MechaStellar Poll Updated August 2024

From the last MechaStellar poll the winners were Turn A Gundam, Captain Harlock and more units from the Yuusha / Braves series. We’ve added Turn A, The Arcadia, as well as Figh Bird, Da Garn, and Might Gaine as well as various other units from their respective series. Now that we’ve finished those it’s time to close out the current poll.

Our Top 3 Finalists are Gundam Seed, Space Battleship Yamato and Aura Battler Dunbine. Sadly, Galaxy Cyclone Bryger (Braiger) continues to go unnoticed ='(

We keep an eye on the poll month to month to give us an idea of what to start prototyping and working on for the future. To that end we have been able to get Gundam Seed and Space Battleship Yamato on the VER9 Drafts page already: https://mechastellar.com/ver9-drafts/

As a bonus, we’ve used Daitarn 3, Raideen, Brygar and GoLion in VER10 playtests since it’s easier to mock up a brand new profile rather than updating an older VER9 profile to the VER10 layout. To that end, these four individual units will become a bonus release for VER10.

NEW Poll

Most poll entries are pulled from either the Super Robot Wars (Super Robot Taisen) games W or the Alpha series since we’d like to release a Coop campaign mission pack for those games. We also try to always include a battleship on each poll. You can find a series list for these games here:

Here are the new series replacing the previous winners

Replacing Gundam Seed will be Gundam 00
Replacing Space Battleship Yamato will be Martian Successor Nadesico (SRW W)
Replacing Aura Battler Dunbine we have Combat Mecha Xabungle (SRW Alpha Gaiden)

Many Super Robot fans have noted since Gundam has only one entry on the poll, they usually dominate since the Super Robots are split into many categories. That’s a fair point so we’re adding in a 2nd Gundam series, we’ll have UC Gundam featured also moving in production order. Next up, Char’s Counter Attack!

For Super Robot fans we’re also adding in Grendizer & Steel Jeeg (SRW Alpha 2) and Dancouga (SRW Alpha) to the poll. And as one final entry we have the incredible Tekkaman Blade (SRW W) to the list.

The poll is now open so you can go cast your votes.

MechaStellar Battle Report Defend the City Game 2 featuring Gundam & Pacific Rim

Note: This was a battle report from MechaStellar VER7 there are a number of updates to gameplay and victory points since that time. For instance in this version only a single armor save was rolled but failing it was instant death.

The 2nd game that day we were able to accommodate another player who was joyfully able to play as Epyon as well as a Kaiju from Pacific Rim. Wing and Heavy Arms returned as Attackers while Gipsy, Big Zam, Gundam and Guncannon returned as Defenders along with Deathscythe. You’ll find the Battle Report below the break.

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MechaStellar December 2022 Unit Roster Update

A lot of our folks will be on travel for December so we’re pushing the roster update out early this month. The major update for this month is the new “Supreme Robot Warfare” module that is intended for smaller games of say 2vs2 or 3vs3 which many of our players have been gravitating towards. Since this is a major update to the core rules we’re updating the VER to 8.6. The Design Goal for this module was to enhance the mobility of Real Robots (MS) and enhance the durability and knockout power of Super Robots (Titans).

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Where to start Getter Robo?

Getter Robo is another foundational series for the Mecha genre, since it’s an older series a lot of younger fans might not be familiar with it outside of its Super Robot Wars appearances. While Mazinger Z gave us our first piloted super robot, Getter Robo gave us our first combining robot which would become a staple spectacle in the Mecha genre. In this post we’ll cover some entry points to the Getter Robo franchise. If you are here looking for recommendations on where to start go ahead and scroll down to the end of this post.

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MechaStellar Battle Report – Mazinger Z and Mobile Suit Gundam

Below are a pair of battle reports we put together while doing final testing of the Mazinger Z units released in September. The models used are the Gundam 1/300 S.O.G. line and the Mazinger Z gashapon line. You can read more about model sizes in these two posts.

Below the break you’ll see the battle report as well as a post mortem on the mecha tactics used for the Mobile Suits from Gundam, Mazinger and the Kikaiju.

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Where to start Mazinger Z?

Mazinger Z is a foundational series for the mecha genre, however, it’s an older show so a lot of younger mecha fans may not be acquainted with it. In this post we’ll cover some entry points to the Mazinger Z franchise. If you are here looking for recommendations on where to start go ahead and scroll down to the end of this post.

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MechaStellar Battle Report – GP03 Dendrobium vs The Delaz Fleet

Here’s a short battle report on using GP03 by itself against a portion of the Delaz fleet. This Gundam tabletop tactics game involved GP03 Dendrobium, three Musai class cruisers, 9 Zaku IIs, and 3 Rick Dom IIs.

One of our players mentioned having issues running GP03 against large numbers of units so we opted to use the Zaku II over the F2 since they’re a cheaper unit and we wanted to try and overwhelm GP03.

The models used are the Gundam 1/400 collection for the Zaku II and Rick Dom II, the 1/1200 Gunpla kit for two Musai and the MSiA Peer Gynt for the larger more detailed cruiser and GP03 Dendrobium. You can read more about miniatures for Gundam and Stellar Warships in these posts.

Below the break will be a more photos and a battle report that tracks Momentum and damage to GP03 Dendrobium as well as a post mortem discussing the Gundam tactics and misplays.

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MechaStellar Roster Update – Mazinger Z

Mazinger Z is a classic series from the 70s with both a manga and several TV shows and OVA adaptations. Along with Getter Robo and Tetsujin-28 it is one of the original super robot series, with Mazinger being the first piloted super robot, while Tetsujin-28 who appeared earlier was controlled remotely.

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MechaStellar – Mazinger Z Miniatures

Go Nagai Figure Collection Great Mazinger Doublas M2 Garada K7

2023 Update: Added photos for the Go Nagai figure collection to the very end.

On this page we’re going to discuss the different miniatures available for Mazinger Z to be used with the MechaStellar Wargame Rules. This post is to show you the various kinds of small scale and large figures available to play MechaStellar.

When playing MechaStellar we advise you to pick either a Versus movie scale (all figures are roughly the same height) or an approximate scale where some very large robots (i.e. 100+ meter robots like Daitarn 3 or Ideon) are represented by larger figures while everything else is around the same height. You can read more about the recommended size and scale here.

Mazinger Z Garada K7 Doublas M2 Great Mazinger Mazinkaiser Shin Mazinger God Scrander

If you you would like to get into the Mazinger series check out this post.

Mazinger as a series is created by Go Nagai and popularized with its first animated appearance produced by Toei animation. The of Mazinger has gone through many incarnations and reboots both in manga and anime form including Mazinkaiser, Shin Mazigner Z (Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact) and of course it forms the holy trinity of Super Robot Wars games with Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and Gundam who have appeared in nearly every single entry.

Below the break we’ll talk about the various type of Mazinger miniatures and figures out there you can use for mecha minis in a Mechastellar tabletop Super Robot Wars game.

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[MS] September Update – MechaStellar VER 8.4 Released

For Septembers roster update we have 24 new mecha unit profiles including the foundational Super Robot series, Mazinger Z. We are also releasing MechaStellar VER 8.4 Core Rules which streamlines some items in the Stellar Warfare section and provides another option for [Focus] as well as changes to Disengage. Lastly, there’s a large balance update that will address some points cost issues, movement and evade as well as improving the durability of some units.

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