Star Trek: The Dominion War
Fall of Betazed
Campaign Design
Scenario 1: Landfall.
The Dominion’s Jem’Hadar forces launch their initial assault on Betazed. A Federation garrison is all that stands between the invaders and control of a critical planetary defense installation. The garrison must hold the line long enough for vital defense data to be purged from the facility’s systems and for reinforcements to be scrambled.
Objectives
- Jem’Hadar:
- Primary Objective: Capture the control room of the Federation garrison by the end of Turn 8.
- Secondary Objective: Inflict maximum casualties on Federation forces to weaken future resistance.
- Federation Ground Forces:
- Primary Objective: Prevent the Jem’Hadar from occupying the control room for 8 turns to secure the defense data purge.
- Secondary Objective: Minimize your losses to retain strength for future battles.
Setup
- Board Layout:
- A 6′ x 3′ table divided into zones:
- Federation Garrison: At one end of the table, featuring a central fortified control room with a single entrance and two secondary buildings (e.g., barracks, armory).
- Approach Zone: The middle of the board with scattered cover such as craters, debris, and rocky terrain.
- Landing Zone: At the opposite end of the table, representing the Jem’Hadar drop zone with jungle-like vegetation and Dominion landing craft for aesthetic.
- A 6′ x 3′ table divided into zones:
- Deployment:
- Jem’Hadar: Deploy within the first 12″ of the Landing Zone edge.
- Federation Ground Forces: Deploy within the Garrison Zone, with units stationed in or around the fortified structures.
“There are certainly worse places to be stationed” Pvt. Poht said with his usual bubbling optimism.
“Yeah, but… I dont know..” Elana sighed, “Ive just never been comfortable around telepaths- oh no! I, I, I didnt me anything by it!” She turned frantically to Lt. Garn, her face turning as red as Poht’s was blue.
“We know.” Garn laughed dryly. The Betazed Garrison had taken on a lot of new transfers since the start of The War, and the aura of anxiety around the outpost was thick enough, that even with decades of training to be around unshielded minds, it was was starting to wear on the Betazoids.
Elana opened and closed her mouth repeatedly, desperate to find the words to apologize.
Standing in the common room, another boring day of watch duty ahead, another awkward conversation, one more time she had put her foot in her mouth. Just another glorious day in the corps. That was the moment. Thats when it changed. Thats when it became real.
All the color drained from Garns face, and he vomited on her boots before falling to his knees. Two other Betazoids collapsed.
“By the First House…there’s, there’s so many.. ” Garn’s voice was weak and far away. Poht rushed to the lieutenant, easing the Betazoid on to the ground.
“It’ll be fine sir, we’ve got you” Poht said, pulling out his tricorder. Garn’s eyes widened, unfocused, nearly bulging out of his head.
“I am dead!” Garn shouted. Poht nearly dropped his tricorder at the sudden outburst. “As of this moment we are all dead..” Garn’s voice was frail and weak. ” We go into battle to reclaim our lives. We do this gladly, for…” The lieutenant’s voice drifted away as he lost consciousness.
The lights went dim, and every display began to flash red. In the distance Elana could hear them, the chant of solemn fanatical devotion that would haunt her quiet moments for the rest of her days.
“VICTORY IS LIFE!”
We are currently scheduled to play this game on 12/14/24.
This doesn’t give a lot of time to finish a couple of side projects that I wanted to get done. but Did get started on a set of custom dice. Galactic Heroes rules use d8, d10, d12, but I figured I would do a d6’s as well, just cause.
“I am dead!”, Nightrunner said, “if you don’t tell me where you got the custom dice made!”
Great narrative and a nice clean mini painting in the previous post. Congrats.
https://ankhe.itch.io/dicemaker
Thanks. 👍