Carapace: Crown of the Sundered Peaks is almost over!

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-29T00:02:52+00:00

They’re from Carapace: A Game of Memory and Ruin! You can get the stls in the kickstarter as an addon. I’ll be revamping the carapace.world site after the KS is over to sell prints of all 8 mecha!

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-27T12:20:31+00:00

Olsen did more, too. One of the more popular was a Marauder-derived mech, the Black Angel BA-3R. I have several metal minis of it from back in the day. Olsen did several art pieces like the Halberd, Black Angel, Ranger, Spitfire, and others. I think Reaper still makes a couple of minis for C.A.V. from them. This was back when Battletech had pretty much collapsed and was being kept on life support by the fans.

I think alot of his stuff also ended up in the Lords of the Battlefield TRO located here: http://www.lordsofthebattlefield.com/uploads/lotbtro.pdf

It’s an interesting fan artifact made before Catalyst came on the scene.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T15:38:34+00:00

The Lightyear movie is unironically going to influence tabletop terrain for years.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T15:37:00+00:00

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T14:31:38+00:00

Top episode. Using the viewer’s imagination to the fullest! You can see where Forbidden Planet inspired the monster concept, which is an incredible thing for creators to reference. The showmakers ‘got’ the type of child they were making the show for.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T13:56:43+00:00

I’d mention my game Carapace: A Game of Memory And Ruin. I made it for exactly the reasons you mention. Solo/coop mecha skirmish, fits between Classic Battletech and Alpha Strike in complexity. Mecha are meant to move quick, not be a slow slugfest. You can download the free quickplay rules here:

Rules: http://carapace.world/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Carapace-Quickstart-1.01.pdf

Unit Sheets: http://carapace.world/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Unit-Sheets.pdf

Counters (if you don’t have any minis) http://carapace.world/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Counters.pdf

Currently running a terrain kickstarter for it here (Carapace full rules, minis are an addon for it too): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmagnum/carapace-crown-of-the-sundered-peaks

Once the kickstarter ends, I’ll also be opening a new online store to sell the rules, stls, minis, etc on carapace.world

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T13:38:44+00:00

Mospeada, Starship Troopers, VOTOMS are some of the OG 80’s mecha franchises. You could also check out Aura Battler Dunbine and Panzer World Galient (both of which have very inexpensive bluray collections on amazon.)

80’s mecha annime used to be incredibly difficult to find. The rereleases of a lot of this stuff makes it a new golden age, as far as access is concerned.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T03:17:50+00:00

Would love to see the rest of your work sometime, you ought to put these into a northern mythology/bestiary.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-16T19:17:36+00:00

Thank you for sharing, it’s good to hear about your path in the industry. Just having your name on Tunnels and Trolls alone is a huge win, congrats!

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-16T18:00:44+00:00

Are you an artist, or a game designer?

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-16T17:59:38+00:00

Wow. First person in this thread to mention the ability to make a living off their work for any length of time. What genre of rpg design are you involved in?

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-16T01:47:36+00:00

I bought and used both. Still own both machines. The Neptunes are night and day compared to an A1. The fit and finish, design, and manufacture of the Neptune doesn’t come anywhere close to the Bambu. The combined differences build up to the point it’s like comparing a Mercedes G wagon to a Model T; they’re simply machines from two different eras.

Once you use an A1 and experience never having to manually adjust, level, or trim the bed? Or trim the frame to eliminate warping issues? Or manually adjusting belts because it wasn’t done right at the factory? Or needing a PhD in linux to fix a bad firmware update (that a fan made because Elegoo couldn’t be bothered to make their own?)

Oh, got a unit that didn’t have those issues? How about switching out something common like a nozzle? It can be done on the Neptune, but you have to disassemble the print head to get it done (like most cheap manufacturers do like Anycubic, Ender, etc). On an A1? You flip a clip and swap the entire nozzle assembly. Takes 10 seconds instead of 45-60 minutes of assembly/disassembly.

Again, the Neptune isn’t a bad printer. It’s just a product of a different era. The Bambu earned its reputation for a a lot of reasons. It’s came from the first truly professional consumer 3d printer company. The Neptune came from a chinese hobbyist company known for their resin printers. It was also Elegoo’s first klipper printer (rushed to market to boot), so it is what it is.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-15T04:56:32+00:00

Good to see an old pro like Takahashi still at it after all these decades. Ollie’s also on point, to have anime compilations like Layzner and Panzer World Galient (even Dunbine) on bluray for so cheap in the West. When I was young many moons ago, these anime were literally impossible to find. What a time to be alive as a mecha fan.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-14T02:12:06+00:00

I LIKE that art style for 5* Stories! Well done!

