Mount Up - Enhanced Troop Transports

Description

This mod allows the player to board unarmed Pirate Trucks and to fight from them as mobile weapons platforms. It also enables fighting from the back of open topped Light Transport Vehicles, and gifts these abilities to the Pirates and Rogue Army. Finally it allows riding on IFVs/LTVs with heavy weapons equipped as well as MBTs and Captured Heavy Tanks, with Infantry now sitting on the chassis.

Main features

Pirate Trucks

-If you deploy a Pirate Truck with no weapons equipped, it becomes a valid transport option for infantry squads of up to 5 elements (Squad Leader plus 4 squaddies).

-You can shoot, deploy, set up special with tripods, jetpack etc. All abilities available.

-Your mounted infantry can be shot just like enemy pirates mounted in trucks can.

-Regardless of weapon loadout, the A-ATV can now act as a closed-top transport for minimum-sized infantry squads (Squad Leader plus 2 squaddies).

Light Transport Vehicle

-If you deploy a Light Transport Vehicle with nothing in the heavy weapon slot, its open bed will function differently under this mod compared to vanilla.

-Infantry standing in an LTV can shoot weapons that do not require deployment. They can also be hit by enemy fire, just like infantry (enemy or player) standing in the bed of a Pirate Truck. They can use abilities and jetpacks.

-Deploying while in an LTV has your infantry take cover- they can no longer fire but are no longer considered to be in an open topped vehicle. They will be immune to damage while deployed as if you were mounted in the closed-top variant.

Tank Desant

-LTVs/IFVs with Heavy Weapons equipped, Main Battle Tanks and Captured Heavy Tanks now allow infantry to sit on their chassis.

-Infantry sitting on a tank can not shoot or use jetpacks. Most other abilities are available. They are given some cover like being in a Pirate Truck/open LTV but can be shot.

-Your pilots are considerate and will limit their turret’s rotation to a 45 degree arc in order to not swing it through riding Infantry. For LTVs and IFVs this also affects their coaxial mounted light weapon. MBTs and CHTs have pintle mounted light weapons that continue to be able to fire in a 360 arc.

Mounted Bugs

-An entirely optional extra component that adds two new enemy units to the game.

-Now a separate mod -  Broodmothers

Mod Compatability Recommendations

Expanded Army List

UI Quality of Life Pack

Expanded Army List Rogue Army and Pirates will make good use of the mounted combat enabled by Mount Up. Mission Prep Embarkation and Vehicle Facing from the UI QoL pack pair nicely with a Mount Up mechanised force.

Misc

Pirate Trucks are high-risk high-reward technicals. You could have a small CQB squad ferried quickly into position, or taxi Carda around with a tripod mounted heavy weapon.

Open bed LTVs now enable an alternate playstyle to the vanilla Mobile Infantry perk. Instead of spending 5AP to hop in and out of a transport restricted to a couple of SLs, you can spend 10-20AP to deploy/undeploy for similar functionality with anyone. However units shooting out of LTVs or Pirate Trucks get a 15% accuracy debuff unless they have the Mobile Infantry Perk.

IFVs and LTVs with a medium weapon in their heavy weapon slot are untouched- simple closed-top transport.

Jetpacks work while mounted in Pirate Trucks and open LTVs. This is objectively rad as hell.

Mounted enemy Pirate Truck units can fire their weapons without dismounting. Expect flamethrower and chaingun drive-bys, they're going full Mad Max. Rogue Army Heavy Infantry in an LTV can also choose to fight mounted.

The LTV can not be mounted if it has the 120mm Mortar equipped. The bay doors open, blocking any spots where infantry could possibly sit.

Requirements

• []MelonLoader[/]

Installation instructions

1. Install MelonLoader.

2. Move MountUp.dll to the root of your \steamapps\common\Menace\Mods folder.

Or add with the Menace Mod Manager.

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