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Do you love Robotech? Did you have high hopes for Tactics? Did you want a game that you could play with your friends and be able to crush the Zentraedi or some upstart Micronians? Many of us feel let down by the lack of news of wave 2 and often let the negativity of others effect us in a variety of ways. The main problem I have, other than the lack of information on wave 2, is the sheer time it takes to set things up and get people together. Some miniatures take long to assemble and then it typically takes a while to prepare and set up a ton of miniatures.

So after some thought in the last week or so I've decided on a different course. I like and enjoy the RRT rules. The fact that it was made for massive battles is often a problem because you need a lot of stuff to play. So what I've done is take the rules and take out the squadron organizations, I also removed Close Formation and a few other things and added some more details into the main game.

This is the why. I want to be able to pick up a game and use whatever I want. I have a ton of Battletech minis...why let them sit around? So if you are like me and want to be able to experience Robotech as your imagination guided you as a child. You want to have that one hero that seems to be able to kill swaths of enemies. |

You want to pick up a Battletech or CAV or whatever mini and put it on the table? How about some crossovers?......then Skirmish may suit you very well. I'm still working on some things. You will have by the end of the month a character creation and conversion set of rules so that you can make any character you wish as well as a spreadsheet to convert over Battletech and another for making the stats for any unit you would like in the game from any Genre. You have a YF-19 sitting around and want to use it? Feel free.....

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0VSNzmthd1vaHpZOW5RRlBEQzA

3039 Mechs from Battletech--updated

Almost done with 3050...Assault Mechs are left to be redone...

Keep fighting the good fight, Mike. I may not have any real enthusiasm left but I wish you the best with this.

Ah-ha! Found you!
Will keep an eye on this.
Beginning to get unburied so I can read-up and possibly play.
Yes, fighting that negativity is a good thing.
Happiness with Robotech is a good thing.
Best not to depend on companies for that happiness.
I have to go into a bit more detail into making "hero" models.
Might be the inspiration I need.

I plan on playing RRT myself no matter what but there is no sense in setting my BT and CAV minis on the shelf to collect dust......

Nothing to do with supporting RRT in this instance.....I don't plan on competitive play....never have.

 Mike1975 wrote:
I plan on playing RRT myself no matter what but there is no sense in setting my BT and CAV minis on the shelf to collect dust......

Nothing to do with supporting RRT in this instance.....I don't plan on competitive play....never have.

Why is it that when I started reading that post the opening of the disco song "I will survive" started going through my mind?

drugs?

Well...other than fed up with Wayne I looked at my minis collection and wanted to be able to use my Battletech minis.

First thing is you know the whole squadron deal will not work well with Battle tech since there are over a thousand different designs. So I'd have to toss that rule out. I decided that a Skirmish set of rules using a fraction of the minis would be ideal and started from there. I have some 3055 and 3060 minis too so I might convert those over later.

3050!


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Now on to Macross

Updated rules with some BT stuff and a few changes to make the crossover work better.....

Removed Macross stuff

Someone posted these somewhere else so I might as well share here. No sense on waiting on them anymore......Conventional rules.

Removed Macross Stuff

EBSIS! Nice.

Your unit naming could be adjusted a bit, but otherwise looks reasonable considering the Palladium baseline for these sorts of things.

Remove Macross Stuff

Clan Mechs

I skimmed through the rules. Nice work, but still quite a bit more rules than I'd be interested in.

In our club we've rebased hundreds of the 10mm Mechwarrior figs for use in sci-fi gaming, but Mech Attack (for lance v lance) battles and Alpha Strike (for Company and larger) is about as much detail as we can take in a rulest.

Still, I applaud you for taking a system you enjoy and making it more accessible and able to cross genres.

I've been seeing your FB posts on this, Mike and I'm pretty impressed!

This might tempt me into digging out some minis. The scale of things seems to capture Mech battles nicely - bit more detail than Alpha Strike, which zoomed out a little too much for my liking.

 Eilif wrote:
I skimmed through the rules. Nice work, but still quite a bit more rules than I'd be interested in.

In our club we've rebased hundreds of the 10mm Mechwarrior figs for use in sci-fi gaming, but Mech Attack (for lance v lance) battles and Alpha Strike (for Company and larger) is about as much detail as we can take in a rulest.

Still, I applaud you for taking a system you enjoy and making it more accessible and able to cross genres.

No sweat, rules are simply a matter of personal preferences on how detailed you want to get and how big of a battle. I don't like the massive detail of Battletech or Starfleet Battles or the super simplicity of Alpha Strike. This is somewhere in between. I've thought of breaking up the abilities into general and faction specific to make things appear simpler but then I've redesigned the game for any faction or universe and so have to list all possibilities.

I should have Character Creation and Mecha Creation rules added in soon.


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 Chillreaper wrote:
I've been seeing your FB posts on this, Mike and I'm pretty impressed!

This might tempt me into digging out some minis. The scale of things seems to capture Mech battles nicely - bit more detail than Alpha Strike, which zoomed out a little too much for my liking.

My thoughts exactly. The Squadron Formations in RRT limited us to specific groups. By removing that limitation it is easier to play however you want and with whatever units you want.


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Oh! And I should have 3055 mechs done this weekend or early next.

Someone posted this on my Facebook Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuGUVAOauE

Basic Skirmish Updated Rules and Units


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I'm working on a few tweaks with the Battletech units. I added a new trait, Flamer, to give some ummppphh to flamers and a good reason for them. I might add Anti-Personnel too to show weapons that would do 2x damage vs Infantry.

Do the infantry not suffer enough?!?!?
Good work.

Flamers need to at least ignore cover.....adding more damage to unarmored infantry is not much since 90% of infantry are typically fully armored.



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There are some wanting to do Gundam conversions in the Skirmish group. That is why I hurried out the Generic Point Calculator.

Change Skirmish to Nodal Wars and started creating a unique universe. V1.01