I had long look upon the work i did the last time i opened that Excel sheet of mine, and i must say, sometimes i am really obsessed with details. When i started to think about the project back in the days i had this Battlemaster in front of me and i immediately had a name for the Battlearmor it should be. "Skirmishmaster". It somewhat "downsized" the name and still left the 'Mech behind it reachable. Soon i flipped through my TRO's to search for Units that could be converted. And i found a lot! Hunchback, Enfield, Black Knight, Warhammer, you name them. And nearly all of them could be name wise "downsized" on the Spot! (ea Bendback, Browning, Grey Knight and Battlehammer). Others were harder and needed a good portion of research. What does Lao-Hu mean? (Tiger) When i can not downsize a name like Zeus, which of his many offspring's could i use?(Ares). Today i went down some more TRO's that i didn't had at that time or which simply weren't in print back then and added some more machines. And i did quite some research for names.
I'm by far not finished, but i am getting there.
Next on my list will be a weapon exchange list. I want the machines to be in the same weight class there Mech-cousins are in and i want the weaponry match the original in appearance and mode of function.
So an AC of some kind will be exchanged with a Bearhunter BA scale slug thrower. LRM X will be LRM(OS) Y and so on. This will get me a helpful thread to cling to when in need.
At the moment i a have 192 Machines to convert. Maybe i will add more or drop some, that depends. What i will not do, or lets say, what i have not planed to do, is variants. I will most likely take a base design, mostly one a miniature is available of (since thats the main objective, to get this stuff to the table) and thats it. If i find a way to automatize things or if i find a way to make things easier,... who knows. But not from todays perspective.
Ok that's it for today, maybe next weekend i have some more for you
Flashhawk
I am not sure all the BattleMechs out there will scale the way you want them to, but in a rough way this would work. I have seen folks proxy MW:DA miniature BA for BT games. Taken off the base and put on a hex, they actually work pretty well.
ReplyDeleteHave you come up with any good BA designs while doing this scale-down thing? Are they unique or do they duplicate something already part of canon?
Steve
Thing is, even if they duplicate stuff, they are still new BA "designs" in terms of appearance. Ok, its old stuff in new bags that way, but i try to come up with unique configurations when i have the chance to do it :)
ReplyDeleteI have just 4 designs at the moment, the design parameter must be set before i climb that 192 unit mountain :D
Thanks for looking!
FH