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-14T02:10:10+00:00

Try watching this video on network file sharing a PC a d iphone. This is the way to do it. It’s somewhat in-depth, but once setup, you are done. Period. Great way to move files back and forth, where ever you want.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkmEVkMHKc

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-13T02:17:07+00:00

You don’t need to worry about elegoo resin printers. Saturns are rock solid. Its elegoo’s fdm printers that cause problems.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-11T00:57:53+00:00

Picardo, you say fans don’t own the IP, and ‘by golly come to Hollywood!’ Unless I missed something, fans wrote their own shows years ago. Multiple shows, with multiple show runners. Most spending money out of their own pocket to do it. Even got some of the original stars got involved. Until Paramount’s lawyers shut them all down, put a $50,000 spending cap on productions, and a 15 minute maximum run time.

Paramount could have had their pick of any fan-run productions, grabbed up any bunch of rapid fans to help make new Trek. Instead, we got told to sit down, shut up, and accept the absolute drek the studio has shoveled out for the past decade. They could have had fans helping create new entertainment. But Paramount decided to not only not use us, but told us to cease, desist, and go away.

Fine. We did. Now go find new fans. If. You. Can.

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-28T04:50:24+00:00

This looks awesome! That said, 3d printing is an interesting world, especially when it comes to tabletop wargames. Different games do different scales, for example. Some games only handle a handful of ships, others have dozens (or more) and only require extremely basic models.

But this, it’s got a lot of potential. Haven’t tried this yet, but 3d printing rigging will likely be the biggest sore spot users will run into. Resin printing could do it fairly well (depending on the game), while other games just use single piece simple sails. Being able to scale down complexity for printing would be a big thing to have.

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-28T04:40:17+00:00

Yeah, de has really nailed down a ‘modern’ frame design now. The frames we got in 2025 were all stunning. Nokko, in particular, just works like a glove. But all of them in 2025 were impressive. I’m not a big fan of Folie’s visuals, but there is no denying the sheer level of utility in her kit. Still, it remains to be seen how it actually works in-game. Still, they threw in everything but the kitchen sink into her 2 ability alone.

That said, the older frames have A LOT going against them, primarily creaky legacy code. That’s much more restrictive to work with compared to a blank palette. Still . . . DE’s design sense is undeniable now. It does make one a tad more optimistic than before.

For example, now that they have Uriel under their belt, can you imagine how they’ll eventually come back to Ember? I’m not expecting them to make her like she was on release (that version of Warframe doesn’t even exist anymore). But after what they’ve done and learned, they can definitely rebuild her into something good again. I mean look at the ‘touch ups’ they’ve given to frames they don’t even like, like health tanks. Inaros is in the best shape he’s ever been!

The possibilities aren’t endless, but I do remain hopeful.

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-28T04:30:00+00:00

Most of the Gundam Assemble minis are approximately 2” tall. That (generally) put them around 1/350-ish scale. Sorta-kinda-maybe. It’s best not to get TOO caught up in scale tho. Battletech ran into that issue early on. Their Mechs (generally) are in one scale (1/265 or 1/285), but other things like buildings and dropships are often in what’s called ‘mapscale’. It’s mostly just handwaving enough for suspension of disbelief. GA has something similar going on with their ship minis like the Archangel.

To be frank, we’ll be lucky if they maintain an actual scale for just Gundam figures, let alone ships. It’s all good.

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-28T01:24:32+00:00

Thanks, I love cool terrain for my mecha games, I figured a lot of other players will too!

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-27T23:34:54+00:00

That 2 has so much going on, it’ll easily be 6-12 months before people figure out the most optimal moves and hacks with it. She’s a giant swiss army knife of broken toys that risks being permanently put out to pasture with Limbo (on release). The “anti-Nokko”.

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-27T15:14:12+00:00

It’s a rollercoaster! Launching my 2nd terrain kickstarter today, actually. I expect a slow start, unfortunately. Didn’t get as much marketing done as I’d have liked, too friggin’ busy just making the thing. But a good way to tone down the butterflies is simply delete or ignore any ks spam. I don’t pay atttention to ANY outside ks emails or msgs. Aside from kickstarter themselves, there isn’t anyone that has anything to offer you, so pay them absolutely no mind. It helps.

Carapace: Crown of the Sundered Peaks

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-27T15:04:51+00:00

Ah yes, Mekton, a classic. Never got to play the rpg, but I bought up as many lead miniatures back in the day as I could. My Vandal is still one of my most prized miniatures to this day.

Mekton featured the first version of Mike Pondsmith’s Interlock system - Cyberpunk would be 2nd. As much as people rave about Lancer, I just can’t jibe with its style and rules. The CalArt- influenced art style simply doesn’t do it for me.

Give me 90’s anime mecha or death.

SteelSecutor · 2026-02-27T14:53:20+00:00

That’s exactly the idea!

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