If you run the game under wine, you should be able to run the mods under the same wine prefix. For example I run Battletech on steam and also run the BTA 3062 mod package and it works fine.
He famously started that speech with the line “I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose!”
Don't matter if you're skinny or fat, conditioning is what's going to matter when you're trying to cross-chest carry some beefcake who thought he could handle himself in big surf.
This reminds me of the time I checked out all the Dune books from the library, they were all hardbacks and the stack was nearly 2 feet high. The librarian was like, "You're not going to read all that before they're due" She was right but she let me check them all out anyway.
On a serious note you have to do the Domes & Dripstones Tour if you go. Be ready to climb some stairs though.