a few shots from a Billion Suns game on Friday.
This became much more combat orientated than our previous games......
The ships are all Ians, its quick fun game and we plan in using tge fleets to try out the FTL rules from one page rules too
Billion Suns
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I love this game for the absolute scenes it makes. Here two Corvettes (top) and their fighter screen await the results of a Recon Wing's scans, hunting smugglers in a busy shipping lane when they're ambushed by three wings of Bryan's bombers looking to scoop the bounty. In the bottom right a utility ship offloads a heroic medical team returning from saving the space station from a virulent disease .
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The finale: With the extremely valuable anomaly called the Rhexis Pearl about to go unstable and be lost forever, two Frigates come through the jump gate and lay down a withering curtain of auxilliary blaster fire. Under cover of the guns, a battlegroup of Medium Utility ships braves the Rhexis storm to get their mag locks on the prize.
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Looking good! Although, I noticed the other day there is actually a rule that limits the number of utility ships to <scale>, which I hadn't noticed before. Which I think is a dumb rule and we should carry on playing it the way we have.
Unless there's some horrible unbalancing thing that happens if you swarm with utility ships, which I can't see myself, but who knows... -
The rule says no more than <whatever the scale is> at any one time, which we've been playing at 5. I don't think we've ever gone more than that, but that was more down to a lack of models (on my part anyway).
I got some more stuff from Brigade to make my EuroFed fleet a better fit for my ABS selections:I got the freighters with the side-containers to use as Medium Utils and the tri-wing Star Wars shuttle looking ones for Light Utils. I also found the three-position fighter stand, which is sold separately in their accessories section, for some godforsaken reason.
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Probably got enough ships to deal someone else in for a game or two then?
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I've just ordered the rulebook for this, curiosity got the better of me!
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It's all about the space whales.
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Do you want to do Billion Suns or try FTL?
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Yeah can do, I'll print the rules out.
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Sorry, I won't be able to make it this Friday. I think I spoke to some people about a 4 headed ABS game, but I have to cry off.
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Yeah no worries Ian. Thanks for letting us know.
