House Rules Collection:
Robert Knott II
A Compendium of House Rules



Lance Mount
Some prominent Mekton in anime have oversized weapons wielded in only one hand. Sometimes they're oversized pistols as used by the various Gundams, sometimes they're hand-held artillery, as in Five Star Stories, and sometimes they're actually lances, such as seen in F-91. Lance mounts increase the spaces a single hand can hold without resorting to excessive Efficiency. The lance mounts below are listed with the amount of kills they can take before being destroyed and spaces you can use for any mix of weapons that will fit. A lance mount can either be held in a single hand or mounted on an arm using 1 space, but in either case the Classification Level can't be more than 1 level above the Class of the arm. 

Class	Cost	Spaces	Kills 
SL 	1.8 	6 	2 
LW 	2.2 	8 	2 
STR	2.5 	10 	2 
MS 	2.6 	12 	2 
HS 	3.2 	12 	3 
MW 	3.3 	14 	3 
LH 	3.6 	16 	3 
MH 	4 	18 	3 
AH 	4.3 	20 	3 
SH 	4.6 	20 	4 
MgH	5 	22	4 

Lance mounts are actually Shields with a -4 DA and either 2/3 or 3/4 of their Kills sacrificed for Spaces. The mounts in this list are built with ablative armour(DC 0), although more durable mounts can be built by simply by buying an improved Armour Type. 



Weapon Mounts
Since it seems a Weapon Mount can be used together with hands, several combinations become very useful. Weapons could be supported by two Hands and a Torso Mount(EX-S Gundam), or two Hands and a Mount on one of the Arms. A practical limit, however, is only one Weapon Mount used with Hands, as two or more Mounts would imply a rigid mounting, a 1 sided Facing.

As a side note, I would also recommend that you always buy the rather delicate Weapon Mounts with no Spaces, the Efficiency cost raising them to a staggering 3 CPs apiece. This makes the Weapon mount an intrinsic part of the Servo, insuring that the Mount will last until the Servo is destroyed. 



Mating & Cross Links
Gatling Gun
Beam Weapon
WA:-2/RNG:11/DMG:8K/BV:see below/Kills:8/Space:16.2/Cost:25.6
This is the Mating of 3 Cross-Linked Beam Weapons. Although the WA is -2, the weapon only has to hit ONCE for ALL THREE to damage the same area.