is getting a lot of mileage from repurposed pre-painted fantasy figs.
Samurai Robots Battle Royale (an $8 USD PDF) is a stand-alone set of miniatures rules for mecha battles. Based on the award-winning Song of Blades engine, it allows you to refight the wild, imaginative battles seen in the classic Japanese anime. It also includes rules and guidelines for more realistic science-fiction military games, or even battles with steam-powered engines of destruction (for those of you fancying a Steampunk game). You can play quick mecha versus mecha duels, or larger battles where each player controls three to six giant robots for a two-hour game.
Build your mecha from the ground up with a point system, choosing Quality/Combat scores, armor, weapons and special rules for each part of its body. You roll dice to activate a body part to use the weapons or movement modes linked to that body part – but beware, because failures may allow the opponent to react during your turn.
The book includes enough pre-generated mechas and ready-to-use weapons so you can start playing in minutes. Additional ready-made mechas will be offered later as free PDFs.
Samurai Robots Battle Royale and our kaiju game Mighty Monsters are compatible, so you can run mechas vs giant-monsters battles. In fact, the Samurai Robots and Mighty Monsters PDFs are also sold together in a discount bundle for $14 USD.
Samurai Robots Battle Royale can be played on an average dinner table using any models you already own, including toy robots and paper figures, in any scale.
Written by Andrea Sfiligoi, illustrations by Giandomenico D'Amoja, cover by Giandomenico D'Amoja and Greg Bain.
A paperback edition will be available on Lulu and Createspace at the end of the month.