In this battle report we have a 2000pt game using the MechaStellar VER10 rules, one side we have the SEED Duo of Kira and Athrun piloting the Freedom and Justice Gundams. On the other side we the iconic Koji Kabuto in the Mazinger Z with the God Scrander as well as the OG Getter Team of Ryoma, Hyato and Musashi in Getter Robo. (We’re using the Armageddon Black version since we’ve customized this 300pt unit into a 1010 point unit.)
In this cross universe game, the SEED Duo are facing off against two of the most iconic Super Robots. Read on below the break to see the results of the battle report.
The latest update has quite a bit of changes both to the Core Rules, Wargaming supplement and the Unit Profile sheets. In this post we’ll cover a brief overview. Which we’ve broken into three segments. Some of these we will cover more in depth in follow-up posts. For the first segment let’s cover Quality of Life QoL updates.
HexaStellar Update
The forthcoming Gundam Assemble will introduce Gundam wargaming on a hex scale to the world. We’re really excited for it! We also wanted to make MechaStellar compatible with Hexes (and also square grids) for people who don’t like using tape measures. We’ve made all ranges divisible by 4 for Sensors, Movement, and Weapon ranges. In general, around half of all units ended up receiving a movement boost, so you should have some more mobility in your games. We’ve also updated facing rules to be easier to use with hexes where turning 90 degrees is not as easy.
Challenge Update
We got some feedback from a regular player that Challenge had a big loophole where if you are down to a 1-on-1 game, the player going second wouldn’t be able to challenge and thus it would invalidate a lot of the challenge focused pilot traits if they lost initiative. We’ve fixed this and now allow for Challenge to be declared before any unit activates.
Pilot Traits
Recently we’ve got some playtest feedback that some of the Pilot Traits were getting a little too lethal. Previously Reaper (+2 Hits, +2 Crits vs Challenge) and Ruthless (+4 Hits on Counter / IDF / AOE) were so powerful on a turn by turn basis, that even relatively nimble mobile suits were still getting one shot even when maxing out defense bonuses. We haven’t done an overhaul on pilot traits for a while, so we took our old notes along with the new feedback. Overall, we ended up consolidating a lot of pilot traits to having a shared Level 1 origin, that branches out to a stronger or more varied Level II effect. A lot of the insta-picks like the level 1 version of Reaper, are now Level 2 only for that reason. Overall, we’re happy with pilot traits becoming a little simpler and easier to remember while taking away some of the lethality there.
Oh and as a bonus you can now take a 2nd Level II trait in the upgrade rules. Look forward to this on the Captain Harlock sheets. (Do note, Warship rebalances are taking a long time, so they likely won’t be ready for another couple weeks).
In the previous post we talked about several items in the MechaStellar SEP 2025 roster update. In this post we’ll cover Starting Momentum in-depth.
Momentum is one MechaStellar’s defining features, and has been for quite a few years now. It’s a game system we’re really proud of, momentum represents the collective skill, luck, morale of your forces will ebb and flow during battle. In the switch to VER10 Momentum could start at a flat 10, which was greatly in the early drafts, but with some major overhauls to the pilot system, starting Momentum was also much lower. We’ve been experimenting with several options and finally came up with a winner we’re happy with and play testers are happy with, some are even overjoyed.
We went through a lot of different experiments of starting Momentum, perhaps too many haha. One we tried to stick with was to quantify, Battle-Tested / Skilled / Ace units, and how much Momentum they would drain. We eventually settled on -1/2 (round up), -1 and -2 starting Momentum. This was fine, but we still ran into problems where, let’s say you wanted to run a Gundam SEED Le Creuset team, and you’re starting off with M-6 still (4 Skilled and 1 Ace).
While it was relatively fair, when comparing teams, we still wound up with very low starting Momentum overall. This was also in a time period where playtesters discovered some good turn 1 Alpha Strikes, and the need for higher starting Momentum become very apparent.
We eventually solved this by retaining the current comparison method, but now there’s a chance both players will start with M=10 or M=8, where historically it was often M=6 vs M=4. This comparison method has both players count up their “Elite Units”. The person with less Elite points, starts with M=10, the other players starts with the difference.
For example let’s say we have Kira and Mwu (2x Ace = 4) vs the Le Creuset Team (4x Skill + Ace = 6), a difference of 2. Kira and Mwu start with 10, while the Le Creuset team start with the difference (10-2=8). This gave A LOT more flexibility for people who like running thematic forces with lots of Elite units on both sides. You can also still field a grunt force vs an elite force and have a huge gap in Momentum.
Overall, we kept the same feel of the current Momentum system while overall massively improving the amount of starting Momentum. This is both good for balance and QoL in our opinion. Hope you all enjoy!
Hello everyone, for this month’s update we are adding in the METEOR units from Gundam SEED. We also have a huge balance patch affecting various units, pilot traits, and the entire weapons arsenal. There are also various revisions to the core rules to to clarify various questions that have come up, as well streamlining movement and allowing for stronger versions of Flash and Iron Wall to allow for more survivability of units.
Unfortunately the balance patch is quite large so as of today only the rules and unit profiles for Gundam are complete. The roster update for Super Robots and Warships is planned for next week. Keep reading for a quick summary of changes. We’ll do in-depth posts next week as well to go over changes.
