| Dester |
| (Sergeant) |
| 07/09/08 01:08 PM |
| 216.57.96.1 |
Design Competition
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Design Competition
Avalon Productions have put out a call for prototype and other non standard combat units to participate in a competition. The winning unit will be scripted into a new action movie as the star roll as well as receiving the right to be produced by Dream Works Armaments for general sale and the 20 million C-Bill purse. All competitors will be required to sign over the holo-vid rights to all combats involving their design to Avalon Productions during the competition. To insure a fair and exciting fight, Avalon Productions has imposed the following criteria combatant design and rules for winning.
1) One design per contestant please.
2) Each unit will fight all other units in competition one on one using a generic terrain (one standard battletech map).
3) 100 victory points will be awarded to the winner modified on a price scale. The average price of all contestants will be determined and the base 100 points will be adjusted depending on where the winning unit falls, up or down, rounded down. Unit with the highest total modified points at the end win.
4) Battlemechs and Vehicles (hover, tracked, wheeled) are allowed all others are not due to difficulty in shooting the battle.
5) All pilot/ crews will be assigned a generic vet pilot (3 gunnery, 4 piloting)
6) General Design restrictions:
a) Minimum tonnage is 20. We aren’t shooting battle of the midgets here.
b) Speed must be (60/tonnage) + 2 round up, at a minimum. There will be no barley mobile light gun turrets on the field. (Despite some cannon units, 2 is not an acceptable walk/cruise ratio.)
c) Fractional Accounting (FA). All units will be divisible by 5 for total weight. For mechs FA is limited to engine/ endo steel combos that both result in .25 to save that extra ½ ton. Vehicles may use fractional accounting for engines, control equipment, power amplifiers and turrets only.
d) Tech. All level 1 weapons are allowed. No, clan equipment is allowed. No artillery is allowed. Melee weapons will be restricted to hatchets only. All old school level 2 tech is allowed. This includes with appropriate ammo:
ER Large Laser
ER PPC
Pulse lasers (small, med. Large)
LBX-10 AC
Ultra AC-5
Artemis IV
Streak SRM-2
Narc pod
Guardian ECM
Beagle probe
Endo Steel
Ferro fiber armor
XL engines
CASE
MASC
TSM
Anti-missile system
Double heat sinks
C3 computer + slave (though this is wasted tonnage in individual competition)
f) Finally, no more then 2 of any one weapon will be allowed.
Please submit enough data to reconstruct your Unit and any fluff or suggestions on how to use it in combat.
I will take submissions until the end of July, 2008 or until I get a total of 8 designs is approved.
Enjoy
Dester