MechaStellar Gameplay Example – Defend the City – Round 5 & After Action Report

This is Round 5 of for the MechaStellar gameplay example using the Defend the City / Rampage game mode. Click here to return to Round 3 & 4.

Round 5

Double Doublas is up first, he needs to finally destroy Diana A so he can get back to destroying the city.

• He moves closer and gets within Rapid Fire range, and uses Havoc for +100 DMG.
• He chooses Precision (+1 ACC) each time while Diana chooses Guard (+2 Blocks).
• The first attack is 6 Hits after Improvise vs 2 Blocks, she loses [M-4] to fully negate it.
• The second attack is 5 Hits, she loses [M-3] she takes 800 DMG and passes the two Armor Saves.
• EOT [M] Kikaiju 0  Toeizinger 0

It’s curtains for Double Doublas. 

• Sayaka shoots her Scarlett Beam
• She uses the Make it Count Skill which in Round 5 gives +5 Hits. 
• She uses Double Focus for +2 Hits.
• Sayaka chooses Barrage (+3 shots) while Doublas chooses Guard (+1 Evade)
• 15 Hits = 6000 DMG
• If Doublas can pass all three Armor Saves he will survive but alas he fails the 3rd one destroying him.

Victory Points

The players were using the Defend the City / Rampage rules which uses the same scoring as simple battle as well as bonus victory points for destroying buildings and destroying units quickly.

In simple battle when you destroy a unit you gain victory points equal to the units frame and pilot level. If they were the Commander you gain bonus VP equal to the current Round. VP are lost if you lose an Ace Pilot or a Frame 4+ unit

For the Defend the City Game mode any units destroyed in Round 1 or 2 they are worth double. Additionally, the Attacker gains bonus VP for every 2 buildings they destroy rounded up.

Toezinger

• Destroyed Doublas M2 (Frame 3) in Round 1 (x2) = 6VP
• Destroyed Garada K7 (Frame 3) = 3 VP
• Destroyed Kingdan X10 (Frame 3 Pilot 2) with Revenge (x2) = 10VP
  • Round 4 destroyed the enemy Commander = +4 VP
• Lost a Critical Machine (Mazinger) = -3 VP
• Unacceptable Casualties (Koji is out of comission) = -2 VP
• Total = 18VP

Kikaiju

• Destroyed Boss Borot (Frame 2 Pilot 1) = 3 VP
• Destroyed Mazinger (Frame 4 Pilot 2) = 6 VP
  • Round 3 destroyed the enemy Commander = +3 VP
• Destroyed 10 Buildings = +5 VP
• Total 17VP

After Action Report

Toeizinger Player

This ended up being an incredibly close game, I had thought I had lost since even though I had stopping the rampaging mechanical beasts a lot of the city got flattened and I lost my Commander / most expensive unit. I can’t say it was strategy, really just luck on my end that I edged out a win with only 1 Victory Point to spare. I’m glad I remembered to declare Revenge on Kingdan otherwise I would have lost on VP.

As for tactics, it’s a lot harder when you do the alternate deployment mode. I mean it’s preferable to starting 3+ feet away and letting them rampage while you take 2 turns getting to them hahaha! I think it’s very hard when you’re playing a force that is built around shooting, since your opponents can deploy very close to you and make a charge in Round 1 so you have to be very conscious of what you’re doing. My team has a lot of firepower and can do a lot of damage but they fold pretty easily once they get into melee. Maybe in a future game I’ll bring a more melee oriented teammate like Great Mazinger or Getter Robo.

Kikaiju Player

Wow what a game, I thought I had outplayed my opponent on two fronts, both for VP and go simply blowing up their robots and city but I lost by just a thread. Looking back at a few of the Rounds, it may have been better to focus on destroying more buildings rather than picking fights with the enemy robots. Still when I saw they had filled up their Momentum pool I couldn’t resist striking knowing that they couldn’t benefit from the game rule or their commander trait for getting Momentum when attacked. By Round 3 is probably where I should have focused on destroying more buildings, but I was really close to finishing them off that I went with that strategy.

And that’s a lot of the fun really. I thought I was going to finish of my oppponent early and then have a Round or 2 to flatten the city for even more VP in a victory lap. Then it turns out that Diana A gets great rolls while I botch some evades and suddenly it’s 1-on-1 and my last guy has to burn most his actions just to try and get to a good firing location. My opponent definitely beat me in maneuvering, there was one early on where they got outside of range I think in Round 1 or 2 with Diana A and then again at the end where they used LOS cover to force me to waste actions to get a view on them. Well done and great game!

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