anime) back in college. My roommate had all the VHS tapes (probably still does). I thought the story was a little sappy, but I enjoyed the battles.

Fast forward to today and I have played too much D&D (getting difficult to find a group I really enjoy playing with). I have played some Flames of War; it was the German vehicles that drew me in as well as the history. I spend a lot of time playing board games, since they are relatively easy to pick up and play for a few hours.

I honestly bought these Robotech models on the cheap in order to build, paint and look at them. I'm considering building a WH40K Tau army for the same reason. That said, I would love to start playing Robotech Tactics regularly. I'm hoping that a trip to my LGS will have me finding a few friendly opponents.

I started in Jr High playing red box D&D, then we advanced to the 2nd edition AD&D.  My second RPG was actually Robotech, and I still have the origional first edition books!  I pretty much played them all in College, GURPS, Champions, Shadowrun, Traveller, etc....  I also started 40K and have had the same Eldar Army for over 25 years, even have an origional Eldar Avatar. Played Mage Knight, and all the Clix varities, Battletech, Star Fleet Battles and currently play the new X-wing a bunch. I jumped at the kickstarter for RPG Tactics because I was always a huge Robotech fan from the cartoons and the Macross Anime.

For me, started playing in the late 80s early 90s. DnD with family. About 93-94ish, found robotech was my first foray in running a game. The late 90s between normal teenage life was alot of rifts, champions, top secret, DnD 3rd, white wolf and many others. Miniature wise the robotech show/rpg lured me into battletech. Which lead to 40k, malifaux, FOW, heavy gear, warmahordes, Infinity, urban war, starfleet battles (gorn tug all day!) what I play still to this day is 40k, infinity, pathfinder and scion and now robotech

As a child I started with the choose your own adventure books and board games. Then as a teen I bought the battletech 3rd ed box. After that I played some dnd, MtG and the card games for Star Wars and Star Trek from the 90's. Around this time I got into the robotech RPG books. While at a friends house I saw my first space marine. After playing my first game of 40k I quit playing everything else. Then in the late 90's I discovered Full Thrust and got into that since I love starships. Unfortunatly not many people were into it. They were more into 40k so I bought the new 3rd ed box and have been playing for years. I've also played space hulk, necromunda, and inquisitor. Back in 2013 I was on dakka and looking at the 40k threads when I came across the fact that PB was still around (to my amazement) and that they were producing a macross miniature game. Ever since the RRT campaign I've stopped with playing 40k minis games. Now I'm playing RRT and RPGing robotech and dark heresy.

I've also played video games since the 80's to now.