Giant Robots

Or: how a question about a 1977 combat results table turned into a tiny game about giant robots. We wondered how settled the d6 outcomes were in wargames. Strength versus defense, roll a die, look up a table, repeat. Reasonable question. Charles Roberts worked it out in the late fifties,

A 24” x 24" table. Six-sided dice. A tape measure. Any models you like. UNITS have five numbers, printed on a card and never modified by anything: Skill (2–5), Move (inches), Resistance (0+), Hits, Size (1–5). Plus weapons, each with a Power and a Range in