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I playtested my hackbird some time ago. Here it is how it went.
I had to finish everything in just one evening session so I knew it would be a little rushed.
The game started with our heroes just coming out from the fallen transport. the Squad spend some time planning what to do and noticed some enemy scout fighter (a Dopp) flying over the jungle. The wreckage and smoke of the Medea Transport is visible from miles.
Miles tried to hit the fighter with his Long beam rifle but he misses by some and the fighter flies away to signal the PCs' presence to his allies.
The team moved away and splitted sending Charlene as a scout to spot the enemy fighter spreading radar and comm interference. She sets an ambush and fired her 100mm machinegun by her own initiative as Alan had only ordered a scout manouver. The fighter get hit and fell from the sky but she get stuck in the jungle vegetation while considering the possibility to leave the team and run away (she has a key on this).
Alan and Miles worried by her long absence come to search for her but when they find her, they get ambushed by three zakus.
The Team gets pinned under the Zakus' machinegun fire. Kovich breaks the enemy fire by charging them with his Gundam Blackbird. He quickly cuts the Zakus with the beam sabers.
After cleaning the joints of Charlene's mobile suit the team gets on with travel.
They get another ambush at the river they have to cross. This time captain Baumer leads the enemy squad. Cray makes his Suit jump high and fire his long beam rifle. He manages to hit a Zaku armed with bazooka and missiles.
The Gundam Blackbird is disabled by the Remaining Zakus firing bursts from their machineguns. Charlene charges Baumer and fights with beam saber against heat saber.
Meanwhile Kovich decides to activate the self destruct mechanism to avoid letting the enemy get the Gundam. Baumer offers the team the deal: let them get the Gundam and go away or die with it.
Kovich announces he's enabling the self destruction device and Baumer fold back taking his men with him. Kovich has little to no time to get away from the resulting explosion.
Charlene and Miles are facing a dilemma: get safely away or try saving Kovich risking to die in the explosion. They decide for trying.
They save him just in time and they are finally rescued by allied forces sometime after.
Kovich is taken to martial court and is then taken to a military prison for letting a precious prototype being destroyed. The Gundam Blackbird project is scrapped as a result. Just one month later the One Year war ends and Kovich is freed.
Charlene after the end of the war resumes a civilian life and can be seen taking a walk in the after war Paris.
Miles retires from military life and becomes a chef opening a little Ramen restaurant.
in the closing shot Kovich comes to Miles' restaurant and sit to have some ramen and talk.

It's been fun but a little rushed. I think the game is better if the players know about the source fiction (the Gundam UC setting, watched some episodes).
I'll have to put the rules in the character sheets as the players missed them more than one time because of not having them under their eyes.
Last thing: I rushed to get everything closed by the end of the session as there is actually more material in the game than what has been seen. For example Kovich never learned that Baumer is his lost brother and the team never reached the federation armoury outpost.

All in all a new version is in the making with rules in the character sheets and character and mecha portraits to help visualize the characters and their mobile suits.
You can get the game in the current version here -> argonauticagames.blogspot.it/p…

I wrote a RPG Scenario for the Gundam one year war setting called Gundam Blackbird. It's an hack of the excellent Lady Blackbird rpg scenario created by John Harper.
The scenario comes complete with rules, setting, a situation and characters ready to use. this is the premise:

Lieutenant Ivan Kovich and his MS Test Team, the "Blue Lightnings", have been charged with field testing a new federation Mobil Suit: the Gundam Blackbird.
However, while moving the Gundam Blackbird with Medea transport planes to no man's land, the Blue Lightning Test Team have been ambushed by Zeon forces. Cut from their main forces, the Team has been forced to crash land and scramble for their mobile suits. Kovich is sure about this: someone at Command level sold them to Zeon.
While the Blue Lightnings are hiding in the jungle the Zeon MS teams, led by Captain Robert Baumer, are searching for them and it's only a matter of time before they are going to be caught. Minovsky particles spread on the area make it impossible to contact the Command by radio and Kovich fears that the same one who betrayed them would signal their position to the enemy: the Blue Lightnings have to make it to their base on their own. Their destination is surveillance Outpost 47, the nearest allied place, several tens of miles far to south from their current location.
Lieutenant Ivan Kovich wants to lead their Team out of this situation but doesn't know his long lost brother is actually leading the Zeon MS team.
Ensign Charlene DuMont, being a convicted soldier, wants to desert the federal army as soon as possible, but feels bad at leaving Kovich in trouble.
Ensign Miles Cray is in secretly in love with DuMont and totally faithful to the Team.
WILL THEY MANAGE TO RETURN TO BASE OR WILL THEY BE CAPTURED?
WHAT ABOUT THE BLACKBIRD PROTOTYPE?
CAN THEY SURVIVE IN SPITE OF WAR?

You can get it here -> argonauticagames.blogspot.it/p…

If you play it let me know how it went

Hi! I found a nice remake of the old battletech wargame, a simplified version that fits one page. It's more aimed at recreating a simpler version the the first edtions of the game rather the new ones. I found it interesting and thought about sharing the found

This is the basic rules set (mediafire) -> www.mediafire.com/?9zz9ws9idj0…

These are the rules for Clans (mediafire) -> www.mediafire.com/?zj2dvmnnqnn

These are the rules for campaign games (mediafire) -> www.mediafire.com/?66nd7842itx…

For those preferring a more crunchy ruleset there is the Mobile Soldier in Action which is is based on gundam and I found rather interesting -> home.earthlink.net/~lemontea/s…

All of this besides I feel a little better and my hand completely recovered. I feel relieved at least concerning that
I hope everyone is fine out there and I'm sorry for lack of activities as I'm taken by real life and work in particular.

Hi guys
My right hand is still out of commission. I'm curing it but it will take weeks to be back in health. meanwhile I can't type on keyboard or draw anything. that's the reason I'm not posting anything...
I hope you are all fine and taking care.
I wish to draw but I'll have to wait for some time.
Cheers.

I recommend for those playing rpgs to take a look to Lady Balckbird, an amazing steampunk free pen and paper rpg that you can take here: www.onesevendesign.com/ladybla…

Hi, guys!
I recently found a fallout pen and paper rpg based on Old School Hack (different from the fallout pen and paper rpg using the videogame rule engine). The game is lot of fun to play with friends, it's simple but still deep enough to allow for strategies during combat. It also implements an economy on Karma tokens that encourage and promotes creative roleplay and player involvement.
I'm playing it in this days with much fun so I recommend it. It's free and you can grab the PDF here -> docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid…

The fallout setting is only hinted at but if you played the videogames you won't have any problems. At worst you could read the fallout wikia to get info.

I hope you'll find it useful and fun


I'm also taking care and trying to be positive. Coming back to work has been hard as many duties has been waiting for me to be taken care of.
This week I'll begin therapy for my pain and get my spine back to shape. I'm looking forward to it. coworkers have been kind to me and I felt their caring. That's been nice. I have to think positive.
I thought much and I think I've learned some lessons becoming a better person, at least I hope so.
I want to thank the people who posted comments in my previous journal. It's been nice to hear from you and that you cared. Take care you too.

Sincerely yours

Francesco