Re: [SGII]How would you rate this?
From: Alexander Williams <thantos@a...>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:48:32 -0500
Subject: Re: [SGII]How would you rate this?
Joseph A. Noll wrote:
> I have some of the Heavy Gear, Gears from RAFM, they are excellent.
These
> are the best Mecha Mini's I have ever seen. In the Heavy Gear world
they
> are 6m tall piolted mecha,...something akin to the mecha in VOTOMS.
They
> are scaled to 20mm, but can pass for Landmates (appleseed style) in
25mm, or
> big robots.
Good figures if you can get around RAFM's seemingly eternal quality
control problem with missing pieces, etc.
> SGII battle armor. They are bigger anyway. I was thinking of making
them
> remote piolted vehicals or maybe semi-autonomus robots, or something
between
> a walker and a battlesuit. How would you portray them? Are there
Robot
> rules avalible, offical or unoffical? I'm at a loss.
Your best bet would probably be to make them SIZE 1 vehicles, with a
single pilot and some kind of weapon aside from the assumed APSW. A
second APSW, perhaps, or a HEL/1; something that's small enough to fit
and carries the role of a super-heavy infantry support unit out well.
--
Alexander Williams {thantos@alf.dec.com / zander@photobooks.com}
Prefect of the 8,000,000th Terran Overlord Government Experimental
Strike Legion, Primary Transport TOG "Bellatores Inquieti"
======================================================================
You ride in 250 tons of molecularly aligned crystalline titanium
wedded to a ceramic ablative matrix. You carry a 200mm Gauss
cannon, two massive 10-gigawatt lasers, two SMLM fire-and-forget
missiles, a Vulcan IV point defense anti-missile system, and a
deadly assortment of other equally lethal weapons.
Your vehicle is the ultimate product of 4,000 years of armored
warfare.
Your life expectancy is less than two minutes.
-- RENEGADE LEGION:
CENTURION