Mecha: HEX

I really like your rules and want to try them. I have a question regarding the rules for Heat Sinks though. If you have 1 Heat Sink you cancel up to 3 Overheat results per turn. However, even 1 or 2 Overheat result will destroy the heat sink at the end of the activation. Is that correct?

What is the interaction with more Heat Sinks and Overheating, for example 2 Heat Sinks and 4 Overheating results? I read the rules as if all 4 Overheating results are canceled, but only 1 Heat Sink is destroyed.

Thank you for elaborating!

Hi all! Sorry for the lack of reply, I never get notified when there's a reply on this thread.

For experimental armor, yes, I intended it to be like regeneration, so roll for each wound.

For heat sinks, I'd intended that each one cancels up to three overheat results. If there are any uncanceled overheats after taking in to account all your heat sinks, then you take a damage and break a heat sink. Do you run hot for more damage? Or lower the damage output for heat protection?

I think it's fantastic you are having fun with it! My GundamHammer indexes are almost done, so I'm looking forward to faction books next.

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I really, REALLY love what you've made here. Your game is quite possibly even easier to understand and play than Grimdark Future: Firefight; and yet you really packed a lot into that one page!
That being said, as a lifelong MechWarrior fan who plays MechWarrior: Online almost daily, I have a LOT of ideas for ways to add depth to your game and help it better recreate the feel of BattleTech, without making it any more complicated or hard to understand. I'll divide the various ideas I have into separate sections.

Idea 1: Pinpoint Damage

In MW, WHERE you deal damage is extremely important. Certain weapons let you deal all of your damage to one specific area, rather than spreading out the damage over the whole mech. Because these weapons are very powerful, they have huge drawbacks to balance them out, like high heat, limited ammo, or slow firing speed.
In your game, I think you can represent this in a simple but effective way, by adding a new Pinpoint Damage rule to certain weapons:

Pinpoint Damage:

Upon a successful hit, the attacker chooses which slot is destroyed.

Ignore the Ammo Box rule. In other words, destroying an enemy's weapon with the Ammo Box rule deals no extra damage.

I would then add the Pinpoint Damage rule to the Particle Cannon, the Rail Gun, and the Light Gatling.
I would also, at the risk of running the perfect simplicity of your linearly scaling weapons system, consider adding a new weapon, with stats something like this, so that medium-range pinpoint brawling becomes a possibility:

Snub Particle Cannon: 6 Hex / Atk 3 / Str 2 / Slot 2
Overheating, Deadly, Pinpoint

Idea 2: More Equipment/Weapons

There are several classic items in MW/BT that are absent in Mecha: HEX. I think the game would be a lot more interesting if they were added in.

Equipment: Targeting Computer / 2 Slots

+1 Hex range for all weapons. You can take multiple T-COMPs, and their effects will stack.

Weapon: TAG Spotting Laser / 6 Hex / Atk 2 / Str 2 / 1 Slot

Upon successfully landing a hit on an opponent, place a small cardboard circle next to them. They are now "Tagged". For as long as they are Tagged, all Missile weapons gain +1 to hit against them, and ignore all terrain penalties. Upon landing a successful hit on them with a missile weapon, remove the TAG marker.
Your Mecha may only equip one TAG Laser, and may only TAG one enemy at a time; if you TAG a second enemy while you already have a TAG on another enemy, remove the TAG from the first enemy.

Enemy Mechas and vehicles can only have one TAG marker on them at a time.

Equipment: Anti-Missile System / 2 Slots

Ammo Box

Missile attacks (except Artillery) on this Mecha or any friendly unit up to 2 Hexes away have -1 to hit. AMS's stack, and can reduce a Missile Weapon's chance to hit to as low as 5+.