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Something slightly different this time around-

An imperial strike force penetrates into Hapan held territory and a fierce battle ensues


An imperial force of an ISD II and victory with tie interceptor and tie defenders VS hapan battle dragons, hapan nova corvettes with fighter and bomber support.

Got any better shots of those Hapan craft?

Sadly, i did not take close ups. they are detailed and look pretty nice. i will try and get some shots next time he brings them.

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Got some star wars fans in the store who wnated a demo game of the B5 wars conversions for star wars.

i through together a little scenario-defense platform assault.

I was going for small scale since the defenders were only running a carrack and 2 patrol cruisers (3d printed ships from mel miniatrures for armada) along with the XQL platform along with 2 tie and 1 tie defender flights.

The rebels came in heavy with an assault frigate and a single flight of y-wing and B-wings loaded to bear

I used home one as a rebel assault frigate. there were 8 random patrol points on the map that the imperial defenders set up on, then the rebels jumped in at one of the random points it just so happens it was right on the carrack and near one of the patrol craft.

The y-wings rolled poorly and got taken out quickly however the B-wings did what B-wings do and got solid hits on the station after it had been damaged by the frigate. Landing a full spread of 18 proton torpedoes to finish it off. it may have been a victory for the rebels but they got mauled on the way out by the angry defenders.

The assault frigate lost most of its port side and aft while taking some critical reactor damage before it managed to jump clear.

By B5 wars standards we did a massive game this weekend using the star wars mod for the system.

this was a classic clone wars setting-breaking a CIS blockade, the republic forces win the scenario if they can get the landing ship acclimator to the planet for invasion. the CIS force just has to stop them.



The republic forces-
.venator
.acclimator assault ship
.acclimator landing ship
.X4 repblic armed cruiser
.x3 flights of fully loaded ARC-170
.X1 flight of jedi piloted actis fighters

The CIS side-
.lukerhulk droid control ship
.providence destroyer
.munificent frigate
.recuscant destroyer
.X3 squads of droid tri-fighters
.X2 squads of belbullabb heavy fighters

The republic players made a few mistakes (i was not going to make it easy on them afterall)

Since asteroid field block LOS the CIS force moved up to use them as cover forcing the republic fleet to close for a close range broadside engagement that favored the CIS.

Like a true jedi commander the republic force took the bait and charged straight into the trap. what is worse they had varied their speed so much they ended up breaking up the fleet feeding ships in one at a time. the additional mistake was the ventaor presenting its side instead of its bow where the hanger could soak much of the damage.

The CIS force lost the munificent in the exchange (that win goes to the ARC 170s dropping torpedoes to finish it off) as to be expected as it was the most dangerous target to eliminate and quite a bit less durable than the providence.

the fighter furball ensued, as the tri fighters were out of position to help they attacked and destroyed an armored cruiser while the belbullabbs tried to thin out the ARCs loosing most of their numbers.

Next to come step into the trap was the acclimator assault ship. while it managed to survive after taking out the recuscant, it was critically damaged. also by this point most of the ARCs were down as were 2 more armored cruisers. the republic forces decided they didn't want to risk trying to run the gauntlet between the damaged but opeational providence and the fresh lukerhulk that was waiting in the back as a blocking ship. the order to withdraw was given as the republic ships made the jump to hyperspace.











After action report-

This was the republics fight to lose-

the target ship (acclimator) came in at an incredibly high speed and could have easily flanked the blockade while the other ships provided a distraction. instead, it hung back somewhat closer to the main force and never really engaged. as a landing ship/carrier it was also heavy on the anti-fighter weapon loadout so even sending droid fighters after it would have proven difficult.

This game took quite a while given it's size and had a slow start but it was great fun for all involved.

More B5 wars-this time in the star trek universe-

A small dominion war era skirmish-
This game went way faster than the Star Wars game given how small and maneuverable trek ships are by comparison.



On one side we had a breen torpedo cruiser, a jemhadar battle cruiser backed up by a flight of 3 jemhadar strike craft.

The opposite side had the Prometheus, the Achillies siege cruiser (warship design based on an intrepid hull, like the defiant but bigger) and a nova.

The Prometheus wandered off on its own and took massive damage being forced to withdraw before its primary structure was completely destroyed. the exchange favored the dominion as they only lost a single attack ship. the achillies got close and badly damaged the front of the battlecruiser, who returned the favor. as we passed each other firing as we went. the Breen ship surprisingly survived and was swinging around to bring its weapons to bear. we stopped at this point as i had another promised game to go to and the other player had to leave. good fun.

Just a quick game tonight. i got a request for a Klingon/Romulan war battle.

The player using the Romulans is still learning some basic space tactics and being sneaky (he is a Romulan after all).

The game didn't start well for him with my torpedo cruiser variant vor'cha doing serious damage to his deridex at range. he ended up looing it as the combined remainder of my fleet sling shotted itself around the central planet to line up an attack run. while my torpedo cruiser ran for its life as all my weapons were in re-charge/reload.

