In celebration of the launch of Tomorrow's War, our new science-fiction wargame, I ran a little sample game for the office...
The year is 2034, and the robots rule the earth. In the ruins of the village of Lourdes, tucked away in the French Pyrenees, a band of human survivors prepares to make a final stand...
Former French police are joined by a priest as the battle is joined. (All of the ruined terrain for the battle comes from our friends at Battlefront. It's really nice heavy resin and comes painted.)
Robot exterminator units advance from their lander...
In the early game, the humans were able to concentrate fire on individual robots, picking them off without sustaining many casualties.
Unfortunately, the robots learned from their mistakes and began moving in small sweeper teams, human casualties quickly mounted...
I made a special deck of Fog of War cards specific for this scenario, one of which was an appearance by an appirition of our Our Lady of Lourdes. This confused the robots at a crucial moment and allowed the humans to regain the initiative...
The game was eventually called on account of time. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly many of my co-workers picked up the rules of the game (even several non-wargamers). Of course the game also featured the true wargamer's friend:
