Monday, April 12, 2021

1st Grav Bike Race

 This is my first trial race of the Grav Bike Rules. It features Vrkta'klak Kravnkvy on the black and grey bike, Garry Gleam on the white bike, and Shy Martin on the purple bike. It would be a 10 track section race.

The lights turn green and they are off. Vrkta'klak and Garry make the early pace as Shy moves to a higher level.
Vrkta'klak moves into the lead as Garry has to avoid a column blocking his path, allowing Shy to move past him on the outside.
Garry declares that he is going to shoot this turn, this will make any manoeuvres he makes much more difficult as he tries to line up a shot. Once he is in the same lane and height as Vrkta'klak he fires and automatically damages his bike.
The advantage of being at the back is you get to place the obstacles on the new section of track. Shy fails a drivers skill test while changing height, but fortunately not by enough to hit the roof. Garry and Vrkta'klak also both fail drivers skill tests and slam into the side walls, causing damage to their bikes.
Garry again fails a driver test, when trying to gain height to get over a low wall. He's not so lucky and slams into the ceiling and with no armour on top he's out of the race.
Vrkta'klak has had the luck with him and flies with the throttle wide open can anything stop him.
In a last ditch effort, Shy slows down, announces he will be shooting this turn and gets the shot which is enough to end Vrkta'klak's race.

For a first run through of the first set of rules I've tried writing, I think they went well with no big errors in them so far. A bit of tweaking need to reduce the number of clear track sections, in fact I'll probably get rid of them altogether other than the first section.







Saturday, April 10, 2021

Grav Bike Racing Part One

 Who after seeing the grav bikes in Star Wars didn't want one to race around on? Well that's unlikely to happen for a few more years, so I decided to do the next best thing, which is to create a game of Grav Bike racing. It would have to be a fast play game to keep the feel of it right. The rules are just about finished and hopefully I'll get them played in the next week or so. Here are the bikes I have ready for the game so far, they are all from Ground Zero Games 15mm range.

These two are the Kra'Vak single seater bikes.
These two are the New Israeli single seater bikes.

These two are the Outrim Coalition single seater bikes.

And finally these two are ESU single seater bikes.

I'm looking at getting some paper tracks made over the weekend, and then should be all set to playtest the rules, which I will eventually make available on the blog.


1st Grav Bike Race

 This is my first trial race of the Grav Bike Rules. It features Vrkta'klak Kravnkvy on the black and grey bike, Garry Gleam on the whit...