Mecha vs. Walker Vehicle

[Keltheos]

I'm not sure I get the difference in the builder when it comes to Mecha vs. Vehicles with the Walker movement style.

Is there a reason to have what (to me) are essentially the same thing in two areas?

I guess I'm just missing the difference...

[zephyr40k]

Three areas! Mecha Vs. Walker tank vs. Monster.

Fron a close review of the numbers, it looks like this is the difference:

Mecha are lighter and more agile than tanks (slightly higher Guard, slightly lower Soak)
Monsters are the opposite, heavier and slower than tanks (slightly lower Guard but higher Soak)

[davicusprime]

When I was first reading through the rules, it had me thinking of it as how things in Heavy Gear work when looking at the difference between gears and striders... Gears are single pilot bipedal robot suits, while Striders are larger, multi-pilot vehicles that happen to travel on 2-6 legs rather than wheels/tracks/hover/grav. In Heavy gear these things are slow moving, easy to hit artillery units for the most part while the gears are agile little boogers.

Zephyr pretty much summed up the stat differences. For the most part it's just different ways to represent mechs and legged machines/critters in this here highly modifiable game system.

-DavicusPrime

[twogunsblazing]

Yeah, that's right. Also, Mechs (and Monsters I think) gain an additional cover bonus of +1 that other vehicles cannot...(I'm at work at hte moment and can't double check my memory at the moment).

Edit: Home from work, now with my rule book. Mecha (and Monsters) can both "Hunker Down" and receive a +1 bonus to their Guard, where a walking tank would not be able to. Mecha can also take the "Jump Jets" Mod, which a walking tank cannot take. Whilst using this mod they have special move/shoot rules. Mecha also have "Flight Transform" or "Wheeled Transform", something which is not included in the other vehicle builders.

So I guess for the reason the other guys mentioned, as well as the ones I've mentioned, it was probably easier to have a different set of construction rules for different vehicle types.