Battlefleet Gothic - game three - mining claim dispute
For game three of the BFG campaign, my fleet was dispatched to a mining colony that was being plagued by Demiurge. These abhumans would harvest and refine all sorts of materials and energy sources before selling them to the highest bidder. They also tended to view enemy ships as a nice convenient package of refined materials.
We ended up with a fleet engagement. This is my third engagement of this type. I ended up flanking the Demiurge, kind of a pincer movement if it goes well and a dagger to the heart if not.
The Imperial squadron continues sliding right towards the Gravity well of a small planet. The Cook recycles its ordnance squadrons and launches an attack wave. Irrefutable Justice continues on bombarding the enemy fleet with its Nova Cannon and dorsal batteries. The range is starting to decrease rapidly.
The Reaper is closing the other jaw of the trap, launching waves of thunderhawk attack craft and torpedoes. Ordnance battles between squadrons of Imperial and Demiurge craft break out as groups of craft try to defend their carriers or break past and inflict damage. The resilience of the Thunderhawks allows them to survive combat and still make their attack runs.The Vigilance is launching waves of attack craft while it navigates around that asteroid field.Weapon batteries lay down salvoes of fire between the craft. The Cook and the Triumphant are deploying damage control parties and are braced for impact in the face of intense Demiurge fire. The leading Demiurge ship is also taking heavy fire.
Too Close for Nova Cannons, switching to lances. The Irrefutable Justice locks on and pounds the lead demiurge cruiser. An ordnance strike from the Cook reduces the Demurge cruiser on the planet to a burning hulk. The Triumphant manages to add some shots from its remaining batteries.The Irrefutable Justice uses the gravity well to maintain a lock and cripples the Demiurge battleship. The other two ships have diverted resources to damage control and the Triumphant has been crippled.The Reaper is also closing from the other side and its weapons batteries are also hammering out salvoes.
With the damage mounting the Demiurge fleet disengages.
On the other side of the battle the Vigilance has cleared the asteroid field just in time to run headlong into the remainder of the torpedo salvo launched by the Cook.
"James T Cook" haha excellent :D
ReplyDeleteVery good report and long time no see. :)
I intend on coming up to the club next week so hopefully you're playing something interesting like this I can check out.
For the last 25 years or so we have used a background for our games set in the 40K universe. We created the star sector Tiberius to give our games some detail.
DeleteThe original rediscover was the Rogue Trader James Tiberius Cook. Many of my ships are named after ships from Cook's fleet that discovered New Zealand.
Good to see you again. We will be playing more BFG on the 7th of April.