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Post by Kevin on Sept 10, 2015 9:42:43 GMT -5
Quick history: First mini game was Battletech, moved into 40K, then/now historicals. Battletech has always been my first love, but my son is enamored with Gundams and Heavy Gear. I purchased Mech Attack many moons ago in hopes to use an accessible rule set that allowed for custom 'mechs' (aka Gundams). My favorite part is the damage system (ala FASA's Centurion, which I LOVED) so here we are now wanting to expand into my son's next favorite mech game...Sooooo, I am planning on creating a conversion for Heavy Gear Blitz (HGB).
We currently play HGB using the official HGB 'quickstart' rules with some additions/modifications. I'm not really excited about the new version coming out next year, so I was hoping to use MA as our go-to set for all things mecha going forward.
To that end, I'm fully expecting to set out on this alone, but I was wondering if there was anything out there already or any ideas that have been batted around. To give me something to start with or parameters to work within. I will update this thread as time/development permits, so please post any ideas your willing to part with. Is there a downloadable unit template (xls, doc, etc) available to quickly create unit cards?
The biggest challenge so far has been trying to incorporate all the weapons into the game system without being to cumbersome. I am NOT trying to create perfect copies of said weapons, more like generalized versions to speed play. At this point, I'll be creating gears/weapons/systems that match what we have/use in models with other gears/etc to be added later as time permits.
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Post by Dagger on Sept 10, 2015 20:44:36 GMT -5
Great idea... I really like the Heavy Gear models. I don't remember anyone else tackling the conversion to Mech Attack rules. I'm not familiar enough with the Heavy Gear rules or unit stats to know what fits or doesn't fit when converting... but I'm interested to see what you come up with.
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Post by Ironhead on Nov 9, 2015 9:00:16 GMT -5
So my son and I spent the day at Fall-In this past weekend, and who did I run into? Matthew Kilareski, that's who.
We had a nice discussion during the game my son and I were playing as Matt just happened to walk by checking it out. In addition to the above mentioned Heavy Gear conversion, I told him about me working on a Gundam conversion for the next convention (Cold Wars) to help promote the rule set. My son has a huge fascination for all things Gundam, and he was dismayed at the lack of games taking advantage of the massive quantities of Gundam models available. While the Heavy Gear conversion is far more extensive (as I explained to Matt), the Gundam version will be more or less the basic rules as written.
Anyway, I guess this was just a shout out to Matt, and me saying that the Gear Attack! conversion is still being worked on (and Gundam Attack! in the pipeline).
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Post by WaffleM on Nov 9, 2015 21:53:21 GMT -5
It was great to meet you at Fall-in! How did the battle go?
I'm really looking forward to hearing about the Gundam conversion! Let us know how we can help out for Cold Wars. -Matt
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Post by Ironhead on Nov 16, 2015 8:22:29 GMT -5
It was great to meet you at Fall-in! How did the battle go? I'm really looking forward to hearing about the Gundam conversion! Let us know how we can help out for Cold Wars. -Matt The game went well. Was a no win scenario with quite a few oddities, but having run more than my share of games there I guess I nitpick more than normal.
My son and I are hashing out which Gundams we plan on using (and the overall scenario ideas) before we put conversions to paper. Our busy schedules are slowing this endeavor.
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Post by epix on Jan 23, 2016 7:20:03 GMT -5
Hi, I made some cards for Heavy Gear last year, here is a link to download them: Heavy Gear Cards
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Post by Ironhead on Jan 25, 2016 13:38:52 GMT -5
Hi, I made some cards for Heavy Gear last year, here is a link to download them: Heavy Gear CardsNice, I'll look them over better when time permits.
At first glance I see you went with bringing HG into Mech Attack, where-as I took the opposite approach of bringing Mech Attack into HG.
I have had most of the weapons done, and few cards back last November. Just need time to finish them all up.
Thanks for sharing what you did.
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Post by epix on Jan 25, 2016 16:48:28 GMT -5
Then I am now curious to see what you have done.
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