Number 2 son spotted my Destroids while I was sorting out some models and demanded the opportunity to use them in a game. The robots would be the baddies. I dug out some alien robots that would serve as their adversaries. "Can we have a city for them to fight in? That would be gooderer." I grabbed various boxes and piles of DVDs for the city blocks and we raided my box of toy cars to populate the streets.
Rules were simple. I grabbed a scrap of foamex about 12"/30cm long to use as a range ruler. Each robot/alien had 2 actions available in 3 combinations:
- Double move (whole length of ruler);
- Fire & move (just under half length of ruler);
- Fire twice
Firing on a D10 needed a 5+ to hit for 1 range ruler length, 6+ for 2 range ruler lengths, 7+ for 3 lengths etc. Cover provided by buildings added +1 to target number. Each robot/alien robot could take 4 damage before being destroyed. Damage was marked by removing arms/shoulder weapons from alien robots and putting white cube markers by baddie robots.
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| Alien robot starting position. Excuse the socks in the background. |
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| Baddie robot starting position. |
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| Baddie robots advance. |
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| Alien robots advance. |
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| Hoping for an opportunity to use that axe. |
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| Baddie robots blast obstacles out of the way. |
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| Targets closing... |
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| Baddie robots destroy another vehicle. |
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| View from the baddie robot side. |
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| Chaaaaarge! |
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| Closing for close combat! |
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| Almost on the baddie robots! |
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| Baddie robots open fire on the alien robots. |
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| Close combat starts. |
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| Some alien robots carry ranged weapons too. |
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| Mixing things up in close. |
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| Each side gives as good as it gets. |
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| Baddie robots firepower starts to tell... |
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| Alien robots deal out good damage though. |
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| The city is littered with wreckage. |
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| Casualties mount on both sides. |
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| 2 baddie robots left against one alien robot. |
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| The final alien robot goes down. |
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| My collection of civilian vehicles. |
The game was fairly speedy, the small number of units on both sides kept things moving quickly and kept the interest of a 5-year-old reasonably well. A bonus was the fact that he could remove weapons/limbs from the alien robots as he damaged them. Number 2 son was victorious, 2 of his baddie robots surviving after all my alien robots had been destroyed.
Next up will be our game involving robots and dinosaurs, into which I incorporated some more advanced rules...
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