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[Frantic Pryde]

Xhaleon, on 14 November 2011 - 08:39 AM, said:

I doubt that would be a problem for IS LRMs though. You'd probably miss the building in front of you completely.

this made me lol.

This is a good thread. I think mw3 and mw4 had this. It should definitely be included I think. Though I think the mechs that can, such as the marauder example given, should be able to lift their arms to fire over stuff. That would super cool.

[Hodo]

If you played with all the expanded rules from the old Battletech magazines you would find that these were factored into the game as optional rules.

Some of the ones I remember off the top of my head are.

-Javelin had a +1 to pilot skill rolls because of the top heavy nature of the mech. (lead to me calling a lot of heavy chested girls in middle school Javelins.

-Catapult, Locust, Jenners, Cicadas, all had a +2 to Pilot skill rolls on standing attempts due to the lack of arms.

-Marauders AC5 could be fired to the rear because it was on a turret.

-Rifleman, Jagermech and Hatamotos had a -4 to hit vs aircraft due to the type of targeting systems.

-Urbanmech had a additional +1 to partial cover because it was so short.

-Spider had no ejection system if the mech was destroyed by any form that forced a ejection, pilot was killed.

These were some of the several pages of additional rules for individual mechs in game.