MechaStellar Monthly Roster Update – DEC 2025 – Aura Battler Dunbine Part 2!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! For this month’s MechaStellar update we are rounding out the Aura Battler Dunbine roster with a complete set of the Aura Battlers from the TV show as well as the Zelana, Wing Calibur Fou, and the 4 legendary Aura Battleships.

You can find the updated units under “Warships” on the gamedownloads page which currently holds Harlock, Yamato, Dunbine as well as Warships from Gundam (and support units like Saberfish and Magella Tanks). https://mechastellar.com/game-downloads/

Aura Battler Dunbine is an outstanding show with some outstanding insectoid mecha designs. It has recently seen a major merchandise revamp with a huge portion of its roster both heroes and grunts getting figures for the Robot Spirits (Robot Damashii) line. The figures are incredible, please check them out. There are also older gashapon available for those who prefer small size minis.

Summary

Added 20 units from Aura Battle Dunbine to the MechaStellar roster
Significantly rebalanced how size affects all units, especially small units like Aura Battlers, Jets and Tanks
Rebalanced all small units. Yamato’s Cosmo Falcon / Tiger received an upgrade
Rebalanced all Warships

Look forward to Char’s Counter Attack next month! Happy New Year!!

MechaStellar Monthly Roster Update – June 2025 – Archangel, Freedom, Justice & Balance Patch

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay but this month’s update ended up being a really huge one. While we initially planned on this being the release month for the updated Warship rebalance, we also combined it with other balance patches affecting HP, Defense, Movement and Weapons stats (Range & Rapid Fire). Since we’re one week late we also put in some extra time and released some more units from Gundam SEED including the much beloved Freedom and Justice.

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Collecting Space Battleship Yamato Models

Space Battleship is a long running and beloved series in Japan and worldwide and such it has quite a lot of merchandise out there, not to mention some superb garagekits and scratch builds over the years including very impressive massive Yamato builds both by fans and by the show staff.

For this post I’ll be including several links to “ourstarblazers” a Star Blazers site run by giga-fan Tim Eldred, his site is a great resource for those who really love Yamato/Star Blazers. I do not have a huge collection of Yamato figures so many of the photos in this post are pulled from Tim’s site.

In this post we’ll look at model kits for Yamato both large and small scale, Soul of Chogokin (SOC) diecast figures, and gashapon (capsule toys) for Yamato. If you are unfamiliar with Space Battleship Yamato please check out our where to start post here. Keep reading below the break.

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MechaStellar Roster Update – July 2024 – Gundam Sentinel

Hope everyone’s having a great summer, it’s been a very busy one for us! For this month’s MechaStellar roster update we are featuring Gundam Sentinel, a sidestory set in the Zeta era. A fan favorite story, it features mass-produced Zeta and ZZ Gundams as well as the all new Superior (S) Gundam, it was also the launching point for legendary mecha designer Hajime Katoki (and you’ll see many concepts in Sentinel made their way into Katoki’s designs in 0083).

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Collecting Stellar warships from Captain Harlock

With the release of Captain Harlock it’s time to a post for collecting some of the more famous space battleships out there. We’ll start with the Arcadia. The Arcadia’s length was revised after it’s initial run which is why these model kits are greatly different sizes despite being roughly the same scale.

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Playtests – Captain Harlock The Arcadia of my Youth

I had the downstairs 8ft table setup for a 2v2 2000pt each 40k game not too long ago. While the table was cleared off and setup for gaming I thought it would be a great time to get in some test games with Captain Harlock’s ship, The Arcadia, on a grand table befitting such a grand ship. Below the great are photos from various tests.

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MechaStellar – Bonus Roster Update – Great Mazinger

We are ahead of schedule and so for this month in addition to Combattler V and Voltes V we’re adding another fan favorite series to the roster, Great Mazinger (1974) the sequel to Toei’s Mazinger Z (1972). We’re also including a Core Rules revision which streamlines some of the Stellar Warfare rules in preparation for the upcoming Captain Harlock release.

You can find them here: https://mechastellar.com/game-downloads/

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Asteroid Terrain for Gundam and other Mecha figures

One of the hallmarks of MechaStellar is combat with a backdrop against the stars. In this post we’ll look at a quick way to create asteroid terrain for your space battles. You will need some lava rock which you can find at garden or home improvement store or even Amazon as well as some clear acrylic flying stands and lastly a drill to put some holes into the rock. Below you’ll some photos of the asteroids and Gundam figures of various scales.

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Salamis & Musai Update

Just a quick update. While prototyping some powerful warships (Ra Cailum, Arcadia, J-Ark, etc.) we decided to alter the cost formula since these units were becoming too costly. This also affects Frame 1 units like the Salamis and Musai to a smaller degree. Their new costs allow them to have a full crew for 300pts with 5 Zaku IIs to a Musai and 4 GMs to a Salamis. The Salamis also got a slight equipment adjustment with more missiles available.

Additionally VER 8.5 of the core rules was updated to R2. This update adds in a [Reload] action for Stellar Warships.

Stellar Warships

All ships received Move+1, HP+1000, and a Cost decrease

AA Guns now ignore the Defense array trait