It's more about making them more tank like. Picture a walking tank with a flatter slightly skull like turret.
Rifts and Savage Rifts General
Jackson Smith
Charles Davis
Rifts mecha & vehicles need three modern things that they seem to lack in both Palladium and Savage Rifts, in terms of game mechanics:
1. Sensor rating,
2. Active Camouflage.
3. Active protection systems.
Sensors should be statted (d4, d6, d8, etc.), not just mentioned, since in-game it's hard to adjudicate whether a radar can find someone within a building, even if in range. A Sensor Rating should substitute for the Notice skill in Savage Rifts.
Active camouflage systems should replace the pilot's Stealth skill as well (d4, d6, etc.).
APS is a countermeasure whereby a tank under attack by missiles/RPGs fires a very fast counter-volley of shrapnel or small shot to destroy the incoming fire. It's very popular on modern tanks and other vehicles and should be standard on all Golden Age-era weapon platforms. It should probably be modelled like an auto-parry in the game, available once per turn.
Ryan Brown
Your world your rules, make it happen captain.
Christopher Reed
Yeah neither Rifts or SW are very specific on what all these sensor packages actually do for you.
Tyler Hall
I'd make a Sensor Rating really simple:
d4 - Body Armor FEP packages.
d6 - Power Armor or Small Vehicles (eg, hovercycles)
d8 - Scout/Recon Power Armor or Robot Armor.
d10 - Scout/Recon Robot Armor or Large Vehicle.
d12 - Specialized recon platforms/alien supertech/spaceships.
Tyler White
Did anyone compile a table for Armor for Savage Worlds yet? It's a fucking glaring omission in the player's guide and annoying as hell to compare body/power/robot armor.
Alexander Wright
>Savage Worlds
^Savage Rifts, not Worlds.
William Robinson
Just whipped this up for you, doesn't have the powers and special bonuses though.
Charles Mitchell
The latest version of the Savage Rifts players guide doesn't have such a list. Frankly, I think there's been so many changes from version to version that there's hesitation by both the developers and players to come up one.
Jonathan Flores
You are a sweetheart, thanks!
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