SPACE VOTING RESULTS:
Voters, By Nation - Canada

Silent Death fleet battle as part of a home-grown campaign. Played on a ping pong table with over 300 ships [03 Nov 1999]

Finally got my official NeuSwabian League superdreadnought assembled and painted and justHAD to play with it.

If I remember correctly my battle squadron (SDN and BB) took on Barry's green HCs and DN in a slugging match while my DDGs and LCs

tried swinging around the flank to pound him with missile salvoes. My BB and SDN survived but heavily damaged by a torpedo bomber attack, but I only lost a couple of DDs, whereas he lost a BB and a couple of HCs which ate a couple of good vollies of missiles (plus close range pounding from my SDN, :^) [10 Apr 99]

Playtesting for a generic space combat ruleset a friend and I are working on. The Trinity Theocracy (me) vs silicon based beasties with a wierd idea of what ships should look like.

I ended up winning, destroying the last silicon ship by shooting it, ramming it, and finally boarding it and flushing the crew out into space. Great fun. [1 Apr 99]

My last game involved a playtest of B5W, flying EA dreadnoughts against a mixed force of Non-ALigned worlds ships, slaughtering equal sized forces of Hyach and Cascor ships in a close range slug fest...gruesome. [1 Apr 99]

I presume this is talking about my last match at b5Wars? (if not skip the battlerep to the thingie below) Well, my last game was Earth Alliance vs Narn. It is still unfinished. I had a Nova Dreadnougth, 2 Hyperion Heavy Cruisers, 2 Olympus Corvettes, 1 Oracle Scout Cruiser with 18 StarFuries and 18 Thunderbolts (a lot of these ships are unoffical and as of yet unpublished, some versions or rules I used are now overruled by newer updates) vs 2 Bintak Dreadnoughts w/36 Frazi and 2 G'Qoun Heavy Cruisers w/24 Gorith. We did about 4 turns, mainly the fighters clashed with heavy losses on both sides, I have 7 fighters remaining while he still has about 20. My Nova has taken some damage, mainly to weapon systems, it fired split it's fire of medium lasers against both Bintaks causing substantial damage. Subsequent missle fire and pulse fire from an Olympus and a Hyperion finished off one Bintak. One G'Qoun is missing nearly it's front side while another is mint. My Oracle bit it from Frazi and warship attacks and one of my Hyperions is severely damaged after being hit by a Mag Gun from the now dead Bintak (the other Bintak has lost it's Mag Gun btw). Currently, we are waiting for a time we can finish it. Both sides are going to swing about and make passes against one another again. Personally, I believe EA(me) is winning the ship battle while the Narns are doing well on the fighter side of things. We will have to wait and see what happens. As for B5 Wars itself. I find it a very enjoyable and MAINLY reflective of the show. The minatures are decent, although I have not had great access to them due to the fact the stores in town dont carry them or have problems with minature aquirement. Some things are ommitted such as the manueverability of the StarFury or the Grav Deck on the Omega. Overall, I very much like the game. More so than Battlespace (Which I notice is not on your list (it's the space fleet portion of battletech)). The game is fairly complex and yet fun to play. Not only that, but the rules arent turned obsolete every five months and everything is fairly affordable (unlike Games Workshop). Most importantly, AoG has good customer relations (there is a emailing list in which they actively answer questions) and so forth the suppliments (or what I have heard of them) simply add flavour and options. As opposed to games where every successive suppliment has some great new weapon or ship that makes every previous ship not worth playing. [30 Mar 99]

Silent Death battle from the Siguard Archdiocese house book. The Sigurd ships completely destroyed the House Colosia's warhounds and the supporting fighters with only minor losses to their own forces. [29 Mar 99]

Well.. my last game was a game of B5 Wars -- I was introducing my friends to the game, so it was a plain vanilla point against point game of Minbari vs. Humans.. It got a bit bogged down when they started using theif fighters (I let them work together.. less for each to handle and a better chance of good ideas :)

