Gundam Senki Basic Rules: Tsueno omitted many MZ rules that don't suit the Gundam setting. Scaling rules a re one of the first rules that were done away with. Instead, he established Serv o classes beyond Mega Heavy to resolve all the construction and mecha combat rul es on one (Mekton) scale. He kept Human scale, although it's more of an issue ab out the size of a Hex, no changes have been made to the combat rules. Dice Rolling Gundam Senki uses 2D6 instead of 1D10. Roll 2D6 instead of 1D10. Natural "12" is a Critical Success and "2" is a Critical Failure. Criticals add/subtract 2D6 to /from the result. Difficulty numbers are as normal in MZ. The expected value of 2D6 is 7(1.5point larger than 1D10's 5.5) but harder to ge t chance of critical(only 2.77% at 2D6). The game balance / combat becomes stable. Differences in skill levels are more heavily reflected in the game. 2D6 style Mekton gets nastier when used with the G-Factor rule (defender must ro ll the servoâ s remaining number of Kills or lower on 2d6, or the servo explodes). Of course, this rule is in effect in Gundam Senki. Combat systems are basically the same, but the balances are very different. The "Induced Explosion" Rule (in MZ terms, the "G-Factor") makes MS combats very dea dly, as in the TV shows. Changes to the LUCK rules make GS games more dramatic, and give them more of a "Gundam" feel. Luck In GS, Luck is used in the following ways: 1: Luck points are applied AFTER rolling dice. You can spend any amount of Luck for Defensive use. But in Offensive use, you can spend only 1 point of Luck for each roll. 2: When you get hit, you can change Hit Location as your will by spending 1 Luck point. 3: When you failed Induced Explosion roll, you can spend any amounts of Luck to decrease dice result. Note that, in GS, only PCs and Major NPCs actually use their Luck stat. Grunts a nd Mooks donâ t. ACE POINTS Ace Points are also usable in different ways. 1: Use same as Luck, but only usable for Mecha Combat related rolls. 2: Increase MA by by 1 for each Ace point he spends. (We are thinking about changi changi ng this rule: By spending 1 Ace Point, you can x2 the MA for a movement action) Ace Points are basically the same as MZâ s Maneuver Pool, with some mods for Gundam. A Characterâ s Ace Points are determined by the level of their relative "Piloting" sk ill: MS Piloting for Mobile Suit Pilots, Aircraft/Shuttle for Mobile Armor or Sp ace/Jet fighters, Driving for Tankers. The number is [Piloting skill -5]. The po ints increase as the character increase his piloting skill.
The number is doubled when piloting Ace Custom mecha. When Char (MS Piloting ski ll 10) is piloting a normal MS-06F, he gets 5 Ace Points. When he uses his MS-06 S, his ace points are doubled to 10. In order to recover Ace Points, PCs must return to their base or mother ship. Wh en they launch again, they regain their full Ace Points. (This is the strong poi nt of Ace Points when compared with Newtype points or LUCK.) The rules are on pages 143 to 144. NEWTYPE POINTS Newtype has special skill called "Newtype Point"(NP). Newtype Points can be used in the following manners: 1: NP can be used as if LUCK points. 2: Newtypes can add NP to Initiative. 3: Newtypes can add 1/2 of NP to any REF based combat skills 4: Newtypes can add NP to Awareness, Human Perception, and Zero-G. 5: Newtypes with NP level 6 or better can decrease combat penalties(lost head pa rts, get flanked, etc) by [NP -5] points. 6: The Referee may give Newtype characters faint visions of the future or unavoi dable fate. 7: Newtypes can telepathically communicate if the sum of both characters NP + 2D 6 equals or exceeds a difficulty of 30 Both Rookies and Civilians are considered "Latent Newtypes" for game purposes. " Low level" Newtypes are not really different from ordinal people with some kind of "charmed existence"- beginner's luck or sharp senses, a man thatâ s "too tough to die", or an especially quick learner. The "Awakened Newtypes"(those who have a "spark" on their foreheads) typically h ave 7+ NT Points. Many of WhiteBaseâ s crew had NT Points, but seldom actually advanc ed them. "Newtype point" is treated like a skill, but kind of a "special skill" like the Combat Sense of Solos in CP2020. The advancement is same as other skills. For Ol dTypes(Veterans) to pick up NP, they must pay 100IP to learn the Newtype skill a t +1, after that advancement is the same as normal. NT Points are regained in full when game session ends. Esper lenses are not used in GS. 