(Answered) Bimodal LAMs

[Darkside99x]

How do we change back to mech mode?

The rules state that a fighter changing to a mech crashes but a bimodal mech can't land safely as an airmech so what gives?

[nckestrel]

(correcting my confusion).

The fighter has to land on the ground, as a fighter.  Then it can change to a 'mech.

[Darkside99x]

Did the rules for that make it into the commanders edition?  That was my assumption on what to do but couldn't find said rule.

[nckestrel]

The LAM rules have not changed at all.

There is a rule that says you crash "if a unit converts from fighter to battlemech mode while airborne".  There is no such rule for converting from fighter to battlemech mode while not airborne.  There are rules for landing a fighter, that's how your fighter becomes not airborne.  When your fighter is not airborne, you can ignore the rule about crashing from converting from fighter to battlemech mode while airborne.

[Darkside99x]

The only reference to landing i could find in the commanders edition seems to solely reference airships and dropships in the optional rules section.

I will have a hunt for my original AS/Companion books and see how it's laid out there.

Cheers.

[nckestrel]

ASCE p141, Aerodyne Units.  "While on the ground, aerodyne-type aerospace units (including conventional and aerospace fighters).." and then the next subsections are Aerodyne LiftOff and Aerodyne Landing.