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Mecha Borg

A collection of 6 issues

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-tested

Mecha Borg: Operation Backwater

A deep-space assault on a fortified asteroid installation. Premise In the cold between planets, where sunlight is thin and radio lag makes command meaningless, a splinter faction maintains an automated weapons platform carved into a hollowed-out asteroid. The war has moved on without them. Their orders expired two years ago.

Mecha Borg: Operation Neighborhood Watch

A scenario in the rubble Introduction Premise: A squadron of mecha has been left behind during a city-wide withdrawal. The comms grid collapsed in the first hours; all command frequencies are jammed. The patchwork unit huddles in the ruins—half scratch barricade, half inherited scrapyard—waiting for extraction that will

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, your

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—conflicts

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, d4)