In any case.. It was a stretched out game, but it came to a not-so decisive victory for the Minbari - Our main cruiser was taken out, but then the smaller ships harassed the Human's bigger vessels into running away with heavy damage.. [28 Mar 99]

A little duel between the Prometheus and Dragon Striker, set during the Battle Elesee (Jovian Chronicles) [28 Mar 99]

Last game was very small, and a while back...two destroyer squadrons, each of 4-6 vessels, plus a large freighter for one side to convoy. sort of a pirate/raider attack. Next game is this coming sunday, with luck. My first time with the newish Fleet Book updated rules! [27 Mar 99]

Battle Station Assault - A Klingon D7C, F5lL and Lyran CL attack a Federation base defended with a monitor. A mistake on my (Federation) part leaves the base destroyed and the monitor untouched while the Klingon force is crippled. Kept the monitor too far back...should have let it take a few hits. [26 Mar 99]

The last game I took part in was actually more of a demonstration. I supplied the ships and taught the rules for 4 players to learn Full Thrust. This was approximately 4000 pts a side of NAC vs. Sa'Vasku. My last game as a player would have been in Keith Watts' Solar Thrust game at the Ground Zero Games East Coast Convention.

I expect some players will be updating their initial reports after Battlefleet Gothic becomes available. One thing you might want to look at (though it goes against the grain of the page) is whether people are playing by e-mail due to lack of local competition. Also, you might want to distinguish between last game played and last game GMed. I'm slowly assembling a Superior miniatures fleet. My mad friend Jim has even more obscure stuff. [26 Mar 99]

A meeting engagement fleet battle between the New Anglian Confederation and the European Solar Union, playing Full Thrust. I won :) (New Anglians). [26 Mar 99]

A very large Babylon 5 Wars game in which 20k pts of Centauri units (9 Vorchans, 11 Darkners, 10 Maximus, 6 Mograths and 12 Havens) engaged a large Narn fleets of 17,5k pts (2 Bin'Tak, 1 Dag'Kar, 2 G'Quans, 4 Var'Nik, 11 Thentus and 96 Frazi) with the help of a Raiders forces (initialy 2 Battlewagons, 3 Sunhawks, 2 Sloop, 36 fighter and 1 Thentus) and a Centauri "watching task force" of 1 Centurion, 1 Maximus, 1 Vorchan, 6 Razik, 6 Sentri. The main raiders fleets was forced to flee when an EA pursuit fleet of 14k pts appeared a brief moment. All this time both fleet were closing on each other and firing intensivly. The Narn lost a Bin'Tak and a half when 6 Darkner engaged and destroyed the first and 5 other completly removed the front of the other. We stop this game after 5 turn and 18 hours, we would have needed another 12 or 18 hours to finish it. The Narn had lost 1 Bin'Tak, 1 Var'Nik, 1 Thentus and 53 Frazi while the Centauri had only lost a single Mograth. The Centauri player (myself and Nicolas Auclair-Tremblay) were going to win this game, but the Narn didn't want to accept capitulation. [26 Mar 99]

I was playtesting a skirmish and retaliatory strike with Starfire rules between the Khanate of Orion Tax Patrol and heavily armed slaver ships lurking in an asteroid belt. I am writing some Starfire fiction and needed to fine tune the battle I was writing on for accuracy and make any adjustments necessary. Small KOTP Escort goes looking for it's missing companion and finds it's wreckage. Later gets attacked by two hostile Frigates while searching the outer system for hostiles with it's only remaining companion Escort. New KOTP squadron on maiden voyage hypers in just in time to catch the hostiles from behind and desdtroy them, no surrender, no survivors. (first 4 chapters summary)

While STARFIRE may be known to some oldies (like myself) as SFB's "other" game, it is still far superior and far simpler to use at both the tactical and strategic level. I really hope to see a BIG revival in it's play. See the computer game "Space Empires 3" on the internet for a very close adaptation of Starfire rules. [26 Mar 99]