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Laserburn: Sci-fi Combat Rules

A science-fiction skirmish ruleset has opposing forces use miniatures, weapons, armor, and scenarios to resolve firefights. Detailed aiming, firing, and wound effects make equipment choices and tactical positioning central to every clash.

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Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.67/5

Rating

6.93

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.9/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How does it play?

Laserburn is a set of science fiction skirmish rules, with roughly 12 to 20 figures a side. It originated as rules for simulating firefights in science fiction role playing games, but soon grew into a set of stand-alone skirmish rules.

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Laserburn is a set of science fiction skirmish rules, with roughly 12 to 20 figures a side. It originated as rules for simulating firefights in science fiction role playing games, but soon grew into a set of stand-alone skirmish rules. Laserburn uses 15mm scale, the basic rulebook is 40 pages in length. Weapons covered are Lasers, bolters, slug gunes, grenade and missile launchers and conversion beams. Armour include flak, mesh, light, power and dreadnought armor. A number of supplements and scenarios were published for Laserburn as well.

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
180 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.7/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Bryan Ansell

Publishers

2
Dada-pelit ky Tabletop Games

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