The Landships
Walking and rolling bases that carry your people, your stores and your work across the country.
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The size ladder
Ten classes in four sizes. Each is built where its size allows, and a fleet holds up to three ships, one of them colossal. At a Landship Yard a ship can be traded in toward a larger class.
Two-legged walkers, raised on a Walker Frame beside a pitched camp. Room for four.
Courier · Small
A two-legged courier walker. Springy legs and a lean cab, fast over rough ground: a pilot and up to three riders, with a saw, a small miner, extra cargo or a small weapon.
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Scout · Small
A two-legged scout walker built at camp: high clearance, a winch and headlamp at the bow, room for four. The entry to the walker ladder.
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Built at a Landship Yard in a settlement. Up to fifteen aboard.
Pack walker · Medium
A four-legged pack walker for supply runs and salvage: racks, nets, a water drum and a cargo crane. It carries the most for its size.
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Escort · Medium
A four-legged escort and hunter: an armoured iron prow with a harpoon, headlamps and a rope drum, clawed feet with ground spikes. It guards the caravan and hunts what hunts it.
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Caravan · Medium
A four-legged caravan walker: a self-contained homestead with living quarters under a hipped roof, a water drum, a lookout turret and a crane. A travelling refuge for fifteen.
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Hybrid · Medium
A six-wheeled scout on six legs: quick on its wheels, and when the ground turns steep it stands up, locks its wheels as feet and walks, stepping over obstacles up to 1.4 m.
Travelling towns: stepped decks, sails, drills and cranes. Up to twenty aboard.
Junk-ship walker · Large
The great four-legged junk walker: a bowsprit prow with net and bells, a pagoda bridge tower, a huge fan sail, gear trains and chunky clawed legs. A travelling town that climbs where wheels cannot.
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Miner · Large
A six-legged mining walker: a wedge-armoured drill head at the bow, ore bins and a crane at the stern. Slow, steady and very strong, on a tripod gait.
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Command ship · Large
The wheeled command flagship: iron-banded timber wheels, three masts of emblem sails, multi-level decks and an elevated command bridge. The most room and the fastest on the road, bound to gentle ground.
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The end of the road. Needs a Grand Yard, and carries a whole settlement.
Walking town · Colossal
The end of the road: a colossal six-legged walking settlement, command post, workshop and town in one, that carries a whole community on a migration and founds it anew where it stops.
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The slipway
Small walkers rise on a Walker Frame beside a pitched camp. Medium and large ships are built at a Landship Yard in a settlement; the Citadel needs the yard upgraded to a Grand Yard. You deliver materials for each stage, and settlers at the yard speed the labour. She is visible on the slipway at every stage.
Fuel
Lamps, kitchens and kilns burn it at rest. With no fuel she settles onto her haunches and stops. A crane can fell and load trees within reach while she is parked, and a charcoal kiln module makes fuel on board.
42 modules
Every slot is a framed build pad on one of the ship's levels, with a bolted kerb and lashing rings, so you can see where a module goes even when the pad is empty. Modules come at tiers I to III. Small walkers take their own four: a tree saw, a small miner, a cargo pannier and a light weapon.
Crew and helm
Settlers board from a settlement and ride as the ship's crew. They are fed and kept warm from her stores, and they work her modules: gunners, drillers, cooks, medics, gardeners, traders, engineers and lookouts each make their station better.
Park her and press E at the ladder to board; walk her decks as she moves. Take the helm with E: W and S for the throttle, A and D to turn, Space to park, Q for the road autopilot, which follows the winding road and slows for bends. Or click the ground to send her there. Shift+L opens the landship panel.
Migration
The Citadel Pilgrim can board a settlement: its residents and goods come aboard, and the old place is left behind. Walk her north, and found it anew where she stops, with starter buildings unfolded from her decks. Residents and goods are kept throughout, and the people remember where they came from.
The story of the landshipsFrom the sketchbook
The concept sheets every landship was modelled from.
Ochre and charcoal
Along the road, the old walls remember the walkers.
Start with a camp, a Walker Frame and two springy legs.
