Federation Commander

[IKerensky]

The Four Power War

It is a campaign rule to replay the conflict between Klingons-Lyrans and Kzintis-Hydrans from Y158-Y162.

Map:

There is no real map used in this campaign, but rather an abstact economical system and deploy area. Each empire being separated into one interior area and 2 frontline area (1 by opponent).

Timescale:

1 game turn equal more or less 3 month of conflict.

Starting forces:

Each player build his starting forces with a budget of 1000 points, his choices are limitated by ships available in Y158 (middle years). More advanced ships wont be available at campaign start (not before Buy phase of turn 9). Each player also benefit of 1 Q-Ship to escort his convoy each turn.
For each BB/DN in his fleet, the player must buy 2 CA/BC/HCA, for each CA/BC/HCA he must buy 2 DD/FF/CL.
Each empire start with a 1000 pts production capacity.

Game turn:

1- Ships assignement
2- Raid resolution
3- Battle resolution
4- Ressources collection
5- Repair and buy


1- Ship assignement :

Each player secretly assign his ships between : his empire interior area, his opponents interior areas, his frontlines areas.
He is not obligated to assign ships to every area but all his ships must assigned to an area. Only ships of CA class or smaller can be assigned to interior area.
Klingons and Lyrans can assign ships to frontline area of their allied empire.
Ships assigned to frontline area must be given an attitude : Aggressive, Defensive or Balanced. This attitude must be shared by all the ships in this frontline area.
Ships assigned to a player s interior areas serve in defense of the player s convoys to counteract enemies raids, ships assigned to an enemy s interior area conduct raids against this empire convoys. Each empire have 4 convoy each turn, each one transporting 25% of the next turn production. Each player assign his Q-Ship and his ships secretly to one of the 4 convoy (numbered 1 to 4), doing the same for his raiders. No more than 1 CA/CL or 2 DD/FF can be assigned to each convoy.

2- Raid s Resolution:

For each convoy where there is a raider present a convoy s attack scenario is played. If there is forces assigned to the interior areas of the defending empire that are not engaged they can show up as reinforcement after 4 game turns. If there is frontline area forces in defensive setting that are not engaged, they can show up as reinforcement after 10 game turns.
The ratio of destroyed transport is substracted from the 25% of next turn production transported by the convoy ( by example : losses of 1 transport and another one is crippled on a 4 ship convoy : 1.5/4*25% = 9.375% of production lost).

3- Battle s Resolution:

The attitude of the fleet of each opponent on the frontline define wich scenario will be played, based on the following table :

[IKerensky]

Comments and grammar correction are welcomed.

I think it need tweaking in victory earning.

to be noticed is the fact that global economy go slowly down as more battle are fought over the place.

[IKerensky]

If someone know how to make a correct table on this forum, I will gladly appreciate his help...

[JimDauphinais]

As far as I know, phpBB doesn't support standard HTML table tags.

So, you have to type the table in courier font (or another fixed width font) and then place it between "Code" tags. Note that you will need to manually do the spacing. One trick is to create the table in Microsoft Excel and then save it in "prn" format. The "prn" format is really a text file format with the proper space delimiting added for a fixed width font.
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Jim Dauphinais, Chesterfield, MO

St. Louis Area Fed Comm Group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/STL_Federation_Commander/

[IKerensky]

Thanks a lot , that's not perfect but still better

[mattruh]

I have a few quick question about this. First, what are the win conditions?
Second, how much production do you get each turn before modifiers are applied?