Sense the release of Full Thrust: Project Continuum from the Emerald Coast skunkworks, I have been busy making designs and running a few playtest for my Star Trek miniatures.
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I want to say thanks to those guys for their work on the publication and to Jim who I emailed insistently with questions. We have made few modification to suit our players, especially the old school ones who consider the More Thrust book released in 1984 a "Advanced rule set."
This is a pictorial recreation of a game that occurred a week ago.
A Klingon task force moves into a Neutral system to exert their influence the "Old Fashion" way with Disruptor diplomacy.
The Federation was at hand to ensure the planet's independence.
The Federation is lead by the Heavy Cruisers Renown and Repulse.
Gentlemen move to your corners
After some time thrusting around, the fleets moved into weapons range. The Klingons, maintaining, a perfect formation, got the better of the first exchange. The USS Repulse was severely mauled by the barrage of disruptor and phaser fire. The Repulse could not bring its heavy photon battery to bear on the cruisers so it unleashed them on a Klingon Frigate. Five Photons later and they all missed! This would be a recurring theme throughout the game.
On the edge of the battle the Frigates pounded each other into oblivion. Two Klingon Frigates destroyed and for one Federation, but the surviving Fed suffered a bridge hit that would take it off the board in a few turns. The Klingon on the far left was the nimble rascal who dodged five Photons torpedoes.
On the following turn the Klingon Cruisers made a sharp turn surprising the Federation destroyers that had moved in to support their heavy brethren. The final placement of ships was not good for the Federation.
The resulting fire from the Kingons was brutal with the destruction of one Destroyer and the other crippled. The Federation did not go quietly into that goodnight, and poured all their fire into the lead Klingon inflicting heavy damage. The lead cruiser suffered a massive system failure which ended in a massive warp core breach.
The crippled destroyer tried to escape but the Klingons were too space wise. It could not get away and was destroyed.
The Klingons then focused on the USS Renown which experienced the same photon targeting problem shown by the Repulse. The damage was piling on and she tried to accelerate to escape the Klingon cruisers. The commander of the Klingon Frigate showed excenlent space navigation skill and rode up the Heavy cruiser's A….Well you know.
Despite the feat of maneuvering the gunner of the Frigate missed with all its shots. That gunner has been executed. A long range shot from the Klingon cruisers caused The Renown to lose more damage control parties and as a result she could not contain her own warp core explosion.
With only the crippled Repulse left the system goes to the Klingon Empire.
I hope you enjoyed
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