Games played and BDS

Jim Bell and I just ran games at Autumn Assault, a small miniatures-only

games day in Ottawa.

In the morning I ran my first public SG2 game. I modified the rules for one
side to give a Kryomek vs. Nexus marine feel to the game. In order to give
the aliens speed and be a threat to the heavy-gunned humans, the
Warmasters had 3 wounds, leadership that went up each time they were wounded,
and a

pool of freely transferable actions. I also limited them to a strict
16"/24" command radius.  The Warmasters would begin with D8-1 extra
command chits which they could freely give to swarms in command radius. The
first
wound reduced this to D6-1, and the second to D4-1.  Each swarm could
only act twice; the warmaster could act 3 times maximum. It proved to be a
very
balanced battle, though the human players weren't informed/didn't notice

that the units they selected to hold the line were all a) Steady or b) Low
motivation or c) Leadership 3. One was all 3, I believe, and was nominated
to lead the assault :-o.

Jim Bell's game was B5 FT game trying to get a variety of weapons closer to
B5W.  It was an assault by Centauris on a Narn convoy/assault group.
The Centauri were to attack the troop carriers and disengage, since the Narn

outmassed them 2:1. The Centauri were successful, but at the loss of a
supership and three light cruisers.

On the whole, it was a great day. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of
players I got who actually were familiar with SG2.