We touched upon this briefly in the last post. One of our design goals in MechaStellar is lethality. Making it such that even a powerful suit with heavy reinforcement can still be brought down.
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In previous posts we’ve talked a lot about melee systems and the various overhauls they’ve gone through. One concept we have always strived for is ensuring that Melee is a dangerous gamble. A High Risk, High Reward scenario. We did this because we wanted to emulate our favorite Mecha shows where often a melee clash is stylized like a Samuari showdown and only one fighter will survive.
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In the previous post we talked about keeping the rules system including both Mech classes and weapon profiles flexible and robust enough that we could keep the option open import Mechs from other universes if someone wanted to run a Super Robot Wars style game. Along a similar line to that is a core design goal of Rapid Mech Creation.
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In the previous post we talked about scalability. Wanting the game system to be playable at a small scale of 3vs3, to as large as armies of 30+ Mechs duking it out. Another goal we’ve always maintained was the ability to use Mechs from different universes in the same series but different series as well.
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A little late for spring cleaning but I’ll be pushing out a number of drafts written over the last few months on the Design Goals we had when developing MechaStellar. For our first one we wanted to go with Scalable.
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NOTE: I took a break from blogging for a bit as my duties at work increased. These drafts are from the VER 2 rule set, we’ve since had many playtests and made it to VER 5 which is a very different game. We’ll have more to post in the future.
Before we put the terrain away we decided it would be fun to try out a game using Zeta Gundam units and see the overall mission would change now that we were using higher performing units with better movement and mobility.
On the AEUG Side we have a Hyaku Shiki, Dijeh, and three Nemos pictured above. For a total of 500 points and 22 Pilot Skill. On the Titans side we have a larger force including two Ace Pilot Asshimars, 2x Hizack Cannons, a Guntank II, and 5 Marasais for 500 points and 42 Pilot Skill. As the AEUG player I found the difference in Pilot Skill to use this game pretty daunting.
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NOTE: I took a break from blogging for a bit as my duties at work increased. These drafts are from the VER 2 rule set, we’ve since had many playtests and made it to VER 5 which is a very different game. We’ll have more to post in the future.
This past weekend we busted out some of favorite terrain to give this scenario another try. It involves one force dropping into a forest to assault a hidden mountain base replete with anti-aircraft guns. It also gave us a chance to continue testing Shield rules and see if we wanted to adjust things. Here’s the Battle Report with a round by round summary.
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We went through a few tests trying out Skill Wagering using a +5 Modifier. If you recall from the last post we were considering having shooting and evade follow similar principles as skill wagering for melee.
When it comes to designing a Mech in MechaStellar there are three pillars to build off of. Frame Level, Performance Level, and Pilot Level. We use these three categories to build just about any suit. We have grunt suits with ace pilots (Low Frame, High Pilot), Prototype Units with inexperienced pilots (High Frame, Low Pilot) and all-rounders like my favorite the GM Custom (Mid Frame, Mid Performance, and Mid-High Pilot Level).
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One very nice benefit to the stay at home order is that we’ve had a lot more time around the house to take care of chores, cook some really healthy meals and work on some hobbies. Following some successful Zeta tests where we were able to try out a new Skill system that was a bit more engaging giving player’s more agency we decided to do another round of testing this time using some newly minted 0083 suits.
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