Morgan's Iron Kingdoms Gearbooks: FMF Liber Mechanika

[Morgan_Coalburn]

A repost of another ranged head-mounted weapon for steamjacks, this time spewing flames instead of projectiles:

@Gabrieljusti

“Firebreather” flamethrower(Heavy Steamjack only)

Cost: 600

Type: ranged

Location: head

Ammo: 6

Effective range: 36’(spry6")

Maximun range:-

Attack modifier: 0

POW: 12

AoE:-

Description: a small flamethrower mounted in a jacks head where its mouth should be if it were a non distorted living being, normally it mounts its fuel and propellant tanks on its hull since jacks normally don’t have enough space inside for those

Special rules: This weapon can only be fired once per round

This weapon deals fire damage type.

On a critical hit, the characters hit, receive the fire continuous effect.
if the warjack with this weapon is critically hit if there was at least a spray left, roll a D6 on a result of 1-2 the tanks explode, center on this jack a 3” AoE template models underneath suffers a POW 12 fire damage roll + 1 per spray there was on the tank

Mounting a “Firebreather” flamethrower on a steamjack requires the proper tools, two hours of labor, and a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 14. If the roll fails, it can be repeated after another hour of labor.

Paying to have a “Firebreather” flamethrower mounted on a steamjack costs an additional 150 gc.

Each spray of the “Firebreather” flamethrower costs 10 gc,a new tank costs 15 Gc, takes thirty minutes to change the tanks outside of combat, and can be done by any character with mekanical engineering.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

A repost of a Iosan support myrmidon that helps other myrmidons maintain their force fields:

@Morgan_Coalburn

Echidna [Light Shyeel Myrmidon]

“Sergeant Carruthers knew that the difficult part of taking on the Iosan equivalent of warjacks was taking down their power fields – once these immaterial kinetic defences had been dealt with, the mechanism underneath was surprisingly delicate. But something seemed wrong today, as volley after volley of gunfire impacted on the protective sheaths of energy enveloping the advancing constructs without any of the telltale flares of a failing field generator. When it came, it was much too late to capitalise on the realisation that that seemingly innocuous engine hanging back behind its advancing fellow constructs must have had something to do with their uncanny resilience on this day…”

A support myrmidon based on the Gorgon chassis and only rendered distinct by its more complex latticework of rune lines and nodes, the Echidna does not carry impressive armaments to discourage its controlling warcasters from sending the myrmidon into the fray, but has improved defenses instead to make it more difficult to take the Echidna out at range. Rather than fighting, the Echidna’s role on the battlefield is to hang back and replenish the power fields of other myrmidons and its controlling warcaster.

PHY	SPD	STR	AGL	PRW	POI	MAT	RAT	INT	PER
8	6	8	5	5	4	6	4	2	3

Initiative	DEF	ARM
15	14	16

Damage Grid: See Gorgon Warmachine stat card.

Melee Armament: Glaive (Left Arm, Right Arm; POW 4, POW+S 12. While neither of the Echidna’s Arm systems is crippled, an Echidna can make a combo attack with both of its glaives simultaneously, using both of the myrmidon’s initial attacks to make a single devastating strike. Make a melee attack roll. On a hit, make a damage roll with a POW equal to the STR of the myrmidon plus twice the POW of this weapon)

Base Size: Medium

Cortex: Custom Iosan aurum-grade equivalent (INT 2; the cortex has been modified to provide 3 PER but does not grant a RAT bonus. If an Echidna develops an imprint, there is a chance of 1-3 on 1d6 that the rolled imprint is ignored and it gains the Enduring imprint instead (see IKRPG, p. 325)).

Power Field: 6 boxes

Field-Dependent: When this character’s Field Generator system (G) is crippled, this character loses Field Re-Integrator and Girded.

Field Re-Integrator: Instead of making attacks, the Echidna can target a friendly character equipped with a power field or force field within 10” (60 feet) and within line of sight of the myrmidon with this device. That character immediately recovers 1d3+1 boxes of its power field or force field. The Echidna can use this device up to two additional times per activation by spending a point of focus for each additional use, and may keep targeting the same character with each use of the device. The Echidna cannot use the field re-integrator while it is engaged in melee.

