...for a quick playtest
Having submitted my very simple SciFi Skirmish rules to Bob Cordery for the 4th Portable Wargame Compendium, I thought I'd better give them another go. (I came across some old 20mm SciFi figures while looking for something else and decided I needed a simple ruleset for them. The figures were (possibly) from Wargames Supply Dump).
Two opposing squads are fighting for dominance in the ruins of a city. The majority of troopers are veterans and treated as unarmoured in this playtest. The two figures with purple markers are Elite and armed with Heavy Weapons (roll two dice when firing).
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| Green Squad (furthest from camera) moved first The foliage is impassable |
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| Turn 1 Green are already a man down |
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| Turn 2 Blue Squad have taken out another of Green's force The white die indicates that a figure is wounded |
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| Turn 3 One of the Blue Squad has run across the open space. The wounded man has moved back |
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| Turn 4 Green's Heavy Weapon falls back, Blue's is wounded |
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| Turn 5 Green takes down the Blue trooper nearest his position |
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| Turn 6 Green's Commander falls to Blue's Heavy Weapon The rest of the squad withdraw |
My next step with this project is to make more grid squares to allow more movement. Perhaps I'll have to consider bl**dy drones as well...
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Looks like fun! Slightly bigger boards are better for skirmishing I think, make it less of A head on slug fest. I'm looking forward to reading the rules in the next compendium.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark. It's very simple, based on your 3x3 only with individuals rather than units, but I think it's adaptable and hopefully others could you it as the basis for something.
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