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[Pencil_Art]

I've made two assumptions here. First, that I can just swap out the pre-existing turret for an arm for just the weight cost. Second, I'm willing to pay extra weight and points (and heat gen) for an improved melee weapon.

Spoiler: Chris "Atlas" Reynolds (click to show/hide)

Backstory: Having served as a infantry grunt for a good portion of his adult life, once he could afford a MEC he chose one that fit what he knew.

MEC Callsign: Atlas
MEC Chassis: Small Humanoid 30pts 5 tons max
MEC Limbs: Cockpit, Arm 1, Arm 2, Leg 1, Leg 2 (Swapped the turret for an extra arm) +0.5 tons
Weapons:
Blaster Rifle (2 Handed) 20pts 1.5 tons
Power Sword 35pts 1.5 tons
Utilities:
Heightened Control Sensitivity 30pts 0.5 tons
Temporary Thrusters 30pts 0.5 tons
Reflector (cockpit) 55pts 0.5 tons
Decor:
Grey/Blue Hex Camo

Spoiler: Maths (click to show/hide)

Extra Arm = 0.5 tons
Blaster Rifle = 1.5 tons
Power Sword = 1.5 tons
Heightened Control = 0.5 tons
Temporary Thrusters = 0.5 tons
Reflector = 0.5 tons
5/5 tons

Chassis = 30pts
Blaster Rifle = 20pts
Power Sword = 35pts
Heightened control = 30pts
Temporary Thrusters = 30pts
reflector = 55pts
200/200 points

That's accepted.

Also, clarifications and updates: You cannot fire long range weapons if you have less than 3 movement points left, meaning for most chassis models you have to have not moved to fire them. I may be accepting extra people if they join quick enough. You may fire more than one weapon in a turn, but only if you don't have to swap weapons and at an aim penalty for each additional weapon. That means Immaterial can fire both of his railcannons in one turn, but only if he doesn't move. Temperature does drain each turn, but the rate has yet to be decided.

[Nakéen]

I'm eager to begin

Oh, and did you see the change I made to my sheet ? I replaced Laser Sight with Aiming Reticle (I mistook the two).

[Pencil_Art]

Okay, but you are still missing a second turret slot for your railcannon (sorry for not pointing this out).

[Nakéen]

Okay, but you are still missing a second turret slot for your railcannon (sorry for not pointing this out).

Ah, I thought the two turrets were included in the chassis. Modifying my sheet then.

[Pencil_Art]

Two turrets did come with the MEC, but railcannons need 2 turret ports, and your flamethrower takes up an additional turret port.

[Nakéen]

Two turrets did come with the MEC, but railcannons need 2 turret ports, and your flamethrower takes up an additional turret port.

I see, modified the sheet accordingly by replacing the front turret by an arm. So my two turret slots are taken by the railcannon and the front arm is outfitted with the flamethrower. Is that okay ?

[Pencil_Art]

Just make sure you write both Turret slots into your sheet, but the rest is fine.

[Nakéen]

Added used turret slots, is that good ?

[Pencil_Art]

Yup.

[Insanegame27]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

[/size]Name: Zachary MilneBackstory: At age 14 Zach was caught in the middle of a massive firefight as two teams of mercenaries closed in on either side of a village. Among his wounds were a gunshot to the larynx which removed most of his ability to speak. If absolutely necessary he can talk, but prefers to communicate through less extensive grunts. He lived only because a mercenary took pity on him, disembarking from his mech and putting him behind the cockpit seat. He grew up piloting mechs for the mercenary company in return, earning the callsign 'Hornet' because of his hums and growls.Note: I haven't bothered to calculate anything, so I'm probably off by a huge marginMEC Callsign: Hornet.MEC Chassis: Other (Hexapod)MEC Limbs: Cockpit, Leg 1, Leg 2, Leg 3, Leg 4, Leg 5, Leg 6.


From left-to-right, top-to-bottom:

.50BMG+.50BMG
Leg 1, Rocket pod+cockpit+Rocket pod, leg 2.
Leg 3, magazine, magazine, leg 4.
Leg 5, Stinger mechanisms , leg 6
Stinger melee weapon

Legs at 30HP each (light)
Chassis at 50HP (Medium)
Cockpit at 70HP (Heavy)

Weapons:
2 .50 BMGs in a dual turret in front of pilot seat. (I can't imagine these'd cost much, as they're primarily for anti-ing. They would weigh at most 50 KG each including ammo)
2 Missile pods holding 6 unguided (fires in a straight-ish line) missiles each. These pods are in the shoulder socket of legs 1 and 2, reloadable at rate of 2 rockets every 5 seconds. Each pod alternates munitions between HE and AP rockets so that when both pods are fired one of each type is fired.
2 Magazines - holds 12 missiles apiece, highly explosive if hit, ejectable.
1 'Stinger' class penetrative disabler - housing chemical canisters in the body of the stinger, a very very hard and very very sharp retractable tube is forced into the enemy's armor injecting the pilot's choice of substance or other chemical mix into the body part. Can then ignite fires if a flammable or explosive substance is injected. The housing is highly maneuverable and can move above the back turret and extend to hit something in front of the cockpit, or under it with the same level of maneuverability.

Utilities:
Active stealth imaging pack - become visually invisible - shimmers when moving.
Electronic/mechatronic suction cups - 1 on each leg, enabling the mech to climb sheer walls or even overhangs.
Decor: The mech is black and yellow and bears resemblance to a hornet, albeit a mechatronic one with missiles and weapons.


Once again, probably over the limit of points, can't bother calculating right this moment

Chassis, 60 (GM price, Includes stinger)
.50BMGs ? 5 Each?
2 rocket pods (not silos, they're for guided missiles) I'd say 20 pts each?

