White Star: Battles in Space!

 Battle in Space!

Two short space battles were fought to play out the situation between the Galactic Consortium and the Solar Alliance forces as they clash in Quadrant 44.

Players:

Mark E. & Mightyeroc.

Battle 1: GC forces surprise assault on a small moon along the border of the Red Shift Kelron Sector and the Blue Shift Venturi Sector.

A squadron of four Galactic Consortium Patrol cruisers made a swift assault upon a series of detection satellites along the sector border near a small unnamed moon.

The GC were able to disrupt one of three satellites allowing them to drop a ground assault unit to the moon and take the Alliance forces there by surprise. One Alliance cruiser was destroyed, and a single GC cruiser was left a floating hulk.

We used spaceship board game counters for the ships, and the Attack Wing movement templates for maneuvers and weapon ranges. Mix in a little Traveller space combat rules and we were off and running.

Battle 2: Alliance forces attempt to cover the escape of ground forces leaving the outpost after the ground battle was lost. ( See Galacta 25 post ). The GC forces were able to destroy the escaping Solar Alliance transport as well as three Alliance cruisers, though the GC took heavy damage in return.

Alliance cruiser launches missile

This was an adhoc mishmash of games and styles we threw together for fun. It might be further refined, or we might try the next Battle in Space using the Space Combat rules straight from White Star.

Either way it made for a great couple of hours of dice rolling and fun. The outcome of this will roll into the outcome of the Galacta 25 miniature battle and will influence the overall background of the ongoing White Star RPG campaign. ( Players take note! )

THE END. . . .  for now