Mobile Suit Rules

This page details the rules on mobile suits on Gundam Evo.

### Mobile Suit Tiers

What kind of equipment you can use is dependent on your tier. You can look at the Mobile Suit Tier List for mobile suits and Ship Tier List for ships.

* **Basic Suits** are mass production suits.
* **Intermediate Suits** are prototype and limited production non-Gundam mobile suits.
* **Advanced Suits** are first tier Gundams E.G., Delta Gundam, Wing Gundam, Strike Gundam and Exia Gundam.
* **Elite Suits** are second tier Gundam e.g. Delta Plus, Proto Zero Gundam, Freedom Gundam and 00 Gundam. (Think “mid-series upgrade” protagonist suits.)
* **Champion Suits** third and final tier Gundam e.g. Gundam Delta Kai, Wing Zero. Gundam, Strike Freedom Gundam and Qan[T]. (Think “end of the series” protagonist suits.)

### Faction Exclusive Suits

Each faction has restrictions on what they can use (and special things only they can use).

**Suits from UC, SEED, AGE, Gundam X, Turn A Gundam (CC). and G Gundam are any faction.**

* **The New Empire** can exclusively use suits from Iron Blooded Orphans.
* **The Legion of Arcadia** can exclusively use suits from Gundam Wing.
* **The Wings of Helios** can exclusively use suits from Gundam 00.
* **The Orion Rebels** can exclusively use suits from Gundam Reconguista in G.

### Mobile Suit Customization Rules

#### Basic Tier

Custom paint scheme, and customization of weapons loadout. (Such as grabbing say a Zaku 1's machinegun for a Zaku 2.) OYW Mobile Suits can get their modernization at this tier, check rules for information on modernizing a OYW MS.

#### Intermediate Tier

Basic parts customization (such as removing a Zaku 2's shoulder armor and replacing it with Dom shoulder armor), along with taking weapons from other MS's (Like slapping a Rezel's mega beam launcher on a Jegan).

#### Advanced Tier

Original MS creation unlocked, along with full MS customization. You can make essentially anything you want at this tier, as long as it stays within the power level of advanced. Although things like custom systems is limited to just creating a variant of a pre-existing system (IE making your own variant of the AV system).

#### Elite Tier

More advanced, and more powerful Original MS's allowed, and fully original systems are now also allowed.

#### Champion

Anything goes, as long as it's properly explained, and approved.

Staff will look at the iconic suits of each tier when judging a custom suit or customized loadouts.

### Common Reasons for Custom Suit Denials

**Rule Circumvention:** If your custom suit is designed with the intent of circumventing a rule, we will be denying it based on that.

**“Rip Offs”:** A good example of rule circumvention is If your suit is a suit from one timeline just recreated in another. If the intent is the circumvent faction exclusivity, it will be denied.

* **Example:** I want the Barbatos but I’m a Legion member. Rather than going to steal it I make a “Larbatos” but remake it with UC or Wing technology. (Appearance is a little more shaky.)

**Dramatically Changed Customs:** With a custom suit, rather than a fully original suit, you should keep it in the same ballpark as the original. If you have a heavy weapons, heavily armored, artillery suit it's not a great candidate for an agile speedster with awesome CQC. Removing a key system like the psycommu system from the Psycho Gundam won't fly. You can 100% make an original suit that isn’t related to any other one but not as a custom. (My idea for a Tortuga racer dies with this post...)

### Claiming a Suit & Unique Suits

You can claim a unique suit 1 tier higher than your character, reserving it so no one can take it. Suits that are “unique” are not mass produced, typically a “one-off”. On the tier list these suits are highlighted in yellow.

To claim a suit or request a new one post in #Mobile-Suit-Request.

### Terrain Specific Mobile Suits

You can take multiple suits, provided they don’t overlap in terms of the terrain they can utilize. For example: it’s totally fine to have a general purpose suit and an aquatic suit. You can’t have 2 suits that could do the same thing.

### Grunt Suits

The term “grunt suit” is a mass production suit that serves as the mainstay for a faction’s forces. All grunt suit are suits that have a lot of screen time and presence in their series.

### MS Squads & Ship Compliments

MS squads and MS ship compliments may be set up for convenience of your GM for expedience. There is no guarantee or expectation of their use on sorties outside what your GM defines.

### Build Suits

A number of build suits that expressly did not cross timelines were approved on 12/11/2022 by request of a retiring Admin (Saz). They are on the tier list labeled [Build]. We are not presently looking for more Build Suits to add. If you are using one of these suits, please check with staff if the suit has some wacky power not found in other media in the timeline your suit comes from.