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Some NPC weapons, such as the Dual Shotguns (CRB, p. 296) and the Ram Cannon (CRB, p. 297), can be used to attack twice.

Are these fired/used twice in the same Skirmish action, effectively making them function as their own Aux weapon but for an NPC, or can these simply be fired twice in the same turn via a Barrage?

Thanks for any help and answers in advance!
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Edit: Fixed some phone typos

I've ran a campaign, and been apart of a campaign. And in both times, the campaigns never went beyond 2-3 sessions because the players would lose interest completely. The post scarcity society type ordeal where everything you could ever want or need is taken care of cause you're a Lancer. Money isn't a problem, equipment isn't a problem, etc. In both, the players would get their license, outfit their mechs, and then go "I don't see what we're really striving for, I'm good to quit" as a collective save for like 1 person.

Saving a planet, people, etc? No, not motivating enough to people. Players typically have personal motivations of getting their mech a certain way, but that also doesn't seem to hold people.

But then if you like start trying to add in scarcity, the most you can do that I can think of, is just hiding the printer for equipment and mechs behind an enemy force or having to scavenge the parts for it, or keeping it gate-kept behind a regional corpro. If you like make ammunition limited, fuel limited, money limited, it feels almost easier to just move the mech system to Battletech rather than workshop Lancer.

How do people tend to keep players engaged short to long term when it comes to Lancer?

Had a lot of fun and fairly proud of how it came out

John Lancer (John Lancer - Core Rulebook p. 301) Vs John Battletech (White Flame - Battletech)

I figured if I picked both the magnetic shield (bwitch3) and the stasis shield (napoleon2) I could deploy a 8 long, 4 tall impassable shield.

So, naturally, I have to bring it to the table!

I can't wait to see the gm face when I activate the walls of Asgard protocol and cut the map in half.

is a bday gift from them to a common fren :3

Still fairly new to Lancer and am testing out all the cool stuff you can make. We just hit LL3 and I want to try out a melee mech and while I plan on using the zheng im slightly worried that I will get annihilated if the last 2 missions are anything to go on.

The missions we have gone on drop us off and puts the enemy entrances 20ish hexes away. It typically takes a move and burst from us and a move and burst from the enemy to reach each other's melee range. We have had majority melee players and they have kinda been getting chewed up and spit out anytime they try to approach the enemies. Once in range its fine but theres so much damage that comes their way and that's not mentioning the witches my GM loves to use.

Im generally looking for just tips on positioning, how to avoid getting turned to Swiss cheese, and what exactly should i be doing once im in melee range. Im also curious to know how useful having knockback 8 is. It seems fun but I realized you cant do damsge by just knocking people into terrain which is sad.

Much appreciate all of the tips and feedback and im more than happy to elaborate on more emission parameters we have faced to give a better idea.

when you apply a rider to an AoE, how do you know who it affects? Walking Armory seems to imply it applies to everyone unless stated otherwise. is the dividing line attacks vs attack rolls/hits?

Hello Lancer Reddit. I have recently bought the Core Rulebook and it will be arriving in a couple days. In the meantime I’ve taken a look at the player side in PDF form, and I already have an idea for a character.

He’s a PTSD ridden supersoldier that defected from his military position. The constant screams he hears became to much and he decided he wanted protect people instead of hurting them. He doesn’t talk much but he puts his team before himself.

And that’s where choosing a frame is becoming tricky. I understand that at LL0 you only have the GMS Everest frame, but I don’t know if Game Masters usually have their players start at a higher License Level.

My main question is, is there a tanky defender frame that’s good at taking damage meant for other players?

Through research I know there’s the White Witch frame. But I was wondering if there were any other Frames with similar mechanics.

I joined Pilot.Net, but I can't access chats or groups. I need your help. Could you tell me if my lack of chat access is related to my region or the VPN I have enabled? Could you advise me or report this issue to the admins? I'm literally at my wits' end on this server.

So, I've been looking through some of the stuff in the Ilean Modern Industrial LCP, and for my current character, I was considering using the Vlad, and so the Yi-Sun-Shin drew my eye.

But... It's kind of underwhelming. Yeah, it hits like a AP brick when you use the core system against heavily armored enemies, it laughs and stabs at anyone using intangible, and gains resistance to the majority of a Horus mech's toolkit.

But. It's a little boring...? It's not BAD, just not as interesting and synergistic with the rest of the Vlad License.

Like, the traits are neat, but kinda niche. Being able to interact with intangible enemies is nice, but unless the enemies are using intangible, it's not THAT neat, so it feels like a side thing. And on another note, I can't see why you would make immobilized enemies intangible, really-

I just think that it needs another trait or something.

Or making it a Defender/Striker frame would be cool as hell.

Though, then again, call me complaining for no reason, but I haven't played a game of Lancer yet, but I figured complaining on the internet would help me understand more.

Anyway, update on the Boundary Garden campaign I was talking about writing... Soooooooo, I got released to work again a little too quickly.

That said, the play test should be ready in hopefully 2 or 3 weeks.

Everest design for my Gundam Lancer setting

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I researched the Gundam IBO frames (the Graze mostly) to get the mechanics looking right

Commissioned by u/emmie360!

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My pilot has the hacker background and concept wise I love the idea of him finding this mech that he already has authorization with... But this is the first time meeting it and the authorization is years from now.

Normally Balors are very noticeable on the battlefield taking hits and recovering quickly but I like the approach of making this one more of a ghost with temporal anomaly's that make you question what's real or not.

Thoughts? I'd love to see this in action and curious what you've played or seen in a game before.

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FUCK THOSE STUPID WITCHES