#Mecha Tabletop Gaming

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Hey! I remember those photos from the Mobile Frame Hangar forum!

Good to see you here!

Okay. Look. This post is probably only going to be for me, but I found a cache of old photos of a LEGO robut game I had played with my friend, that I then went on to photoshop with ridiculous SFX to try and make everything look cool, and my heart was so happy to remember this that I kinda cried. Anyway, friends are cool, LEGO is cool, robuts are cool, playing is cool. Every time I get to participate in any of those things is a blessing. Even when I lose. Which I did. Big time.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Mobile Frame Zero - TCH01 Quad-Legged Unit

[jovial-thunder]

Lancer on a physical tabletop with Lego minis!

We finally did the thing! I roped my siblings into playtesting a game of Lancer using Legos and a physical tabletop. The sitrep was to destroy five buildings, marked in red, because the Karrakins were using the installation to track their mobile hidden base (our home campaign is a blatant ripoff of Deserts of Kharak).

Things that need improvement:

better way to measure tiles. We were doing 4cm/space and had to do a lot of multiplication. Going to try wood dowels with tiles marked + get some kind of grid underlay.

similarly, we need aoe templates

I used too much terrain, it got messy

should get status rings/tokens to mark lock-on, etc

Things that worked well:

it was sick as hell to be able to physically destroy Lego terrain and mechs as they fell

we used physical dice? For lancer?? And it turns out clicky clack math rocks continue to be inherently great.

witchdice works well on mobile devices for character sheets so not every PC had to have a full laptop

different height-terrain was fun, though it made movement costs tricky to calculate

I'm excited to keep trying out different setups. All the terrain and stuff I've collected is pretty modular (lego makes that easy) so it'll be fun to see how wide a range of map types is possible.

[canopiancatboy]

A Locust, with my rethought out bases. I've been playing Helldivers lately and there are some really pretty pastel palette planets around and decided to emulate one of those

I still don't have a coherent color schemes for my mercs beyond mostly light neutrals with large color panels and decals, but I hate settling on these things, I always change my mind

Anyways happy early Halloween

[cal-1maf]

The Doom Courser is friend shaped

[gorillastraylight]

HOT MECH PICS BC I PLAY LANCER 2NITE

My Blorbo, Corbin Ashton Beckett (Callsign "Blackguard")'s Sagarmatha, Cloven Gambler! The components are from Retrograde Minis, with quite a few made by the talented folks on the Retrograde discord, but the kitbashing and recolors were done by me in Gimp. Rlly happy with the designs on this big friggin tank, esp the Devil Arcana on the shoulder and the carnosaur skull on the flag :)

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

I miss the MF0 forums...

i wish i had a more feasible way to find some of my old mfz forums buds (and the courage to say "hi remember me i was a cringe trying-too-hard to be edgy teenager around you and i had a squirrelsona with an emo fringe") but also like

i think just want forums back in general..

[cali-magnus-archives-girl]

Blahaj play Battletech :3

[porblegames]

don't speak to me or my sons ever again

[cultofthewyrm]

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[eldoniousrex]

More Heavy Gear RPG 4th edition art! Gears are crashing the beach party and they ain’t interested in bingo!

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[cannibalhalflinggaming]

Tales from the Cockpit, a Lost & Found solo TTRPG of a mecha, its many pilots, and the passage of time has received an update! Three new pilots, four new pilot exploits, and two more historic events!

[canopiancatboy]

Kitbashed this Everest together for Lancer a while ago, and having recently played through Titanfall 2 again, decided on the basic BT look after I couldn't decide how to paint him

Tried to mimic the official Everest design I've seen floating around, but I'm partial to the blocky style head so I stole that from a Battletech Highlander

Actually a lot is from Battletech, the legs are an Assassin and the Torso is a Black Knight. I love the Vladof guns from Borderlands so I found one of those for my assault rifle, and the arms are from the free mech set Filamentio released. I think that's most of it...

Oh shoutout to Death Ray Designs for their shark mouth nose art and industrial decals, they're great

[cal-1maf]

Okay after 4 days of work, one redo to strip a botched base coat, and a lot of patience, I've produced what I think is my best paint job yet.

I wanted to do something special for the base, and I saw a fellow painter using some cool 3d printed hangar floor bases. After getting some tips and tricks from better painters than myself, I recreated the look using the cardstock that the mini came in.

I give you one of the 1st Canopian Cuirassiers' few Blood Asps

[thehydromancer]

On a 'realistic/reasonable' weaponry kick for Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack lately. Based on the Polsten/Sten WW2 era guns, the Colonial Espatier use a Colsten rifle base as their primary armament. Enough variations of this simple and inexpensive weapon exist to fill most battlefield roles. Note the overheated barrel in the & the spare barrels/ammo for the Colsten wielded by the Ruschia.

A variant of the Colsten rifle, the Colsten Maxter features a housing around the barrel containing a water based coolant system. This is particularly useful in space based combat. Colsten Maxters tend to use drum magazines as their barrels can handle higher fire rates than their air cooled predecessors. The Full Maxter is a scaled up chain fed Colsten galting gun also cooled by water. Due to the movement of the water and spinning of the interior barrels, the Full Maxter requires a stable firing position for proper accuracy, and is popular under gravity. For funsies, I threw in a break barrel grenade launcher as well. The 1x2 plate with top clip and 1x1 round plate with handle is one of my favorite brick combos, and its always nice to find another use for it!