This weekend we introduced another player to the game.
This time we played at a store called 'The Game Space' in Pensacola Florida. It just opened this month and has a terrific gaming are with nice comfortable office type chairs. The best part IMO…heh.
As this was primarily a teaching game I didn't take detailed notes of the action, or as many photos, as I normally do but it's my hope what's here will give readers a decent idea of how events unfolded.
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gamespacepensacola.com
So- on with the action
The demo fleet went to our new player. the models are from ravenstar studios. Dont let the crude paint job deter you from these. The models are quite nice. For simplicity we'll call them the EOM (Empire of Mike). The SSDs we used are modified ESU units from star rangers page.
The next fleet was my own Star Trek Old Series Federation Fleet. Models by Amarillo Design Bureau, 2500 series. Their game Star Fleet Battles was the inspiration for the designs.
Lastly are the Space Marines. Old models from Games Workshop's Battlefleet Gothic.
The setup was pretty straight forward with two of us taking opposite corners and the EOM at the center on the opposite side. Lots of terrain was added so the fleets would have to maneuver.
All fleets started firing their long range weapons at each other with most of the damage going to the space marine fleet. I believe I scored two torpedo hits on the EOM battleship but that was all. The phasers on all the fed ships are class 2 or smaller
The Federation DN and its Heavy Cruiser escort bear down on the enemy fleets
The Marines ready themselves
Very little damage is inflicted but the fleets continue to close
The next turn brings the three fleets to almost point blank range. The fed heavy cruiser is terribly hammered but loses very few systems to critical hits.
The other fleets however do not fare as well. The marines and EOM fire mercilessly on each other virtually ignoring my ships. Several EOM and marine ships exploded and my DN managed to put two Starfleet Marine Boarding Parties on the EOM battleship. (notice the red chips on the BB's base)
The next turn pretty much decided things. The fed fleet ‘threaded the needle' between the two fleets and took a fair amount of damage. The old light cruiser took the worst of it with at least one enemy ship firing from directly astern, bypassing her armor and virtually gutting the ship.
The EOM fleet did not fair any better and with several more ships damaged and now a total of six ‘Red Shirts" running around the battleship trying to capture it.
The next turn I decided to put some distance between me and the battle and accelerated away hoping to swing around so my torpedoes could bear. There was also the added bonus that maybe the Space marines and EOM would pound each other some more…which they did. It did, however cost me the wrecked light cruiser. The EOM battleship was firmly in Starfleet hands by the end of the turn though.
The last turn saw very little action with the surviving Space Marine fighters taking out a damaged EOM frigate and a few shots here and there from the few ships that had working weapons. The feds were in the midst of swinging around but it would be at least another turn before they would do anything so we decided to end it.
All in all a great but quick game and gave our new player an opportunity to see a variety of weapon systems in operation. This was one of the few demos I've run where nobody collided with an asteroid!
Any and all comments or questions welcome!
"expands his knowledge" by venturing onto the high frontier.
