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My club played 4 games of "Mech Attack!" last night. For the first time I tried to create a senario other than kill-em-all or escalating arena fight (kill an opponent, get a bigger mech, x3 to win).

It was an attack on a supply depot with the Attackers needing to steal supplies and get back across the border and the defenders needing to drive off the attackers. Attackers started with superior numbers, but Defenders had the ability to roll for reinforcements, and attackers could not win just by killing the defenders if they did not meet the mission objectives. I've attached the senario as a PDF, as it might be usefull in other games as well. I'm going to streamline it a bit as it took a bit longer than I had planned.

Pics of the Supply Depot Raid senario (Most Defending Mech's have gold trim)
Rearguard wheeled tanks for the Supply Depot Defenders


Defending Mech's take up position in the city as attacker's approach.


Attacker's Advance


A few temporary immobilizations allows the Attackers to outflank the defending mech's and make their way closer to the Supply Depot.


Chaos Ensues.


Attacking mech reaches the depot, but will be destroyed momentarily, largely because of rear shots from the defender's wheeled tanks.


Despite a strong start, the Attackers were bogged down long enough for the defeders to call in reinforcements (see senario PDF for details on how it works) . In both senario games, the Attackers sceeded the field after taking two casualties and facing a much superior force.

Pics of the Kill-em-All game being played on the table adjacent to the Supply Raid






All in all it was a good batch of games. I'm definitely going to streamline the senario as it took longer than expceted to finish it. We try to keep our Mech attack games to around an hour, and it probably would have taken around 2 hours to complete the senario.

It was a great reminder of how much I like the Mech Attack rules (http://www.armorgridgames.com/). I was able to complete two mech skirmishes on a real terrain table and do some FLGS shopping in less time than it would take to play one game of battletech on a hex map.

Also, all the figures are rebased N/1:44/10mm scale Mechwarrior Clix figures. The grey and white figs are the stock paintjobs and the green ones are repainted by one of our members.

Here's the PDF of the senario. I'd love to hear feedback on it. It's the first Senario I've ever written ,on my own, for a wargame!

Glad to see the old Mech clix getting some use. I need to get my group back into trying this again.

Update. After getting some feedback from the group about the senario, the biggst recommendation was that it should be played on a 30-36" square table rather than the 4x4 than we tried it on. The larger table messes up the reinforcement mechanic and gives the defenders too long to wear down the attackers.

Also, drop the ammo and facing rules.

great looking game! looks like a lot of fun ! where can i find these rules , i to have started to start collecting the old click mechs and started to repaint them for 15mm sci fi warfare . very cool stuff mate !!


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my mistake thanks for the rules post , i was so exicited after looking at the pics . thx again

Cool to hear that someone else is rediscovering these figs. MW is a great source for wargaming miniatures and has a remarkable depth in terms of the number of different units offerd.

Beware of using them for 15mm though. A fair number of mechs will work for 15mm (especially if you imagine the pilot sitting in the torso) and a couple of the vehicles are passable. However, most infantry and vehicles are far to small to be compatible with 15mm, as they are nominially 10-11mm scale.

I also intended to use mine for 15mm when I first got them, but I liked them enough that I just decided to stick with 10mm.

Best of luck whatever you decide to do with them.