| The Design Bureau is a result of my involvement with Battletech. Over the last few years, an American guy named Rick Raisley, has developed a range of design software, which allows users to create their own battlemechs, vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft and infantry armour.
Interested? Visit his website Heavy Metal Pro. It also has a facility which allows you to export your custom designs into Megamek. As well as testing your creative powers, it can lead to some interesting battles. Anyhow, my repertoire of designs is getting pretty extensive, so I thought I'd give them a permanent home here, so I can review them more easily and not duplicate stuff I've already done, as well as let other people have a look and use them, if they wish. Since its just a matter of saving my existing Heavy Metal files into HTML format, I should be able to keep this section updated pretty easily. The companies below are all entities I've created for my fictitious Battletech faction, the Britannic Coalition. They may feature in a story at some point...then again, they may not... |
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Vulcan Armaments produce conventional military vehicles, including hover and wheeled vehicles, tanks, mobile artillery, transports and VTOLs |
Coldstream Defence Technologies are currently the Coalition's only battlemech design and production facility |
Operating from the Andromeda orbital shipyard at Newcastle, Cygnus Astra design and build WarShips, DropShips, JumpShips and cargo vessels. |
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A new addition to the Coalition's arms industry, they are currently the sole producer of aerospace fighters. The first models are expected to begin rolling off the production lines soon. |
For those who want to create faction-specific mechs, vehicles and aircraft, or who only want to use equipment available in a particular era. |