Morgan’s Note: The Echidna’s field re-integrator is affected by all abilities, spells and effects that affect the range of ranged attacks, e.g. the Snipe spell (see IKRPG, p. 244).

Focus Battery: Focus points on the Echidna are not removed during its controlling warcaster’s Maintenance Phase (if currently part of a battlegroup) or the Echidna’s Maintenance Phase (if not bonded to a warcaster).

Girded: The Echidna does not suffer blast damage. Friendly characters in B2B with the Echidna also do not suffer blast damage.

Open Fists: Both of the Echidna’s arm systems are equipped with light myrmidon fists.

Redundant Field Generator: In any activation in which the Echidna does not use its field re-integrator, it regains 1d3+1 depleted boxes of its power field without needing to spend focus to do so.

Additionally, the Echidna may spent any number of focus points during its activation to replenish its power field, recovering 1d3+1 points of its power field per point of focus spent.

Peak Operational Duration: 2.5 hrs combat

Morgan’s Notes: Don’t forget that myrmidons need to have a non-crippled Field Generator (G) system to create a power field. An Echidna can neither regenerate the power field of a myrmidon with a crippled field generator, nor can it regenerate its own power field while its own field generator system is crippled.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

A repost of two pieces of equipment for steamjacks that are intended to discourage engaging them in melee:

@Gabrieljusti

Porcupine

Cost: 400(light) 600(heavy)

Description: a array of metal spikes affixed to the steamjacks hull, with the intention of harming opponents that attack it in melee, those spikes are big and spaced enough to not be a hindrance during maintenance, however this has the unfortunate effect of making this upgrade ineffective against small targets.

Special rules: when this model is hit by a model of medium or larger base with a melee weapon without reach, the attacking model suffers D3 damage points, unless this model was destroyed.

Adding Porcupine to a steamjack requires the proper tools, six hours of labor, and a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 14. If the roll fails, it can be repeated after another hour of labor.

Paying to have Porcupine added to a steamjack costs an additional 75 gc.

Bladedback

Cost: 500(light) 750(Heavy)

Description: an array of spring loaded razor sharp blades added to a stem jack’s hull, loved by ruthless mercenary commander but hated by the mekanics that have to work on ‘jacks for simple mistakes could cost them fingers.

Special rules: when this model is hit by a melee weapon without reach, the attacking model suffers Unboostable POW 8 damage roll unless this model was destroyed.

Mekanichal Engineering tests on jacks with this upgrade have a +2 added to their difficulty, additionally every time a character working fails a mekanichal engineering test on this jack he suffers Unboostable POW 8 damage roll.

Adding Bladeback to a steamjack requires the proper tools, six hours of labor, and a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 14. If the roll fails, it can be repeated after another hour of labor.

Paying to have Bladeback added to a steamjack costs an additional 75 gc.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

A repost of an idea for a small chain gun mounted in a steamjack’s head:

@Gabrieljusti

“Lead spitter” Machine gun(Heavy steamjack only)

Cost: 550

Type: ranged

Location: head

Ammo: 30

Effective range: 36’(6")

Maximum range: 180’

Attack modifier: -1

POW: 8

AoE:-

Description: this light open bolt mahine gun was made to be attached to a steamjacks head, where its mouth should be if were it a non distorted living being, it uses a weaker and more expensive than normal light rounds, that are caseless so there was no need for an extraction port.

Special rules: This weapon can only be fired once per round. However, when the weapon is fired, the steamjack can use Burst Fire. When the steamjack uses Burst Fire, it makes d3 attacks but expends six rounds of ammunition. These attacks must target a primary target and any number of secondary targets within 2˝ of the primary target. Ignore intervening characters when declaring secondary targets. A secondary target cannot be targeted by more attacks than the primary target.

Reloading the “Lead spitter” Machine gun outside of combat takes five minutes and can be accomplished by any character with the Mechanikal Engineering skill without a die roll.

The “Lead spitter” Machine gun fires light infantry rounds. It costs 4 gc for blasting powder, and bullets for five light rounds.

Mounting a “Lead spitter” Machine gun on a steamjack requires the proper tools, two hours of labor, and a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 14. If the roll fails, it can be repeated after another hour of labor.

