[SG] boarding action inspiration

Can anyone suggest some books that would provide inspiring descriptions of
boarding actions (as I work on my 25mm starship deck gameboards)? Thanks, Jed
Docherty

Funny, I can't think of any books off the top of my head. Maybe one of the
Margaret Weis has some, but I've only started a couple of those.

However...

There's always the opening to Star Wars IV. Several points in Star Trek,
whether TOS, movies or latest incarnations. Several Traveller products,
especially in the Azhanti High Lightening box have boardings as their main
thrust. There's a boarding action in a couple of the Star Fleet Battles
Captain's Logs, but I don't have any handy. Fading Suns must have that as a
thrust, as it's a major process in Noble Armada.

Sorry I'm shooting blanks tonight.

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The last lensmen book (Doc EE Smith) has some boarding actions
(kind-of).

The only other book I can think of offhand is "Space Marine" published through
the Evil Empire! Memorable quote: "We're going in up it's arse!"

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Elizabeth Moon: Rules of Engagement (If it isn't that book, it's one before it
in the series) David Weber: The Honor of the Queen (The "mutiny" sequence)
Echos of Honor (The escape sequence) Bujold: Something in the Vorkosigian
stuff but cannot remember where at the mom ent. Cherryh: Cannot think of
anything at the moment but probably has something tucke d away somewhere.
Simon Green (Deathstalker series): Has a variety of scenes that should work if
I remember properly.

Sorry, no coffee yet and that is all I can think of.

David

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> At 03:51 PM 10/4/00 +1100, Brendan wrote:

Actually, GW probably has the most accessable boarding actions; think Space
Hulk if nothing else.

Hmm.

Okay, two ideas. One is a series of books Anne McCaffrey wrote with different
authors; I only read the first (I wasn't that impressed) but IIRC it *did*
have a boarding action near the end. From the cover art, there may also be
something like that on her "Ship who..." books, but I haven't read those.

The second idea is David Feintuch's "Hope" series. I don't think there's an
actual boarding action, but I do believe there is at least one mutiny... hmm,
no, there is one attempted boarding action, too, but I don't remember how far
it gets.

...

Mutineer's Moon, by David Weber, starts with an on-ship mutiny, but
since the ship is rather large and the fighting abstract it's probably not
that useful to you. It does have a nice way to *stop* the conflict, at least
on the ship... Weber also put some boarding actions into Path of the Fury, as
well as the Honor Harrington books (raiding the Masadan moon base comes
immediately to mind). There may be some in his Starfire books, but those I
don't remember as well -- there's definitely something at the start of
Crusade, but again I think that was pretty abstract. Most of Weber's books
have setups for ground combat, too, though it tends to be situations where
one side has overwhelming firepower -- of course, that's how you *want*
your ground combats to be set up, assuming you're the side with the firepower!

Okay, came up with more'n just the two ideas, I hope this helps....

                                        Aaron Teske
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> Bujold:

There's a mutiny in Shards of Honor (this is a Bujold book, not a Weber book);
there are several boarding actions in either The Warrior's Apprentice or The
Vor Game (I don't recall which but you should buy both of them anyway),
although there's not much
useful-for-gaming detail.

JDoch226@aol.com asked:

> Can anyone suggest some books that would provide inspiring

"The Fleet" series of anthologies (edited by David Drake and Bill Fawcett)
include several boarding battles. My favourites are Gary Gygax's "Pay Tribute
to the Fleet" (in "The Fleet") and its sequel "Battle off Dead Star 31" (in
"Breakthrough"), but there are several others as well.

"Crusade" by David Weber and Steve White uses boarding combat as a rather
major plot device.

In the Honor Harrington series (also by Weber) there's the Masadan
takeover of the ex-PNS battlecruiser in "The Honor of the Queen", the
assault on the Blackbird asteroid base in the same book, the prisoner breakout
in "In Enemy Hands" and the capture of PNS Krashnark in "Echoes of Honor".
None of these are "proper" boarding battles, but
they feature a fair bit of serious small-arms combat in ships or other
space installations.

Later,

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I can't recall the author nor the story off the top of my head, I believe it
wa s a short story collection (War World?) I'll check tonight. I can give you
the gist of the story though. Small engagement between moderate sized fleets,
boarding action takes place as the powered armor are launched at close range
in torpedo capsules. The power armor form up on the hull of the ship and then
cut there way inside. The startled opposing captain takes the desperate action
of flooding the affected areas with radiation from the engine room. However
the P A not be confined to the standard deck structure (they just cut through
the bulkheads!) escape this and capture the bridge.

JDoch226@aol.com on 10/03/2000 08:37:54 PM

Please respond to gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

Thanks for all the great suggestions - I've got a pile of reading to do!
Jed

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There's some boarding stuff in RoE, but more in Once a Hero (the preceding
book in the series). Now out in UK editions, BTW, and recently reviewed in
SFX. Quite good, a nicely "flawed" heroine, makes a change from Honor (and no
empathic
treecats!!!!).

Jon (GZG)
> David Weber: