WARNING: Unpainted Miniatures Included!
This year at Horisont we have agreed that it will be time to bring back VSF once more. This time we will do an alternative Rorke's Drift, where the Zulus have been eaten by Arachnids and now Roke's Drift is overrun by Arachnids instead.
For this project we will be using a modded form of Starship Troopers/Battlefield Evolution rules, aproximately 100 Brits and 200 Arachnids.
These pics are from our first playtest and at this point we still need to figure out how we will do this, what victory conditions we want, stats and special rules for vehicles and character + tons more.
We played the game for 6 rounds and it took us almost 5 hours, so we need to streamline it all and have some straight guide lines to follow.
The goal is to let 2 playes join on each side and hopefully get the game to finish in 2-2½ hours time. So it will probably only be run a few times during Horisont.
But enough of that, here is the pictures of the first chaotic playtest:
The British camp, defended by 60 riflemen, 2 cannons, 1 gatling gun, 2 steam tanks, a scout aeronef, 3 walking bombs and some random hearos.
Up close.
The Steamsuit.
Standing ready to get overrun.
The Arachnid horde approaches.
100 Arachnids quickly advancing. (Killed Arachnids would form new units and re-enter as the game progressed).
Steamdriven dropships send reinforcment to the British, they try to get the Brainbug.
But fail.
Lot of dead bugs so far.
Arachnids try to destroy the walking bomb before it detonates.
Tanker bug emerges and spews forth acid and kills lot of Brits.
Some readcoats is getting close up confrontation from the bugs.
Some more reinforcement arrives and dies only slightly slowing down the Arachnid hordes.
The Royal Mail Rifle Corps is getting tough Arachnid love.
Some shooty bugs trying their best to beet the Martini Henry rifles, but with little luck.
The camp is getting overrun.
In the end only a handful of Brits survived.
The camp was evacuated and Zululand is now ruled by Arachnids.
I think there were no real winners, in the end more than 100 bugs had died, actually only 6 of the first wave bugs had survived. But the Brits also suffered heavy losses, only one unit was left nearly intact, the rest was wiped out only had 1 or 2 models left.
A fun game, I only wish I hadn't been so tired during the game, but we got the system and idea tested and we will deffinately work on to get this game running.
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