'Thought Control' is to be used to represent Psycommu systems, while 'ESPer Lens ' is closer to the Psycoframe system used in the Nu Gundam and Sazabi. Bear in mind that the Psycommu, Bio Sensor, and Psycho Frame systems don't cause damage to the pilot when his/her MS gets hit. They may suffer a headache or fee l ill when one of these systems is overused or used to contact / confront other hostile Newtypes. Changes to Combat System: INDIRECT FIRE AND AREA EFFECT Any Character/Mecha that is in a Blast Radius can try to evade the blast. Make a n Evade Roll just as if dodging normal gunfire. If the roll succeeds, the MS can evade the blast and receive no damage. Note that A-P or Disrupter on AEW won't
effect on the blast damage. It only applies to "direct hit" damage. A quick rundown of the Table of Contents is: 15 pages of color anime. 120 pages of history of Gundam story and scenarios 18 pages of character-making 20 pages of mech and human combat rules 12 pages of various other rules 15 pages of NPC data 120 pages of mech data 14 pages of tables and charts
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mecha Construction System: There is no mecha "construction" system per say, and mecha stats are a bit different. The given example is the MS-05B ZAK. BASIC STATS Type: MS (mobile suit) Skill used: MS pilot Reaction adjustment (MV): -7 Basic evasion: 5 Initiative: 1 Power: 6 (used in melee) Basic Evasion and Initiative values are written in parenthesis ( ). These stats are used when a typical pilot pilots the MS. These values are given in order to speed play. A typical Pilot is assumed to have REF 8, and +4 level in all Mecha Combat skill s. So, an Old Zaku's "Basic Evasion" is 5 [REF(8) +MS Piloting(4) -MV(-7) =5], and Initiative is 1 [REF(8) + MV(-7)= 1] "Power" is new stat for Mecha to show melee damage bonus. In MZ, the damage bonu s is determined by servo size, but this isn't true for the Gundam world. For exa mple, the Old Zaku, Zaku II, Gouf and even the Gundam should have the same sized servos, but the level of power for each of these units is very different. Thatâ s wh y the damage bonus was cut from servo size and a new stat was created. Power Rank also replaces Hydraulics from MZ+, to simplify the explanation of MS stats and combat rule. Use the chart below for your reverse engineering. The M ultiplier is applied only to Servo Cost, but must applied to TOTAL of its Servo cost. Base PR is set by the class of the Torso servo, no matter how big its Arm or Leg is. Base Power Rank is Torso "Cost/Space/Kills" x 1/2
Power Rank -2
COST x0.9
-1 Standard +1 +2 +3 +4
x0.95 x1.0 x1.1 x1.2 x1.3 x1.4
Note: +1PR for +x0.1 cost formula. Mecha cannot lower PR below -2 from Base PR.
Armor and Kills (referred to as endurance or durability in the text): 2D6 are rolled for hit location: Roll Location SP Kills 2-4 Left Leg 5 7 5 Left Arm 5 7 6 Head 5 6 7-8 Torso 5 12 9 Right Arm 5 7 10-12 Right Leg 5 7 WEAPONS (mounted) Stats for weapons are precision (WA), base attack (for typical pilot), range, da mage, ammo, location, kills, and skill used to fire. The ZAK mounts two punches, two kicks, one tackle and one anti-personnel shotgun , each with all the above stats. OPTIONAL weapons 105mm ZAK mg ZAK bazooka Gas Heat hawk SPECIAL: Space environmental system SPECS: Height 17.5 m Base weight: 50.3 t Loaded weight: 65.5 t Generator output: 899 kW Thrust: 40700 kg Armor: Ultra-hard steel alloy Appeared in: TV show Armor Most armor in Gundam Senki is Standard (DC=1). Lunar Titanium Armor is designated "L", and is equivalent to Mekton Zâ s "Gamma" armo r (DC=8). Armor on battleships maintains its original SP after taking hit(s). Weapons Weapon Codes:
