01-16-2017, 05:31 PM
I've been having a bit of trouble with this, and so I thought I'd make an account here and ask the veterans.
I'm getting ready to run a campaign set in the periphery, with the players near-destitute local mercenaries. I was hoping that there was some way to do patchwork armor, to try and keep things at a low power level for a while; the periphery is at a lack for battlemech-grade armor, after all. HeavyMetal Pro offers the ability to make patchwork mechs/vees, but HMP does not have commercial, industrial, or heavy industrial armor. While HMP does allow me to make custom armors, I cannot set the BAR for it, and I doubt that MegaMek would recognize it either way.
So, i wanted to ask some of you veterans here if it is possible to either add in Commercial and industrial armor to HMP in a way that MegaMek (and MekHQ, if possible) will recognize, or perhaps some manual edits I can make in the HMP file.
Barring that, I wanted to ask if it was possible to hand-make the units using .BLK files; i don't have a lot of experience editing them manually, so I don't know if it's possible to do patchwork that way.
Thanks for your time!
I'm getting ready to run a campaign set in the periphery, with the players near-destitute local mercenaries. I was hoping that there was some way to do patchwork armor, to try and keep things at a low power level for a while; the periphery is at a lack for battlemech-grade armor, after all. HeavyMetal Pro offers the ability to make patchwork mechs/vees, but HMP does not have commercial, industrial, or heavy industrial armor. While HMP does allow me to make custom armors, I cannot set the BAR for it, and I doubt that MegaMek would recognize it either way.
So, i wanted to ask some of you veterans here if it is possible to either add in Commercial and industrial armor to HMP in a way that MegaMek (and MekHQ, if possible) will recognize, or perhaps some manual edits I can make in the HMP file.
Barring that, I wanted to ask if it was possible to hand-make the units using .BLK files; i don't have a lot of experience editing them manually, so I don't know if it's possible to do patchwork that way.
Thanks for your time!