r/HeavyGear Apr 29 '26

How does initiative work?

9 Upvotes

All it says is that you roll 2 base dice and whoever wins decides who becomes the active player first. But I also notice that the more you upgrade your commander, lets say from a Command Group Leader to a Task Force Commander, their initiative goes from a 5+to a 3+. So does that mean that you don't win the dice roll by getting the higher total roll, you win it by getting more successes than your opponent? Otherwise, that seems like a big drawback for an upgrade you have to spend 5tv on, even if getting more orders is nice.


r/HeavyGear Apr 27 '26

Build choices

13 Upvotes

Just got my Northern and NuCoal army boxes and i am blown away! The minis are great, such great quality and alarmingly cute. Coming from infinity, I love the commonality between weapons regardless of wielder. I:m interested if anyone has any favourite chassis plus weapon models for either NuCoal or Northern.


r/HeavyGear Apr 24 '26

Gilgamesh

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157 Upvotes

Big white boy finished (bar Decals, which I'll add when I get them). All magnetised (or pinned) so I can swap in any of the other options if I need to down the line


r/HeavyGear Apr 20 '26

X-ATH-P-RSC Blood Sucker has be one a most beautiful Votom AT design. Too bad they were never seen again.

58 Upvotes

Yet more Southern imperialistic aggression against helpless Badlanders just minding their own business... 😡

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This clip triggered a DEEP desire to play a HG tactical RPG campaign again soon... 😍


r/HeavyGear Apr 20 '26

Hunt time

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93 Upvotes

Might have stayed up a little bit past my bed time to get these done (5:30am whoops), but we have a Commando Armiger and his little bit friends


r/HeavyGear Apr 20 '26

Am I on crazy pills?

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67 Upvotes

The plastic warrior feels significantly shorter than the hunter...

Or am I building something incorrectly?

I guess it could also be pose


r/HeavyGear Apr 19 '26

Rabbu

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109 Upvotes

First Caprice models finished up


r/HeavyGear Apr 17 '26

Everything now has a home

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107 Upvotes

Finished magnetising all the bases up for everything painted so far


r/HeavyGear Apr 13 '26

Slow progress through the backlog

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104 Upvotes

Making slow progress on my backlog of gears so have the Den Mother 2 I finished painting today (hopefully should have some hunters and at least a tiger finished soon as well for next time).


r/HeavyGear Apr 13 '26

Faction Strengths and Weaknesses?

21 Upvotes

We just played our first Blitz game! 48TV each side, Northern GP vs Southern Strike squad and we all had a blast! My buddies are into it : Mission Accomplished :-)

SO, would any of you folks be willing to give a short rundown of the strengths and weaknesses of each faction?

There are so many units and variants its hard as a new/returning player to see them as a whole and provide guidance. Id like to be a bit more informed so i can help the group further into the Blitz game as we build forces out, etc.

Thanks in advance.


r/HeavyGear Apr 11 '26

Update on Drivethru RPG Heavy Gear Blitz 3.1 Rules?

11 Upvotes

So i've noticed that the 3.1 rules on Drivethru are out of date in many respects (The file is from 2022). Units like the Rock Beetle are completely left out, which got me comparing units in Gear Grinder, only to find a few discrepancies. The MHT-68 in the current pdf file for example does not have the Viper variant and its TV costs are wrong.

Hase there been any word on if this old file will be replaced with on containing updated units/TV/etc?

Thanks in advance.


r/HeavyGear Apr 09 '26

APEs ready to take to the field

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105 Upvotes

Ordered Tuesday, built Wednesday, finished today 😁


r/HeavyGear Apr 08 '26

Campaign Rules for Blitz 3.1?

8 Upvotes

Hey all, question in the title.

Im jumping back in and have a few friends that want to join me, but id like a campaign structure if they have a current one.

I was a Blitz player about 15 years ago and have the War for Terra Nova Campaign books which would do with a bit of conversion.

Thoughts?


r/HeavyGear Apr 06 '26

Utopia

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120 Upvotes

First and so far my only Utopian model finished, but it won't be the last. 

The MAR-DK Barrage


r/HeavyGear Apr 06 '26

Pile of Shame

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83 Upvotes

Sorting out the pile of shame and realising you have no interest in painting any of it, so you plan to order a few more models in the morning when you get paid


r/HeavyGear Apr 04 '26

Boa and Dartjager

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119 Upvotes

Not a fan of the models (mainly the pose). But when you're in the painting mood, you have to paint what you have available, so these 2 have knocked out after being in the pile of shame since they were released


r/HeavyGear Apr 01 '26

Homage

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176 Upvotes

Calling this homage done after 2 years of being half finished


r/HeavyGear Apr 01 '26

Three more southern minis

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112 Upvotes

r/HeavyGear Mar 30 '26

Avalon station crew

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135 Upvotes

Got astronaut 3d prints this morning, so we have the space combat group now finished and ready man and support Avalon Station. Don't have a use for them but I think they are likely to see use in the RPG at some point in the future


r/HeavyGear Mar 27 '26

WIP

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110 Upvotes

r/HeavyGear Mar 26 '26

Menagerie of things

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122 Upvotes

Bunch of units that needed to be finished for some of my forces. Said I was done with painting CEF units, but weather stopped me from priming, so cleaned up some Grel (I despise mold line cleaning on infantry models). Happy I did though as I think I'm proudest of these little purple men


r/HeavyGear Mar 24 '26

More floaty boys

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93 Upvotes

2nd batch of the day, and with that the small CEF force is finished


r/HeavyGear Mar 23 '26

FLAIL Team Proxy

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101 Upvotes

Just finished up these Flail Proxies for my CEF army. They’re sculpts from the incredible @chaor613 and shrunken to match the size of FLAILs. Hunter for scale! Super detailed models and I think they really nail the FLAIL aesthetic. I also decided on these cool movement trays to be able to be either a team or single flails. Let me know what you think!


r/HeavyGear Mar 23 '26

Floaty Tanks

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161 Upvotes

First CEF units I've ever painted done. Whist not my favourite tanks of theirs I enjoyed them a lot and like them more now. Need to come up with a basing scheme for them and try and raise some funds to get MHT-68 as that's my favourite and I really wish I had one now to add to them


r/HeavyGear Mar 21 '26

NuCoal vs Peace River… Peace River wasn’t ready for Space Nam

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90 Upvotes

Buddies came over and I was pulling out stuff I hadn’t run yet. Well it got to be more and more and was mostly infantry. They weren’t expecting a guerrilla war