Paying to have a “Lead spitter” Machine gun outside of combat takes five minutes and can be accomplished by any character with the Mechanikal Engineering skill without a die roll.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

A repost of a support myrmidon that can aid other arcanika (including other myrmidons) in recharging their power cells:

@Morgan_Coalburn

Persephone [Light Shyeel Myrmidon]

“The Iosan warcaster could not fault his foe’s persistence even if it put him in a perilous position, his myrmidons having run out of power hours ago and now only sluggishly trudging along the forest path while his pursuers were steadily gaining ground. But then the first whispers of connection with the cortex of the Persephone waiting at their camp brought a relieved smile to the Iosan’s lips, and he visualised the myrmidon majestically spreading its wing-like receptor vanes as it powered up and began marching to meet him…”

Very unusually for Iosan myrmidons, the Persephone is without anything in the way of impressive weaponry. Quite apart from the chassis simply not having the free space available for installing the usual myrmidon weapon systems, this is also intentional in order to discourage Iosan warcasters from cavalierly risking this myrmidon’s delicate mechanisms in combat. Instead, the Persephone fulfills a support role by using its complex arrays of receptor vanes to amplify and focus ambient geomantic energies in order to vastly speed up the rate at which myrmidons’ and Iosan troops’ arcane condensers recharge their storage cells. When fully engaged, these receptors are even powerful enough to allow nearby myrmidons with depleted power cells to run at full power, as long as the Persephone does not get damaged.

PHY	SPD	STR	AGL	PRW	POI	MAT	RAT	INT	PER
8	6	8	5	5	4	6	4	2	3

Initiative	DEF	ARM
14	14	16

Damage Grid: See Gorgon Warmachine stat card.

Melee Armament: Open Fist (Left Arm, Right Arm; POW 2, POW+S 10).

Base Size: Medium

Cortex: Custom Iosan aurum-grade equivalent-variant (INT 2; the cortex has been modified to provide 3 PER but does not grant a RAT bonus. If a Persephone develops an imprint, there is a chance of 1-3 on 1d6 that the rolled imprint is ignored and it gains the Sentinel imprint instead (see IKRPG, p. 325)).

Power Field: 6 boxes

Field-Dependent: When this character’s Field Generator system (G) is crippled, this character loses Ambient Field.

Aligner: The recharge bonuses provided by the Persephone are not cumulative with recharge bonuses for aligned arcanika (see MIKG3, 2nd edition or later), but they are cumulative with the bonuses for being near a ley line conjunction.

Ambient Field: While completely within 30 feet (5”) of the Persephone while its receptor vanes are fully deployed, the recharge times of arcane condensers are halved. If the Persephone also forfeits its movement, recharge times are reduced to one quarter the normal duration instead.

The ambient field is significantly weakened by damage or only partially deployed receptor vanes. Each arm system that has been crippled, or which has only partially deployed its receptor vanes, only provides a 25% reduction in recharge times while the Persephone is forfeiting its movement, or a 10% reduction while the Persephone is moving (e.g. a Persephone with two crippled arm systems can only halve recharge times (25% + 25% = 50%) rather than reduce them to one quarter of the normal time required while forfeiting its movement and fully deploying its receptor vanes, and can only reduce recharge times by 20% (10% + 10% = 20%) while moving). Crippled arm systems that also only partially deploy their receptor vanes offer no benefit while the Persephone is moving, and only reduce recharge times by 15% while the Persephone is forfeiting its movement.

The ambient field of a fully functional, non-moving Persephone is sufficient to allow even myrmidons and arcanika with depleted storage cells to operate at full capacity while inside the field, which might be enough for a desperate last stand when ambushed… though if even one of the Persephone’s receptor arrays fails or it is forced to move or moved (e.g. by being pushed, thrown, or slammed), all myrmidons and arcanika relying on its ambient field immediately shut down again.

