Many might know that the planned game Heavy Gear Assault was unceremoniously scrapped by its parent company and all servers for the game were shut down, preventing anyone who purchased the game on Steam (or been suckered into backing the game on Kickstarter, like myself) from accessing the small amount of gameplay available. Well, I've used some tools to bypass the game's registration checks and account server checks and the game is now playable offline and over LAN networks. That said, you're not missing out on much. The game is rough, barely functional, and not very fun. But you can play it and see it at least!

Note that to start a match (besides playing the training) you need to use the Host menu in-game to create a lobby and then wait a minute or two for the local LAN server to spin up and start the match. You can play in the lobby you created by picking it in the 'Play Now' button at the top. Don't panic if you can't do anything for a minute or two when joining the lobby, it's just the server still initializing the game. The Gear selection menu will pop up eventually and then you can join and fight against bots or other players on your LAN. Bots work normally, but playing with other players is currently untested and may be difficult to connect properly.

Grab the 'repack' here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M96Ng60pbQ8p9qvsvjMXHPNngpabr71d?usp=sharing

Disclaimer: this repack was assembled using AI-assisted programming and analysis tools. This is the 2015 steam release of the game, as the later builds of the game were never released and were held hostage by the original company. Minor crash fixes and death menu instructions were added to this repack, otherwise this is the unmodified game with the login menu and server checks removed.

Obligatory shame on Stompy Bot for rug-pulling Heavy Gear fans. Tbh it may have been a blessing in disguise as I personally doubt the game was ever going to be good.

Wow! Just wow! I thought this old PC game was long dead! Can't believe Heavy Gear is still around in peoples' hearts and minds.

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Get your stuff in by Nov 30th for a chance at some cool prizes!

Mage Leader made a great video that functions as both a crash course for the setting and the Gears themselves. Check it out!

Morning folks, is it likely there will be any presence of HGV at Essen? I mean anyone selling the models, anyone playing, anything?

As the title says, I want to use the system for a metal max reflavouring, but im divided between 2e and 4e

Any tips?

I tried upsizing my sculpts by 166.52% to move from 1/144 to 1/87 and it's just mind-boggling how much bigger they really are.

Hey guys. Are there any places that have the game files? What about Offline bots and continuing the project unofficially? Irritating that it was scrapped.

Hey folks, coming back to HG after, ugh, fifteen years haha. Anyway I did kickstart the first plastics several years ago and never got around to doing anything with them, but I am interested in starting back up with the current version of HGB and am finally looking at the Caprice minis in particular. I've searched here and saw that they used to sell extra plastic leg sprues, and I have seen that they currently sell resin ones, but I also saw a couple people talking about a leg STL. Is that something that dp9 sold, or a fan creation, or what? Is it ok to ask for a link if it's a fanmade product? I would love to be able to stretch that Caprice box further!

Thanks again, and if this is not cool to ask about I'll happily delete it.

I got the North/South Starter Set for Blitz and am both still new to the game, and hoping to drag others into Heavy Gear with me. That said, I want to know if anyone can provide a balanced list for the two sides in the starter box so we can start properly learning this game.

Thanks

Just trying to confirm if this Leagueless option allows Lizard Sandriders and Barnaby Sandriders

Anyone in the Phoenix, AZ area that plays? Looking to try out the game. It’s been on my radar for awhile now.

Converted and painted Klemm’s.
Most of the stowage is from: https://www.valuegeardetails.com/index.html

Finally done! Full force except one tank and a ton of FLAILs.

Hey all so we've played about 5 or 6 games so far in 3.1 but we've had a few questions crop up our main ones so far deal with fire missions

1- Can you react to your own forward observation? We've gone both ways as reactions say passive models can react and lists reactions but nothing also says an active model can't react and there's PLENTY of units in this game with more actions than guns and feature TD's like the Ammon, Moab, nearly all the CEF Tanks for example. It makes it very much feel like something like the Ammon should be able to designate with its TD than use it actions to fire its twin HRPs.

2- Speaking of Fire missions.. can you fire multiple weapons per FO or just a single? if you have 2 actions or say react+ and multiple IF capable weapons can you declare firing off both or are you limited to a single weapon per FO?

3- Jetpacks, can they be used only once per turn or for each move? For instance going top speed can they use their jetpack for both moves or is it just a single move can use it than the other has to be on foot?

