I decided to play a reckless gamble, I would jump in on the flank of the Imperial force and roll it up, I reasoned that to take on the enemy frontally would simply be too much and I would not get the opportunity to sit around for three moves and rescue the princess, in hindsight probably the wrong move.
Surprise! |
While I did this the friendly squadrons defending the space stations moved on the rest of the enemy fleet, they lasted longer than expected but did almost no damage to the big Imperial ships which now found the range and concentrated on one station while ignoring the other, sadly the one with the Princess on it.
Space Station 1 takes a lot of punishment. |
I eventually got to a position where my target could no longer outrun me and it began to take some serious damage, all her shields at the rear were down and it would not be long before her crew would take to the lifeboats. I had failed in my mission though as the space station blew up in the distance taking Leia and the plans with it.
Gotcha! |
With more time I would have taken one destroyer down and started on the next with what should have been overwhelming firepower but it was not to be, with their mission accomplished despite heavy fighter losses Tarquin jumped away.
Space station about to go south. |
I went for the flank attack as taking on the Imperial ships frontally is a tough job and I think I would have come out the loser in a stand up fight, if I had stopped a ship for three moves while waiting for the Princess to pack her bags it would have been an easy target for every Empire ship in the area and I doubt it could have survived three turns in such a predicament.
A couple of guys called off so Simon bravely umpired and ran the Imperials on his own, a big job with such a large scenario and so little time, but well done nonetheless. There is a lot to remember in this game and the addition this time of some of the upgrade cards was too much for us and we kept forgetting to use them.
We seem to have played very similar games this week...I've also just posted an Armada report this evening! I agree with the difficulty in remembering everything...there are so many cards and optional rules that I'm sure we missed half of them in our game. Good fun though!
ReplyDeleteI agree, the game is very clever and ingenuous in the way it handles so many different mechanisms but there is a lot to it, not as easy as X-Wing for a pick up game. I would have to play more as I find trying to take down a Star Destroyer with what the Rebels have at the moment very frustrating. I am not sure if I like the fire first before movement.
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