The Imperial Commonwealth troops reinforced their positions and continued firing at my Star Alliance soldiers. Ending Xenos Rampant: Sweep and Clear On top of those 13 basic unit types, there are 30 additional rules for infantry, 18 for vehicles and 35 “Xenos rules” representing weird and wonderful abilities. The core infantry and vehicle additional rules are things like Armour Piercing (reducing an enemies effective armour value when shooting), or Mobile (faster movement), and 30 different options, variably available to the 10 infantry archetypes, cover an awful lot of ground. You can design virtually anything you want from these – and the same goes for the three types of vehicle and the 18 vehicle options. All of these options are very simple mechanically, explicable usually in 1-3 lines of text and come with a points value as an upgrade or downgrade. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. Are you sure you want to create this branch?

It took some time to adjust to some of the rules changes. For example, when testing morale (courage) we found ourselves often think in Lion Rampant terms, but we soon adapted. So, power up the main hyper drive, set your phasors to maximum carnage, and get ready to blast off into the stars!!!!!!!!!

The most obvious difference is vehicles. Xenos Rampant is the first Rampant title to be set as late as the 20 th century (unless you’re playing very late era The Men Who Would Be Kings). Because of this it’s become necessary to incorporate vehicles into the game engine. We’ve kept the rules simple, it’s mainly slight modifications to movement, plus the ability of vehicles to shoot on the move. They also tend to have exceptionally high Armour values, but don’t worry, because anti-tank weapons also exist. The game is about infantry or combined arms skirmishes rather than sweeping tank battles. A typically sized detachment is limited to one armoured vehicle (either a Fighting Vehicle or a Transport Vehicle), but may be able to fit in a few more Soft-skin Vehicles if the points allow it.

Lenoon: On that note actually, it’s worth talking about the range of kind time that it aims at. It’s mediaeval in the broadest possible sense, kind of post-classical fall of Rome or fall of the Western Roman Empire all the way through to the fall of the next one really. There’s leeway on either side, so there’s rules for pikemen and for shield wall and stuff like that. Romans could fit into this, they might not fit perfectly but you could definitely do it. You’ve got the Infantry with shields, and you’ve got javelinmen and you’ve got cavalry and that’s a little Roman Force for you right there. There are rules for guns, and I like that the rules for guns are a little bit weirder than the rules for archers and crossbowmen. I wouldn’t personally take it all the way to the Pike and Shotte era, because I think at that point you’re it’s a very different kind of game but you could certainly give it a go. That said, I miss the kind of coloured illustrations I am used to from Lion Rampant. But I am rather fond of Ospreys signature illustrations and their particular “clean” artwork. 3. Game mechanics The previous Rampant-games used 12, respectively 6 in combat and shooting. Xenos Rampant uses 10 or 5 dice. Similarly courage is tested with 2 or 1 dice. It’s been a great chance to use troops which have been hidden away for years (decades?) Of course the first rule of collecting states that no matter how many figures you have you will always need more. If that’s not explanation enough, Xenos Rampant is a large skirmish wargame inspired by the science fiction wargames of the 1980s and 90s. However, it is a modern ruleset that emphasises fast play and intuitive rules mechanics, while also not being bound to any era or style of science fiction nor any specific ranges of models. As in the days before the widespread availability of plastic kits, armies consist of 30–40 infantry with maybe a vehicle as a centrepiece. Of course, nowadays, you can get a couple of boxes of plastic models quite cheaply meaning you don’t have to break the bank to put a force together.Once you get used to the game mechanics, they prove to be fairly simple and make the game accessible for both the veteran wargamer and new players.

That aside I've got a left over 40K Armiger Helverin and I've been wondering how well it would translate into Xenos Rampant. With a few kitbashed Imperial Guardsmen with Medieval themed pieces, it could be the starting point for a small force that feels like "Imperial Knights meets Lion Rampant". I quite like the idea of representing a Knight world beyond just it's towering robots.

Commander traits (as they are called) may have direct or indirect impact on the game. Some allow you to do re-rolls, while others impact deployment and so on. We are delighted to announce that we’ve signed a contract with Osprey Publishing to produce the next book in the Rampant wargaming series: Xenos Rampant. Most units are composed of 5 models (reflecting their Strength points) instead of the 6 or 12 models. The principle of “reduced model count” has (thankfully) been maintained 🙂 Having thought about it some more I think also the biggest issues are unlimited range and ap, especially against units or forces that are designed for charging. We all mostly know the Dan Mersey base rule mechs and their variations and we don't need 1000 minis a side to play them (or 'official' minis - GW).

Then I was introduced to Frostgrave. A maximum of ten members per warband, plus a few zombies and other monsters for NPCs, seemed a lot more achievable. So, I went out and bought way too many models (I may have issues with self-restraint). My ‘compact’ warband consisted of a couple of necromancers, forty cultists, and several dozen undead. This warband was too big for Frostgrave but, as it turned out, perfect for Dragon Rampant. I even finished painting them all. Then I collected warbands of Chaos Dwarfs, pleasure cultists, barbarians, landsknecht, and samurai, at which point I realised I had replaced one addiction with another.A new element in the game. Vehicles behave slightly different than Infantry, especially during movement. They are however a very entertaining addition to the game.