How do I make new mechs?

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

I've salvaged two fully intact mechs, but I can't find out how to make them usable.

[Thanaeon]

I wondered about the same thing myself.

It turns out that the answer is simple, but not stated anywhere that I saw; after the tutorial section - after you've taken the first province - the workshop opens up in your base. There, one of the things you can build is new walker frames. (You can also buy upgrades buying you additional walker slots - in the beginning, you have three slots but only two frames.)

[Garatgh Deloi]

Click units, select the mech, if you are in the color mode swap to equipment mode by clicking the roller thingy at the top left, equip all the necessary parts on the salvaged mechs.

Originally posted by Thanaeon:

I wondered about the same thing myself.

It turns out that the answer is simple, but not stated anywhere that I saw; after the tutorial section - after you've taken the first province - the workshop opens up in your base. There, one of the things you can build is new walker frames. (You can also buy upgrades buying you additional walker slots - in the beginning, you have three slots but only two frames.)

If you salvage a whole mech you also salvage its mech frame, so there is no need to build one.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

It must be because I'm in the tutorial part, so it won't let me.

[Thanaeon]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

Click units, select the mech, if you are in the color mode swap to equipment mode by clicking the roller thingy at the top left, equip all the necessary parts on the salvaged mechs.

Originally posted by Thanaeon:

I wondered about the same thing myself.

It turns out that the answer is simple, but not stated anywhere that I saw; after the tutorial section - after you've taken the first province - the workshop opens up in your base. There, one of the things you can build is new walker frames. (You can also buy upgrades buying you additional walker slots - in the beginning, you have three slots but only two frames.)

If you salvage a whole mech you also salvage its mech frame, so there is no need to build one.

Didn't work for me, at least in the tutorial. (Not sure I've salvaged a whole walker since. I probably have, but won't swear to it.) I think there was a difficulty setting in the game setup that said something about salvaging mech frames, that's probably got something to do with it. It was off by default so I left it that way.

[BYG Maddie]

Originally posted by Thanaeon:

I wondered about the same thing myself.

It turns out that the answer is simple, but not stated anywhere that I saw; after the tutorial section - after you've taken the first province - the workshop opens up in your base. There, one of the things you can build is new walker frames. (You can also buy upgrades buying you additional walker slots - in the beginning, you have three slots but only two frames.)

This is pretty much the answer -- the first province is basically a tutorial province, so it's limited in what you can do, but once you're out of the first province you can start building other mechs.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Okey went back and played the tutorial again just to make sure i'm not delusional. Seems like it works like this:

If you manage to have a "intact" hostile mech at the SALVAGE stage you can retrieve it with a little checkbox (Default settings, haven't changed anything) and this can be done during the first province.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940847208

In my second game i for some reason didn't have enough salvage budget to do so (i could in my first game), not sure why this is exactly (perhaps a part of it was destroyed last time so it was less work to salvage?).

But either way it doesn't make much of a difference since the missions during the tutorial seems limited to 2 mech's anyway (If you have 3 you can just swap them around, not use all 3 at once).

[Slatie]

Hi. Came looking for answer to this question and as I did do drove me mobile base into the second area. As soon as I did so I got a message that I had enough parts to build a new mech.