Tag: Gundam SEED

MechaStellar Battle Report – Freedom & Justice vs Sandrock, Heavyarms & Deathscythe Hell EW Versions

In this MechaStellar battle report we have Freedom and Justice from Gundam SEED facing off against Gundam Deathscythe Hell, Sandrock Kai and Heavy Arms Kai from Endless Waltz. It’s a highly mobile Gundam on Gundam battle with both sides rocking some heavy assault units.

This game was used to test out the updated Starting Momentum mechanics (both players starting closer to 10 Momentum, instead of ~4 for Ace games) as well as the Battle Damage mechanic which allows Elite Units to lose weapons, shields, arms and legs to stay in the fight. Both these rules have made it into the current rules for MechaStellar VER10.

Keep reading for the battle report.

Forces

Gundam SEED

  • Justice Gundam (1000pts+150) – Commander
    • +50pts Boost+1
    • +50pts Melee Expert
    • +50pts Guard Expert
  • Freedom Gundam (1000pts+100)
    • +50pts Boost+1
    • +50pts Additional Pilot Trait – Renowned Pilot Hit on a 3+

Gundam Wing Endless Waltz (EW)

  • Sandrock Custom EW (750pts) – Commander
  • Heavy Arms Custom EW (750pts)
  • Deathscythe Hell EW (750pts)

Round 1

Freedom is up first, takes a shot at Sandrock then uses Boost to hide behind a building. Sandrock moves center stage and ducks behind LOS cover. Justice moves up and blocks access to Freedom and once again shoots at Sandrock, but neither Freedom nor Justice are able to scratch it at this range.

Heavy Arms moves up and and thanks to Quattre’s strategist trait get’s Support ATK from it’s allies before releasing a micromissiles barrage at Justice and causes minor damage, Deathscythe moves up and the buster shield manages to inflict significant damage.

The Round ends with no damage to the Endless Waltz Team and significant damage to Justice. Both teams start Round 2 with 8+ Momentum.

Round 2

Freedom is up first, dives in front of Justice and unloads it’s Balena plasma cannons into both Deathscythe and Heavy Arms burning through Mometum at the EW team. Quattre also used Strategist to pump up Support DEF on both units. Freedom then uses Hi-MATS and unloads with the Railguns and Beam Rifle on Deathscythe inflicting decent damage.

Freedom then retreats behind Justice.

Heavy Arms activates next, moves up once again and uses Zeal to attack with it’s Quad Gatling Guns and Micromissiles on Justice, unfortunately scoring no Finishing blows but dealing minor damage.

Justice is up next, uses Hi-Mats to attack with it’s beam boomerang, Beam Cannons with the Fatum Backpack Blindside, Beam Rifle, Vulcans and lastly a beam saber, nearly destroying Deathscythe and disabling his Buster Shield in the process.

Athrun went with Swift Strikes in Melee to disengage and retreat back to the Control Point.

Deathscythe slices into Justice but thanks to Flash manages to avoid all but a single hit, and fails the Armor Save. The total damage however forces Athrun into SEED mode, which is crucial right before Sandrock’s melee assault.

Both Quatre and Athrun get extremely lucky on their attack and defense rolls and Justice survives.

Round 3

Both sides are hovering just above empty on Momentum. Freedom decides to take a big risk, let’s see if it plays off.

Freedom uses Boost to fly up to the center point. With Hi-Mats he uses the Beam Rifle + Plasma Cannon on Heavy Arms and the Railguns on Deathscythe. Thanks to Trowa’s daredevil trait, they have just enough Momentum for 1 Flash, and so he avoids a crit-filled beam rifle shot, while Deathscythe gets pummeled with the railguns.

The Plasma cannons from the High Ground would have destroyed Heavy Arms but instead disabled all weapon systems save for the Gatling Guns.

Freedom tries for Vulcans to finish him off but HeavyArms holds out. Freedom really wanted to retain the high ground (the Control Point can only be captured on top the building) but doesn’t want to leave Heavy Arms to retaliate, and so with a beam saber he rushes in and strikes him down.

