[alcaray]

'Titans of Steel Warring Suns' by Matrix Games is a wonderful and *free* game available for download. It is not everyone's cup of tea because it is very tactical, and (sort-of) turn-based. Too, there is some learning curve time. It seems to be based somewhat on Fasa's BattleTech miniature rules from the 80's. It can be played solo against the AI or online vs. humans.

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] It also has links to more extensive reviews than this post. There is also an advanced patch to put on top of that - but it is a manual patch procedure rather than the automatic patch.exe us lazy gamers are used to.

It has a tutorial that walks you through the basics. I recommend that you do it and then browse through the manual a bit before you generate your team of 'jocks'. You will need a leader, and a businessman, and a mechanic. If you don't know what that means by the time you generate your team, then spend another 15 minutes with the manual to figure it out. It will save you time and money.

[tosh9i]

looks interesting...Mechwarrior was always my favorite game. Then it seemed like it just died out. I hope that Mechwarrior 5 doesn't disappoint me. I wonder when it'll come out.

[Genkage]

House Davion of the Federated Suns

....and a WHM-6R

That takes me back.

[Nominis]

It looks interesting, I'll give it a try, do you know of any games that are more Mech Commander ish though?

Mech Commander: Was the Mechwarrior's universe as a RTS, and I have to say I liked it more over all than Mechwarriors which was good, but could have been great if it had a few of the elements from Mech Commander.

Mechwarrior:
For any one not familiar with the series Mechwarrior 4 has been authorized by Microsoft for Free Release.
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[UnknownFact2]

wow, thanks for the mechw4 info. I've always wanted to play mechw4. loved the 2, but 3 sucked cock.
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