The Romulans decided to cloak or hide most of their fleet. so the Klingons regroups for the impending attack run.


The final engagement was quick and brutal. the 2 medium class warbirds decloaked in spitting distance and combined with the fire of the valdore command warbird destroyed my negh'var.

Even at full defensive putting me at a targeting disadvantage, the simultaneous return fire destroyed one medium ship and crippled the second. effectively leaving the valdor alone against a bird of prey and 2 vor'cha's. the Romulans cut their losses and went to warp.

More B5 wars star trek-

this game felt entirely like we were playing the nemesis movie but with opposing fleets.

yes the remen scimitar did cloak and we had to "ping" it and even got a few actuall hits on it.

The federation force eked out a narrow victory (destroying the scimitar was the objective). but they paid a heavy price for it.

the romulans only lost a small torpedo cruiser and the scimitar

the federation side lost a nebula. the enterprise E, the miranda and the intrepid was crippled.

The most massive Star Wars battle every fought by us-

A huge game by B5 wars standards with over 8K in points on both sides.

The imperial side
.Imperial assault ship
.victory class ISD
.ISD I
.ISD II

X3 flights of
.tie fighter
.tie interceptor
.tie advanced

The rebels side
.X2 hammerhead escorts
.nebulon B
.republic dreadnought
.rebel assault ship
.MC80A
.MC80B

X3 flights of
.A-wing
.X-wing
.Y-wing

The rebels lost the set up roll preventing my plan to pincer the imperial task force.
As we manuevered to reform the rebel force there was a breif but deadly accurate exchange between the 2 ISD I & II and both MC80.

i managed to tear the nose off the ISD I and send in the Y-wings to finish it off, unfortunately imperial return fire was super accurate hitting the same 6 locations (out of 20) with every shot. quite effectively drilling a hole through the MC 80B
The next turn the nebulon B went down. as the forces maneuvered to recover it became a fighter brawl for the rest of the game. both sides lost most of their fighter forces, however the tie advanced managed several attack runs with proton torpedoes on the other MC 80 before they were worn down. causing so much critical damage the rebels were forced to flee as the bulk of its fleet strength had been neutered.

Good game!

As with most B5 fleet engagements discretion is the better path to live to fight again some other time.

That's a big Dreadnought.

So, we downscaled (or upscaled depending on your point of view) to play the B5 wars system at X-wing fighter scale combat.

Since the game is made for fleet combat and you run fighters in full flights, the game is incredibly deadly for individual fighter on fighter combat. however, it does help make the smaller capitol class ships actually stand out.

The imperial side
.TIe defender
.Tie V-38 assault fighter
.imperial gunboat
.firespray/slave 1
.gozanti frigate

The rebel side
.X-wing
.Y-wing
.skipray blast boat
.ghost


The game we ran was around 500 points. with a few larger ships. both sides made short work of the fighters...slave 1/the firespray ran afoul of the skipray blast boat (we used the K-wing to represent it).

In the end it came down to the ghost and the gozanti brawling.....unfortunately for the ghost most of the damage it took destroyed it's guns so it was forced to withdraw leaving the imperial forces bloodied but victorious.

One of the guys went out and got the executor SSD for star wars armada, and we keep trying to get a huge game in using the B5 war rules set, but things keep going sideways. so i have been doing some small games instead.

This little game was fighter heavy with an imperial assault ship with a flight of tie advanced, tie defenders and imperial assault boats VS a rebel assault ship, blockage runner and flights of X wing, Y wing and A wing fighters.







Ship combat wise the exchange was pretty equal (well except for the blockade runner that got deleted by fighter).

fighter side things favored the empire. losing 6 of 18 units VS the rebels loosing 12 of 18 between all the flights.

Been a while since we broke out the actual B5 stuff-

We did a scenario game-chase the arctic-

In the lore it was an experimental one off test ship for future weapon and system upgrades for advanced earth alliance ships like the warlock, in the lore once the earth civil war started it was on trials and went into hiding.

this setting- a task force sent by president clark to capture it. finds it hiding out in drazi space, who are quite offended by the intrusion. so they also try to capture the ship.

the arctic drew first blood destroying the artemis heavy frigate. over the next few turns it loast both it's front and rear main drive thrusters forcing it to maneuver with side thrusters and effectively drift across the battlefield. the drazi managed to slow down the EA ships and do significant damage to the Omega, but ignoring the hyperion that proceeded to wreck 2 drazi cruisers. the last drazi ship was moving to fast to avoid going off the table. and the EA forces had be slowed down so much they couldn't catch the arctic before it jumped.

How big are the boards you're playing on? I see that you're using two.

 warboss wrote:
How big are the boards you're playing on? I see that you're using two.

the table is 4X8, double 4x4 mats

Not many pictures this time as the game got cut short. but we did the star wars mode for B5 wars and played the clone wars era. i ran a CIS fleet with 2 destroyers, 2 frigates, 2 gunships and the invisible hand. i was facing a venator, acclimator assault ship, and a victory class star destroyer. i was running support tri-fighter and bellbulab to face off against his ARC 170s