Both sides are out of Momentum.

Deathscythe rushes in, thanks to Momentum Shift he’s got enough to use Focus on his Melee Attack, the decisive blow has several failed Armor Saves + Finishing Blow, crippling and destroying Freedom.

It’s now 2-on-1, Athrun has only one chance to seize victory.

He starts with melee against sandrock, using swift strikes and disengages afterwards. He uses the beam boomerang now outside of melee to finish off Sandrock (remember both sides are out of Momentum). He uses his 2nd Hi-MATs activation to fire his guns into Deathscythe finishing him off.

Winner Team SEED!

After Action Report

SEED Player

I really like the changes to starting Momentum, in the older rules one of us would start at M=6 for Skilled pilots and M=4 for Ace pilots, here we started at M=10 and M=8, it made Round 1 a lot less vicious and I think opens up some more options since we’re less worried about getting Alpha strikes by bringing extra Aces.

Although we’re not always used to this playstyle yet, so in Round 1 we got into the hold habit of trying to avoid using any Momentum and so we finished Round 1 fully topped off haha.

Freedom and Justice keep performing well, although I was pretty sad I lost Freedom here and never got to activate Kira’s SEED mode. I was also pretty jealous of Strategist on the Wing side, it really saved them when I unloaded with Zeal. Still it was a good game and I got pretty lucky at the end for this game playing agressive. In other games, I spent a lot more time playing keep away, but sometimes I’d lose too many control points and I couldn’t catch up.

Gundam Wing EW Player

I also like the changes we’re using here, especially bringing back Battle Damage to the Core Rules. Battle Damage is a bit more streamlined, borrowing some lessons learned we had from the older Stellar Warships module, and now having the option to sacrifice weapons can give these units more longevity when the pressure is on. In other games, this means units live to Round 5 (or don’t die at all) but we wanted to feature this battle in the test series because it had a really dramatic turn of events with a lot of casualties in Round 3.

Overall, I’m really enjoying the tuned up Gundam Wing Endless Waltz units, they are a lot more durable than before. I really need to try them out against masses units of Leos, Aries, Taurus, & Virgos in the future.

MechaStellar Battle Report – Freedom & Justice vs Calamity, Raider & Forbidden

In this MechaStellar battle report we have a classic Gundam SEED battle with Freedom and Justice vs the drug enhanced biological computers for Calamity, Raider and Forbidden Gundam. As a bonus, there’s a short one on one fight between Freedom and Providence at the end. This test series was done when we were prototyping all the SEED units, whenever possible we like to demo out specific battles or moments from the show to see how well it plays out on the tabletop as well.

In this case though, the evil trio from SEED ended up being harder to kill than expected.

Points were still being adjusted at the time for both sides, but the dark trio were short on points and so brought a squad of Strike Daggers with them to capture Control Points (CPs). The Strikes are proxies for Strike Daggers shown above.

With Justice having a strong defense most games wound up with Justice boosting to capture the central CP, and Calamity going for a rapid fire barrage and forbidden doing the same.

To play up the teamwork / best-friends angle we see in the show, anytime Justice or Freedom was badly damaged, we would have the other Gundam stand in front of LOS to take all future attacks. This game series was before we applied the global “-1 Hit” to all units, and so Justice was taking a lot of hits early on, Freedom intervened and fires it’s AOE Plasma Cannons.

The Strike Daggers continue their mission of accelerating towards the CP. The D.Trio player was hesitant to start them too far up the board since he was worried either Freedom or Justice would Zeal and wipe them out too early. So Round 1 & 2 was spent moving towards a center line CP. (In this game series, 3 Control points were on the center line in no-man’s land).

Raider goes for the flank and captures a CP for some so both sides own 2 CPs. It’s hyper machine guns were effective at draining Momentum. (In an old prototype of the rules, the N-Jammer Cancellers for Freedom and Justice provided unlimited phase shift, but excessive hits would stun the pilots unless they burned Momentum. It ended up being a cumbersome system and so we opted for the current version of Phase Shift, that while not show accurate, still provides a hefty defense vs [K] weapons.

