ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO PILOT A MECHA?
Good work on joining the Hyper-Mecha Assault Battalion, [Insert Name Here]! You've passed the psychical tests and failed the psychological tests so congratulations on your new posting on the Mega-Battleship
Kaiju Stomper!
I'm your new commander, Commander! You can call me by my first name, though – Commander.
Each of your mecha is purchased by us from the Buzkai Unity at excessive prices, so who knows why the men upstairs have given you one. Fortunately, the Buzkai Unity involved a bunch of drones in the deal, so we can get your mecha fixed when you break them. Note: don't feed the drones. There's a reason we don't give them their meat slurry in person.
Enough talk! Fill out even more forms and get your mecha sorted, then prepare for a drop!
MECHA AQQUISITION FORM
NAME: (We don't care, but fill it in if you really want.)
GENDER: (So the ashes urn has the right pronoun on it.)
CALLSIGN: (So we know what to scream dramatically as you explode.)
SIGIL: (You have to earn this after your first mission! What you decide on will have an effect, so choose wisely.)
BACKGROUND: (Grizzled Mercenary? Lost cleaner? Doesn't matter, you're a mecha pilot now.)
MECH-MARINE
What is this, a mecha for ants? A piddling little mecha, suited for little girls, but very fast and hard to hit.
SIZE: TINY
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8
ARMOUR: 10
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM [1]
RIGHT ARM [1]
STOMPER
Referred to as the 'Goomba' for unknown reasons, the Stomper has oddly short legs and a vaguely domed shaped up chassis. Kind of Freudian now we think about it. Hmm.
SIZE: MEDIUM
MOVE: 8
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d6
ARMOUR: 20
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS
LEFT SHOULDER [1]
LEFT ARM [1]
RIGHT ARM [1]
SCOWLER
The giant angry face built into the torso is mandatory. Don't even ask.
SIZE: BIG
MOVE: 5
DODGE: 1d3
ARMOUR: 30
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K 1/1/1/1
WEAPON SLOTS
LEFT SHOULDER [2]
LEFT ARM [1]
RIGHT ARM [1]
Few things are more important than a nice paint job. Strike fear, terror, and deep and abiding envy into your foes. This can be changed after every mission. Excessive explosions may strip your paint, losing the effect.
RED
Red things go faster. Well known fact. Don't even argue.
+2 MOVE
BLUE
How lucky is blue? Lucky for you, cause the enemies missed and that left them blue.
+1 DODGE
GREEN
Nothing says 'stealthy' like a 800-metre tall robot hiding in a forest.
+2 DODGE IN FOREST TILES
YELLOW
Also great for disguising if your robot wets itself. Hey, we're not ruling it out: it could happen. Maybe. Probably not.
+2 DODGE IN DESERT TILES
GREY
Cold steel (colour), just like your heart. Or rather more like mucky concrete, but nothings perfect.
+2 DODGE IN CITY TILES
BLACK
The most absorbent of colours probably isn't too useful in a laser fight, but damn if a dark avenger doesn't look cool.
-1 RESIST L, +1 STYLE
WHITE
Not stain-resistant, but lasers might reflect right off.
+ 1 RESIST L
UNPAINTED
Bare, dull metal. How unexciting.
CHROMING
Costs 5 Creds (subject to change)
What's better than a good paintjob? A good shiny paintjob. Warning: May attract magpies.
STYLE + 1, RESIST L + 1
There are four damage types:
KINETIC: Fists, drills, explosions - all do damage through large amounts of force over a larger area.
SLUG: Solid metal, propelled at high speeds. Railguns, the psychical missiles
ELECTRIC: How shocking. Enemies killed via electricity damage cannot suffer critical reactor failure.
LASER: Pew pew. From the basic laser to the Directed Focus Plasma Lance Cannon.
Ammo is the number of shots before you need to relaod that weapon. Reloading takes that weapon's use that turn, even for weapons will multiple uses.
Each weapon slot can equip a weapon of equal or lower level, indicated by the [1], etc next to it. Some weapons can only be mounted on arms or shoulders, some on both, some on both simultaneously.
Range for most weapons is more of a... guideline. Accuracy decreases a lot past the recommended range, but you can still try to wing it. Unless it's a melee weapon. You don't have telescopic arms.
ELECTROSTATIC FIST
Punch them right in the robot face!
[ARM] [1]
DAMAGE: 1d6 K + 1 E
RANGE: 1
ARMOUR + 3
ELECTROSTATIC: Enemy mechas destroyed with this weapon will not suffer reactor explosion.
STYLE: 2
PIERCER DRILL
This is the drill that will piece the heavens! Vacuum doesn't have much resistance, you see. Results not guaranteed on other materials.
