Robotech RPG Tactics: Destroid Tomahawk (Palladium Books)
Robotech® RPG Tactics™. Palladium Books erweitert das bekannte Robotech RPG um eine Tabletop-Variante.
Der bereits umfassend unterstützte Kickstarter strebt mindestens 70000 $ bis zum 20. Mai 2013 an.
„Robotech® RPG Tactics™ is a fast paced strategy battle game that expands on the popular Palladium role playing game.
Robotech® RPG Tactics™
Prepare for invasion! Robotech® RPG Tactics™ is a fast paced strategy battle game that expands on the popular Palladium role playing game. Take command of the brave men and women of the United Earth Defense Force to valiantly defend Earth from annihilation. Or, command the alien armies of the Zentraedi Armada to recover an alien artifact of immense power and enslave humankind. Collect your forces from an expanding range of world class game pieces. Relive the massive battles on your tabletop at home to enhance your Robotech® RPG adventures or as a stand-alone game.
Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Boxed Game
- Full color, 90+ page, softcover rulebook
- 24 Battle Dice
- 40 color game cards (unit cards, etc)
- 4x VF-1A Veritech Valkyries (in Fighter, Guardian, and Battloid modes)
- 1x VF-1J „Officer“ in all three modes
- 2x Destroids (includes parts to make them Tomahawks, Defenders, or one of each)
- 12x Regult Zentraedi Battlepods
- 1x Glaug Officer’s Battlepod
- 1/285th scale (40-70mm), high quality, multi-pose plastic game pieces.
In addition, once we reach our funding goal we have a whole host of fantastic upgrades and new unit add-ons to unlock!
Game Play
Robotech® RPG Tactics™ is a battle game in which players build armies of multiple squadrons of mecha to fight it out in scenario driven, objective based game play. Depending on the faction, and their choice of mecha, a player’s army may include anywhere from 2 game pieces to as many as you desire! The rules are scalable from small skirmishes to mass combat with hundreds per side.
Robotech® RPG Tactics™ uses a dynamic turn system. Players trade off activating squadrons during each turn, ensuring that a player never has to sit and wait while his opponent moves and attacks with his entire army. By using alternating activation of squadrons, the game’s action unfolds at a fast and furious pace, allowing large scale battles to be easily carried out in a single evening.
The wide variety of mecha in the boxed game bring to bear the myriad and awesome weapon systems from the Robotech universe to lay waste to your foes. Even the battlefield itself can alter over the course of the game, as buildings are leveled by destruction unleashed during the battle.
Each player receives a number of Command Points each turn based on the number of mecha they have on the field, and the quality of their officers. Command Points are spent throughout the turn on maneuvers such as boosted movement, devastating weapon salvos, breakneck dodging counterattacks, and potent special abilities.“
– Robotech® RPG Tactics™ product description
Meine Position ist eindeutig. Die überhitzenden Mechs von Battletech bleiben besser versteckt in der Garage und verstauben weiter. Am Original angelehnte Robotech Mecha wirken aus dem Stand wesentlich attraktiver, allerdings gehört das Palladium Rollenspielsystem zu den behäbigen Anachronismen des Hobbys. Das Tabletop funktioniert glücklicherweise nach anderen Regeln.
Achtung nicht ganz jugendfrei: Viele sehen in dem Kickstarter ein wenig „GamerPorn“. Die Miniaturen sehen jedenfalls ziemlich sexy aus, sofern man auf große Roboter Mecha steht.
PS: Verehrte und mitunter etwas planlose Battletech-Gemeinde, die Mecha von Robotech sehen nicht aus wie der eine oder andere eurer Mechs. Vielmehr dürfte in der Regel genau der umgekehrte Fall zutreffen …
Images: Palladium Books
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