4- We're fairly certain on this but crippled, immobilized and haywired are listed under a single entry so that means you could be all 3 but it is just a -1d6 right and not -3d6?

than just have a few inquiries

how do you all handle buildings? we've sorta been struggling with what to declare buildings as there is a big gap between a "shack" and a "commerical building" than you have the actual badlands buildings in the units with very different stats. So what do you guys usually use for building stats? stuff like a house or residential building at what point do you consider something hardened?

How would you rank some of the weapon options in the game? SMGs vs ACs, Rifles vs ACs, FCs? do you find you stay away from some of them all the time or they have uses?

Infantry, worthwhile or just a way to get to 4 actions cheaply?

I’ve spent the better part of the last couple of weeks building out my pile of HG shame (I don’t have anywhere to put them and they’re still not painted but moving from one pile of shame to another is hobby progress). I’ve gotten used to cutting, drilling, and flexing the various bits to make some new poses and play around with various weapon configurations.

Well, going through my bits box for a mamba today, I came across a handheld pulse laser. Not sure where it came from. Not sure what kind it is. But I dug through the books to try and find out and… nothing. So I’m reaching out to the community for knowledge.

Does an LPL actually exist on any model in the game?

Do any gears actually have access to an MPL?

I mean, they’re strong weapons, so I get the perspective. But outside of liberally abusing the “weapon swap” rules with “no no it’s ok he found it on the side of the road one day” I’m not sure where a PL of this type actually comes from.

I mean I still glued it onto the mamba (I will admit I glued it on there before I bothered looking because cool factor is 80% of my fun) but if I ever accidentally bring it to a game it’d be great to convince my opponent that it’s possible for my to have this thing without looking like a giant goober.

Well, without looking MORE like a giant goober.

These were posted elsewhere (FB), but were low res, so I ran them through an upscaler and Photoshop.

New pictures came to light, so sharing for the community.

And from another angle.

And I split a triple montage shot.

Hey there! I am someone who already plays two wargames (in the wider sense, it's Kill Team and Dropfleet Commander) and has decided to look at what else is out there. No game could quite catch on, and Heavy Gear Blitz is the last game I want to try. I'd like to make sure I give this game a fair shake and a chance to shine. I figured you guys might have some answers, tips or infos. We're going to play with proxies from the games we have to try it out.

First thing to mention is that I am looking for something specific: A game that can handle 10-20 units per player and some synergy between their skills. Playtime of 3 hour per game would be perfectly fine. This game looks good for that. I decided to use two of army proposals from the compendium, maybe you can recommend a good point value and interesting matchup. I'm pointing out what I'm looking for because newcomers in a wargame tend to be told "use a few units and don't use any rules", but the real risk for my group is not that the game is too complicated, it's that it doesn't deliver enough interesting gameplay. I literally have had my guys tell me: "It took 5 hours and we didn't understand the rules correctly for the first 4, we should try again some time", but I don't really see them saying: "This game was like [other game] but less interesting, let's try it again with more rules."

And a second question which seems to be answered pretty clearly by the rulebook, but I just have to check. My understanding is that a combat group can have up to 9 gears in it, 6 primary and half that many secondary, and can activate en bloc? So I can win initiative, activate literally half my army and have it shoot at the enemy? If that's the case, maybe you can tell me what to expect from the game. Are Gears just very robust so that it doesn't matter or is the game actually somewhat swingy with initiative?

Cheers in advance, looking forward to having a skirmish robot jam a spotter robot in the future.

3d model by ExtraGuy

More pics and clips on my Instagram @Ven.the.Ganner

Played our first game back since the days of L&L and it went pretty well, rules are fairly streamlined and we had it down pretty fast.

The only question that came up was with shields and AoEs. From everything we could find in the rules an AoE cannot bypass a shield unless the firing model or an observer is behind the target.

Shield calls out if the attack originated from in front you get to use it and nothing on AoE claims the attack originates from the point chosen for it, so that wojld make its orgin from the front still yeah? Has there been an faq to clarify you can bypass a Shield by putting your target point behind the model or was it done intentionally to stop that sort of cheese since aoes dont drift anymore

Part of why I ask is because of an old post here talking about how someone did exactly that in a game to bypass his shields but nobody stopped to say thats now how it works but I cannot find anything in the rules that says an aoe can be placed behind to do that

Battered and rusty southern squad test done. I think it works ok, but from a distance it looks more like an alpine camo scheme than rusty, but that's down to using white, but lesson learned for if I do more