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: p I had some fun with hero-clix style stuff when I was, like, idk 12? Because it was much easier for me to get in to than WH40k or something. I think the version I played was MageKnight.
I'll have to look up the old Heavy Gear stuff. I really enjoyed the first PC game. My computer could only barely run it, I had to turn on the wireframe mode in any actual fight!
There was a lot of potential for the Heavy Gear series as a RPG setting. Even the characters listed in the core books had a novel "chess piece" system to show how important they might be to future books (so GMs wouldn't get them killed off or otherwise changed too much if they were too important for future canon plots) which made me expect a vast post-interpolar war story spanning the terran colonies on the scale of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, or at least Gundam.
That didn't happen because Heavy Gear became "Clix'd" and sort of abandoned any attempt at a long-running ongoing story, so it was up to me to fill in the blanks for as long as my tabletop group wanted to play.