What is Heavy Gear?

Howdy folks! I’ve recently gotten into Heavy Gear Blitz and been having good fun. My Peace River gears have so far been fighting each other or BattleTech mechs standing in for polar forces, but I would like to start collecting one of the invader forces as a proper OpFor. Which of CEF, Caprice, or Utopia would you recommend to act as the enemy in demo games to get people interested in Heavy Gear Blitz?

Specifically looking for two Iguanas and as many rectangular LRPs as possible but if you’ve got any Tactical stuff that you’re willing to part with, I am that guy.

My friend asked about this scenario that what would happened if the portal within Heavy Gear and Matrix had opened and all of the factions fought one another?

Does anyone know where I could find clean images of the Gear blueprints in the background of most of the Heavy Gear 2 menu UI? I could have sworn there was a clean version of that image somewhere. But I have not been able to track it down. I have the game installed if there is a way to pull it out of the game files. I just think it is a really cool image and would love to use it as a background or something.

I might try digging around the game files if no one knows where else to find it. I will post a link here if I find a way to get it.

I want to get some more lore about Peace River both before and after being transformed into Lake Peace

What books do people recommend to get my lore fix?

Cheers in advance

Does the Defender with its LAC+ mean it is dual wielding lac’s. I was looking at the Gladiator for comparison and was having difficulty trying to find answers in the rule book

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this Hetairoi model I saw online. I started playing Blitz about a year ago and I thought this old Hetairoi might work better for my PAK. (since it looks more like a CEF hovertank) but I don't know anything about it or where I could find one.

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So i am a huge fan of RPG and mechas in general and when i found out that it's inspired by Votoms i just could not grab It.

But i am confused on what should i get, i did some research and so far everybody has recommended the 2nd Edition of the game and apparently the 1st edition is 100% compatible with it, i have money to burn and i am going to buy all of the 2e books, what 1e books should i get to complete it?

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Wip in Progress of the last batch of models for the year. The winter slowdown has kicked in now and free time are now disappearing. The lot will be worked on over the next month or so. Also a shot of the side project for next year. RAFM Strike Cheetah and a pair of Klemm. These are planned to be used in generic 15mm games (even if they are bit bigger than 15mm, more like 18mm). Will need to acquire a few more gears and some infantry first along with deciding on what ruleset we are going with.

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For Heavy Gear, I'm curious: in what book I would find information about the space-navy capabilities for both the CEF and the independent worlds like Terra Nova? Jovian Chronicles was of course very Fleet oriented, but other than the Terrans hitting a few cities from orbit, I cant find any details on what (if any) combat space assets the different factions have?

Are space battles common? Rare? Is the Terran fleet mostly just to transport its armies? Do the Terra Novans have any kind of space forces to defend the planet? Or any of the other resisting planets?

What book or books would I need to get these details?

Thanks in advance! 🙂

Forgot to throw up the finish bit, been done for a while