Monday, August 28, 2006

Vengeance Gambit: Preliminaries Part Deux

I had so much fun today, even though I did not play, that I felt we had to do it again!

Next Sunday, 3rd September, 1.00 pm, at Settlers' Katong. Be there with dice, minis, pencil, and paper!

Meanwhile, for Jon and Ravi,

SITUATION
Complex 44-J2A, Thames River
New Avalon, Federated Suns
February 15, 3073

It was only a matter of time.

Corean Enterprises’ secret facility – buried “in plain sight” among the refineries and canneries along the shores of the Thames River – has been located by the besieging Word of Blake forces. With the NAIS long burned to cinders, Complex 44-J2A has been a small refuge for the team of the Legion Project. The complex was also one of Jackson Davion’s secondary command bunkers, hence the Marshall’s ill-timed visit.

Or timely, if you were a Word of Blake soldier.

Killing the system’s highest-ranking Davion would definitely help break down further resistance among the scattered AFFS forces. Capturing him, however, would do even greater harm – considering that one of ROM’s top agents was directing the assault herself, any information the Marshall had could be extracted, one way or another.

After all, it was only a matter of time.

The Wobbly Guy

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Hello From Uncle Blake

today's battle was fast and furious, a small skirmish set in the Battle Of New Avalon. An understrength ad-hoc WoB Lvl2 faced off against a press-ganged lance of AFFS mechs. when the dust settled, only 2 Blakist mechs left the field on their own strength, having suffered serious damage. the results of this battle will have a bearing on the up-coming Vengeance Gambit scenario, giving a small starting advantage to the rampant forces of the Word of Blake.

battlerom to follow, but some initial impressions and learning points:
1) JVN-11D = si peh violent
2) never laugh at 30-tonne fire support mechs. they can be tough little bastiches. even if the designers went to give the 2 x LRM 5s ArtemisIV.
3) a de-gyro'd mech is down, but not out.
4) HSR-500-Ds are not as dumb as their earlier versions.
5) even a retreating mech, getting the shit beat out of it, can provide invaluable C3i targetting solutions
6) physicals based off piloting make hatchets and swords the pwnage! if they hit, of course...

heres the force composition;

WoB ad-hoc understrength Lvl2:

Adept Fei-hung Wong (g3p4)
Hussar HSR-500-D

Adept Jimmy 'the Hand' Sykes (g3p4)
Firestarter Omni FS9-OBugger* (custom loadout-stats to follow)

Adept Billy Williams (g3p4)
Hammer HMR-3M

Adept Prabowo (g3p4)
Buccaneer BCN-3R

AFFS Press-Ganged Lance:
Hatchetman HCT-6D
Javelin JVN-11D
Javelin JVN-11D
Stealth STH-1D

JT: could you put up a bit of fluff for these buggers? like the date/time, location, and units of origin? would help with fluffing for a battleROM.

Ravi: wanna give these guys names? was thinking that a phase-by-phase fiction-style battlerom would be fun.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Vengeance Gambit: Preliminary Battles

The preliminary battles for Vengeance Gambit will be held this Saturday, 27th of August, at Settler's Cafe Katong, from 1.00pm to 6.45pm.

Settler's Katong is along Upper East Coast Road, near Dunman Road that side.

Please bring minis, penciles, eraser, and dice!

TWG

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Battletech in Singapore

Greetings to everybody! After much procrastination and gnashing of teeth after the local CBT forums keep crashing(thanks Ravi...), I've decided a group blog using blogger is the least troublesome.

So the first order of business is Vengeance Gambit. Sign up here!