#lancer rpg

[himecommunism]

sketch to celebrate my first totaled mech in lancer

[lancersafetysigns]

[vexwerewolf]

"Okay, so Harrison Armory villains are sneering imperialists, Karrakin villains are classist elites, IPS-N villains are amoral corporate profitmaxxers, and HORUS villains are slimeball hackers, but what would an SSC villain look like?"

Well, I have a few ideas...

[terkmc]

SSC - Apollo, formerly the SSC SKELETONIZER

Metalmark alt

[cozzymandiart]

A commission piece of a homebrew submarine HORUS frame, the Leviathan. I had a lot of fun with the lighting and energy effects on this one, I don't get a lot of opportunities to attempt painting water!

[ips-northstar-official]

Which mech should I start off with? I want to be able to pummel a mech to death.

Hello!

Thankfully, we have a mech designed almost specifically for pilots like you, by pilots like you.

Say hi to the Zheng! Derived from after-action reports of famed mercenary Xiong Xiaoli’s multi-day rampage against a band of pirates, the Zheng is designed around one thing and one thing only: fist.

The Zheng’s proprietary Total Strength Suite of muscular netting grants the frame unparalleled strength, tearing up the very ground it walks on and throwing it all while literally crushing any foe in its way.

Plus, if you purchase all the way up to the Level 3 license, you’ll receive the D/D 288, a powerful superheavy fist that turns your mech into a one-punch powerhouse.

It’s available from the Long Rim supplement! We hope you enjoy!

[theogm-art]

Cooling down your gun takes too long ? Just throw the barrel away and put another =w=

CERULABS Black Swann ☠️

CERULABS declines all responsibilities regarding the use of pirated schematics of non market approved R&D frames.

Art for Christian S.

[bregflr]

Got commissioned to make this piece about Sona (litch pilot) being a bit of Bi disaster with a Dthal (Ranger Swallowtail pilot), showing off how helpful her homebrew NHP can be, you know they are hitting it off because Dthal is interested in her info dump

[aswarmofmoths]

dredged up this meme i made from the depths of my hard drive and figured i’d post it (credit to @firbolgonmain for the idea)

[himecommunism]

my grudge against tom 'inventor of Stunned' killsixbilliondemons continues

[lancersafetysigns]

[vexwerewolf]

Not the original asker, but how would you make NPC equivalents of PC mechs? Some stuff feels fairly intuitive, but there are some others that I'm less sure of/not sure how to do.

IPS-N

IPS-N mechs are probably the easiest, since there are many mechs that are close to being 1-to-1 NPC approximations of IPS-N mechs.

Blackbeard - One of the easiest, since the Berserker NPC is basically just a Blackbeard. It has the Chain Axe, it has the reckless speed and it has the inability to properly determine between friend and foe. It doesn't have the Blackbeard's enhanced Grapple shenanigans but those aren't really appropriate on an NPC mech anyway.

Caliban - Give an Assassin the Devil's Cough Shotgun and Explosive Knives.

Drake - Take the Bastion, increase its HP just a little, remove the Rotary Grenade Launcher and give it the Scourer's Thermal Lance, except make the Thermal Lance do Kinetic damage instead of Energy.

Lancaster - Another easy one. The Support NPC is just a slightly slower Lancaster. It has a Latch Drone, it has Restock Drones, it has Whitewash, it's got all the fun stuff.

Nelson - Yet another easy one. The Cataphract does pretty much exactly what the Nelson does, just with added trample.

Raleigh - This is much more difficult - so much so that for In Golden Flame, I created an entirely new NPC class, the Slinger, just to simulate it. If you don't have IGF, start with an Assault. Remove the Assault Rifle, Combat Knife and Hunker Down. Take the Drum Shotgun from the Goliath and call it a Hand Cannon. Give it the Archer's Impending Threat optional.

Tortuga - This one's fairly simple. Take a Sentinel, upscale it to Size 2, give it Punisher Ammunition and the Bombard's Siege Armor.

Vlad - Take a Berserker, give it the Nail Gun optional, and then give it the Bastion's Near-Threat Denial System.

Zheng - Take a Berserker, give it Juggernaut and Retribution, remove Aggression, remove the Chain Axe and replace it with the Demolisher's Demolition Hammer.

SSC

SSC mechs also have a lot of parallels, so it's pretty easy to model them.

Black Witch - Probably the hardest mech to model with existing NPCs. I created another whole new class, the Lodestone, just to simulate these guys.

Death's Head - Take a Sniper, cut the damage on its Anti-Material Rifle to 6/8/10, strip the Loading trait and permanently give it the effect of Deadmetal Rounds (shots become Line 20 instead of Range 25).

Dusk Wing - Literally just a Hornet.

Metalmark - Take an Assault and give it the Operator's Fade Generator.

Monarch - Depending on the exact flavour of Monarch you want, you can do two things. Either take a Rainmaker, scale it up to Size 2 and give it Atlas Missiles the Ace's Missile Swarm, or take an Ace, scale it up to Size 2 and give it Missile Swarm.

Mourning Cloak - Literally just a Specter.

Swallowtail - Literally just a Scout.

HORUS

HORUS mechs are where we need to get a little bit more inventive. This shit ain't natural boys.

Balor - Take a Hive, give it Electro-Nanite Cloud and the Berserker's Harpoon Cannon, then give it the Exotic template and choose Regenerator. Or, if you have No Room For A Wallflower, just use the Lurker NPC.

Goblin - It's a Witch.

Gorgon - Take a Sentinel, scale it up to Size 2 and give it the Archer's Impending Threat and Suppress reactions.

Hydra - There's not really an NPC that simulates a mech deploying 800 drones and honestly that's probably for the best.

Manticore - Give a Berserker the Superhot optional, the Cataphract's Capacitor Discharge, the Sentinel's Combat Shotgun and the Operator's Self-Erasure.

Pegasus - Do not attempt to simulate me, ha ha.

Harrison Armory

Home stretch here.

Barbarossa - Take a Goliath, give it the Ultra's Short-Cycle Lance or the Bombard's Bombard Cannon.

Genghis - Literally just a Pyro.

Iskander - This is just a Seeder.

Napoleon - Why does this mech exist

Saladin - Scale up an Aegis to Size 2.

Sherman - Take a Scourer and give it Emergency Vent.

Tokugawa - Take a Berserker and give it Superhot. Make its Chain Axe do Energy instead of Kinetic, and instead of Shredding on crit, make it do a couple of Burn damage.

[terkmc]

ASV "Condor"

Air-to-Air Support/Transport

and thats the last of the frames I was commed for the supplement

[draculancer-flow]

Have you ever tried to use ChatGPT to make posts?

OOC: I would rather die a slow and painful death of tetanus

[harrison-armory-incorporated]

So jimbo if you had to choose a song that would best fit each of your companies mechs what would they be, and why?

@ips-northstar-official? A sea shanty, of course.

@horus-unofficial? Machine God.

@smith-shimano-corpro? The Citizen Sleeper soundtrack kind of fits so why not.

HA? Self explanatory.

@ktbofficial? Ferdinand only deserves the best taste in music.

@hra-official? They're survivors and I respect that. You get a very emotional track, one of my favorites actually on this list.

[captainicarusmeetshismaker]

horces

lancaster is the baby foal of giant horce earthmover and im right