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i need help. i saw either one of your posts or someone else’s post about lancer mechs and i saw this one that kinda looked like a pangolin and i don’t know it’s name to look it up and the databases for lancer mechs are not being forthcoming with me. a friend of mine wants to run a game of lancer with us and i want to run that mech but i can’t find it

Is it one of these? These are the only five mechs I can even remotely describe as "pangolin-shaped."

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Random Lancer thoughts

Congratulations, y'all get to be the newest iteration of a text file on my desktop/a private Google doc for my unhinged ramblings that may, at some misty point in the far future, become a character. This time, Lancer-specific thoughts.

A Lancaster with Hydra licenses, because if you're already pulling spare parts off yourself and flinging them at allies, you may as well pull your arms off and throw them at enemies too. Probably needs a GMS extra weapon slot to really work. Can you take those repeatedly? It doesn't say. *checks* Dang, and you can't use the later weapons, although the drone systems are fair game.

I've seen a few things about lancers coming out of their mechs and being dysmorphic in their meat body. Some great stuff, but mostly I think of a Barbarossa pilot looking around carefully to make sure he's not about to sit on anyone. And a Goblin pilot that's mostly fine still, but keeps trying to get piggyback rides.

Although, since I have a hypothetical audience here, I can ask questions, too. So, is there anything good about an Overkill weapon? There's the specific one that adds 1d6 damage whenever it triggers, but the basic Overkill rules just seem lethal to the user and no one else. Roll a 1, take heat, roll again. If it's another 1, take more heat, repeat. With an incredible run of bad luck you could wind up exploding for absolutely no benefit. I feel like I'm missing something, because the rest of the rules don't have obvious trap options like that. Like, if you add the 1 to your damage and then reroll, that would make more sense, but the rules don't say that's what happens, and it's still not great because you're trading heat for damage 1-to-1 and that's a bad trade.