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Press Release Nov. 10, 2011 wrote:The Genesis Pits™ Sourcebook goes beyond the cartoon and deep into the machinations of the Invid and their deadly consequences for all who happen into their path.

•New genetic mutations usable by most characters.
•Several never-before-seen Genesis Pits, like the Everglades Hell Gardens.
•Evolutionary experiments gone wrong, like giant insects and devolved Invid, and extinct creatures from Earth's past.
•Genesis Pits on alien worlds filled with strange monsters.
•New Frankenmechs, like the Fury (Valkyrie and Queadluun-Rau power armor hybrid).
•The last surviving Robotech Masters and their clones.
•The Invid Simulagent R.C.C.
•Mutated Zentraedi.
•The fate of the Alaska Grand Cannon and more.

jaymz wrote:Well maybe some of the material from Return of the Masters will get reused somehow....but I am scratching my head now as to why something that SHOULD be in New Gen (The Invid Simulagent) ISN'T in New Gen. It's like leaving out the info on stuff that was IN Shadow Chronicles from the RPG

ShadowLogan wrote:Anyone catch the highlights for the Genesis Pits SB

Press Release Nov. 10, 2011 wrote:The Genesis Pits™ Sourcebook goes beyond the cartoon and deep into the machinations of the Invid and their deadly consequences for all who happen into their path.

•New genetic mutations usable by most characters.
•Several never-before-seen Genesis Pits, like the Everglades Hell Gardens.
•Evolutionary experiments gone wrong, like giant insects and devolved Invid, and extinct creatures from Earth's past.
•Genesis Pits on alien worlds filled with strange monsters.
•New Frankenmechs, like the Fury (Valkyrie and Queadluun-Rau power armor hybrid).
•The last surviving Robotech Masters and their clones.
•The Invid Simulagent R.C.C.
•Mutated Zentraedi.
•The fate of the Alaska Grand Cannon and more.

I would have thought the Simulagent would have been in the NG SB.

We will be seeing some "standardized" Frankenmechs. Might this be the only way for PB to create new units like in "Strike Force" and "Return of the Masters"? Aside from recycling OSM designs or variant models of existing units.

Colonel Wolfe wrote:

jaymz wrote:Well maybe some of the material from Return of the Masters will get reused somehow....but I am scratching my head now as to why something that SHOULD be in New Gen (The Invid Simulagent) ISN'T in New Gen. It's like leaving out the info on stuff that was IN Shadow Chronicles from the RPG

I know... Glad they included the Ark Angel, the Ickarus, the Super-Alpha and Super-Beta in shadow Chronicles... I mean it would have been silly to include the Condor/bioroid interceptor... , but not Have the Actual Mecha Maya and Crew flew in the movie....

dataweaver wrote:I'm guessing that the Simulagent RCC covers Ariel, Corg, and Sera - that is, it's what the old RPG called a Stage Five Invid. Seeing as how we've already got game stats for Ariel, it should be interesting to see what they do.

I've also been thinking of Genesis Pits as New Generation 2, with New Gen covering what humans on Earth have been doing during the Invid occupation while Genesis Pits covers the rest of the Invid side of things; though given the stunts that Edwards pulled with the Regent's Genesis Pit in PttSC, it definitely has wider applicability. And I guess that it does make sense to place that RCC with the rest of the Invid evolutionary experimentations.

Oh: and I'm wondering if Dusty Ayres is going to be pointed to as an example of a human with "genetic mutations": i.e., will the genetic mutations include Invid-based cybernetics? Or will such things as Invid cybernetics and Invid force fields be included in New Gen, while Genesis Pits focuses exclusively on the "mutations" side of things?

Press Release Nov. 10, 2011 wrote:The Genesis Pits™ Sourcebook goes beyond the cartoon and deep into the machinations of the Invid and their deadly consequences for all who happen into their path.

•New genetic mutations usable by most characters.
•Several never-before-seen Genesis Pits, like the Everglades Hell Gardens.
•Evolutionary experiments gone wrong, like giant insects and devolved Invid, and extinct creatures from Earth's past.
•Genesis Pits on alien worlds filled with strange monsters.
•New Frankenmechs, like the Fury (Valkyrie and Queadluun-Rau power armor hybrid).
•The last surviving Robotech Masters and their clones.
•The Invid Simulagent R.C.C.
•Mutated Zentraedi.
•The fate of the Alaska Grand Cannon and more.

Chris0013 wrote:Am I insane or do I remember something like this in the Invid War Aftermath comic series? It was like a Valk battloid with a large thruster or something on the back.

Gryphon wrote:Aftermath had some sort of heavily modified battloid only VF-1(an A model I think) that I thought was supposed to be a sort of fusion powered cybernetic or brain direct control mecha of some sort, with a brain washed Bernard at the controls...that sounds wrong somehow, I'll have to see if I can look this one up, I have the comics stashed away somewhere.

