DARKSTAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: DUCHESS ANNABEL’S WAR IS OVER
NEW FACTION - Arab League Rolling out for Darkstar
Good morning, everyone.
We had a request from one of our players to try out one of the new factions – the Arab League. We were supposed to try some of these new ships out in DS 2.0 this weekend but unfortunately something came up on my end so I had to cancel. As a first step in making this up, I’ve updated five classes of Arab League warship from the old DS 1.0 system to the 2.0 warship record sheets, so if we play this weekend of a subsequent weekend, I’ll be more than ready. 😀
- Shabbak-201 class gunboat
- Ashur class corvette
- Hattin class frigate
- Basra class destroyer
- Almanzor class light hybrid cruiser (part gun cruiser, part light fleet aerospace carrier)
Here’s hoping we can get this faction back into the stars this weekend! 😀
Cool stuff, be interesting to see if the hybrid cruiser/carrier idea works out.
Hear, hear. @damon . For the record, I have NO IDEA how they will work. I mean I know they’re legal, I know they’ll work mechanically, the math adds up, etc. I just don’t know if the “jack of all trades master of none” idea will be effective in actual tabletop play or cost-effective in terms of scenario points – and in which fleets, and in which kinds of games (raids vs. assaults vs. mission-specific, etc). I just tried to give each faction a bit of a “flavor.” This, plus faster Darkstar FTL drives, is the Arab League’s. I do… Read more »
Excellent news, I too am interested in the hybrid carrier. I think, depending on the guns it has it could be a more independent ship. Looking forward to seeing the datasheets/ship papers.
@muakhah – Awesome, and thanks! As the schedule stands now, you may be the first to try these in live tabletop play (at least since 2014 under the current rule set). As far as seeing the datasheets, the Warship Record Sheets are what are attached above. Are you talking about the write up (background “fluff”?)
Ummm yeah more fluff… that’s what I meant. No it was just the Internet here failing to load those pics but also giving no indication that there was anything to load… an hour after I commented the pics popped into existence…