11 Facts About Heavy Gear

Heavy Gear is a mecha science fiction game universe published since 1994 by Canadian publisher Dream Pod 9.

Heavy Gear is best known for its humanoid combat vehicles – the Gears and Striders used by the military forces in the setting.

Heavy Gear is set on a distant, fictional planet called Terra Nova around 4,000 Earth Standard Years from now.

Heavy Gear pilots tend to form a bond with their Gears' ONNets, or at least recognize the efficiency that an experienced ONNet provides; pilots forced to abandon a damaged or disabled Gear often take with them the ONNet unit from beneath their seats.

Weaponry of the Heavy Gear is usually lighter and less powerful than a main battle tank, as Gears themselves typically weigh only a fifth the weight of a tank.

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Heavy Gear books are notable for their heavily illustrated content.

Third edition of the Heavy Gear RPG uses a separate Silhouette CORE Rulebook, which is needed for play.

Heavy Gear Fighter is a stand-alone two-player card game set in the Heavy Gear universe.

The Tactical Rules line was developed with a greater attention to the control of proportions of the various Heavy Gear designs using computer-aided design illustrations as guides.

Heavy Gear provided Heavy Gear limited edition resin miniatures through his boutique studio, Minimaniak.

The second game, Heavy Gear II, was made in 1999 for the Windows 98 operating system.