Most Cramped & Most Roomy Mech Cockpits?

[glitterboy2098]

this is one of those things that was never really defined on a machine by machine basis. even in the novels, it varied a lot. one novel would have the Wasp with a cockpit barely bigger than the pilot, with their head and shoulders the only thibng inside the mech's head.. while another novel with a different author had a stinger (which by canon is just a copied Wasp) where the cockpit was wholly in the head and big enough for the entire pilot to fit in with room to spare.

you even had things like a Mackie cockpit being big enough not only for a pilot and passenger, but having a storage closet big enough to house another person. (who in that book, was carrying a gun and wearing body armor, to kill Mechwarrior Horse if he chickened out of a one sided trial. it was a weird book)

even the same author was often inconsistent within their own novel. in Mercenaries Star a shadow hawk cockpit/head is big enough to fit pilot and a passenger in a rumble seat.. but the much larger marauder wasn't big enough for two people. later book by that author you had a pair of Grey Death/Nighthawk PA (it is unclear which) being able to fit into a single light industrial mech's cockpit with no problem.


so ultimately it boils down to "no one knows" and "it is up to you as the player/GM"

[Pat Payne]

this is one of those things that was never really defined on a machine by machine basis. even in the novels, it varied a lot. one novel would have the Wasp with a cockpit barely bigger than the pilot, with their head and shoulders the only thibng inside the mech's head.. while another novel with a different author had a stinger (which by canon is just a copied Wasp) where the cockpit was wholly in the head and big enough for the entire pilot to fit in with room to spare.

you even had things like a Mackie cockpit being big enough not only for a pilot and passenger, but having a storage closet big enough to house another person. (who in that book, was carrying a gun and wearing body armor, to kill Mechwarrior Horse if he chickened out of a one sided trial. it was a weird book)

even the same author was often inconsistent within their own novel. in Mercenaries Star a shadow hawk cockpit/head is big enough to fit pilot and a passenger in a rumble seat.. but the much larger marauder wasn't big enough for two people. later book by that author you had a pair of Grey Death/Nighthawk PA (it is unclear which) being able to fit into a single light industrial mech's cockpit with no problem.


so ultimately it boils down to "no one knows" and "it is up to you as the player/GM"

Heck, it's not just BT that has this problem -- TIE Fighters in Star Wars: A New Hope look like they're pretty cramped, yet in Rebels, the pod has enough room for three people (as long as two don't mind standing with no safety restraints, and all three don't have "personal space" issues)

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

you even had things like a Mackie cockpit being big enough not only for a pilot and passenger, but having a storage closet big enough to house another person. (who in that book, was carrying a gun and wearing body armor, to kill Mechwarrior Horse if he chickened out of a one sided trial. it was a weird book)

That wasn't actually in the book.  The scene was used as the teaser on the inside of the cover, but it didn't appear in the novel itself (probably because they actually realized what an insane plothole it was.