"any interest in a super sentai game and miniatures?" Topic

In your opinion, would people buy miniatures and a rulebook based on super sentai-style TV shows? I think this is a very gameable thing but there are no sources of figures. If I were to do it, I'd do it in 15mm because of the cost of sculpting, etc. I also like 15mm because there arfe a lot of aliens available that could be used as enemy mooks (e.g. the current offerings by Khurasan and Rebel).

Just curious but I'll also start a super sentai thread on the Liberty and Union League on link

Tricky genre with the obligatory man-to-man errr… man-to-monster battles that HAVE to escalate to giant robot versus giant rubber monster conflict. Although it would be cool to have the mooks battle in 15mm and then have another table scaled in 6mm for the climatic 'Form Blazing Sword!!!!' moment. Okay the Blazing Sword was Voltron and not Super Sentai but you get the idea.

Fellow Otaku: the general public are present. Please use English, though it be clumsy and imprecise. For the uninitiated, super sentai are the Japanese superheroes that end up using their giant robots to engage alien menaces and the occasional mad scientist in the streets of Tokyo, ala Power Rangers, Ultraman, etc. That being said, "Song of Mecha and Monsters" sounds like a great title to add to the stable.

I was thinking to make it work even without the escalation scenes, or that should be played as a part of the campaign using Gashapons.

I think the genre would scream for a dedicated range or at least a starting pool of 2-3 teams of five characters for variety. There are a lot of various aliens in 15mm that could raise hell in Angel Grove errr… Tokyo, though. I immediately thought 28mm in scale though.

I keep thinking about doing Super Robot games…

The problem is the sculpting cost as I don't think there is enough interest to recoup costs… I have started a 28mm U&L League, let's see if people want them
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I think there is a market for sentai, my next release is actually based on these shows however, you need to have your game feature or be compatable with games that have giant robots, monsters, and sci fi vehicles to truly simulate the genre.

You have a kaiju game coming out so you should try to make it fully compatable with that game to get the most out of the sentai game.

That is one of the reasons I created the Toy Battle System to create a link of games so these types of shows can be recreated. A single game that features all of those things would be a large undertaking.

Ken
Radioactive Press

surely ther are enough gundam kits (and similar…i'm not expert in the genre of anything japanese-ish) to have some simple 15mm figures (i'd prefer 28mm) and then at the vital morphing point you just substitute said figure with the relevant giant walking monster/robot thing?

a couple of neat rules on WHEN morphing is allowed would stop players from starting in the morphed frm and stomping on everything until the climactic final moments…

… actually why haven't the powre ranger bad guys figured that out already?

GiantMonster
I'll probably do a giant mech game and that will be fully compatible with the kaiju game. Same rules, different weapon effects and special abilities. I do think that having to switch scales would be a bit of a problem for most players… will your release have paper miniature , counters etc?

Brandlin
to keep a sense of scale, the humans should be 6mm and the giant robots about 80mm tall :-)
Anyway the two different scales are not generally fighting on the same battleground. When the bad guys send in a giant monster, then the sentai (super team) morphs into a giant robot or something like that.

Sounds like fun, sign me up. Not all sentai series deal only in monster bashing. Rescue Force had the usual bad guy types but the heros had to save people from disasters caused by the bad guys in each episode. Nor is there always a giant monster fight at the end either with morphed up heros. My personal fave series Kamen Rider is all done with human sized heros and monsters. Although there should be some kind of rule to allow for powering up your main heros over the course of many battles so that by the end of the "series" they are more powerful than when they started. Just as in the shows as they progress they get better equipment and powers. And of course the monsters get harder to kill too leading up to the main bad guy behind it all.

I'm in. What scale?

None of my games will have official miniatures or paper cutouts. The reason for this is because of the large variety of action figures and other toys available that can be used.

I have had players doing sentai style battles with just the Giant Monster Rampage rules so I don't think scale is going to be an issue.

My initial thought was 15mm but I have checked the costs etc and I do not think I can afford a whole miniature line.
Kamen Rider style would be cool and easier to do than classic sentai, although less popular outside of Japan it is easier to do, but you must make two versions of the heroes (one on the bike and one on foot). For the uninitiated, Kamen Riders are bikers in power armor with insect-themed helmets (!) and cyborg-supernatural powers.
if the Union League gets accepted, we'll try to count how much interest there is.

Here's what we could do with a LOT of infantry packs :
YouTube link (no battle, just a line up of various Red Rangers from different series and ages…)

I would def welcome 15mm.

Some Kamen Rider goodness from different shows…..

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Ahhh Kamen Rider, nothing better in my book. I like the vintage stuff myself. I would play Sentai games in a second.