Mobile Frame Zero: Intercept Orbit Playtest Reports

[schoon]

I'm creating this stickied topic for people to centrally post their Alpha Bandit playtest reports. This prevents them from getting lost in the and makes them easily accessible to everyone.

[schoon]

As all our ships have not been realized in brick yet (though I have all the pieces for 3 cruisers to add to my 4 frigates - now just the 2 carriers remain ), we decided to give this a try virtually.

I worked up the playset for us and populated a 4-foot-diameter board with an asteroid field. I'm on defense with my Jaegers, and he's on offense with his Janissaries. The result after setup is:



The bases of the ships have the builds, and you'll be able to see them as things move around. I used grey for frame launchers (as opposed to black) to keep them from getting lost in the black of the bases.

...I'll be appending to this post as we play each turn, but it may be a while between turns, as we're both fairly busy with life right now.

Edit: base sizes have been adjusted to meet the mandates from the rules. Turn 1 results on the way...

[grafvonbarnez]

Looks great! I've got something similar (but in-the-brick) that I'm working on to post. A quick question though: what sizes are you using for Cruiser/Carrier, Frigate, Frame, and HVA bases?

ETA: If, that is, your playset bases roughly correspond to actual lego plate sizes.

[schoon]

[grafvonbarnez]

Thanks, cool! I've been using 4x8s for frigates, 4x6s for HVAs, 4x4s for frame companies, and 6x8s for both cruisers and carriers. I'm interested to see how different base sizes affect our playtests, especially that 8x12 for carriers.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Capital ships (carriers and cruisers) have bases of 8x8.
Frigates are 4x8, the long way, like you'd expect.
Companies are 4x4.

[schoon]