Anyone here tried integrating battletech mechs and mechsheets into a generic system like gurps or fudge...

anyone here tried integrating battletech mechs and mechsheets into a generic system like gurps or fudge? battletech is awesome as a wargame, but as a role-playing game or a your-dudes game, it feels kind of lacking, especially since any custom group, regiment, or Merc group would and it's characters would have to be era-specific, which would make designing them feel kind of pointless, given that there are a crapton of different time periods with a crapton of differences, and also makes creating a generic/works no matter the era force impossible to make sense of/make interesting.

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If it's not an era where I can strip the weapons and armor off a Flea and bolt a clan light PPC and a pair of small pulse lasers onto it, it's not an era I have interest in.

so nothing before fedcom civil war, then?

Well, my first came was Battletech/Mechwarrior game MW4: Mercenaries, so that was the era I fell in love with.

>nyone here tried integrating battletech mechs and mechsheets into a generic system like gurps or fudge?

Doesn't Mechwarrior:RPG, have simplified RPG rules for playing in the btech universe?

>makes creating a generic/works no matter the era force
Introtech company of Star League designs can be used for basically everything from the Star League on, starting as a "this is a SLDF company" going to "these are a bunch of SLDF mechs that got dug up by [YET ANOTHER MERC GROUP FORMED AROUND A SLDF CACHE]".

But seriously though, part of the point is that 'your dudes' would end up era-specific by virtue of the fact that it's a historical, so 'I can't use my Reunification War SLDF force in the Clan Invasion' is a feature, not a bug.

GURPS works very well. Every mech will be built as a character with IQ 0, Controls, Payload, Machine, and Ablative DR. I've ran something with a general feel like Battletech before, and it worked well.

Best way to do heat is to make it an Energy Reserve that depletes instead of rising as you use weapons (innate attacks).

that and a time of war both do, but reason for the thread is because outside of playing classic battletech exclusively as a wargame and/or running scenarios, I'd do without the pre-established lore and setting, when running it as an ttrpg, and use custom or different fluff/setting. using gurps or d6-d6 fudge and running battlemechs as a separate combat system sounds fun. probably'll end up using battletroops scale, with fudge determining nom-combat/light combat, with a way to convert the fudge characters into the battletroops format, when the need arises.

that and vengeance were the shit.

not exactly what was meant. what was meant was the idea of taking the battletech mechsheets and making them work alongside a generic system, using conversion/etc. and if that has been interesting to do and play for anyone who has, or hypothetically if not.

Well if you want a super-simplified tabletop, use the battletech large scale rules, whatever they are called, where mechs get simplified stats.

Alpha Strike.