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Hi,

I want to try out a few experimental setup(s) This is setup 1 of 4 i came up with. If this is succesful them i am willing to setup and try the other idea's i have. Please note that i will setup the game with 'not for stats' so you can participate without fear of loosing your current ranking.

Scenario
The imperian goverment have setup a testing fascility in out space. Because the project is so sectret that no one knows where it lays. It just happens to be that a small group of privateers stumble upon this refurbished astroid and sees it as easy prey. Despite it's friendly looks it's is a heavely defended fortress to crack.

Setup
One player, me in this case will take control of 3 ships. For this i will create 3 additional accounts called Fort 1, 2 and 3. These ships(forts) will be place in space in such way that they are touching each other and form a triangle. Thoughout the game these ships will stay stationairy. Please allow tho fortress player to line up the ships before attacking. The privateers may pick any ship they like or build one of there own with the provided funding.

The goal
The goal for the privateers is to raid the fortress and to destroy it.
Obviously for the fortress player the goal is it wipe out the attacking ships.

Scoring
The fortress player will keep track of the score since it will be a bit different then usual. Each single hit counts as a point. In case of the destruction of a ship or fortress turret the points are inflicted equaly.
Example:
One fort turret have 6 points left
3 ships are firing at the turret and dealing damage
Ship 1 : Laser 25 points
Ship 2 : Ofc 1 point
Ship 3 : Laser 15 points.
First round each ship deal 1 point damage (total 3 points) and score 1 point each
Second round only Ship 1 and 3 deal damage and score 1 point damage (total 2 points) and score 1 point each
Third round.
The fortress only has 1 point left but impact happens simultaniously and it can't be determined who's shot did the kill. Because of this both ships will earn 1 point each. One player is just lucky there.

Progress
At the moment i am setting up the accounts and such however the TakeAPlay email system seems to be rather slow or not functioning.
I'll keep you informed

Unit 1 reporting in for duty

Unit 2 reporting in for duty

Unit 3 reporting in for duty

Status
Game is setup and open for sign up.

great idea

pier. wrote:


an alternative scenario that could work for this setup
attack to the convoy
Ahsa takes control of a battleship ( fighter slow but overloaded of weapons with an extended budget ) and 2 escorts ( normal fighters with the regular budget of 1000 or so ).
Players take control of fighters and their goal is to destroy the battleship

pier. wrote:


That would have been my experimental game no.3 proposal

hurrah for the fortress game. Finally the warthog will do what it's build for!

The playtest is finished
The privateers won with just a few hull points left. Barely enough to bring him home alive so no loot this time.

After match thoughts
I thought this went reasonable. Any thoughts about adjustments, if any?

AshayRey wrote:



as adjustment i would say no to advanced rules due to the coloured chits stuff.
for the rest it has been a good experiment.

now we could try others scenarios.

"attack the convoy" seems to me one of the most playable and intresting.

one variant could be "block the convoy" : to let to the "convoy controller player" to re-deploy the convoy from the other side and then begin the real combat with assaulters working to avoid the "escape" ( = retreat ) of the "mothership".

assaluters have to re-deploy from the other side as well.

it would take some time and some and obviously during the re-deployment both sides have to move being sure to dont have in line on sight any enemy units, but it could be funny.

anyway i thoughy we could can make multiple accounts as for example "pier.2", pier.3" etc so we can play like player vs player with 2 or 3 fighters per player in scenarios like these.

@Pier

I would say make the preparations.

We could also try a game with 2 player and each 2 or 3 fighter.