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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Germy on 04 July 2015, 05:10:48 PM
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(http://germy.co.uk/images/battles/FD1.png)
The Spiderbots game was played at Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day 27th June 2015
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One side consisted of a squad of 14 troopers with 3 support robots
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Their opponents the now infamous Spiderbots numbering 113 in total
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The layout of the game saw the trropers arrive at an abandoned settlement before the Spiderbot trap is sprung!
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The game objective for the robots was very simple, they needed to capture the shuttle in the middile of the settlement.
For the troopers they could either try and hold out against the robot horde or try and escape in the shuttle. Unfortunately the
shuttle would need power cells to get it started. The cells were scattered throughout the settlement. As an extra problem the shuttle only carries 6.
So more than one trip will be needed!
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The troopers decided to use some of their squads to form a defensive perimeter and for others to go after the power cells.
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The Spiderbots begin their advance!
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The defenders start taking fire, but most of the robot heavy ordnance misses the target.
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More robots move forward and the trooper players start to make their shots count.
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All sides of the settlement start to feel the robot advance.
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The leading Beetlebots start to take damage from the defending troopers, one of the trooper support bots makes a bold move to halt the advance.
(http://germy.co.uk/images/battles/FD11.png)
More troopers rush to take up defensive positions, while another stray rocket from the Spiderbots nearly hits the shuttle.
(http://germy.co.uk/images/battles/FD23.png)
With the battle joined on all sides the troopers make good progress collecting power celss for the shuttle.
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The volume of incoming fire starts to find targets with trooper Gibbs wounded.
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The Spiderbots reach some of the barricades only to have their way blocked by another of the troopers support bots.
(http://germy.co.uk/images/battles/FD14.png)
The battle intesifies with the Spiderbots advancing from all directions, but the spiderbots are starting to suffer large casualties and the troopers have
managed to get a number of power cells back to the shuttle.
(http://germy.co.uk/images/battles/FD15.png)
The troopers situation starts to deteriorate but their commander decides to try and hold for the moment rather than use the shuttle to evacuate some of his troopers.
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The Spiderbots breakthrough into the settlement.
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The situation becomes tense and the trooper commander finally decides to evacuate some of the wounded troopers in the shuttle.
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Despite a last few rounds of intense fire from the surviving troopers reducing the robot ranks they are not enough to stop the settlement being overrun.
A flamer Spiderbot takes out one of the trooper support bots as the troopers try and reposition.
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Making a fighting retreat the trooper commander makes the decision that returning with the shuttle will just result in the robots taking posession.
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The biggest of the Spiderbots trys to take out the last of the trooper support bots.
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With the support bot finally falling to intense fire the remaining troopers escape into the wilderness to carry on the fight another day.
The battle ended there with a partial victory awarded to the Troopers.
And that was the Spiderbot game, thanks to club members and 6milPhil for some of the photos, I only had my camera with me so could take fairly limited shots.
I think everyone enjoyed the game, took longer than I wanted to move all the robot units but then that was down to how many I made :)
The idea of having to collect the power cells worked well and I got the balance right between the troopers and the robots. It was interesting that after the shuttle
had left the game the players had a really good shooting round and took out a significant number of Spiderbots leading them to question whether they could indeed hold
out and destroy the remaining bots.
The troopers will be back to finish the job but I'm sure the spiderbots will be waiting.
Cheers!
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Brilliant. :-* :-* :-*
Lots of Bots. Almost want a few movement trays just to speed things along for those back ranks of spiders...
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Cracking little game 8) 8)
cheers
James
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Great AAR. It sure seemed a fun game :o
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Most Excellent. Great to see them in battle. And those Heresy troopers stood strong!
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Brilliant. :-* :-* :-*
Lots of Bots. Almost want a few movement trays just to speed things along for those back ranks of spiders...
It wasn't that bad actually, and remember each of the robots had individual stats. This was a skirmish game ;D
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Lovely eye candy, all that effort really paid off.
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It wasn't that bad actually, and remember each of the robots had individual stats. This was a skirmish game ;D
It did seem to speed along.
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Wow! That's brilliant!
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Marvellous stuff :)
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Looks fantastic and sounds like lots of fun!
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Looks like it was a fun game - those spiderbots really have turned out well.
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Good work there Germy :-*
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That's spectacular. Are those explosions homemade?
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That's spectacular. Are those explosions homemade?
Mine were homemade mainly because I didn't know at the time anyone sold them.
But you can get them from Annie at Bad Squiddo Games/Dice Bag Lady (http://thedicebaglady.net/flickering-explosion-markers/)
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It wasn't that bad actually, and remember each of the robots had individual stats. This was a skirmish game ;D
I hear you... Wasn't thinking of them fighting as a group, just as a way to speed up handling if many of the units are heading in the same direction. We do it for zombie games, for instance.
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super cool stuff. This is what the hobby is all about.
I totally agree!
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Cheers all, it is a good feeling to do and more importantly complete a project like this.
It's icing on the cake to also get to game it 8)
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Cool game report. I enjoyed reading it and looking at the pictures. The exact right amount of text vs. images.
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great stuff
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great report. Good looking figures and terrain, good qualty photos and gripping action until the end. I am looking forward to more of this sort of thing please.
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First Class battle story and clear report and pictures :-*
Looks to have been perfectly balanced and not a bit tense!!
Great inspiration, thanks for sharing.
CG 8)
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Looks superb. Incredibly cool!!
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Looks to have been perfectly balanced and not a bit tense!!
I had no real idea how it was going to go. On setting up the game everyone commented that the troopers had no chance, it was going to be an exercise in taking down as many as you can before being overrun. Then I explained about the shuttle and how to get it going. The looks from the players were "so some of the troopers might escape".
Then the firing started and there was limited success on either side, so the players relaxed a bit and could start thinking about tactics. The fun bit came when as the troopers were about to be overrun they had a brilliant round and I was starting to panic that the robots were going to destroyed too easily.
The following round saw nearly every trooper taking a wound or two and the situation went rapidly down hill.
At the end of the game one squad had killed 40+ robots and I tink it was because the players were able to rack up high kill rates that made the game a success.
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It looks great and the game play sounds perfect.
Thanks for sharing.
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Finally put together a film of for the Fenris Descending game I built.
Fenris Descending (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHssYNjCXmE)
Now onto next years project 8)