[ARM] [1]
DAMAGE: 1d6 K + 1 E
RANGE: 1
ENEMY RESIST K -1 (CAN NOT GO BELOW ZERO)
ELECTROSTATIC: Enemy mechas destroyed with this weapon will not suffer reactor explosion.
STYLE: 2
CONCUSSION RIFLE
A rifle that doesn't fire shots, but a series of super-concussive shockwaves. The user is insulated behind a special manifold built onto the gun. Sounds somewhat like wub-wub-wub to the user.
[ARM] [1]
DAMAGE: 3d3 K
RANGE: 3
AMMO: 3
STYLE: 1
BASIC LASER
A glorified laser pointer, really. Useful if you're fighting giant space-cats.
[ARM] [1]
DAMAGE: 1d6 L
RANGE: 12
AMMO: 10
+2 AIM WITH LASER
STYLE 1
RAILGUN
Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Turns out that's true down here, too. Fancy that. Two magnetic rails, a ferrous slug, and a enemy pasted across a few kilometres of landscape.
[SHOULDER] [1]
DAMAGE: 2d6 S
RANGE: 10
AMMO: 1
STYLE: 1
RPG POD
Each missile has a warhead the size of an SUV. Sorry, we couldn't find any bigger.
[ARM] [SHOULDER] [1]
DAMAGE: 1d4 K + 1d2 S
SPLASH: 3x3, 1d3 K
RANGE: 10
AMMO: 1
STYLE: 2
The better you fight, the more credits you get. This first load is on the house, but if you buy enhancements for your suit or even new mechas, we'll store and maintain them for you. Ain't we nice?
I'd like to point here we aren't paying you for anything we give you now. No point picking the biggest mech now because you can think you can sell it on for more later.
The more awesomely you kick ass, the more you can interlink with the neural systems in your suit. Don't ask us how it works. You can spend style points as a boost to credits, to encourage engineers to enhance your equipment, or in the field to try to pull off epic actions. If you succeed, you'll do something awesome. It you fail – well, you dun goofed, boy, you dun goofed.
We'll be watching the combat from orbit, overlaying on a combat grid. Each square represents a minuscule 1 km squared.
As a multi-role giant robot, you can use each weapon once per turn unless otherwise stated. Different terrain takes different amounts of move to transverse. As a several thousand ton robot, try not to step on anything fragile.
This is both an example and a case of what you'd get if your mecha goes boom-boom.
CHASSIS: MECH-MARINE
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8
ARMOUR: 10
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM [1]: Basic Laser
RIGHT ARM [1]: Basic Laser
PLAYERS:
RangerCado
NAME: Selina
GENDER: Female
CALLSIGN: Pretzels!
SIGIL: -pending-
BACKGROUND: I just wanted some pretzels!
MECH-MARINE
What is this, a mecha for ants? A piddling little mecha, suited for little girls, but very fast and hard to hit.
SIZE: TINY
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8+1
ARMOUR: 10
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM [1] Basic Laser
RIGHT ARM [1] Basic Laser
PAINTED: Blue
Patrick Hunt
Name : Ragnar Thorgrinson
Gender : Male
Callsign : Judgement
Sigil : Crossed hmmers over a wolf's head and lightning
Background :
Machine : Mech Marine
SIZE: TINY
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8
ARMOUR: 10+6 = 16
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/-1/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM : Electrostatic fist
RIGHT ARM : Electrostatic fist
PAINTED : Black
STYLE +1
Scapheap
NAME: Diana Keter
GENDER: Female
CALLSIGN: White Devil
SIGIL: Fork of Lightning
BACKGROUND: I am a exiled princess from Gate.
SCOWLER
SIZE: BIG
MOVE: 5
DODGE: 1d3
ARMOUR: 30
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K 1/2/1/1
WEAPON SLOTS
LEFT SHOULDER [2] RAILGUN
LEFT ARM [1] RPG POD
RIGHT ARM [1] PIERCER DRILL
WHITE
Kando
NAME: Alyssa Venture
GENDER: Female
CALLSIGN: Jabberwocky
SIGIL: A silver tower shield
BACKGROUND: After her father died she became a mech pilot in order to support her family
STOMPER
Referred to as the 'Goomba' for unknown reasons, the Stomper has oddly short legs and a vaguely domed shaped up chassis. Kind of Freudian now we think about it. Hmm.
SIZE: MEDIUM
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d6
ARMOUR: 20
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS
Left shoulder: Railgun [1]
Left Arm: Piercer Drill [1]
Right Arm: Concussion Rifle [1]
Paint Job: Red
Elfeater
NAME: , The, Dave
GENDER: Male... He always has had a larger mop than his peers.
CALLSIGN: Janinator
SIGIL:
BACKGROUND: Janitor, coming from a society where it goes, First Name, Last Name, job, Dave The Janitor is a pretty catchy one.