Heightened control sensitivity, 30pts
Aiming reticle, 30pts
170

A note on the rockets: I was intending to not have a limit to number of times fired, but be pretty much like three AT1s in a column.


How much would a 2-tube pod cost? I just want them to be considered short-to-medium range re-loadable rockets, and I can't see any logical reason to impose a 3-per-battle rule on them. If, logically, they have a reloading mechanism I can see no reason why they couldn't be fired as many times as until the magazines are empty, of course over an extended period of time due to reloading.


To clarify here, I'm talking about rockets, not missiles. No lock-on, no tracking, no heatseeking, no radar-guidance. Target needs to be either close or stationary to have a decent chance of hitting anything.


For the BMGs I just want a light anti-infantry weapon. I would even accept them doing no damage to a mech unless it's hitting a squishy part that's had its armor breached severely. I just want to be able to mow down the dude who has an RPG without sacrificing a missile to do the job.


Substances I had in mind (off the top of my head) were things like Sarin or Cyanide or Carbon Monoxide to kill the pilot with an injection shot to the cockpit. Thermite powder blasted in using compressed air to explode places. Another thing I was thinking of would be to vacuum the air/oxygen out of the cockpit, which would require for the stinger to stay in the cockpit until the job is done. Maybe also a highly corrosive acid.


May I ask why no suction cups? They seem like something that would be useful in a variety of situations.

[RAM]

Applying for the waitlist. Sorry about being weird, but sometimes you just have to follow your heart... If this fails then I will just have to resort to the unitaur...

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Leela Murdoch
Backstory: An elderly M.E.C. enthusiast who inherited an old training M.E.C. and spent all their free-time with it. After many years spent saving up, they finally had a sorrowful farewell with their beloved training M.E.C. as they traded it in for an ancient prototype combat mech. While its technology is out of date and its weapons were stripped, it failed to pass from the prototype stage due to the high cost more than anything, and even today has a great deal of potential.

MEC Callsign: Lemure
MEC Chassis: Squid*
MEC Limbs: Cockpit, Arm 1, Arm 2, Hover 1, Hover 2, Hover 3, Turret 1, Turret 2, Turret 3, Turret 4, Turret 5, Turret 6, Turret 7, Turret 8.
Weapons:
Military Precision Laser (arms)
Utilities:
Stealth plating(entire surface)
Decor:
A long cigar-shaped blue-green M.E.C. that floats a small distance above the ground and possesses two arms extending amidst a ring of many small turretsthat surround a small cockpit.

*
20: two arms
4 tons
80: 8 turrets
4(
45: 3 hover devices(antigravity, repulsors, ground-effect turbines... whatever suits the technology and environment... They can operate on all manner of bad terrain under foot, but don't work underwater(though can hover above it) and don't provide much push against obstacles and melee opponents(deals 20% melee damage, recieves 80% melee damage and can be moved as result of melee actions).)
3(11) tons
Super-heavy hover-M.E.C. -1 movement point when changing direction, extra weight capacity, +15% to be hit, treats mountain and forsest as smooth terrain.

35: military precision laser(arms)
2.5 tons
0: Basic heat dispersing.
.5 tons 100°C
20: Stealth plating: dodge chance increased on the first round of combat in which it is visible to the enemy.(Modern sensors can easily overcome this old technology, even at the time it was far from electronically invisible, but having never entered popular use sensors are not adapted to it so it takes a little longer to get a precise lock.)
Covers the entire surface, tends to fail quickly when the M.E.C. is damaged as the holes provide an easy reference-point but the holes can be buffed out easily enough with a bit of panel-beating in a shop...
.5 tons

[Insanegame27]

E: whoops, not the edit button

[GameBoyBlue]

Suggestion: In my experience of the sims, they were always slow to start when coming from a stopped position.

Maybe require 2 move for the first space if you didn't move last turn.

[endlessblaze]

Could we get a onehanded shield? seems like it would compliment a sword.

[Pencil_Art]

Could we get a onehanded shield? seems like it would compliment a sword.

Sure. You'd have to have it equipped in an available hands, though (One that does not have a one-handed weapon equipped). I'll put values up for it shortly.

Now for the tough ones.

-Snip-

First things first, you probably won't have any need for the BMG's, you'll primarily be fighting other mercenary MEC's, and you'll need to write all six legs as being limbs on your character sheet (Under 'MEC Limbs). You don't have to show me the layout of the MEC like that, you can put a description of it in the 'Decor' section. The Missile Pods would have to be a different version of the Rocket Silo, meaning a limited amount of uses per operation, depending on how much you're willing to spend, and wouldn't be able to fire more than once a turn. The alternating ammo is fine. Active stealth imaging is a little bit overpowered; I'll have to give it a hefty temperature-per-turn cost, and if you fire other MEC's will see where you are coming from and might fire at that position thinking you're there until you either reappear or fire again from stealth. You'll have to specify what kinds of chemicals you have in mind for injection, and what the injection will be must be decided before each Stinger attack. You won't be climbing anything either, so there goes the suction cups.

Costs for the rocket pods would be 30 each, Stealth imaging costs 50 and weighs 0.5, will be mounted on all body parts. If it is damaged on a body part, people will start rolling if you come within line of sight to see if they spot you. The Hornet body (including stinger would cost 60, because while your legs are light, there are 6 of them, as well as the heavy cockpit).

Sorry for the confusion, but basic heat dispersement doesn't weigh anything significant, so you can take that out of your sheet.

Now you need to update your sheet. Turns out you were right about being off.

-Snip-

I'm not sure what you mean by 'Turrets' being limbs; normally you have to have turret slots and then put turrets onto them, which makes having 8 turrets somewhat impractical due to the weight of any turret that will put a dent in anything. I don't know if a super-heavy MEC would float even with three hover things.