Receptor Vanes: In order to collect and focus geomantic energies, complex receptor vanes are built into each of the Persephone’s arms and shoulders. Fully deploying or retracting the receptor vanes takes two full actions (the same full action can be used to deploy or retract both arms’ receptor vanes). Fully deployed receptor vanes significantly restrict the Persephone’s arm movements; an arm with receptor vanes fully extended is considered crippled (i.e. one less die is rolled when making attack or damage rolls with this arm; if the arm system already is crippled, this means it can no longer be used to make attacks when it fully deploys its receptor vanes). If the receptor vanes are partially deployed, any attack or damage roll made with that arm suffers a -1 penalty instead.

Costly Repairs: Because of the intricate arcanikal nature of the receptor vanes built into the Persephone’s arms, triple the time required as well as the repair and replacement costs when making repairs to its Arm systems and Arm system damage boxes. Arcanist mechaniks may, however, choose to restore the arm systems without also repairing the receptor vanes, and will then only require the regular time and pay the usual cost for parts. In this case the receptor vanes on the affected arm will be considered non-functional until the mechanik puts in the hours and spends the required resources to properly complete the repairs.

Peak Operational Duration: 2.5 hrs combat

[Morgan_Coalburn]

Dodge and Deflect

[Mechanikal Rune]
Type: Armour
Cost: 300 gc
Rune Points: 2

Effect: While a suit of armour equipped with this rune is powered, once per round the character wearing this suit of armour gains +1 DEF and +1 ARM against a single attack. The wearer of the suit of armour must decide whether to apply the rune’s bonuses after the attack roll, which may still render a narrow hit a miss instead, but before the damage roll for the attack is made.
A character who has been rendered stationary cannot benefit from the effects of this rune.

Comments welcome, as usual.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

Soul Vortex

[Mechanikal Rune]
Type: Armour
Cost: 300 gc
Rune Points: 2
Effect: While the suit of armour equipped with this rune is powered, the wearer of this suit of armour is considered to be 12 feet (2”) closer than they actually are when determining whether they can collect a soul token from a slain character.
This rune’s effects do increase the maximum distance at which the character wearing the suit of armour equipped with this rune can collect soul tokens, but has no effect if the character cannot collect soul tokens.
Morgan’s Notes: It shouldn’t need mentioning that this rune is highly illegal in most of the Iron Kingdoms. There are rumours, however, that some members of the Menite order of the Reclaimers make use of mechanikal armour or talismans equipped with “sanctified” versions of this rune.

Comments welcome, as usual.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

This post has been moved here from the general FMF Gearbooks thread:

@Gabrieljusti

Duelist II

Cost: 11460Gc(5700 Chassis+2700 Custom cortex+ 300 deflection protocol+ 300 enhanced combat reflex+300 dual cannon+1800 mechanical estoc+300 powerful attack rune+50 rune plate+10 alchemical capacitor)

Description: The duelist II warjack is an elite expensive, notoriously expensive, made by top brass for the elite warcasters core of llael, they are effective fighting machines, however they are not cost effective military assets, now the originals are a rarity, based on the already rare Vanguard chassis, costing the almost double of its antecessor, introduced only a decade before the khadoran conquest of llael, only being produced one for each two months little more than 60 were produced and less than 20 escaped destruction or capture.

Armament: The duelist II comes stock with a mekanical estoc(Morgans iron kingdoms gearbook volume 1) on its right hand, a dual cannon(iron kingdoms kings,nations and gods) on its left arm, and both a deflection protocol and enhanced combat reflex with a custom cortex capable of switching between those upgrades.

Cortex: The duelist II cortex only works on a vanguard chassis, the cortex has a physical modified couplings that allow it to attach and detach from different modules that normally wouldn’t work together, a steamjack with this custom cortex can use a fast action to switch the benefits from a Enhanced combat reflexes to deflexion protocols or the other way around.

INT	2
PER	3

(The increased perception does increase its defense to 14)
In all other aspects this cortex is equal to an arcanum grade cortex.

Enhanced combat reflex(Light only)

Cost: 300gc

Description: An advanced module that allows a steamjack to achieve great heights of bladsmanship on the defensive aspect.

Special rules: When equipped with a bladed melee weapon without reach this Steamjack gains +2 def against melee attacks

If the cortex system is crippled the steamjack loses this benefit.

Normally by its nature this upgrade is incompatible with Deflection protocols upgrade.

