This past weekend, Stew, of the excellent blog A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth, again invited a couple of fellows and myself over for a large game of Starmada- TNG style. As with the last game, Stew provided the space to play in, a lovely star mat, ship stats. a QRF, lunch, and drinks. And of course two extremely well painted fleets (seriously, look at those ships!).
This time we got to pick our fleets by victory points, and I decided to bring out the big guns and selected the Sovereign class Atlantic, backed up with three comparatively obsolete Excelsior class ships. Stew selected the Galaxy class Freitag (which was portrayed by the Galaxy class Endeavor half way through the game after a magnet failure), as well as a Defiant class, an Akira class, and another Excelsior. The dastardly Klingons went with a fleet that utilized all the available Vor'Cha models. In game terms, this meant that the Federation had two big battlewagons, a cruiser, and what amounted to heavy destroyers, which the Klingons had all cruisers (and a couple of warbirds that barely figured in the game).
As is typical, I did not take as many pictures as I could have, but here are a few.
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| Federation fleet selection |
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| First turn, as the fleets are probing for advantage |
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| The big ships make their appearance |
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| Excelsior classes take a pounding The flat hex is a cloaked ship |
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| Battlewagons eliminate everything between then (two Klingons cloaked to retreat, er tactically redeploy) |
Federation victory, and another great game!
Since Stew indicated that he was running out of ships to paint, and needed another very large project, I printed something to bring along for him...
(In the event that you are not a Trek fan, that is a 1/7000 scale model of DS9 printed in two halves, which I primed before I brought it over. A bit over 200mm wide)
