# Red Streets, Blue Mats tags: #game/wargame/red-streets-blue-mats ![[Red Streets, Blue Mats (cover).jpg|600]] Tap out or get tapped — Two Hour Wargames' complete game of mixed martial arts, and it's the honest modern answer to that old Roman bit about mercy. **Red Streets, Blue Mats** drops you in as an MMA fighter who is nobody, starting on the fringes and paying dues until the big-time octagon is in reach, with the fight resolving on the reaction engine like any THW scrap — except the only casualty here is your record and your reputation. ## Setting You begin as a fighter far from fame and fortune — formally trained, or the back-alley kind who learned the hard way — working to reach the big time. The game leans on the flavor of the modern fight game: the sprawl-and-brawl, the ground-and-pound, the clinch, the takedown, and the moment where defeat means conceding (in the octagon, you tap; in Rome, you hoped for mercy, and the crowd got to vote). It's a solo- and co-op-friendly campaign about climbing the card, with little bookkeeping so the fights stay the point. ## Mechanics Built on the THW reaction system, tuned for one-on-one combat in a cage. It covers **twenty different fighting styles**, from Aikido to Wrestling, so your fighter has a real identity on the mats; a **full-color octagon** for staging the fights; and **24 pre-generated non-player martial artists** to fight, each with their own style and skill level so the card stays varied. A **complete campaign** carries you from the Fringes through the Prime Locales to the Big Time with minimal bookkeeping, and the whole thing plays with miniatures, paper counters, or coins — it ships a dozen full-color counters to get you started. Same THW trick as the battlefield games: you can run it solo against the table or head to head against another fighter. ## Editions - **Red Streets, Blue Mats** — the complete game of MMA combat (Ed Teixeira & Tom Hise / Two Hour Wargames, product 2HW-1057). *In the library.* **Red Streets, Blue Mats** is the cage-side modern cousin of the gladiatorial **Red Sand Blue Sky** — the two of them Two Hour Wargames' paired fighter-career games. ## References - [Two Hour Wargames](https://www.twohourwargames.com/)