War of the Mecha Campaign Begins

Since JB was so generous as to post campaign rules for War of the Mecha, I just had to try 'em out today at HRGG.

Being my first go with the new rules I'm not sure if I got things a little muddled or if the dice were just playing their usual tricks on us.  The first mission saw half-a-dozen mecha try to break through the line held by a full company.

"It'll be a slaughter!"

"That's the spirit!"

"No.  Our slaughter."

But first a chunk of time was spent statting up the forces.  Wasn't anywhere near as bad as it would have been with Battletech, of course.  Which reminds me, I should knock together some nice record cards or maybe a full sheet for each lance.  Something with little touches to remind one of critical checks every 20 points damage and the like.

Though it wasn't pretty, it still moved along at a decent pace.  18 mecha on the table and we were done in a couple hours (or near enough).

And boy were we done.  One little Locust managed to break through.  A Crimson Hawk was cut down just one more jump away from the end-zone.  And the rest were lucky if they could make it halfway.

But who said every fight has to be a fair fight?

On with the "clean-up" phase, nobody surrendered, and the war carries on.  Another battle next week.

Oh, and JB says WotM 2.0 is imminent.  I can hardly wait.

Thank You, JB.

After waiting too long, I got in a game or two of War of the Mecha today at the Hamilton Road Gaming Group.  It had all the thrill and psychic anguish from making decisions such as "should I run in & alpha strike while I have initiative, or is the chance of losing initiative next turn plus heat penalties too dangerous to risk my half-dead mecha" while lacking the tedium of rolling a hit on the (roll, roll) right arm (roll, roll) lower (roll, roll) critical slot #4 which is empty anyway so why did we bother with all that?

And it's a great way to get all those clicky-mechs doing something other than herding dust bunnies under the bed.

I should post some pix, but I didn't have the good terrain set up today.  I'll get that ready for next time.

Thank you, JB.  It was fun.