Redshirts versus Stormtroopers: Battle Report

This is the first chance I have had to use these walls, I purchased them after watching a weekender

I broke the map layout into different galleries to make up for the project systems’ shortcomings

The last gallery of the game set up!

I worked on a little more scenery and decided to try Space Weirdos as the ruleset.

I made profiles for basic stormtroopers and for a couple of squad leaders.

For the Federation, I made Kirk, Spock , Nurse Chapel and the redshirts.

My guess is the stormtroopers could win this if they can get up close and personal, however the Redshirts have a faster rate of fire and are more effective at short range.

The two stormtrooper leaders have autocannon which will hurt if they actually hit.

I tried a 12-14 model game but the Space Weirdos rules are definitely not built for that many models.

The next day my hobby buddy Hunterturtle came round and tried with 6 a side. The command point system really started to shine at this model count. Command points allow you to do nifty things, like upgrading dice rolls. Eg you are rolling 2d6 , but you really want to make the roll, spend a command point and now you’re rolling 2d8. You can also boost move or put a figure on overwatch. You get 3 command points a turn.

The Redshirts won the game handily. To the point where they needed a tweak. So we dropped their defence stats further and went again 3v3.

Again a really fun game. For the cost Space Weirdos is a no brainer. I set up this thematic game as maybe something to demo at Chillcon or Peachcon, but you can grab any old sci fi miniatures and have a blast with it.