I want to like this project and its two expansions so much. Its wonderfully written and clearly has a lot of passion behind it. The part where this all breaks down is gameplay, unfortunately.

The best metaphor i have is "each robot has a 6mm pistol, and a radio that calls in an entire squadreon of a10 warhogs for close air support, but only enough energy to use one". The game boils down rapidly to staying out of line of sight, and then just nuking the other party with a maxed out area impact weapon. A weapon that has unlimited range, drops an enormous template, and cannot be saved against as long as LoS is had.

The other gripe i have is what i thought was the coolest part when i first bought it. Power allocation. I thought it was so neat to "route all power to this system" and kind of make your own stats on the fly. In practice is incredibly fiddly and takes about 5 minutes each time it happens. Which slows down play significantly with only one robot per person. Let alone if a single person controls several robots.

Lot of cool ideas for sure, but just a bit too clunky of a rule set along with some fiddly round to round math, and a giant disapointment when combat happens. Its not "avoid at all costs" bad, but its absolutely a "take inspiration from" system.