(Moscovian @ Jul. 16 2007,16:48)
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Neal, I think it might be a good idea to add mege-WE's to the long term discussion. ?Specifically things like the Mega Gargant, Imperator, and anything else that might come close to these things. ?They come up in discussions on a regular basis and it might be good to hammer out some specifics for them (stats, special rules, etc.).
Long ago on the old SG forum there was discussion about what to do with the mega-WE, specifically the Imperator. The rule that fire cannot be split between multiple formations really limits these things because they have too many weapons to fire at only one target formation.
A solution I came up with that seemed to get a lot of support (I know, it doesn't happen often) was to split the Imperator up into multiple war engines that were connected together. Each war engine activated by itself, yet some of its abilities (like void shields) would be shared over the entire titan. Since each section activated on its own you could do a couple of interesting things, like have the titan be able to fire on multiple targets (since each section, being a WE, counted as its own formation for the firing rules) and have the titan be able to fire some, or all, of its weapons before it moves (since the chassis provided the movement, and activated seperately, you could fire arm weapons and then move on a later activation.)
The problem was that in an effort to cover all of the bases I generated a lot of rules. It might be worthwhile to review what I did and try to strip out the rules that would be common for the Imperator, Warmonger, MegaGargant (and anything else we want to include) and make them generic for the superWE and leave everything else unit specific.
If you're interested I can repost the rules I did.
