Problem: A large, powered suit of armour or a small mech. Sometimes called a landmate (Masamune Shirow term) or hardsuit. What is it?
It could be an armoured attire asset, sure, but that seems too small.
I’ve solved this for my group by making it a small walker vehicle, which allows the user to take the armed upgrade for using heavy weapons – which should be the military purpose of making such a battlesuit. This makes it at least a class 2 asset and therefore uncommon, which seems likely.
The size of such a harness / suit of powered armour makes you unable to walk through a typical doorway, but upscales the capability of a single soldier.
The advantages of a hardsuit makes them desireable, but they don’t all have them yet. 😀
Does your group have similar assets? How would you define such a thing?
Walker vehicle looks good! As a vehicle, the walker is immune to standard weapons, it’s nice.
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Jean-Michel GOT yes, and taking damage as a vehicle as well!
I once played a character that was fighting mech focused. I set him up with a level 3 attire (sealed, plus other stuff) that was the protective hardsuit he wore within the mechs.
Walkers (land vehicle) were designed with the powered armor/mech suit in mind. Everything from the loader suit in Aliens, to the Patlabor police mechs, to D.Va’s MEKA (her pink bunny mech) from Overwatch.
That’s reassuring! I think it works narratively