STOMPER
SIZE: MEDIUM
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d6
ARMOUR: 20
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS
LEFT SHOULDER: RAILGUN
LEFT ARM: RPG POD
RIGHT ARM: ELECTROSTATIC FIST
PAINTED: RED
USEC_Officer
NAME: Liz Shafter
GENDER: Female
CALLSIGN: Driller
SIGIL: A drill over gears.
BACKGROUND: Wandered onto the base and asked to pilot a mech. MAde everyone feel inadequate until they did.
SCOWLER
SIZE: Big
MOVE: 5
DODGE: 1d3
ARMOUR: 30
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 1/0/1/1
WEAPON SLOTS:
RIGHT ARM: PIECER DRILL
LEFT ARM: PIECER DRILL
LEFT SHOULDER: RPG POD
PAINTED: Black
Sinlessmoon
NAME: Sinless Lorentious
GENDER: Male
CALLSIGN: X-3
SIGIL: A Raven on a gray shield background.
BACKGROUND: Fresh out of bootcamp, decided to join up after his loss of a job and nowhere to go. He decided to jump right into a mech and shoot his way to glory (And many, many credits.)
MECH-MARINE
SIZE: TINY
MOVE: 12
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8
ARMOUR: 10
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM: Concussion Rifle
RIGHT ARM: Concussion Rifle
PAINTED: Red
Kisame something-or-other
PILOT
Name: Cog Anrizkalur
Gender: Male
Callsign: Salamander
Sigil: To be determined
Background: Oh shit, this isn't the cafeteria is it?
MECH
Mech-Marine
SIZE: Tiny
MOVE: 12
DODGE: 1d8
ARMOUR: 10
Resistance S/L/K/E: 0/0/0/0
WEAPONS:
RIGHT ARM: Concussion Rifle
LEFT ARM: Concussion Rifle
PAINTED: Red
GreatWyrmGold
Name: Carl Anderson
Gender: Male
Callsign: Rock
Sigil: Mountain
Background: Marine Corps/Engineer
MECH:
SCOWLER
SIZE: Big
MOVE: 7
DODGE: 1d3
ARMOUR: 30
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 1/1/1/1
WEAPON SLOTS:
RIGHT ARM: RPG POD
LEFT ARM: BASIC LASER
LEFT SHOULDER: RAILGUN
PAINTED: RED
IronyOwl
NAME: -
GENDER: Female
CALLSIGN: Jackal
SIGIL: -
BACKGROUND: Maniacal genetically engineered little girls make the best mecha pilots, everyone knows that.
CHASSIS: MECH-MARINE
SIZE: TINY
MOVE: 10
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8 + 1
ARMOUR: 16
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM [1]: ELECTROSTATIC FIST
RIGHT ARM [1]: ELECTROSTATIC FIST
PAINTED: BLUE
Remuthra
NAME: Joe Bridger, of course!
GENDER: Male
CALLSIGN: Archmage
SIGIL: Definitely have that.
BACKGROUND: I come from an aircraft maintenance background, thanks for asking!
MECH-MARINE
SIZE: TINY
MOVE: 12
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d8
ARMOUR: 10
REISTANCE S/L/E/K: 0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS:
LEFT ARM: RPG POD
RIGHT ARM: RPG POD
PAINTED: GIRLY PINK (RED)
sjm9876
NAME: Vladmir Ivanovic
GENDER: Male
CALLSIGN: Nanook
SIGIL: A bear with gaping jaws
BACKGROUND: Ex-hermit who brewed vodka in the Siberian wilderness. Signed up whilst drunk.
CHASIS: SCOWLER
SIZE: BIG
MOVE: 5
DODGE: 1d3
ARMOUR: 30 +3
RESISTANCE S/L/E/K 1/0/1/1
WEAPON SLOTS
LEFT SHOULDER [2]: RPG pod
LEFT ARM [1]: Piercer drill
RIGHT ARM [1]: Electrostatic fist
PAINTJOB: BLACK
STYLE: +1
rpgeek
NAME: MAXMILLIAN E. CANEFIELD
GENDER: MALE
CALLSIGN: MACROSS
SIGIL: UNACQUIRED
BACKGROUND: BLACK SHEEP OF RICH FAMILY, SENT HERE TO AVOID EMBARRASSING PARENTS.
STOMPER
SIZE: MEDIUM
MOVE: 8
JETS: NO
DODGE: 1d6+1
ARMOUR: 20
RESISTANCE; S/L/E/K:0/0/0/0
WEAPON SLOTS;
-LEFT SHOULDER: RPG POD [1/1]
-LEFT ARM: RPG POD [1/1]
-RIGHT ARM: RPG POD [1/1]
PAINT JOB: BLUE
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