It has been 9 years since I final wrote a few Robotech/Macross board recreation on this web site, and I really feel like that’s far too lengthy, so fortunately I’m getting the prospect to revisit the topic with a brand new tabletop expertise.

That is the promising, if additionally cumbersomely-named Robotech Macross DOG FIGHT- The Miniatures Recreation, one of many first main items of licensing to reach since many years of battle over the collection’ rights had been put to mattress final yr.

Whereas the final recreation I wrote about was a squad-based ways expertise, this one attracts a lot of inspiration from titles like X-Wing and Wings of Struggle to make a dogfighting recreation that’s little nearer to what we’d count on given the supply materials.

Right here’s the official description:

Expertise the Robotech universe like by no means earlier than. On this revised model of our traditional recreation, gamers assume the roles of mecha pilots accountable for Veritechs, Battlepods, or Destroids entrenched in a fast-paced, high-speed fight encounter.

Gamers recreate the extraordinary, acrobatic combat scenes discovered within the authentic Robotech animated present by using programmed motion, secret actions, and numerous weapon playing cards.

Along with the character-based fighter fight there are additionally floor and ship-based mechs that may take part, in addition to capital ships, together with the centrepiece SDF-1. And whereas it borrows this style’s now-established system of mapping out a flight path on the board with arrows, I like how this recreation is simulating elevation by truly permitting for “steps”, which may move over or below different gamers.

This isn’t truly a new recreation; it was launched final yr in a less complicated kind, permitting for under 1v1 dogfights, however the workforce went again to the drafting board and got here up with this revised version, which blows the variety of models in fight out to 50, and has gone to city on a few of the miniatures, together with a 15cm SDF-1.

As an unlimited Macross fan I’m tremendous eager to verify this out…every time it truly ships to prospects (there’s a tentative launch date of December 2022, however the board recreation enterprise is nonetheless deep in pandemic hell). It’s at present working a Kickstarter marketing campaign which requested for $75,000 and has already blown proper previous that, sitting at $135,000 with 13 days left to run.