angelus2000
Mongoose
So the other day I was playing a nice litle 5pt battle on Vassal and I started thinking about how I love the big point battles. The main problem with doing them RL was the fact that time was never enough, no place to just leave the tabletop with everything setup, no guarantees that some stuff wouldnt get moved around etc.
Then I realized with Vassal you can just save the game in progress. So my thoughts started turning towards creating a very large batle, on that could be played out over a few or several gaming sessions.
So the setup
5/6 Pt. Armageddon
Destroy the shipyards Assault
Objective: Destruction of Space Shipyards and Planetary Construction Facilities. Attacker will atempt to destroy both Space shipyards and planetary construction facilites of the defender. Defender must setup all defense forces first.
Attacker Setup. Attacker exits from hyperspace in a 12x12 space in one corner of the board (random). Or systems jump gate may be used as well(random location for jump gate). Up to 25% of forces may be kept in reserve in Hyperspace. All fighters may start deployed.
Defender setup: Defender places forces first. 6 pts may be split in the following ways:
1 Pt Arma. Must be spent on space stations and defense satelites. Satellties are 1 Patrol Pnt a peice, stations are per SFOS costs.
1 Pt Arma will be spent on "powered down" ships. Must be placed within 6 inchs of any space dock or planetary orbit. Ships become active on 1d6 (target number 1 turn 1, target 2 turn 2 etc).
Up to 2 pts may be spent on active ships in system. Must be placed within 18 of any space dock or the planet.
Up to 3 pts may spent on friendly ships in hyperspace as reserves. Ships may begin arriving no ealier than turn 4 on a 1d6 ( target 1 turn 4, target 2 turn 5). Ship squadrons need only 1 roll per turn.
6 Patrol Points of fighters may be placed anywhere on the board to represent space patrols.
Fleet Selection: Defender/Atacker must maintain 50/50 points split between Raid and below and Battle and above must be maintianed during fleet selection(exceptions: Early EA, Vree, Abbai, Drazi. these fleets may bump the 50/50 split down to Skirmish/Raid. Vorlon and shadow must maintain 50/50 between battle&below and War&above).
Battlefield Setup: System must contain 1 planet as per Planetary Table (reroll 6's), and and at least 3 Asteroid Fields. Additional terrain is rolled at random and is placed first. Mandatory terrain (planet, asteroids) is placed at defender discretion. Space docks must be placed within asteroid fields. No space dock may be placed more than 8 inches from another space dock.
4 Space docks and 50 planetary facilites are the target. Planetary facilities are attacked as per SFOS rules regarding attacking emplacments. Space docks are per Vassal Stats with following exceptions; no weapons except particle beams, no interceptors.
Victory Conditions: Attacker; must successfully destroy both orbital shipyards and planetary facilites.within 12 turns.
Defender, orbital docks either/or planetary facilites must survive 12 turns.
If theres any obvious problems with this scenarios or unclear bits let me know so I can edit this post. I'd really like to try this one myself at some point so if your interested, PM me
Then I realized with Vassal you can just save the game in progress. So my thoughts started turning towards creating a very large batle, on that could be played out over a few or several gaming sessions.
So the setup
5/6 Pt. Armageddon
Destroy the shipyards Assault
Objective: Destruction of Space Shipyards and Planetary Construction Facilities. Attacker will atempt to destroy both Space shipyards and planetary construction facilites of the defender. Defender must setup all defense forces first.
Attacker Setup. Attacker exits from hyperspace in a 12x12 space in one corner of the board (random). Or systems jump gate may be used as well(random location for jump gate). Up to 25% of forces may be kept in reserve in Hyperspace. All fighters may start deployed.
Defender setup: Defender places forces first. 6 pts may be split in the following ways:
1 Pt Arma. Must be spent on space stations and defense satelites. Satellties are 1 Patrol Pnt a peice, stations are per SFOS costs.
1 Pt Arma will be spent on "powered down" ships. Must be placed within 6 inchs of any space dock or planetary orbit. Ships become active on 1d6 (target number 1 turn 1, target 2 turn 2 etc).
Up to 2 pts may be spent on active ships in system. Must be placed within 18 of any space dock or the planet.
Up to 3 pts may spent on friendly ships in hyperspace as reserves. Ships may begin arriving no ealier than turn 4 on a 1d6 ( target 1 turn 4, target 2 turn 5). Ship squadrons need only 1 roll per turn.
6 Patrol Points of fighters may be placed anywhere on the board to represent space patrols.
Fleet Selection: Defender/Atacker must maintain 50/50 points split between Raid and below and Battle and above must be maintianed during fleet selection(exceptions: Early EA, Vree, Abbai, Drazi. these fleets may bump the 50/50 split down to Skirmish/Raid. Vorlon and shadow must maintain 50/50 between battle&below and War&above).
Battlefield Setup: System must contain 1 planet as per Planetary Table (reroll 6's), and and at least 3 Asteroid Fields. Additional terrain is rolled at random and is placed first. Mandatory terrain (planet, asteroids) is placed at defender discretion. Space docks must be placed within asteroid fields. No space dock may be placed more than 8 inches from another space dock.
4 Space docks and 50 planetary facilites are the target. Planetary facilities are attacked as per SFOS rules regarding attacking emplacments. Space docks are per Vassal Stats with following exceptions; no weapons except particle beams, no interceptors.
Victory Conditions: Attacker; must successfully destroy both orbital shipyards and planetary facilites.within 12 turns.
Defender, orbital docks either/or planetary facilites must survive 12 turns.
If theres any obvious problems with this scenarios or unclear bits let me know so I can edit this post. I'd really like to try this one myself at some point so if your interested, PM me
