Tag: Gundam

MechaStellar Monthly Roster Update – May 2025 – Gundam SEED

Hello everyone, for this month’s update we have more units from Gundam SEED including grunt units for both sides. Next month we’re targeting to include some Gundam SEED Destiny units such as the Zaku Warrior. We’ve also updated the wargaming rules supplement to now include Secondary Objectives updated to VER10 and a few more battlefield setup photos.

You can find the updated rules and profiles on the MechaStellar Game-Downloads page.

We’ve been hard at work at a massive Warship update as well as some weapon rebalances that lower the lethality a bit in Rapid Fire range. Unfortunately, both of these tasks have now stretched out for 3 months now and we’re still not done yet. We are shooting to finalize these in the end of June update. Stay tuned!

Update Summary

  • Added 16 units to Gundam SEED
  • By request added in the Juaggu to UC Gundam and a few more amphibious pals
  • Updated the Wargaming Rules Supplement
    • Closed loopholes identified by all-star players
    • Added more photos for battlefield setup
    • Updated secondary objectives to VER10

MechaStellar Battle Report – Turn A Gundam Test Series

In this post we have a MechaStellar Battle Report using the draft VER10 rules. We have a lunar battlefield with a good amount of terrain and some high end machines battling it out. In this cross-universe SRW style game, Haman Karn heard a rumor that the golden mobile suit was still fighting and she went to investigate thinking that Char was still alive. Instead her forces encountered the infamous White Doll

Keep reading for the battle report.

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MechaStellar VER10 – Stress Test – Warships

Stellar Warships have come a long way since VER8. They’ve gone through several different styles of gameplay until eventually have their turns plays out the same as any of mecha unit in the game. VER10 continues to streamline Warships by having their profiles mirror those of the Kaiju with very high HP but poor evasion and the special Havoc stat that lets them blow apart cover.

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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 Battle Report Defend the City Game 1 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.

This is probably my favorite game we had of Defend the City. We had a tag team match with two players on each side. Defend the City is a game mode where the Defenders are trying to preserve the city while the Attackers attempt to destroy it.

The Attacker side had units from Gundam Wing (Wing & Heavy Arms) plus units from Gundam SEED (Freedom & Justice). In the 2v2 game each player picked a Commander trait, Wing had Vigilant Leader and Justice had Three Times as Fast.

The Defender side focused on Mobile Suit Gundam with an unlikely alliance between the Federation and Zeon. They had Big Zam, Zaku IIs, Gelgoogs, Amuro in the Gundam plus two Guncannons along with Gipsy Danger from Pacific Rim. In the 2v2 game each player picked a Commander trait, Big Zam had Resourceful while Amuro had Unyielding.

The players were using the Battle Damage and Climactic Events modules.

Below the break you’ll find the battle report. We were having a lot of fun with everyone at the table and the audience and so only remembered to take a few photos per Round.

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Where to Start Mobile Suit Gundam

Kunio Okawara painting of the original RX-78-2 Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam is a long running mecha franchise that created the “Real Robot” genre. To give a brief explanation, the Real Robot genre typically has a more militaristic feel where logistics, geopolitics, and the fragility of human life in a conflict are often at the forefront. That’s not to say Super Robot shows cannot do the exact same (and have done so), but Real Robot shows generally embody those traits while trying to stay as grounded and realistic as they can within the boundaries of their setting.

Trying to shoehorn every single mecha anime into a strictly Super or Real Robot classification is generally an exercise in futility, but the broad strokes of Super Robot and Real Robot can be useful when describing a show to someone else.

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) followed in the footsteps of Space Battleship Yamato (1974) by delivering a science fiction show with the main theme being “War is Hell”.

We’ll update this post periodically as we add more Gundam series to the MechaStellar game roster.

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