Planet Mongoose - The Battle Scooter

[MongooseMatt]

To compliment both German Vehicles of World War II (will be here in a couple of hours or so!) and Mercenary Second Edition (hopefully next week!), we have just posted rules for Battle Scooters on Planet Mongoose.

http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/?p=759

Perfect for mercenaries who need mobility and firepower but haven't yet found the Dream Ticket.

 

[AdrianH]

I'll see your battle scooter and raise you a war donkey.

Or the Simms Motor Scout, though that's a bit early for WW2, or for that matter WW1.

And now I am imagining cavalry, possibly even knights, charging across the battlefield carrying RPG's (*) in the same way that a couple of centuries before they'd have carried lances.

(*) That's Rocket Propelled Grenades. They would not last long charging against Panzers armed only with a copy of Traveller. Not even if they tried to prove that the Panzer is illegal under the rules.

 

[MongooseMatt]

I'll see your battle scooter and raise you a war donkey.

The guys at Warlord pointed this one out to us (I have a feeling they will do a mini of it!). They call it the Panzerfaust-Donkey

 

[dragoner]

Mercenary Second Edition (hopefully next week!) ...

Please let this not update the version 1 I have on dtrpg.

 

[dragoner]

Mercenary Second Edition (hopefully next week!) ...

Please let this not update the version 1 I have on dtrpg.

Why not? Merc V1 has been "rewritten" in quite a few parts by stuff like CSC anyway. So are there any special reasons?

Exactly, I don't want to have to fix another paradigm breaking book like the CSC, as a Referee I want to devote my limited energies towards building the campaign milieu; I just went through this with the spica career books as well, to finally make the decision not to use them. The changes in skills, ammunition nomenclature, that I saw in the playtest documents and discussions, for the v2, don't seem to add anything.

 

[Epicenter]

Has everyone forgotten The Vespa of Doom? (aka: "I'd TAP that.")

 

[Condottiere]