DARKSTAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: DUCHESS ANNABEL’S WAR IS OVER
Darkstar - Sample Starship Player Sheet - USS Oriskany (Valcour class destroyer DSGN-791)
Okay, so once you get a ship class designed (or selected from the existing choices), one of these player sheets are quickly filled out for each ship. Now this one is for the most decorated ship in the game, quite predictably named USS Oriskany. If you take your ship into a battle, you get 1 campaign point. If you're on the winning side, you get 2 campaign points. Very large battles, especially heroic actions, etc., sometimes gets you 1 extra point per game. Anyway, these accrue and for every six points, you can buy something off our list of campaign advantages.
You can also buy promotions for your commander or upgrade your ship class (from a frigate to a destroyer or a destroyer to a light cruiser, etc.).
Needless to say, over six years of game play and some 54 separate games. USS Oriskany here has built up quite a few campaign points which has allowed her fourteen upgrades. Some of these have been in her captain (promoted from commander to captain, which I needed before I could buy battlegroup commander, which I needed before I could buy task force commander, etc.). Others have been in the ship herself and her crew.
Of course this has also jacked up her point cost considerably (note the "106" in the bottom corner), making her almost triple the price of a standard destroyer (40). But the "Lady O" is now at the point where she can take on "raw" heavy cruisers, which for a destroyer is pretty crazy. It's also necessary, since she has the same POINT COST as a heavy cruiser.
Details on this is amazing. getting a very ‘The Expanse’ vibe from looking at all this.
Thanks very much, @bloodstrike. Indeed, we go for a pretty detailed, ssomewhat “plausible” setting (in some ways, in others we are deliberately un-plausible almost to the point of steampunk).
Meanwhile, we have a full battle report now posted!
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/darkstar-tactical-starship-combat-in-the-26th-century/
Very nice looking sheet, a lot reads clearly straight off the bat, some of the rest I think you’d need to see in action to “grok” it properly.
Thanks very much, @davehawes – actually yes, I do have some photos of these sheets as they’re actually used … some very heavily battle-damaged ships. Fair warning, though, they are in plastic sheet protectors (we mark them up with dry erase markers for easy clean-up) and so they are shiny and pretty hard to photograph. I will post some shortly.
Meanwhile, we have a full battle report now posted!
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/darkstar-tactical-starship-combat-in-the-26th-century/