";s:4:"text";s:5920:" This is unlike Earth which is covered by 70% ocean. Heavy Gear is set on a distant, fictional planet called Eventually, City-states rose from the ashes and either through treaties or tyranny, united to form national unions called Leagues. This territory is not dominated by any one political group, and is considered open territory to everyone, and contains many bandit groups known as Rovers. This is unlike Earth which is covered by 70% ocean. Despite the looming common threat posed by the eventual return of Earth's colonial armies, the polar superpowers have great fear and animosity for each other, an analogy of the real world The political situation on Terra Nova has three major nations of the north polar region banding together to form their alliance called the Confederated Northern City-States to oppose the Allied Southern Territories from the south pole. As the name implies, Heavy Gear is best known for its humanoid combat vehicles (or mecha): the 'Gears' and 'Striders' used by the military forces in the setting. Heavy Gear Fighter is a card-based dueling game in which two Heavy Gears duel in the Badlands. As its name implies, it added new Equipment and Weapon cards that could be played on the Gears. Rather than work for their living, they take from others. It also spawned a 40-episode, 3D-animated TV series in 2001, which featured a much simplified version of the … However, the cruelty and/or humanity of the Rover bands runs the full spectrum of decency. The background universe of the game is extremely detailed: several million words have been published to date in more than a hundred books and game accessories.
A nation of manufacturing, money lending, and corporations as government. As the setting is primarily the backdrop for a series of strategy, roleplaying, and video games the military and weaponry are the main focus. This nation uses science and technology to structure their society in an attempt to create harmony and utopia. The single dominant land feature is a massive mineral rich, hot, desert belt around the equator of the world known as the Badlands. The real power of the southern pole. The Tactical Rules line was also developed with a greater attention to the control of proportions of the various During the same era as the Tactical Rules miniatures, Fleet Scale miniatures were also introduced which ranged from 1:350 scale for infantry, tanks, heavy gears, and striders to 1:3500 scale for landships. The planet's geography is primarily land containing deep underground water reserves, but few large bodies of open water, and no oceans. Most Badlanders protect themselves in some fashion, though an unwritten code has developed over time where Rovers only take enough for themselves, and will not leave their victims destitute or without the supplies to survive.
They live as families, gangs, or individuals. The 1:87 scale RAFM line was launched in 1995. An independent city state in the Badlands of Terra Nova. An industrial power that puts a price on everything, including buying and selling votes in their political system, and has a keen interest in exploiting the untapped resources buried in the sand and rock of the Badlands. It also spawned a 40-episodes, 3D-animated TV series in 2001, which featured a much simplified version of the universe developed in the role-playing game.
Research and development, and an efficient skilled work force are some of their greatest assets. In this war both the North and the South cooperate to fight off the Colonial Expeditionary Force, some of which is abandoned on the planet and form the Port Arthur city-state. They typically have one Heavy Gears can walk, run, crawl, and generally mimic most of the mobility of the human form, on which they are patterned. The main themes of many artworks include the Heavy Gears themselves, with distinctive backpacks for the V-engine, single eye head units, and at least a small area of the machine painted with an alternating yellow and black warning stripe paint scheme. The game does not use dice or paper. Cards are dealt from a player's hand to cause damage, defend against enemy attacks, and create various special effects. This ideal has almost attained religious status in their people. They are a common problem in the lawless Badlands. In May, 2009, Dream Pod 9 released "Return to Cat's Eye", the first expansion book for The task resolution and tests involve rolling a number of 6-sided dice, taking the highest result, adding in modifiers for attributes and/or situation, and then comparing it to a set threshold number. Its mecha designs are typical of those found in the Real Robot anime genre; they are most similar in size and tactical role to those in Ryousuke Takahashi's 1983 Armored Trooper Votoms anime.
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