This weekend I played an actual game for the first time in a long time.
Stew, of the excellent blog A terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth, had suggested that he was interested in trying out some Star Trek-esque gaming, and we eventually hashed out a time to get together. As long time readers know, I have been very slowly building up a couple of TOS era forces basically since the blog began. Despite this long build up, I still needed to prepare for the game, and spent a number of evenings painting up a few more ships and some various tokens and such. I also put together a quick reference sheet, since there is no official one, and printed a play mat.
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| Drone/Missile markers of two types |
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| Shuttles |
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| Federation shuttle markings |
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| Newly painted D6 cruiser |
Stew had a very lovely set up with shade and three tables that more than accommodated the 3x4 foot mat I printed off at work. He took the perfidious Federation and I took the noble warrior Klingons.
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| CB New Jersey Class, CA Constitution Class, DD Saladin Class, FF Burke class |
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| D7 class cruiser, 2 D6 class cruisers, F5 and E4 frigates |
Despite both being bloggers, we were more than a little caught up in the game and I only managed one picture of the game!
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| Scene of destruction |
Hopefully Stew took more pictures.
The game played very smoothly, although we both agreed that drones (heavy missiles) seemed a bit pointless, since in the numbers used they hit nothing! Maybe next time I will have to take a CAG variant to really pump them out. We also tried out of a few of the more esoteric Trek technologies, but unfortunately my glorious boarding action merely eliminated the redshirts on the New Jersey, and did not capture the ship.
I had a great time, and Stew said he was hooked, so there ought to be more games in the future.
