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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Dec 23, 2021 1:42:57 GMT
If you could only have one. Sc-Fi Vehicle or Mech rules?
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Post by squidlord on Dec 23, 2021 6:43:46 GMT
Technically, I'm not sure how you could have mech rules without, implicitly, also simultaneously defining vehicular rules. After all, if you're talking about any kind of variation in movement mechanism, your covering vehicles. Armor, vehicles. Mounted weapons, vehicles. Some mecha have multiple crew members, vehicles. In many systems, the only thing that differentiates mecha from vehicles is that vehicles have fewer hit locations.
So that makes it a little more complicated to say "if you could have just one." It might be more reasonable to say, "if you could have just one, which would you desire – ground/sea/air mechanics?"
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Post by cml on Dec 23, 2021 7:56:33 GMT
I agree with squidlord here, in that the two sets of rules are fairly intertwined. I expect that if one existed, players would eventually create the other if it wasn't provided. That said, I have voted for vehicle rules, although I have yet to include them in my own games as I am still trying to figure out how to use facings on a battleboard.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Dec 23, 2021 16:24:39 GMT
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Post by easyeight on Dec 23, 2021 16:51:57 GMT
Since Mechs are vehicles, I say vehicles it is!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2021 22:20:58 GMT
Since Mechs are vehicles, I say vehicles it is!  |
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Post by tonicnh on Dec 25, 2021 19:53:35 GMT
What they said!
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Post by infierno on Dec 29, 2021 2:02:01 GMT
I voted for Infantry Only as I'm a bit of a small arms nut. I honestly don't think I've played more than a handful of games that incorporate tanks, though that may be due to the fact that I only have a single meager M1 Stuart painted and assembled.  |
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Post by claudiasboris on Dec 29, 2021 12:53:02 GMT
Honestly, I’m not sure how to answer this. Like others have said I think that mechs and vehicles are largely the same thing (though I can appreciate how they can use some separate mechanisms). However, I have to echo infierno in that I largely just use infantry so far. I like the idea of mech and vehicles, but infantry is just a lot quicker and easier.
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Post by Scooby Drew 42 on Dec 30, 2021 22:02:13 GMT
I couldn't figure out how to vote. However, if it were me: just Mechs. I have a bunch (30-40) of BattleTech Mechs and am a big fan of mecha. The only sci-fi vehicles that I own are 2 hovertanks for BattleTech, and I just got a T'au Piranha (40k speeder) for Christmas.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Dec 31, 2021 0:12:22 GMT
I think you have to join the Forum but don't rightly know. You play the new BT rules?
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