Foiled again!

Renegade Legions Interceptor – still have that game, along with the TOG fighter sourcebook, RL / CW Fighter sourcebook, Golden Medusas sourcebook, Fire Eagles sourcebook, a bunch of others. Also like Centurion (all the sourcebooks) Leviathan not so much (but still a good game, have all the source books), Legionnaire RPG, Shannendam County source book, Mysia invasion sourcebook by Crunchy Frog Games (after FASA sold the license), Prefect operational-level wargame, etc, the Interceptor computer game … Basically, I have everything ever published … except some of the novels and the Circus Maximus game. Shame what happened to that ‘verse, and… Read more »

It’s always been in my mind to get the metals from C-in-C to cover the scenarios in the box game. One day it will happen…….one day.

@Oriskany, From your collection, other than the crossover scenarios in each game system. Were there any other campaign/scenario books published for Centurion? If so that’s another thing I’d need to get. Now to find some TOG and Commonwealth 6mm infantry models 😀

@phaidknott – I remember the book for 2nd Armored Cavalry (RL/ CW) Regiment, and the Centurion Technical Update, the 13379th Harbringers of Death Strike Legion (TOG), and the Centurion Vehicle Briefing. I have all of them, although not all in .pdf.

http://renegade-legion.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Game_Supplements

Here’s another pretty good resource:
http://knossos.firenebula.com/centurion/

Thanks for the link to the record sheets (VERY useful), I’ll keep a look out for the supplements. On “project to do someday” is to do Centurian with minis and a map replacement (possibly Kallistra hexs, although they are a bit large for 6mm). Someday…….

No worries, @phaidknott – it’s been 25 years since I played any of the games in that ‘verse, except for a week 3 years ago when I flirted with the old PC Interceptor game.

You mean these http://www.pfc-cinc.com/rl_gravtanks.html I’ve got the board game (but it’s the first edition one, the second edition was a lot more streamlined). There was someone in the UK stocking them “Wargames Emporium” (but they always seem to be out of stock, so you’d be better buying them from the US). Centurion is a LOT easier to play as there’s not as much “vectored movement” to deal with. I used to have the fiction books that were released for Centurion (a lot like Hammers Slammers really, but a bit better)

Totally agree, Centurion was much better than Interceptor … and both were better than Leviathan, probably the weakest of the series at least in terms of game mechanics. The “fluff” and backstory were amazing – but the game just never really clicked.

Won’t lie, it was certainly one the many influences for the Darkstar Project:
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/darkstar-tactical-starship-combat-in-the-26th-century/

We actually liked Leviathan the best. We were going through a Napoleonic Naval splurge at the time so loved the idea of crossing the T in space

@torros – “We actually liked Leviathan the best.” Really? Were you playing without missiles or fighter groups? If memories served these were the two weapons classes that more or less “ruined” the game, at least for us. Also, crossing the T is a very dangerous tactic in RL Leviathan because of spinal mounts (at least along the bow). Crossing the STERN, on the other hand, is beauty. 😀 The Darkstar project took what was best from Leviathan, as well as other games like Battletech, Space Battleship Yamato / Starblazers, FASA Star Trek Tactuical Combat Simulator, Starfleet Battles, etc … and… Read more »

We used everything in the game what we found is yes spinal mounts could be dangerous you lost a lot of protection in anti missile and anti fighter defence. We found it much better to layer your defences and hope your opponent made a mistake in manovouring and isolated itself for mass fighter and broadside attacks

I just can’t agree when it comes to Leviathan. I’m not sure how spinal mounts effect antimissile or fighter defense. I suppose if you lost ships to enemy spinal mounts? That never happened in our games, missiles wopuld always crush most ships out of both fleets in a mass matter-antimatter die-off that was always terribly obtuse and dumb, especially once ships started exploding and setting off other ships. Of course the predictable answer to this collateral damage mechanic would be to spread your ships out, but then you couldn’t layer point-defense fight like you say, but of course the game… Read more »

@phaidknott @oriskany

Some clever chap combined the Centurion damage system and Battletech

It makes Battletech a much better game in my opinion

Didn’t realise there was a 2nd edition

Yup, the second edition came out with little plastic tanks (you occasionally see them appear for sale and they also released the tanks separately (you got about 50 in a box), rather than the coloured “matchbox” box thingies that came with the 1st edition. There were a few rule clarifications and simplifications (but the game wasn’t that much changed).

This was one of the sets I had, with the tiny plastic Liberators, Wolverines, Vipers, Trajans, etc. 😀 still have all the books, the plastic bits are long lost to the Dark Ages that were the early 1990s … 🙁

A friend bought the tanks. Didn’t realise they were included in one version the game

One of the books had a storyline where there were detonators attached to the Grav fins and exploded after so many turns or am I thinking of something else