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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Gothic Campaign Kicks Off
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Games
Space, the infinite void, the darkness between the lights of civilised worlds...
Now home to Orks!
Human spacecraft set out to conquer the void in at least 5 battlefleets. At least 3 of them got their teeth kicked in by Xenos and Heretics! The Eldar of a nameless Craftworld forced an ignominious retreat by the Crimson Fists Astartes, a Demiurg fleet stoutly resisted the advances of the Imperial Navy with both the Eldar Prince and Kor'O recieving 5 renown points but then came the Orks of Waaagh Ripskar;
The Imperial Navy had set bait, a Dominator class cruiser, and the Orks went for it. The trap however misfired badly as the Imperial reinforcements found themselves eyeball to eyeball with a trio of Roks. A Dictator class bore the brunt of it, being crippled in a single salvo. At this point the bait Dominator gave up the struggle for existance and was vaporised in a plasma drive overload taking a skwadron of attack ships with it.
The Dictator failed to hold out any longer either, being hulked by the Rok's second salvo. The surviving Dominator and Firestorm attempted to disengage but only the frigate made it. The Dominator winding up with it's vulnerable stern to the Roks at point blank...
Ripskar gained 10 renown points being promoted to "Boss".
The Heretics results weren't in when I left but it didn't look good for the Imperial ambitions...
WAAAGH!!!
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RGMB
A shocking evening for the Imperials all round with every fleet being hurled back by the might of their enemies. Will there be revenge, or more disappointment and destruction next week? And can anyone dispose of this upstart ork 'Ripskar'!
Posted by RGMB on Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 10:31
This is my report of the first battle, posted on my Myspace blog.
The scenario was Bait with a Dominator being the bait which was later reinforced by a second dominator, a dictator and 2 Firestorms. I had a Terror Ship with warlord and extra powerfield, 3 Roks and a skwadron of 4 Onslaught and 2 Ravager attackships.
The Imperial subplot was Surprise Attack so I couldn't AAF for the first turn.
My subplot was Experimental Ship so my Terror ship got +1 Ld for -2 hit points.
The bait ship managed to shoot a Ravager and an Onslaught before it went down, the resultant plasma drive overload took out the rest of the attack ship skwadron.
Just before it went the reinforcements turned up on the right, around 30-40cm from my Roks which Locked On, crippling the Dictator on the first salvo.
The Imperials failed special orders and achieved nothing in particular.
The Terror ship reloaded but the roks failed to Lock on, but still reduced the Dictator to a burning hulk, the terror ship launched assault boats which took out a firestorm, (I would have taken both but the second wave hit a blast marker).
The Firestorm disengaged and the dominator failed leaving it at the mercy of my fleet, stern on, range under 15cm. Needless to say the Imperial player gave up there and then.
Battle 2 coming up Tommorrow, Report to be posted Wednesday.
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(Cue celebrations from the Fleet Admiral) The Terror ship was crippled by sustained fire from any ship that could, plus 2 bomber squadrons, and got Thrusters damaged. The remaining attack ships were shot, mainly by a Gothic ?class.