Adding the Enhanced combat reflex to a steamjack requires the proper tools, six hours of labor, and a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 14. If the roll fails, it can be repeated after another hour of labor.

Having Enhanced combat reflex integrated into a steamjack costs an additional 80 gc

Deflection protocols(Light only)

Cost: 300gc

Description: A module thats attached to the cortex allowing a steamjack with a bladed weapon to calculate and intercept projectiles.

Special rules: When equipped with a bladed melee weapon without reach this Steamjack gains +2 def against ranged attacks

If the cortex system is crippled the steamjack loses this benefit.

Normally by its nature this upgrade is incompatible with Enhanced combat reflex upgrade.

Adding the Deflection protocols to a steamjack requires the proper tools, six hours of labor, and a successful INT + Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 14. If the roll fails, it can be repeated after another hour of labor.

Having Deflection protocols integrated into a steamjack costs an additional 80 gc

[Morgan_Coalburn]

@Gabrieljusti

Cortex: The duelist II cortex only works on a vanguard chassis, the cortex has a physical modified couplings that allow it to attach and detach from different modules that normally wouldn’t work together, a steamjack with this custom cortex can use a fast action to switch the benefits from a Enhanced combat reflexes to deflexion protocols or the other way around.

INT	2
PER	3

(The increased perception does increase its defense to 14)
In all other aspects this cortex is equal to an arcanum grade cortex.

Shouldn’t this be an aurum-grade cortex rather than an arcanum-grade cortex? Otherwise this cortex would actually be a downgrade from an arcanum-grade cortex, which comes stock with INT 3, rather than an upgrade, and should make the cortex cheaper (at probably around 2,200 gc), not more expensive. Alternatively, the downgrade in INT could compensate for the switcher ability, but even then I’d put the cortex at the same price as a standard arcanum-grade cortex.

@Gabrieljusti

Enhanced combat reflex(Light only)

I think the enhanced combat reflex array is a really neat idea, but I think it would be better served to give it a name that differentiates it better from other reflex arrays, as their names are starting to get confusing. Since the effect is similar to the Nyss Ryssovass’s Blade Shield ability (Unleashed Core book, pp. 133 and 156), why not give it a similar name, like Blocking Flourish?

As a few rules points, I think the rules for the enhanced combat reflex system also need to state the device only affects melee attacks originating in the 'jack’s front arc, and requires the arm system as well as the cortex system to not be crippled.

@Gabrieljusti

Deflection protocols(Light only)

I think this device should be called Blade Shield, since its effects are identical to the Ryssovass’s Blade Shield ability, and this would help clarify things. The rules should probably also include that only ranged attacks originating in the steamjack’s front arc are affected, and that the arm system as well as the cortex needs to not be crippled for the system to work.

Alternatively, instead of having the Duelist II’s defensive systems require a functioning cortex as well as a functioning limb, how about only requiring the systems to have a functioning limb, but prevent the 'jack from switching to a different protocol while its cortex is crippled?

The switching idea is a really neat way to accommodate multiple systems that would normally be exclusive, by the way . It’s putting a lot of eggs into one expensive basket, of course, but considering the state Llael is in, that’s exactly how they can make the most of the small number of steamjacks they have .

@Gabrieljusti

mekanical estoc

The estoc from Gearbook I is non-mechanikal. What are the mechanikal systems in the Duelist II’s estoc, or is it just meant to be a platform for whatever mechanikal runeplate the 'jack’s handler wishes to install (though even then the power source should be mentioned, as it may restrict the rune plate load, and installing a different power source would unbalance the weapon)?

[Gabrieljusti]

@Morgan_Coalburn

The estoc from Gearbook I is non-mechanikal. What are the mechanikal systems in the Duelist II’s estoc, or is it just meant to be a platform for whatever mechanikal runeplate the 'jack’s handler wishes to install (though even then the power source should be mentioned, as it may restrict the rune plate load, and installing a different power source would unbalance the weapon)

The standart plate would be this one, but one of the ideas would be so it could be customized

Powerful attack

Type: Melee or Ranged Weapon

Cost: 450Gc

Rune points: 3

Special rules: This rune is also a bond rune, additionally when this character boosts with focus as an attack roll it also boosts all damage rolls resulting from that attack.