A battle shot of Forbidden trying to swoop in and scythe through Freedom, but Kira + SEED mode held the line. This was back in the time where SEED (and the related Berserker / Killer instinct abilities) were overtuned and providing too large of a critical range bonus, with consistently good rolls of 7+ Freedom and Justice would be invincible as we found in some other ace matches vs Gundam Wing pilots and also Physalis / The O.

Speaking of wiping out daggers, Freedom disengaged capped that control panel and blew up most of that squad. (We briefly tested squad mechanics in this battle in July 2025, but 6 months later it’s still not quite ready yet).

Calamity unloads on Freedom with Zeal, using it’s shield beams, bazooka, and beam cannons and Kira’s lucky dice eventually failed him.

Justice goes into melee with Calamity but fails to destroy it, and the CP is contested while Raider captures the enemy CP. It’s Round 2 and the Freedom / Justice team now have 0 CPs, while the D.Trio have 4…

Round 3 and Athrun captures a control point, and Calamity can’t move fast enough to contest it. However, Raider is able to swoop from behind. The enemy team is generating too much Momentum and Athrun isn’t able to defeat them by himself.

After Action Report

We ran this game series for 10 play tests, and the SEED Trio of Calamity, Raider and Forbidden won every time. We weren’t expecting that since Freedom / Justice had been on a roll in every other game. I think this is one of the first series we did where one team focused heavily on defense and it worked out really well, we rarely have a game series where all three protagonist (or antagonist) units survive through 5 rounds.

We learned a lot from this series and it helped us decide on which way we wanted to move forward with on Phase Shift, lowering lethality across the board, and on certain weapons. We also continued to run Freedom and Justice in other series just to verify they weren’t weak (they aren’t) they just happen to have an achilles heel facing Calamity, Raider and Forbidden.

Bonus Report

While we are reenacting battles, we decided to do Freedom vs Providence a couple times to see if 1-vs-1 games were more fun compared to VER9.

While MechaStellar is primarily a wargame, a number of our players really love doing 2v2 Ace battles. 1v1 leaves a bit to be desired, since positioning (especially for blindside) doesn’t matter as much.

Unless of course you go 2nd in one Round, position yourself for Blindside, and then go first in the next Round. This was a fun test game and helped us adjust Dragoons a bit, we had also started experimenting with “Free attack” weapons like Vulcans, and Shield beams (and also warship beams) all the way back in June / July 2025 but not all of that made it into public release immediately. We knew it was a big change so we wanted to iron that one before releasing, especially since Funnels were ultra broken in playtesting when we first did them in VER6 (and our playtesters will likely say they stayed broken all through VER8 hahaha)

Overall a fun test for the game, it was around 60/40 with Freedom vs Providence win rates. It was also good to test out the various climactic events and tweak them as needed.

This report was written long after the fact when we discovered the test photos, so it’s not as in-depth as other battle reports so instead we decided to focus on what was changing and what was being tested. Hope you enjoyed reading

MechaStellar Battle Report – Gundam Seed vs Shin Mazinger & Getter

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.

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MechaStellar Battle Report – Freedom & Justice vs GP02 Physalis & The O

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.

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MechaStellar Monthly Roster Update – JUL2025 – Gundam SEED Stargazer

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.

MechaStellar VER10 Battle Report – Gundam SEED – GAT Battle

In this battle report we see the classic battle of Kira Yamato in the Strike and Mwu La Fraga in the Moebius Zero vs the remaining GAT series Gundams, Aegis, Blitz, Buster and Duel piloted by Athrun Zala, Nicol Amalfi, Dearka Elsman and Yzak Joule. Both sides squared off with 1000pts in a space battle. Keep reading to see the outcome of these two battles!

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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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MechaStellar Monthly Roster Update – April2025 – Gundam SEED

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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