[MS] – Playtest Photos week of 15AUG

Here are some quick playtest photos of this past weekend. The first one shows units from Pacific Rim, giant robots called Jaegers built to defend humanity from giant monsters named Kaiju. Fantastic first movie, highly recommend if you haven’t gotten a chance to see it. Jaegers and Kaiju use the rules for ‘Gigas’ a slower but more durable type of Mech and in this case giant monster. It’s also been fun testing out a new ‘Defend the City’ game type we hope to release soon.

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MechaStellar: Unit Roster Update 12AUG21

This week’s update is a large one. We’ve got the iconic Gelgoog series making its debut as well the RX78NT-1 Gundam ‘Alex’ and the Kampfer by request. Let’s start with the Gelgoog series.

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Gelgoogs and Backshields

The Gelgoogs present an interesting design problem. They are one of the few mobile suits to deploy with their shields consistently on their backs while most units have their shields pointed to the front. How best to represent that on the tabletop?

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[MS] Playtest – Alex and Kampfer

Below you’ll find some playtest photos of a recent game and memorable game using 0080 units. While it seemed one sided for most of it, the Federation came very close to victory near the end, and in a rematch game a change in Tactics resulted in a clean sweep for the Federation.

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[MS] Playtest – Gundam Wing Units

Gundam Wing was the first Gundam show to arrive in America and was an immensely popular hit when it landed. It also had some very distinctly stylized and memorable Gundams. Units from Gundam Wing will be the first AU that get added to the supplemental roster for MechaStellar. Normally we see these Gundams destroying Leos, Aries, Taurus and Virgos en masse, for this test we were comparing their relatively power against one another. Below are some photos for a 3 on 3 Gundam battle while I was still unpacking the house.

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MechaStellar: Unit Roster Update 05AUG21

For this week’s update we have the Gyan mobile suit, some rules updates mentioned in the previous posts and some miscellaneous fixes.

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MechaStellar – Pilot Rules Update

We discovered in testing a few edge cases that necessitated a change to how Pilot works. Not a major one, but it is a rollback on the current power. Previously Pilot granted free Hits equal to your Pilot Level, so if you attack in melee, roll 4 Hits and were a Level 2 Pilot you’d have 6 Hits total. We ran into issues when it came to high damage weapons and cheap units.

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MechaStellar – New Command: Tear Through the Ranks

As mentioned in the previous post there will be a new addition to the available Commands you can give to your Mechs called ‘Tear through the Ranks’.

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MechaStellar – Playtest Photos 30JUL21

Finally cleared the last row of carboard boxes and now just need to finish organizing our new household. Still it’s good to take a break now and then and with a bit of space freed up on the dining table that is just enough room to put together a few playtests.

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MechaStellar: Unit Roster Update 29JUL21

I’m still in the middle of unpacking and organizing our household so this week will also be a minor update with more Zaku variants. In the month of August we plan on releasing the Gyan, Gelgoogs and Gundam variants as well as an update to to the Campaign Mission Packs.

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