Federation Commander

thanks for the clean up, wow that must have been a awesome battle to observe and be in.

Here is a brief sypnosis of the results for turn 9.

Political:

the Tholians accepted peace terms from the Gorn Confederation, on turn 8 the Gorn invaded in response to an aggresive Tholian seaizure of a level 4 system. The Tholians agreed to re-establish the borders and both empires would release control on each others soverign territory. the Tholaisn also agreed to act as a bulwark against any aggresive actions against the Gorn from thier western and southern border (TSE and FED side)

The Tholians also accepted literally the same terms with the TSE, the TSE took 2 level 6 systems in repsonse to tholian "exploration" of a TSE level 2 system near the TSE home system. Both empires returned territory, The Tholains agreed to transfer 6 web tenders to teh TSE to construct web lines along the fed/tse border. the TSE transferred fleet elements from the THolian border back to the Fed border.

The Hydrans entered into a trade treaty with the Federation, they also propsed a military treaty, But the Federation declined at this time.

The Romulans and Gorns stopped thier year long war (2 turns) and established a formal neutral zone along the entirety of thier border.

The Kzinti and the TSE exchanged a DW each in a show of good faith, these ships can be used by either empire for any operation.

The federation placed a letter of marque on all TSE and Klingon ships to Orion pirate and mercenary captains, offering huge sums of money to these captains if they destroy or capture ships of either of these empires.

MILITARY:

The TSE invaded the Federation with 20 ships in 5 different attacks, the Federation only had 4 ships on the TSE border, and could only aford to engage the smaller TSE forces. the TSE had 2 main fleets and 3 smaller single ship forces to take vulnerable systems. The federation lost 2 systems, and have a new mobile base tied up in battle against the largest TSE task force.

The Klingons invaded the Gorn.

Klingon force

2xC7, 1xD-5w, 1xF-5w, with romulan allies 1xKRC, 1xKR

the Gorn responded with

1xHDN, 1xCC, 1xCS, 2xBC, 3xHDD,2xFF

this should be an interesting battle, the romulan ships are there as 'military exchange ships' and do not ofifcially represent the will of the Romulan Empire.

The Klingons invaded the Federation Hex B-52 Level 1 near old Seltorian Capital.

Klingon forces include
1xB-10, 2xD-5, 1xF-5w

The federation did not contest the attack, neded to pull more forces into position.

there are numerous Romulan escort ships engaged with pirates this turn, other than that there was minimal raiding.

here is the breakdown.

1.
Orion
1xLR

Romulan
1XWE

2. ORion
1XLR

Romulan
2XSnipe

the romulans lost 50 PV to the Orion raiders on one raid that the Romulans choose not to intercept.

the Federation conducted raids on the KLingons as well, the KLingons lost 9 freighters.

EXPLORATION:

all races conducted exploration and multiple planets and terrain was discovered.

RANDOM ENCOUNTERS:

the Romulans rolled a RANdom Encounter/.....the Death PRobe...yikes
The Romulan Home fleet is warming up to engage.

PURCHASES:

TSE 1xBB
Federation 1xMobile Base, 1xCC
Gorn 2xBC
Klingon 2xC7
Romulan 1xFirehawk, 1xFalcon Mauler
Kzinti 1xBATS
Tholian 1xCW

any feedback?

Woohoo! Turn 13 processed and we have some interesting looking fights. The Tholian is atacking in towards a Klingon Planet with a Base Station in orbit. The Base Station spotted the attack which was coming in from the south and southwest and reacted some ships out to the smaller part of the attack. Scenario as follows:

Fixed Floating map. Squadron scale.

Tholian sets up first anywhere on edge of map segment F NCL and PC facing centre of map.

Klingon sets up 2xD5 and E4 centre of map. (one ship must, other two within 1 hex of centre)

Start t6 anywhere on edge of map segment D Tholian NCA, NDD, 2xDD appear.

Start t11 Klingon D5W and E5 appear anywhere on edge of map segment C.

Scenario ends when one side has no ships on the map. Crippled ships may leave under own power or if towed under rule 1.3.

The Hydran has Gorns to deal with, but it seems the Ranger is going to retreat in the face of the Gorn DNH.

There are more scenarios going to happen later in the turn, but they are in part at least dependent on what happens in the first few phases (of a six phase turn).

Oh - I should explain that our compass rose is A=NW, B=N, C=NE, D=SE, E=S and F=SW.

Also, that the Tholian is trying to get his fleet past the Klingons to attack the BS and then have sufficient ships left to continue his attacx. This is phase 1 of 6.

BTW, Pallida, letters of marque were issued by governments to the civilian owners of ships authorising them to capture enemy vessels - it made their actions legal, and meant they were "privateers" rather than "pirates".

LOL understood, it was kind of an inside political move of the Federation who does not 'officially" deal with pirates, so they consider them to be private owners.



as always looks like your game is going very well indeed!!

Ciao

Oh it's such a lovely day,
I just want to hack and slay.
Feel the breezes in the trees,
as I drive them to their knees.
Birds are singing in the sky,
as all around my foemen die.
Oh on such a lovely day,
I just want to hack and slay.

ahh the sweet minstrals of the klingons, how peaceful, it calls the empire to action.

Praetor Mors

What is a "fixed floating map"???

a fixed floating map is a map that may float around a fixed point or a fixed map panel a cetain number of panels out from that fixed point.

Okay. I thought that was called a location map.

Fixed floating map: We use it to give ourselves a bigger playing area than the standard map, and find it a good compromise between the fixed map and a totally floating map for the seeking weapon users who want no space to manoeuver and the direct fire folk who want to run away forever . It's our standard playing map, and we put a counter in the centre of the map. When you run off the edge of the map as it stands you move all the counters 10 hexes in a suitable direction to give you room to move again. The proviso is that the counter marking the centre of the map must stay on the board.

The game was played yesterday and the Tholian managed to dodge around behind a web a turn for four turns, but got it just slightly wrong on turn five and the Klingon pounced. The Tholian NCL was hit by four dones and some direct fire. He decided to stay in EM reckoning (probably correctly) he'd take less overall damage that way but still took 40 or so internals, which with the ten or so he'd already taken, crippled him and the Klingon retired back to the base station, satisfied with what he'd achieved, before the Tholian main fleet arrived on turn 6. The base assault will probably be played next weekend.

As GM I'm gratified that both players enjoyed the scenario, which was very much defined by things that never happened: the arrival of the reinforcements; and things about to happen: the base assault and the rest of the turn, and to a lesser extent the weight of the turns to come. It defines what a campaign gives the players - the pressure of external events.

Mike, did you ever play the mini campaign you were talking about? If so, how's it going?

D'Arc: Enjoyed the poem. Very Klingon!

It was a very tense and enjoyable game, even though I suspect the heavy night I had before contributed in the one hex mistake that allowed the klingon to rather wreck my NCL.

Still it's a great way to fight a campaign battle, not so much in written rules but utterly in the sense and spirit of those said rules.

Looking forwards to the next fight, I shall have my revenge, that dratted Klingon damaged far too many pebbles when he blew my labs apart!

Pinkfluffychicken wrote: D'Arc: Enjoyed the poem. Very Klingon!

Credit goes to Curtis Lyon, my son-in-law, the original author (it is actually a song).

Greetings to all, the battle between the Klingon/Romulan allied taskforce and the Gorn Confedertion Romulan/Klingon BOrder fleet will commence this evening.

I will post battle results tommorow.