Robotech Wargame

So what's been going on with this? I've not seen it in any stores or anything yet.

the box set is for sale at my lgs, and probably will remain for sale until the store burns down or something

its another miniwargame that nobody plays. go figure

oh and everyone realized kevin siembieda is a douche

It's fucking abysmal.
The models are of questionable quality.

Here's the issue: Take your basic VF-1 valkyrie.
It has the gun pod, it's main weapon. Which does 6 damage.
It has missiles, that it can fire 4 of, for 3 turns in a row. Each missile does like, 8 damage. But can attack 4 targets, or all can hit one target.

Most units have like, 12 hit points or less.

End result?
Two fucking forces fly at each other, firing all their missiles immediately.
Both sides lose half their guys instantly as they're obliterated by scattering missiles.
Next turn, the same happens with only a quarter surviving.
Next turn, it happens again with the few survivors.
Remaining survivors club each other to death with whatever they have left.

holy shit thats terrible. it cracks me up at how bad that sounds

anyway the only thing ive seen really done with it is a battle report on the youtube channel guerilla miniatures games. In it Ash uses the minis to demonstrate the horizon wars game system. He backed it and never did a game demo video on his chanel where he demos lots of different games. To show off his palladium minis he uses a different game. That's pretty sad, for the game i mean. Ash is a cool guy.

>supporting harmony gold

Tiny models that he's fee too many joins, leading to seems next to seems. Humans mecha great for Battletech.

Game is DOA, not been restocked by UK big store Wayland Games. KS and PB appears to have over ordered wave 1, because it's dead stock and not selling like hot cakes no wave 2 which sucks because all the characters which are meant to be in the base game are sitting on the cutting room floor with a lot of the more interesting models :(

My favorite part in this whole sordid tale was Keven freaking the fuck out when someone pointed out the only reason anyone backed his project in the first place was to get properly sized unseen.

what unseen was?

FASA used Macross images early on, then there was nasty legal shenanigans with Harmony 'patent trolls, haven't done anything good for years' Gold so the designs for the Warhammer, Marauder, Rifleman, etc for Battletech became unseen and unused. So of course when this game hit kickstarter a load of Battletech fans brought into it just to have a nice bunch of Unseen models and to be far that's all this DOA game is worth for!!

nice!
any word on how moddable those models are?