From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:51:31 -0500
Subject: Scenarios, previous and future
I have some previous SG2 scenarios I could work up to publishable format if there is interest: 1) SG2 - A scenario where the LLAR and the OU are in conflict over a world. LLAR move in (with NSL advisors....) to take over a world belonging to an independent Celtic group on the edge of OU space. They take the world, and the battle we played was the OU (UN assisted) counter attack. Historical outcome: UN PA breaches main castle where NSL are held up. Once the UN is inside... that's all she wrote for the NSL. The LLAR are scattered and destroyed by the OU veterans, after inflicting some casualties going down. 2) SG2 - A scenario where the OU and PAU were conflicting for a planet. The OU tried an assault into PAU territory and had their asses handed to them. So the story of the game is a retreating OU force (with OU armed colonist auxilliaries) trying to excape through a mercenary blocking force (PAU employ) while being pursued by a PAU infantry force with FSE assistance. Historical Outcome: By sacrificing all working and damaged vehicles, and with violent and continuous use of sniper and marksman fire, the OU decimates the blocking forces command chain, then assaults it and gets out on foot. The pursuit force gets held up by vehicles, but does cook some APCs. Eventually the FSE/PAU force finished the reargaurd elements. EW plays a heavy role in the minor victory of the escaping force. 3) SG2 - A Scenario where NSL and OU forces are in conflict on a world. They both think they've seen an enemy vessel shotdown and go to investigate. The end result is both platoons fight over the wreckage they think the other side owns. Truth is a third party owns the wreckage, and the scenario changes pace when this becomes apparent. Historical Outcome: The OU get an alien prisoner, the NSL get lots of fascinating alien wreckage. Both sides suffer light casualties. Some aliens escape. 4) SG2 - A Scenario where the NAC QOR (Queen's Own Rifles) attempts to defend the last and primary PDC (under a temple) on a world being assaulted by the NSL. A large NSL force attempts to take the temple and then the destroy the PDC to let the fleet move in. The time the NAC delay the enemy determines victory or loss. Historical Outcome: The NAC force gives a tenacious defence (including armed jeeps, gears, and even a shot down pilot) and holds the NSL for a long time, allowing a massive evacuation of human elements from the planet. A rather large NAC victory. NSL allows themselves to become bogged down and suppressed almost across the board. 5) SG2 - A Grey Day - 2165 - KV out trying to get info on humans so they attack a human force on excercise. The humans want to survive, the KV want prisoners and tech samples and a good measure of the human toughness. Historical Outcome: KV get 10-15 prisoners, some of interest. KV lose a bunch of vehicles and warriors, enough to colour their impression of what fighting humans will be like - this affects war preparations. The KV get some tech samples. (They Nuke the Place). Humans achieve their victory conditions too - they survive (the immediate battle... they had no info about their Nuclear future... so they won in the context of the game). Both KV and humans 'won' this scenario. 6) FMA Skirmish - Human SF teams escape with captured enemy leader accused of ethnic cleansing. Must make it to border and DMZ while pursued by a platoon of enemy militia. Historical Outcome: 1 wounded human gets across DMZ. Humans could have won, only the one SF element refused to abandon the other when its position became untenable and got itself caught as a consequence. The lone human was okay until he forgot which mine counter in the defence line was disabled for passage - he ate a CDM on the friendly side of the map.... oooops. 7) FMA Skirmish - Human SF Team with defecting scientist pursued by ESU regular platoon (NKVD types). Human must get scientist off far board edge. Historical Outcome: Scientist and 1 SF guy escape. The rest of the team is caught or killed after a brilliant fighting retreat. Final scene pits half platoon of ESU covering a river gorge with heavy firepower vs. 2/3rds of human team trying to escape. Human runs SF guy after guy out drawing ESU fire and losing or suppressing team members until ESU has shot its wad, then runs human scientist across to safety. We deemed half the team would be captured, about 1/3rd killed. I think 1 guy plus scientist got away. FUTURE IDEAS: "Headcount" - FMA Skirmish Each player plays a pred (or small team of same). Ref or other players run humans. Preds win by headcount at end of scenario. "Action Aboard" or "FMA High Lightning" - FMA Skirmish Humans fight a boarding action on a multi level ship built from foamcore while (possibly) an FT battle runs on another table. Due to unspecified timescales, all events are in realtime. Interactions are instant. "The Devil's Fangs" - SG2 Follow on in the KV-Human series. Two tables, with gorge (modified version of final Grey Day table) between. Two separate SG2 games linked in realtime by gorge. One side - human force of militia and regs trying to stop KV invasion ground elements. Other board contains human settlement and some last ditch defenders vs. KV airmobile or seamobile exploitation attack. "Who has got the Weasel?" - FMA-Skirmish The attempt of KV SF to rescue the legendary KV sniper-master "Wi'Sel" <translated from KV - means "Never Seen"> from the hands of the NSL Kampfgruppe survivors before the KV nuke LTT 3902. If any of these are of much interest (the previously run ones), I'll try to put them in publishable formats.