Starting fires

[McFortner]

How about the ability to set woods on fire with energy weapons, with the fire increaseing the heat a mech takes similar to how the flamers do, either intentionally or by accident? It would be interesting to see it used to get pesky mechs out of cover. And a fire starting because of a missed shot would be cool (well, not for the mech pilots, but hey....).

 

[Mahi]

Why only energy weapons? Flamers would do the job better.

 

[TaurianMerc]

It was something that was tested during development but was ultimately dropped.
Kiva posted a link on here to a little tool that showed how the spread would work.

 

[W4rmachine]

We used to do it in TT play as a deliberate tactic. There was even an optional rule to determine wind speed and direction at the start of the engaememt, and then every so many turns after that. I remember times when half the map would be ablaze by the end. Good times...