Persei-Aries War Resumes
Damon + Gladesrunner v. Oriskany
Last Saturday, myself, Damon, and Jennifer had a game of Darkstar. No big story arc, no campaign background. Just a fun smash-em-up with some of our favorite ships. Now, since so many of our “favorite ships” have been upgraded to the point of madness, this means that even a game with a relatively small ship count will be very heavy in points, as upgrades to your ships and command crew naturally increase the point cost of your vessel.
So this was a big one, a 772-point Darkstar game that would up taking about 5.5 hours once we got going.
Damon and Jenn (@gladesrunner) teamed up as the British. I took a force of my favorite Russians and Americans, with one huge Russian battlecruiser to balance the points.
BRITISH FORCE:
TASK FORCE “A” (Lord Commodore Edward Cavendish)
Trafalgar-class heavy cruiser HMS Agamemnon
Relentless-class light cruiser HMS Retribution
Falklands-class destroyer HMS Sheffield (ISLE upgrade)
TASK FORCE “K” (Commodore Rhea Aubrey)
Iron Duke-class heavy cruiser HMS Kraken
Inflexible-class light cruiser HMS Inflictor
RUSSO-AMERICAN FORCE:
Kirov-class battlecruiser CPK Potemkin
Kutuzov-class light cruiser CPK Admiral Lazarev
San Antonio-class light cruiser USS Northampton
Valcour-class destroyer USS Oriskany (FRAM-I upgrade)
RAID Victory Conditions
Another brawling battle, good fun despite the loss.
No carriers, @damon – no troop landings – no special mission considerations – just big-gun ships slugging it out! 😀
Loss is to kind of a word for what happened. I got my ass Kicked! Though I agree, it was very fun. Too bad this isn’t considered historical wargaming so Jim could stream on Sundays.
1-2 questionable decisions, but really some bad dice rolling, or lucky dice rolling on my part. Put them together and you have a long-overdue RUsso-American victory. Had this taken place at certain points of the actual timeline in the Third Hercules War, that war might have turned out very different!
Great stuff, have to get a game or two of Darkstar in soon