11-05-2016, 05:51 AM
(11-05-2016, 05:49 AM)Surge Wrote:(11-05-2016, 05:43 AM)Dipdoo Wrote: Rounding down to a - or + 1 then would probably be best if you wanted to fit that mechanic in.I don't think you'd want to, battletech's construction rules are pretty bloated as is, mechs that are large or small for their weight class like the Grasshopper would suddenly become unbalanced, mechs that are already not appealing choices would either get better or even worse, and already strong mechs like Hellstar could become even more powerful. It would just make a fundamental mess of the balance across the 600 some chassis in Battletech, and that's just the mechs.
That's fair, I've seen that used in tabletops with simpler rules for hitting stuff with fewer specialized differences.