I actually like Franken-Mecha, but I also admit that I like the term Stinger better. On the other hand a mecha slapped together form parts of a few Destroids is hardly deserving of a title that evokes images of decent agility, now does it?

Gryphon wrote:Aftermath had some sort of heavily modified battloid only VF-1(an A model I think) that I thought was supposed to be a sort of fusion powered cybernetic or brain direct control mecha of some sort, with a brain washed Bernard at the controls...that sounds wrong somehow, I'll have to see if I can look this one up, I have the comics stashed away somewhere.

Gryphon wrote:Aftermath had some sort of heavily modified battloid only VF-1(an A model I think) that I thought was supposed to be a sort of fusion powered cybernetic or brain direct control mecha of some sort, with a brain washed Bernard at the controls...that sounds wrong somehow, I'll have to see if I can look this one up, I have the comics stashed away somewhere.

I actually like Franken-Mecha, but I also admit that I like the term Stinger better. On the other hand a mecha slapped together form parts of a few Destroids is hardly deserving of a title that evokes images of decent agility, now does it?

Colonel Wolfe wrote:http://www.facebook.com/PalladiumBooksRobotech New Generation was sent to the printer last night. Rifts Path of the Storm goes in tomorrow. Get all the details in my latest Murmur. Hope you are as excited as we are that new books are coming out. Rifts Lemuria is next. -- Kevin Siembieda

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Colonel Wolfe wrote:http://www.facebook.com/PalladiumBooksRobotech New Generation was sent to the printer last night. Rifts Path of the Storm goes in tomorrow. Get all the details in my latest Murmur. Hope you are as excited as we are that new books are coming out. Rifts Lemuria is next. -- Kevin Siembieda

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Chris0013 wrote:So can we get an answer on what the new mecha are and some teasers on the art??

ShadowLogan wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:So can we get an answer on what the new mecha are and some teasers on the art??

I suspect that some of the new mecha could be be from the Invasion Video Game.

and whatever it turns out to be, there will be inevitable complaints about it and arguments over whether it was a good solution or not.

Snake Eyes wrote:Oh great, a shadow cyclone........one of the players in my Robotech group is gonna see this and say....MINE, MINE ,MINE!!!!!!

ShadowLogan wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:So can we get an answer on what the new mecha are and some teasers on the art??

I suspect that some of the new mecha could be be from the Invasion Video Game.

Chris0013 wrote:

Snake Eyes wrote:Oh great, a shadow cyclone........one of the players in my Robotech group is gonna see this and say....MINE, MINE ,MINE!!!!!!

Don't let him get ahold of it...as soon as he gets close an Invid shows up and destroys it.

Snake Eyes wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:

Snake Eyes wrote:Oh great, a shadow cyclone........one of the players in my Robotech group is gonna see this and say....MINE, MINE ,MINE!!!!!!

Don't let him get ahold of it...as soon as he gets close an Invid shows up and destroys it.

Yup........its gonna have a glitch......"oh, by the way, when you switch your stealth cyclone to battloid every Invid within 5 square miles can see you"

Robotech® The New Generation™ Sourcebook is at the printer! The book was sent to the printer on Tuesday and should be on track for a November 28 release. I say “should” only because with the Thanksgiving Day holiday, you never know for sure. It could get bumped a day or two.

Robotech® The New Generation™ Sourcebook is awesome. It offers the ability use mecha and O.C.C.s from ALL eras of Robotech® in one setting against the Invid. Play mecha pilots of Veritech Fighters, Destroids, Battloids, Hover Tanks, Cyclones, and something called “Frankenmecha” – giant robots combined with the limbs, weapons and body parts of two or more mecha. There are rules for creating Frankenmecha, vehicle combat and crash damage as well as stats and descriptions for new weapons, new vehicles, seven new O.C.C.s (including Invid Genetics and Cyborg Experiments, Invid Princes and Princesses and Resistance Fighter O.C.C.s), Invid Hives, key characters from the TV show, world overview, great art and more. And, due to popular demand, it is in our usual 8½ x 11 book format. Ships November 28.

ZINO wrote:

Snake Eyes wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:

Snake Eyes wrote:Oh great, a shadow cyclone........one of the players in my Robotech group is gonna see this and say....MINE, MINE ,MINE!!!!!!

Don't let him get ahold of it...as soon as he gets close an Invid shows up and destroys it.

Yup........its gonna have a glitch......"oh, by the way, when you switch your stealth cyclone to battloid every Invid within 5 square miles can see you"

Snake Eyes wrote:

ZINO wrote:

Snake Eyes wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:

Snake Eyes wrote:Oh great, a shadow cyclone........one of the players in my Robotech group is gonna see this and say....MINE, MINE ,MINE!!!!!!

