#Mecha Tabletop Gaming

[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]

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]

Such a simple scheme but it came out so well I can't believe its me who painted it! Finally the new camera can really let it shine

[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

[weregazelle]

CASE&SOUL, my lightweight FITD mecha game drops MARCH 1ST!!! that's NEXT week!!!! with an itchfunding campaign for extra content and new art by tan juan gee!! come be an awful dog of war!! or captain of a spaceship!! or a superstar idol!! or an orphan who has to get in the robot!! all the classics.

[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!

[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!

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[zhjake]

Goliath Lancer NPC mech

[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]

I really do love the Canopian Lancer scheme. It just looks so good, it feels like cheating!

[szkin-art]

A custom SSC Operator-spec Swallowtail, in a PACKHUNT-type mobility configuration. Incorporates features from the KRF Pattern-II Everest lineage, used by the House of Sand. The SIMURGH-class NHP on board is supposedly 'salvage'; it is a Tactical Operations NHP typically utilised by House of Sand covert operatives, the notorious 'Sandmen'.