Summary
Core Rules Revision
REV102 – Updated Facing rules. Updated IDF in space. Updated Iron Wall again. Updated Critical Strike. Clarified various items based on playtester feedback.
REV101 – Updated gameplay tools for Hexastellar / MechaGrid gameplay. Updated wording on Challenge again. Updated IDF in Space. Allowed for Super Flash / Super Iron Wall at M-6. Updated AOE and Push/Pull.
REV101 – Removed from Barrage and Target Lock the clause for getting +1 Hit instead of +1 Shot. Rebalanced machine guns to be base 10d10 attack, so barrage and target lock still becomes +1 Hit for those weapons per pg2. Updated Battle Damage to correspond with removing Shield profile bloat. Solo unit Support ATK /DEF is now limited to the traits range. Armor Saves are limited to 3 dice.
REV100 – Closed loophole on challenge where challenge traits had no use if you went 2nd and player 1 only had a single unit. Clarified disengage. Updated and renamed Melee Elite bonuses, free Disengage is only one on melee elite option now. Updated Finisher formula. Valor is now Round 2+
REV99 – Converted Battle Damage from VER9 to VER10
REV98 – Big update to Starting Momentum & Shifts (M+2 to move closer)
REV97 – removed type restrictions (MS/Super Robot) on Flash & Iron Wall. Improved Iron Wall and reset it to [M-3]. Finisher is now rolled by the Defender, it activates on a 1 instead of a 10. Added a clause about going over the 10 dice Finisher limit. Updated Accelerate to coincide with the Hexastellar Movement update. Updated Push/Pull weapons which no longer deal DMG on failed Armor Saves unless you hit another object.
Wargaming Rules
Updated all Pilot Traits and consolidated
Unit Profiles
Added Meteor (Freedom) and Meteor (Justice)
Major improvement to G Gundam Units, improves to Wing units
In this battle report we have a 2000pt game using the MechaStellar VER10 rules, one side we have the SEED Duo of Kira and Athrun piloting the Freedom and Justice Gundams. On the other side we have Anavel Gato, The Nightmare of Solomon, piloting the stolen GP02 using the MLRS (Multi-Launch Rocket System) configuration as well as Paptimus Scirocco in The O. In this cross universe game, the SEED Duo are facing off against two of Universal Century Gundam’s biggest villains. Read on below the break to see the results of the battle report.
Hello everyone, for this month’s MechaStellar update we have another batch of SEED units to debut. This time we have suits from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Stargazer including the eponymous Stargazer, the fan favorite Strike Noir as well as the overtuned Blu Duel and Verde Buster who unfortunately were the first on-screen phase shift Gundams to be destroyed by ordinary grunts. Speaking of, we also have the Kerberos Bucue to add as well.
In addition to Stargazer we have also added in the Providence, another Funnel DRAGOON using Mobile Suit as well as his arch Nemesis Mwu La Flaga piloting the Perfect Strike. The Providence has proven to be a very powerful unit on the tabletop in testing, and we really enjoy the Challenge focused traits to have him face down with either Mwu or Kira. The Perfect Strike comes in at 900 points to give you flexibility to add in more pilot upgrades on either Mwu, or perhaps Kira and Athrun if you’re running them as a team.
Last but not least, a lot of the AU units have received some preliminary updates in preparation for next month’s update. The goal is to eventually have all units have their Sensors and Movement values in multiples of 4, we’ll talk more about this in a follow-up Design Goals post. We’re targeting to complete this in next month’s update.
Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy the treasure trove of SEED units we’ve put out the last couple months. If you’d like to request a specific SEED variant please let us know in the comments below.
In this post we have a MechaStellar Battle Report using the draft VER10 rules. We have a lunar battlefield with a good amount of terrain and some high end machines battling it out. In this cross-universe SRW style game, Haman Karn heard a rumor that the golden mobile suit was still fighting and she went to investigate thinking that Char was still alive. Instead her forces encountered the infamous White Doll
Hello everyone, for this month’s update we have more units from Gundam SEED including grunt units for both sides. Next month we’re targeting to include some Gundam SEED Destiny units such as the Zaku Warrior. We’ve also updated the wargaming rules supplement to now include Secondary Objectives updated to VER10 and a few more battlefield setup photos.
We’ve been hard at work at a massive Warship update as well as some weapon rebalances that lower the lethality a bit in Rapid Fire range. Unfortunately, both of these tasks have now stretched out for 3 months now and we’re still not done yet. We are shooting to finalize these in the end of June update. Stay tuned!
Update Summary
Added 16 units to Gundam SEED
By request added in the Juaggu to UC Gundam and a few more amphibious pals
In this post we have a MechaStellar Battle Report using the draft VER10 rules. We have a lunar battlefield with a good amount of terrain and some high end machines battling it out. In this cross-universe SRW style game, Haman Karn heard a rumor that the golden mobile suit was still fighting and she went to investigate thinking that Char was still alive. Instead her forces encountered the infamous White Doll
Hello everyone, for this month’s we are adding in Gundam SEED to MechaStellar VER10. Gundam SEED is a franchise juggernaut with a lot of fans worldwide so we’re happy to finally get it into the MechaStellar roster. We’ve also updated some core rules and various pilot traits. You can find them on the game-downloads page. Keep reading below the break for more info on this month’s update.
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