How are the Germans - still playing BattleTech?
I wasn't looking for that.
Perhaps Hessian could answer you.
BattleTech is indeed still played over here. The Mechforce Germany(in I believe its third incarnation) is still alive and active. Especially Berlin seems to have an active community.
And with Ulisses Spiele the new German BattleTech licensee new German product has been anounced(The new German Box Set has run into similar problems as the latest box set by CGL, though), which will hopefully increase the number of players.
On a personal level I have the chance to play BattleTech only once or twice a year. With only two other players. The reasons for this are manyfold, but mostly personal, coupled with some developments in the history of BattleTech that decreased the number of players in the region where I live:
a) The intoduction of the Clans.
b) The dissolution of the Federated Commonwealth
c) The demise of FASA
d) The Jihad(and the fact that its outcome was known beforehand)
Ciao
Hessian