Convoy Duty?

[Shloaksta]

My friends and I just started playing Noble Armada in a campaign and see "Convoy Duty" in the generate scenario table, but no scenario in the book listed as Convoy Duty. Is this referring to another scenario listed, or is this a scenario that was not included with this book?

Also is there any idea when Fleets will be released along with the new houses/fleets? I see a lot of news for Starfleet but never any new news about NA.

 

[locarno24]

There was a 'convoy duty' in the Babylon 5 2E version. I suspect the scenario list has been copied and pasted.

The key problem with a convoy duty scenario is that there are currently no statted merchant ships.

 

[Da Boss]

maybe something for the new CTA Journal thingy

 

[Finlos]

There are a good number of freighters and small civilian ships in the 'Civilian Section' way in the back.

 

[Greg Smith]

Not in Noble Armada, there aren't.

 

[Shloaksta]

That explains it. My friends and I are thinking of making one up here soon. Although maybe it will be included with fleets when it is eventually released.

 

[locarno24]

If you want a quick version:

Attackers get X points (depending on game size)
Defenders receive 60% of the above

Convoy deploys on one map short edge and exits from the other. Attacker can move on from either long edge in any movement phase.

Defenders gain victory points for destroying/capturing attackers as normal and also get the full points value of their defended ships if they can withdraw off the other end of the table

Attackers gain victory points for destroying/capturing defenders as normal but gain a set of nice, fragile targets in the form of the convoy ships which are also worth points, and can withdraw freely from the long table edges.



If you want a quick stand-in, for every 200 points in the defending fleet, say they get a transport that behaves exactly like a galliot except that it has neither troops, guns or grapnels. It's worth the same as a galliot because it's stuffed to the gunwhales with valuable purloinables.

So, a 1,000 point defending fleet has to protect 5 transports against 600 points of attackers.


I heartily approve of convoy duty coming back into the game, at least in part because it's what raiders are supposed to do - currently they just get it in the neck because they (unsurprisingly) can't go up a 'proper' warship.