Cluster Vs. Regiment Battle. My experience.

[God and Davion]

Hello! I have run today a 1500 vs 1600 PV battle. A cluster vs a Blake regiment. The experience was good. AS allows a lot of tactical game, with good flanking maneuvers. A poor deployment meant a defeat for the Sphere and the tactics were more sound. Mountains were good but woods were vital. We moved instead of one unit at a time we did one star/level II at a time and it worked fine. We played 6 hours and we did 7-8 turns with a 40% fatalities, and we managed to do it with unexperienced players. Strongly recommended to bring a lot of measure tape to fasten things. We had a lot of fun, it was a joy to watch the 183 units in the table and tactics won the day over dumb luck.  O0 O0 O0

[NathanIW]

That's incredible.  183 units.  My last TW game that when 6 hours or so had 14 units on the table.

I think if anyone has a dream of playing larger scope games, Alpha Strike just plain works and does so in a timely fashion.

[Azakael]

Pics? Do we have pics of this?

[Wildonion]

Awesome news! Can't wait to play games at that scale.

[NathanIW]

One thing I made for warmachine was a selection of dowels or rods of different lengths.  So instead of having to send out a tape measure and measure with it, I can just grab the dowel of the right length (they are marked to indicate their length) and quickly measure.

[Charlie Tango]

One thing I made for warmachine was a selection of dowels or rods of different lengths.  So instead of having to send out a tape measure and measure with it, I can just grab the dowel of the right length (they are marked to indicate their length) and quickly measure.

A single dowel rod painted with the requisite ranges works well also. Take a standard 48" dowel, lop the last 6" off, paint the three range increments a different color (6" / 24" / 42") and then you have one stick to handle it all. Then you can use the leftover 6" section you lopped off as a woods LOS tool.

I'm going to start a thread in the next few days on AS game aid accessory ideas like that as soon as I have a chance to take pics.

[Lysenko]

Blessed Blake preserve us!

This is why I'm cautiously optimistic about Alpha Strike!

[Atlas3060]

Excellent, soon the Inner Sphere will have to deal with massive battles at tables on a constant basis.
*evil laughter*  >:D
Well okay not "constant" but at least it can be done.

[God and Davion]

Here's the link to the pictures:

http://imageshack.us/g/1/10325573/


We discovered that non jumping assault mechs and 4/6 mechs are slow moving targets almost everywhere. In a big table, a slow moving assault needed a lot of loving to make it useful. The clan assault mechs were scary as hell but they took a lot of fire and all were destroyed. Fast moving units won the day. Special cool points for the Pinto VTOL. First blood and untouched (and  150% more durable than the Raptor omnimech).

[Marwynn]

Wow, that's amazing. And only 6 hours? (Not sarcasm. TW would take 6 days...)