[Morgan_Coalburn]

@Gabrieljusti

Powerful attack

Type: Melee or Ranged Weapon

Cost: 300Gc

Rune points: 2

Special rules: This rune is also a bond rune, additionally when this character boosts with focus as an attack roll it also boosts all damage rolls resulting from that attack.

I think this can’t be both a bond plate rune as well as grant the powerful attack ability, as the cost of a standard bond plate rune is already 2 rune points.

I’d like to suggest making this rune “Powerful Attack [Steamjack Weapon]” and rephrase the special rules as “When a steamjack wielding a powered weapon equipped with this rune makes an attack with this weapon and spends a point of focus to boost the attack roll, the damage roll is boosted as well” to accommodate how steamjacks handle focus differently than warcasters, who need to bond to their weapons.

[Gabrieljusti]

it was created originaly for warcasters, so it would work for them and i didnt want to create a second one just for steamjacks.
Good catch, i didnt even noticed the bond was a 2 cost rune, so another thing needed change but thats alllright

[Morgan_Coalburn]

@Gabrieljusti

it was created originaly for warcasters, so it would work for them and i didnt want to create a second one just for steamjacks.

Don’t I know that - after all, I put it in Gearbooks I (p. 15), called “Brutal” there…

[Gabrieljusti]

Good to know i must have forgoten it, so no need for this great

[Morgan_Coalburn]

@Gabrieljusti

Good to know i must have forgoten it, so no need for this great

No, there is need for a different version of the rune - just for a different version that specifically works with steamjacks, because with steamjacks the bond is with the 'jack, not with the weapon.

[Gabrieljusti]

it was me trying to A not overcomplicate and B being lazy
So the way im making it Magnus foecleaver X is illegal based on the rune costs since im also developing this:

Armor piercer

Type: Melee Weapon

Cost: 450Gc

Rune points: 3

Special rules: the weapon receives -1 POW, and with a fast action you may activate this rune, if you do you may make only one attack on your combat action, but when calculating damage from this weapon, halve the base ARM of characters hit by this attack

[Morgan_Coalburn]

@Gabrieljusti

So the way im making it Magnus foecleaver X is illegal based on the rune costs since im also developing this:

Armor piercer

Type: Melee Weapon

Cost: 450Gc

Rune points: 3

Special rules: the weapon receives -1 POW, and with a fast action you may activate this rune, if you do you may make only one attack on your combat action, but when calculating damage from this weapon, halve the base ARM of characters hit by this attack

Why should Foecleaver X be illegal? A weapon has a rune point capacity of 5, so with a bond plate for +2 rune points and this one for +3, the rune load is just maxed out, that’s all.

Also, it’s a quick action, not a fast action (but that may be a translation issue?).

I’d suggest changing this runeplate a little further:

• Make it “Type: Melee Weapon (blade),” as an armour-piercing hammer looks a little silly (There would be borderline cases, of course, like spiked maces and spiked hammers).
• For the special rules, I’d suggest “Once during each activation, the character wielding this weapon may use a quick action to trigger this rune’s effects before making an attack with this weapon. The weapon’s POW is reduced by 1, but the base ARM of the character hit is halved (rounded up). This effect lasts for one round or until an attack has been made, whichever comes first.”

[Gabrieljusti]

Foeclever X also has powerfull attack.
But if there is someone wuo found a way to break the system is magnus
All good sugestion, and the fast/quick is a translation issue, in portuguese they are the same word

[Morgan_Coalburn]

Yeah, the officially posted Privateer Press material can mostly be translated into the FMF system extremely well - mostly, but not always. In the cases where the material just becomes contradictory, I’d go with what the FMF rules allow instead.

However, with Magnus, maybe the Powerful Attack ability is due to his mechanikal arm, so if I wanted to represent Magnus, that’s how I’d finagle this. It could also be due to a system in his armour (like one of the other warcaster armour upgrades in Gearbooks II and III).

[Gabrieljusti]

as i said, if there is someone capable of breaking the systems of mekanica is magnus, lets not forget he created two decent to great warjacks(renegade and mangler) on a cave, the first superheavy(invictus)