Laserburn: Grunts & Grenades
07/10/2012 3 Comments
Yesterday, Byakhees Anthony & Rich came round for a game of Laserburn. Due to various mishaps, mis-adventures and other cunning plans, we didn’t really get started until 1pm, but we played a long game in to the night (well 10pm actually !) with a hiatus for a curry takeout.
We planned for a game of 5,000 points each. So this would be a big game for us. We set the table up, finally using many of my scenery pieces of been painting.
I was quote pleased with the way the table turned out, it does seem to be integrated, and the use of bright colours offsets the dark granite brown (no its not black) base colour.
We had a scenario pitting the three of us against each other, with Imperial Droids (these are not the droids you’re looking for) turning up to deal with our heavily armed gangs. The rules for the Imperial Droids dictated they move towards the people firing weapons.
Anthony & Rich’s gangs clashed first:
Anthony in particular, had tooled up his cannon fodder with grenades which are particularly potent in Laserburn. Rich had at the last moment picked up on this and added in some grenades. Guess what…I’ll do the same next time !
Which lead to a rapid escalation of fighting between them.
A lucky shot from Anthony’s grenade launcher also managed to seriously wound my gang’s leader.
Then, the Imperial Droids turned up…right behind my gang, so I had to be very quiet lest they start shooting me !
Anthony’s gang also advanced toward me from behind the hill.
And so we mixed it up, with Imperial Droids acting as cover between us, well I used them as cover !
Meanwhile, Rich’s forces moved through the buildings to get at Anthony’s gang.
They finally blew each other top pieces, and with my gang mostly intact, both of them withdrew from the battle !
We had a good time, and found that:
- Laserburn needs-rewriting to C21 standards
- The mechanics are sound
- Duckback is a REAL pain !
- We need some marker tokens – Rich provided some temporary bits of paper, but in future we hope to do better!
- It’s a fun system.
All the figures were mine, mostly original Laserburn (now 15mm.co.uk), Citadel Traveller (now RAFM), and GZG. Scenery by GZG, Critical Mass Games, GW and Ainsty.
The Lost City of Carcosa 
Splendid
You use the original Laserburn ruleset?
Yup!
Well, we try to! We keep stumbling upon rules we’ve forgotten about half way through games… we’re now planning to do a “sort out” of the book so all the rules for, for example, grenades, are together on the same page.