Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsThis was originally posted to my LiveJournal blog while the game was ongoing; I then posted the rest of it in replies to that post. I’ve reconstructed it here. Pointe-du-Hoc, France, 6 June 1944: Confusion had brought only nine of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Y148, two E4 frigates were escorting a convoy when they were attacked by an Orion Light Raider. Patch and I just started playing this scenario from CL8 on-line tonight, with me as the Orion pirate. It’s certainly interesting. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arch Duke Fikrohn and King Rakhzan were alarmed. The political structure of the Empire relied on playing one count against another to keep the dukes from gaining too much power. If Larkhan was able to put his (presumably loyal) son[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Klingons dispatched an F5S scout-frigate to the ringed gas giant Wyskoon to see if the Hydrans had set up a base there. The frigate launched probe drones toward the planet, but departed (to avoid contact with a Hydran patrol)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, after a long gap, we finally had another face-to-face SFB session yesterday. We’re up to Y143, which is when the Federation and Klingons introduce their command cruisers, so this was intended to show them off. The general idea was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I’ve been seriously behind on game reporting (and anything else online, really). The Klingon cruiser Attacker was the testbed for phaser-1 technology. It was rushed to the Hydran front just in time for one of the last battles of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Y140 the Romulans instituted the latest in a series of upgrades to their fleet. To test the new designs, they conducted a recon in force along the edge of Federation space, heading towards the Klingon Empire. In one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the last battle I went toe to toe with both opposing forces and came out ahead. How did this happen? All the ships had three heavy weapons. With only speed-8 and -12 drones available, a drone rack isn’t as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, due to job situation, Patch couldn’t make it online Wed night for a little SFB on our effort to finish off the Mantor battle. I was going to continue introducing Mark to F&E with that time, but realized the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After three Kzinti FFs came waltzing up to a Fed CA and practically crippled it in one go, Mark and Patch expressed interest in learning more about how frigates operate. I had had thoughts towards that some time back, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…