War never changes. Played a round with Fallout and 40k Tyranids using Warsurge Compendium presets. Just a fun little scenario where a handful of gaunts had been lurking in the wastes, which certainly begs more questions as to how they got there... oh, and a neurotyrant!
So, just sharing pics of a game and that I'm looking forward to the war factory mode coming to Warsurge. I set up and played a round inspired by the classic Command & Conquer RTS game (hence the overlay for fun). Here's the roster code for those who want to check it out but it's nothing fancy, in fact it's pretty simple (need the free app to view it though).
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That we'll be able to make our own custom RTS style armies is pretty neat IMHO.
A newbie here with a background of playing OnePageRules.
With Warsurge, the mechanics seem quite different to what I'm used to.
Some notable ones to mention are:
Melee or shooting are just Attacks in the Attack phase. In a way, not fighting straight back reminds me of Kings of War.
You can shoot into/out of melee. There are penalties and exceptions, but depending on how strong the weapon is, the system doesn't seem to punish your units too hard for being charged. The attacker can't prevent their target from carrying on firing at other units.
The core mechanics don't have a concept of unit 'skill level' or 'quality'. Unless you use perks like Aim/Accuracy, there's no 'to hit' rolls. Even if you use these perks the modifiers affect the attack rolls, so they feel a bit secondary to me and personally it feels to me that using these perks by default goes against the intended gameplay.
No obvious morale mechanics.
These aren't necessarily bad in my eyes, just different and I'm still trying to get my head around how to design my armies.
I'd be interested to know how people have found playing Warsurge.
Played a game using Legend of Zelda, Nexo Knights and some misc (like Bionicle) for a crossover battle at 800 points. Used the casual rules, had Hyrule castle ruins and some rocks as objectives.
Most people use Warsurge for gaming with miniatures, but it’s been great for Lego too.
I like how you can customise your own units and weapons (for example, Link’s sword could attack at range when he was at full health). If you want to download the rosters we used, they’re here:
Zelda & Nexo Knights
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Ganon’s Onslaught
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Ganon’s side won by hogging as many objectives as possible (pun intended given Ganon was in his big pig form). Hope you like the pics.