It has been 9 years since I final wrote a few Robotech/Macross board sport on this web site, and I really feel like that’s far too lengthy, so fortunately I’m getting the possibility to revisit the topic with a brand new tabletop expertise.
That is the promising, if additionally cumbersomely-named Robotech Macross DOG FIGHT- The Miniatures Recreation, one of many first main items of licensing to reach since many years of battle over the collection’ rights have been put to mattress final yr.
Whereas the final sport I wrote about was a squad-based techniques expertise, this one attracts a lot of inspiration from titles like X-Wing and Wings of Struggle to make a dogfighting sport that’s little nearer to what we’d anticipate given the supply materials.
Right here’s the official description:
Expertise the Robotech universe like by no means earlier than. On this revised model of our traditional sport, gamers assume the roles of mecha pilots in charge of Veritechs, Battlepods, or Destroids entrenched in a fast-paced, high-speed fight encounter.
Gamers recreate the extraordinary, acrobatic combat scenes discovered within the unique Robotech animated present by using programmed motion, secret actions, and varied weapon playing cards.
Along with the character-based fighter fight there are additionally floor and ship-based mechs that may take part, in addition to capital ships, together with the centrepiece SDF-1. And whereas it borrows this style’s now-established system of mapping out a flight path on the board with arrows, I really like how this sport is simulating elevation by truly permitting for “steps”, which might go over or below different gamers.
This isn’t truly a new sport; it was launched final yr in a less complicated type, permitting for less than 1v1 dogfights, however the workforce went again to the drafting board and got here up with this revised version, which blows the variety of items in fight out to 50, and has gone to city on a few of the miniatures, together with a 15cm SDF-1.
As an infinite Macross fan I’m tremendous eager to examine this out…every time it truly ships to prospects (there’s a tentative launch date of December 2022, however the board sport enterprise is nonetheless deep in pandemic hell). It’s at the moment operating a Kickstarter marketing campaign which requested for $75,000 and has already blown proper previous that, sitting at $135,000 with 13 days left to run.
