Recent content by Dies Irae

I had a Tethys Laser Boat demolish a Tigara in a single burst from it's medium laser in the opening shot of the game. Rolled a 6 to spot, then tagged and slagged with 13 beam dice before the dice ran out. That was hilarious. All my Thethys then died the following round. The Mimbo proceeded to...

I've won a game back in 1.5e, with a Nova doing an "In The Beginning" and ploughing straight into a Tertius before exploding real good. I'm kind of upset by the new Lumbering rules taking away the whole "Kamikaze!" cruiser option

Had one recently as well... My last ship, a horrifically damaged EA Nova, ploughed straight into a pristine Dilgar Tikrit on a GIVE ME RAMMING SPEED! order. Nothing left.

They did say they were going to make it hardcore as opposed to a semi-embarassing Battle choice for the Early Years players. Does anyone have any news on whether the old lumbering hulks got updates or variants in 2E? Or do I have to go back to swarming the table with Skirmish and Patrol level...

Earth Alliance : The Early Years I've always been fond of the old AoG "Box Of Death" style for the Earth Alliance, so when SFoS split the Earth Fleet into eras, I naturally gravitated towards the time period where the most "boxes" were available. It probably really didn't hurt that the Artemis...

I've used the Earth/Minbari War ships, though, but only as a seperate fleet list. And man oh man, the Hyperion Command Cruiser Prototypes and Nova Bolter Prototypes inflict some serious damage. As for Skirmish choices, the Rail Cruiser makes a devestating fleet escort.

Having seen what massed waves of Plasma Torpedoes from a bunch of Plasmahawks does to most ships, I'd like to point out that while still managable in a pak'ma'ra fleet on the grounds that after the torpedo barrage, most pak'ma'ra generally look at you and go "Crap. They're still alive. Now...

Armageddon mentions that Dilgar maintain the Pentacon Formation even after the Pentacon is reduced to 4 ships or less. A player has been arguing that if he starts in Pentacon and immediately breaks formation, he still benefits from Pentacon because technically, no ships is still less than 4 as...

So what happens to the various ships that appear in the narrative fleet lists like The Earth/Minbari War book and Argent's Crusaders? We've got a guy who converted his own Endgame Dreadnought, based on the S&P article, and another who has an entire fleet painted up in EM-War EA colours. What...

Whoops. Then again, this was written post mortem, so I guess I made a few mistakes. There was quite a bit of dice bouncing around everywhere, so I guess I made a few mistakes hammering this out quick and dirty. Admittedly, I felt I could have used those two Starfuries that never got off the...

It was a desperate game, but hey... Earth does Desperation pretty well if I remember right. It came down to a handfull of lucky rolls, but I beat the Centauri. It really came down to the line, but at the end of the day, winners are grinners. Admittedly, the Centauri player played badly, and I...

Okay... So after I graduated from complaining about the Sagittarius nerf, I'm currently in a load of problems on how to beat the Centauri Beam Team. Between Sulust and Tertius, my Early Years EA Fleet has consistantly been curbstomped viciously, with entire ships disappearing before even...

I'm relatively new to the who "A Call To Arms" phenomenon, since I started playing during November last year, when I picked up the Revised Box, Armageddon and an Early Years box set. Anyhow, I was playing in the store league when one of the players comes up and shoves a printout in my face...

The Bolter Nova Prototype is hideously effective since the sheer fire it can put out more than makes up for the loss of the Pseudo-Beam weaponry. Especially if you factor in the Hull 6. The Orestes Dreadnought is also by far, the most efficient Orestes variant yet. The Front Arc Laser Cannon...