Star Trek - line 'em and blast 'em!

We (I) haven't played Star Trek Attack Wing for ages .... But it made a return to the table - sort of like ST:Discovery returned the series to the telly - I like STD (finarr finarr), it makes Star Fleet grey and ambiguous and more interesting than some of the other series. 

Steedo and I picked 100pts each and went head to head with Star Fleet and the Klingons. Steedo went for Janeway and Voyager along with a Galaxy class and Excelsior - one good captain and a couple of rubbish ones. I went for a K'tinga, a Negh'var and a Vor'cha with middling captains and photon torpedoes!

Starting positions ...

The Klingons cloaked and the Vor'cha flanked around the planet - the Feds rushed forward - probably tweeting "we come in peace" messages ...

Which didn't last long as Janeway opened up! But the Galaxy class was put out of action in a turn! Not destroyed but the weapons were out of action and if she fired the critical hit card would be flipped - thus taking hull points to zero! The K'tinga wouldn't be able to cloak as the shields were destroyed.

A bit of fancy flying and the Negh'var is getting a bit of a slap!

Move flying about and the Voyager and the Negh'var exchange fire!

The Klingons think they have voyager in the crosshairs - but it is the Negh'var which is destroyed! 

Insert Klingon swear word here! The K'tinga is chipping away at Voyager. Effectively each side has lost a ship - all the Galaxy class can do is fly about.

The manuvering continues and the Vor'cha de cloaks to add the coup de grace on the Excelsior - the fuzzie photo is to replicate the de cloaking and is in no way reflective of the poor photography seen across this blog!

A few more a exchanges - chipping away at Voyagers hull (finally putting the Galaxy class down - an act of mercy really). Voyager also managed to take out the K'tinga - but she was an honourable ship and it was a good day to die!

The Vor'cha finally destroys the Voyager and that bitch Janeway - victory to the empire. 

It was a fun pick up game - the first time out for the voyager and the K'tinga - both need a repaint. Like most things we should play this more - some of the ship stats don't quite match the ships from the series - the Vogayer is more powerful than a Galaxy class ....

Steedo and I reckon we need to play with more cards and less ships .... Probably in another. 2 years then ...

Live long and prosper 

Morts

Star Trek - Attack Wing. Battle Report

After Maurice Steedo and I squeezed in a quickish game of Star Trek Attack Wing.

Obviously based on the X-wing game engine, picked this up to play with my brother last year when he was visiting and it has only had a few plays.

I have done this on the cheep with a number of the ships old micro-machines and a few spares from DK's Fleet Captains - this means I have had to make up the dials - boardgame geek is excellent for this and trawling the net for images of cards. 

Steedo and I picked 100 points of Federation and Romulan ships and upgrades. Steedo had a Nebula,  Excelisor and the Enterprise D with Ben Sisko at the helm. I had the Valdore and Khazara  captained by Donatra and the Romulan commander TOS respectively - and plenty of upgrades. 

We set up with a the ships in each corner heading towards the planet roughly in the centre of the table.

An early pass by a warbird and Nebula class. 

Early manuveuring around the planet. 

An nice look at an Excelisor class. 

It starts to go wrong for the federation! Excelisor class destroyed by the Valdore!

Then it is the turn of the Nebula class! Look at all those hits on the attack dice!

Finally the Enterprise D is taken out by the Warbird Khazara

A cracking little game - the choice of powering up the Romulans worked well as opposed to the more ships but worse crew approach of the Federation. The additional weapons array was very useful, allowing the Valdore to throw 8 dice in attack (more if in short range). 

Steedo reckoned the cloaking really helped the Romulans, as it should - I also need to check on the photon torpedo rules. The manuveurability of the Romulan ships was also a key factor in there victory.

Nice to draw the evening one each to Morts and Steedo.

Probably won't be much on the blog for a bit as there has been a flurry of activity this week ... Back to work on Monday!

(Will work on the photo editing stuff - promise).