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Mobile Suit Skirmish

Definitely Not Licensed by Bandai CORE CONCEPT Individual ace pilots matter less than mass production quotas. Teams attempt to complete objectives before strategic weapons consume everyone equally. Logistics and politics are the real enemies. MOBILE SUIT SYSTEM Each unit has three attributes rated 0-4. * PILOT: Combat effectiveness (training + weapons

Giant Robots, Correctly Sized

Notes on a Skirmish Game I Haven’t Played I. The Confession Here is my long meditation on the cultural ecology of a robot skirmish game I have not played. I have rolled zero dice. I have moved zero miniatures. I have not tested balance, probed edge cases, or stress-

Ledgers of Myth: A Designer's Essay on Mecha Borg

I started where many of us did—with Battletech, where mechs were battleships on land. Every tonnage chart was a psalm of control, every heat-sink a prayer for mastery. The pilot mattered as acolyte and priest because the cockpit was a cathedral of precision: your decisions, your initiative roll,

Mecha Borg: Operation Outback Echo

A scenario expansion for Mecha Borg: Under Falling Skies 1. Introduction Premise: In the aftermath of the war, the conflict's detritus litters the Earth. In the Australian interior, among the rust-red mesas and ruined airbases, small remnants of the original antagonists continue to fight in disconnected skirmishes—

Mecha Borg: Under Falling Skies

Giant robots clash. You are not the hero. You pilot mass-produced war machines in a conflict where individual heroics are temporary and systemic violence is permanent. Roll d20. Tick the clock. Say something before the heavens bury you. You need: standard set of gaming dice (d20, d12, d8, d6,

Shooting Stars: The Aesthetics of Predetermined Outcomes

The Confidence Trick of Heroic Gaming Most tactical games sell players a fundamental lie: that individual skill, smart decision-making, and tactical acumen can overcome any challenge. They promise agency in exchange for engagement, meaning in return for mechanical mastery. Players suffer through difficult encounters because they believe persistence and

Schweißkrieger: Desert, Dust, and Death

A Humble Tribute to Kow Yokoyama’s Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 "We Only Fix What Survives Long Enough to Break Again" By Senior Technician Uwe Harz, 7th Armored Salvage Corps (SDR)Originally published in the uncirculated maintenance zine Bore Cleaner & Blasphemy, Vol. 14 Let me start by

Designer's Diary: BLUE + RED = DEAD

How We Created Counter-Strike as Existential Philosophy The Spark It started with a simple observation: most tactical skirmish games are power fantasies dressed up as military simulation. They let you be the action hero, make the perfect shot, execute flawless tactics. But what if we stripped all that away?