EC: The weapon can only be used by Mobile Suits equipped with an Energy Cap syst em. The number of shots is as written in the individual MS data. EC weapons can only be recharged at a mothership or base. M: The weapon is reloaded by magazine. Most One-Year War MS can not reload weapo ns by hand. The number equals the number of shots in the magazine EM: Energy Melee Weapon; as in normal MZ MG: Machine Gun; just like Autofire in normal MZ. All MG has BV5. _CL_ : Cross Linked, with the number before the CL being the number of weapons linked together, and the number after being the Damage caused by one weapon in t he link. BR: Blast Radius (in hexes) AH: Anti-Personnel weaponry. ("Anti-Human", to avoid confusion with Armor-Pierci ng) UW = Underwater- weapon fires underwater only HW = Hot Cutter weapons. SS: Shatter Shot, for shotguns Beam Melee Weapon and Heat Weapons get the "hot-knife" effect, but Beam Rifles d on't. They just have BIG Kill numbers (Gundam's Beam Rifle does 16K damage). BMW ignore 4SP and HW ignore 2SP. And Heat weapons won't get damaged when used to p arry a BMW because the blade is coated by an I-Field. (Think of HW as primitive BMW). Hot-Cutter Weapons:
-2SP: x1.5
-4SP: x2.0
Weapons like the Heat-hawk, Heat Rod and Heat Saber have this effect. Hot-Cutter s cut through armor just like the proverbial "hot knife through butter", treatin g all armor as being at -2 or -4SP, except for Reactive Shields and Beam Shields . Minimum SP is zero. When using a Melee Weapon with Hot-Cutter effect to Parry, its Damage rating is treated like the SP of a Shield. The weapon's Kills get lowered by 1, only when the attack does more Damage than the Damage of the HC parry weapon. The Hot-Cutter effect can be applied to Melee Weapons and Missile Weapons. For a n example of a HC missile weapon, see the Shot-Lancer, which appeared in Gundam F91. It was a big anti-capital ship missile that has a BeamSaber-like penetrator on its head. In Gundam Senki, no A-P or Disruptor weapons exist. They are too drastic in a wo rld setting that uses the G-Factor rules. Also note that Gundam Senki uses the simplified rule that a successful parry by Heat or Beam Melee Weapon stops all d amage from the attacking Melee/BMW.
Shields You will notice Shields in Gundam Senki MS have a positive "+" DA. This rules ch
ange is because most of the play testers felt the shield rules in MZ didnâ t reflect the nature of Gundam Shields. With the new rule, Shields are quickly destroyed a fter 1 or 2 hits, but thatâ s how shields work in Gundam... Cost of a Shield = (SP Cost + Kill Cost) xMultipliers SP: 8 COST: 5.5
9 1
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Armor Types: Same as MZ+ Page22 EFFECT: A-P Resistant: Anti-Beam Coat(Alpha) Anti-Beam Coat(Beta) Anti-Beam Coat(Gamma)
COST x1.5 x1.25 x1.5 x2.0
A-P Resistant: This armor is highly resistant to damage. It can ignore A-P effect of attacks th at hit it. This contradicts a statement Tsueno made earlier about there not bein g AP or disruptor weapons in GS, butâ ¦ Anti-Beam Coat: The armor has special coating that is resistant to Beam attack, such as shield o f Z-Gundam or armor plate of 100-Siki. Alpha ABC can reduce "hot knife through b utter" effect of Energy Melee Weapons(or Melee/Missile Weapon with Hot-Cutter ef fect) by +2 and reduce damage of Beam and Energy Melee Weapons by -1. Beta ABC h as same damage reduction but mod is +4/-2. Gamma ABC has +4/-4. Think of Shields in Gundam Senki as a "hand-held extra servo for Parry-use"(G-fa ctor is not applied to it, though). A Shield is destroyed when its Kills are re duced to zero, no matter how much of its SP is left. A shield has the same Binder Space as its KILL rating. There are no "Active" Shi elds in Gundam, but for universal rule's sake, treat them as a x1.5 multiplier i f you bring them in. The above new effects can be used with Armor, as well as Shields. The box text on p. 208 is about the Long Beam Rifle that appeared in ep.13 of 08 th MS Team. The energy for that rifle is supplied by a portable generator(not by the MS), so the weapon can be used by any MS, but the generator is bulky and he avy. MS who carry this rifle and generator suffer -2 penalty on MV. The generat or must be placed on the ground (and cannot be moved) when using the gun. The ri fle requires 5 turns between firings for cooling down and recharging. Minovski Craft systems are treated as Thrusters with no need of fuel. MC vehicle s don't work in underwater like Gravitics. And in Gundam Senki, extra Maneuver P ool is only gained from the ACE system. All combat rules are solved in Mekton scale, all vehicles are Mekton scale. When Player Characters are not in MS, 1Hex is 5m. Some vehicles become multi-hex siz
e units. G-Factor: MS make all induced explosion rolls on 2d6. Ships make IE rolls on 4 D6 Mobile Armors?
