Armatures: Tactical Mech Combat & Pilot Espionage

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Armatures: Tactical Mech Combat & Pilot Espionage

Build your mech. Choose your contracts. Decide who gets a future.

Veyr is an abandoned industrial world where seven factions fight over failing infrastructure and the people who depend on it. Your crew has patched-up mechs, a mercenary debt, and a choice of jobs. Every contract can change who gets power, protection, and a way out.

Armatures connects tactical mech battles, dangerous operations on foot, and a campaign shaped by your crew’s decisions.

3 Frames · 184 Parts · 9 regions · 7 factions · Solo & group play

Join the Armatures Discord · Open the digital sheets

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Inside the game

Build your mech. Master the battlefield.

• Build your machine: Choose a Light, Medium, or Heavy Frame and customize it with 184 Parts, including weapons, defenses, mobility systems, and deployable devices.
• Make every die count: Roll Core Dice and spend their individual faces to activate equipment, move, and cool your reactor. Push harder by taking Heat.
• Fight for objectives: Play ten encounter types, from defending assets and escorting convoys to intercepting couriers and racing for salvage.
• Face scripted enemies: Run 25 ordinary enemy types and ten lone elites, each with defined behavior, movement, and combat actions.

Leave the cockpit. Shape the campaign.

• Step outside the cockpit: Create pilots with distinct attributes, abilities, weapons, and field gear. Negotiate, investigate, infiltrate, and survive using 2d6 action rules.
• Explore a divided world: Travel across nine regions, encounter local crises, and navigate seven factions with competing needs and ambitions.
• Generate your next operation: Build missions with branching routes, obstacles, support opportunities, opposition, and declared rewards.
• Keep your crew running: Manage shared Credits, debt, repairs, salvage, faction markets, favors, and downtime.
• Change the war: Advance faction agendas, defend communities, dismantle an enemy’s sources of power, or earn your crew an escape.

Play solo or bring your crew.

• Play with or without a GM: Use mission procedures, enemy scripts, faction moves, and oracles to support solo and group play.
• Create people and discoveries: Use NPC tables, Yes / No answers, and prompts to develop encounters, rumors, and new leads.

A look inside the book

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Digital sheets & campaign tools

Browser character sheets for desktop and mobile, with tools for your pilots, mechs, encounters, and shared campaign.

Launch the Armatures companion →

A look inside the companion

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Build & equip

• Build and save mechs: Choose from three Frames, install Parts, check Load limits, and save favorite builds.
• Manage your pilot: Record attributes, abilities, weapons, field gear, contacts, HP, and Strain.
• Explore the Parts catalogue: Search and filter 184 Parts by theme and combat role, with rules and prices at hand.
• Roll salvage: Discover equipment through general and faction loot tables, with results shared in chat.

Play & run operations

• Track mech combat: Roll and assign Core dice, activate Parts, and manage Integrity, Guard, Heat, Stress, ammunition, charge, and statuses.
• Run encounters: Manage enemy squads, lone elites, round progress, reserves, and temporary effects for one to six players. Players can view live enemy stats and action scripts.
• Generate missions and pilot scenes: Create objectives, obstacles, support activities, rewards, and conflicts outside the cockpit.
• Create tactical maps: Generate and edit battlefields for ten encounter types. Customize terrain, markers, and routes, then export or place the map in Owlbear Rodeo.

Keep your campaign together

• Manage a shared campaign: Track crew Credits, stored Parts, faction reputation, favors, Power, mission leads, travel, markets, and world events.
• Find inspiration: Roll oracles, prompts, and complete NPC profiles.
• Keep rules close: Read searchable rules and cheat sheets, and download printable play sheets.
• Transfer your game data: Copy and import pilots, mechs, crews, and worlds between devices or scenes.

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Bring Armatures into Owlbear Rodeo

Use the companion as an Owlbear Rodeo custom extension.

1. Choose Add Custom Extension in Owlbear Rodeo (shown below).
2. Paste this manifest URL:
   https://armatures-ttrpg.onrender.com/manifest.json

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System inspirations

Armatures draws inspiration from FIST by CLAYMORE; Astroprisma by Camila Mera and Crescent Chimera; Lancer by Massif Press; RUNE by Gila RPGs; Salvage Union by Leyline Press; and Ironsworn by Shawn Tomkin.

Thank you to the creators of these works for their inspiration.

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Join the crew

Join the community on Discord: discord.gg/dGQwpYn7sr

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AI disclaimer
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