Don't let him get ahold of it...as soon as he gets close an Invid shows up and destroys it.

Yup........its gonna have a glitch......"oh, by the way, when you switch your stealth cyclone to battloid every Invid within 5 square miles can see you"

Easiest way to kill a munchkin

dataweaver wrote:A thought just occurred to me. A while back (after Shadow Chronicles was released, but before the Southern Cross sourcebook came out), I proposed a "Gamma VHT", a design that took the Alpha frame and repurposed it for use as a hovertank (while retaining the ability to dock with a Beta). The thread eventually got locked because stats were introduced; but I believe that it's still hanging around here somewhere. Anyway, it just occurred to me that the assumptions that I was working with for the Gamma are essentially the same sorts of assumptions that are likely in place for Frankenmecha: that you can essentially put together a new type of mecha by making alterations to an existing design, and patching in weapons systems and the like from other models as needed. Might it be possible that the Gamma could make a showing as a Frankenmecha?

More generally, might PB and HG be willing to relax the "no mecha stats" rule in the case of Frankenmecha? I can just picture the pent-up flood of designs that would inundate this board if they were to do so.

Jefffar wrote:The No Stats policy is likely going to say.

Of course you can talk about what pieces and such that you've combined together and anyone with a copy of the book an make a reasonable facsimile. But no stats.

Gryphon wrote:But...but...THAT'S UNMANLY!!!!!

Seriously though, I wouldn't against visual "proof" that the Cyclones are actually not gender specific.

jaymz wrote:

Gryphon wrote:But...but...THAT'S UNMANLY!!!!!

Seriously though, I wouldn't against visual "proof" that the Cyclones are actually not gender specific.

Go to the uRRG site. They have a gallery where they mix it up a bit iirc.

ZINO wrote:

jaymz wrote:

Gryphon wrote:But...but...THAT'S UNMANLY!!!!!

Seriously though, I wouldn't against visual "proof" that the Cyclones are actually not gender specific.

Go to the uRRG site. They have a gallery where they mix it up a bit iirc.

uRRG site.???? hum, where the link ???

glitterboy2098 wrote:to save some people the trouble (especially since the URRG's gallery's don't always have working images..)

Female rider wearing VR-052 Battler armor
male Rider wearing VR-038-LT armor

Chris0013 wrote:In regard to the art....will we see some mixed up cyclone weapon systems? Guys in VR-038s and wimmenz in the Saber, Battler, and the new one?

Been wanting to see a guy on a LT cyclone with an EP-40

jedi078 wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:In regard to the art....will we see some mixed up cyclone weapon systems? Guys in VR-038s and wimmenz in the Saber, Battler, and the new one?

Been wanting to see a guy on a LT cyclone with an EP-40

Common sense dictates that the cyclone forearm weapon systems are interchangeable across all models. So yes a VR-038 can have GR-97's, an EP-40 and single GR-97, CADS-1 and so forth.

FreelancerMar wrote:I would say that a decent loadout would be the fallowing

Gr-97 on Left Arm
EP40 on Right Arm
RL-6 Equiped.

This gives most cyclones a decent mix of firepower.

jaymz wrote:

FreelancerMar wrote:I would say that a decent loadout would be the fallowing

Gr-97 on Left Arm
EP40 on Right Arm
RL-6 Equipped.

This gives most cyclones a decent mix of firepower.

Can't use an RL-6 when using an EP-40 or EP-37 as those would be used by your hand in battloid like the RL-6.

Chris0013 wrote:

jedi078 wrote:

Chris0013 wrote:In regard to the art....will we see some mixed up cyclone weapon systems? Guys in VR-038s and wimmenz in the Saber, Battler, and the new one?

Been wanting to see a guy on a LT cyclone with an EP-40

Common sense dictates that the cyclone forearm weapon systems are interchangeable across all models. So yes a VR-038 can have GR-97's, an EP-40 and single GR-97, CADS-1 and so forth.

I understand that....I just want to see some professional art of different weapon loadouts....like a LT with an EP40 or a battler with an RL6

FreelancerMar wrote:I would say that a decent loadout would be the fallowing

Gr-97 on Left Arm
EP40 on Right Arm
RL-6 Equiped.

This gives most cyclones a decent mix of firepower.

Tiree wrote:

jaymz wrote:

FreelancerMar wrote:I would say that a decent loadout would be the fallowing

Gr-97 on Left Arm
EP40 on Right Arm
RL-6 Equipped.

This gives most cyclones a decent mix of firepower.

Can't use an RL-6 when using an EP-40 or EP-37 as those would be used by your hand in battloid like the RL-6.

As long as the RL-6 is on the same side as a GR-97, there shouldn't be a problem. As it is shown that a VR-052 can have both GR-97's and an EP-37 in Battloid Mode, and the EP-37 like the RL-6 is stored on the handlebars in Motorcycle Mode