The Second Interstellar War has been raging for over seven years. The North
American Confederation intelligence arm of the fleet learned that a squadron
of the Novaya Rossiya's formidable Admiral Paravani-class battlecruisers
were en route to interdict the civilian shipping at the colony world Nova
Kanata and destroy the local navy battle station. Given the capabilities
of the NR battlecruisers, the local defense units would stand no chance.
So the NAC high command sent out the only available ships to intercept:
three of the brand new Antares-class battleships. Would they be enough?
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Rite of Succession
System
Full Thrust
Game Master
Ken Wang
Players
4 - 6 players
Complexity
"Arrrgh! Ye represent yor pirate clan. The Pirate King was ambushed
by the law; and now we must choose a new Pirate King. Now ya scallywags,
which one of yor clans be strong enough to take the Kingship? Ye thinks
ye be strong enough? Bring yorselves and yor second to the Veil Noir
system and ye can settle the score in accordance to the Pirate Codex!
Last one standing be King."
Each Captain will place their name in a hat. Each Captain will draw a
name from the hat. The name drawn will be their primary target. If
the Captain defeats his primary target, he then takes over the
defeated Captain's primary target until there is only one.
If you happen to draw your own name then you are free to target
anyone. Any ship that comes within 6 inches of you, exhibits
"hostile intent"; and you are free to fire in self defense.
Also, anticipate terrain surprises.
Note: All battleships and heavy cruisers will have same hull design,
but the weapons systems have been modularized. Choose your weapon
module to match your playing style and see if you can take the title
of Pirate King! Oh, and come prepared with a clever pirate clan name.
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GiTS Again
System
Ghost in the Shell
Game Master
Mark Kinsey
Players
TBD
Complexity
Description TBA.
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When Giant Monsters Attack
System
Destroy All Monsters
Game Master
Thomas Scheu
Players
6 - 12 players
Complexity
Come play in this battle Royal where each player gets to play a Godzilla
like monster, as they vie to be the last monster standings. Knock down
buildings, launch acidic spittle at your foes, and stomp on any puny
humans foolish enough to get in your way. Game is based on Home rules
originally written by John Crimmins, rules are easily taught.
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Get the Camera
System
All Quiet on the Martian Front
Game Master
Dave Hornung
Players
6 - 8 players
Complexity
The Martians have returned ten years after their defeat. Western settlers flee,
hundreds dead; Real Estate price tumble!
A flier has crashed with pictures
of one of the Martian encampments; can the Army retrieve it, can the Martians capture it?
The first use of the new Steamer Tanks!
Saturday Morning
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B5: Severed Dreams
System
ESCOM
Game Master
Aaron Newman
Players
4 - 8 players
Complexity
"This is Captain Dexter Smith of the Earth Alliance destroyer
Agrippa to Babylon 5 and renegade ships, you are ordered to
surrender your commands and prepare to be boarded. This is
your only warning, if you do not surrender, we will be forced
to initiate deadly force."
"This is Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5, you are executing
an illegal order in violation of the Earth Alliance constitution.
These orders have forced us to declare independence in order to
insure the safety of this station. We don't want a fight, but
if you attempt to carry out these orders we will defend ourselves.
Come on Captain, you must see these orders are wrong, leave while you still can."
"They've broken contact, enemy Starfuries moving on attack vector. Orders?"
"Babylon Control to all Starfury squadrons, stand by to attack,
but do not, repeat do not, initiate combat, let them fire first.
We won't start this fight, but by God we'll finish it."
This is the classic Babylon 5 scenario, converted to the ESCOM
rule set, with trial rules for fighters and vector movement.
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AutoDuel Arena Deathmatch 2027
System
Axles and Alloys
Game Master
Jon Davis
Players
6 - 12 players
Complexity
Reality TV in 2027 continues to appeal to the lowest common
denominator to attract viewers, sponsors, and the coveted rating.
Live vehicular team deathmatch events featuring tricked out
cars and trucks with machine guns, rocket launchers, flamethrowers,
and other instruments of death and destruction! Compete for
prizes and glory.
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Hitler's Death Ray-inator - Secret Battles of WWII
System
Pulp Alley
Game Master
Scott Howland
Players
5 players
Complexity
Somewhere on a mountain top in the German Alps, Hitler has a team of
scientists working on a weapon that could tip the scales of the war.
Your Mission is to infiltrate the secret base with one of these leagues,
Screaming Eagles' Commandos- British commandos; OSS strike team,
a US elite squad; The Rocket Patrol, a US Rocketeering squad, or the
Black Bears, a Russian spec ops squad. They will retrieve scientists
and destroy the base OR are you a rooting for the AXIS and have them
defend their lair and fire their ultimate weapon. Rules will be
taught for this Pulp inspired skirmish game using 28mm scale figures.
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Old School Dungeoncrawl
System
WEGS (Wickedly Errant Game System)
Game Master
Jeff Aubert
Players
4 - 6 players
Complexity
Play 1 (or 2, depending on number of players!) character(s) in
an old-fashioned, high fantasy hack-n'-slash dungeoncrawl.
Kick in the door, kill all the monsters and take the loot.
Repeat until they're all dead, you're all dead, everyone
goes insane or one of you makes it out alive (maybe after
betraying everyone else). If you are looking for serious D&D
RPG action, this ain't it. Some role-playing is encouraged,
but this game is first and foremost about moving miniatures
around a Dungeon in an homage to D&D before it got serious.
...But if it really matters to you, some wizard you met in
some bar sent you to some dungeon to steal some jewels
from some weird Idol...
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Hold the Line
System
All Quiet on the Martian Front
Game Master
Dave Hornung
Players
6 - 8 players
Complexity
After several months of quiet while they have been building their forces
the Martians have gone over on to the attack. Can the US Army hold the line?
If the Martians get through, mass slaughter, chaos & real estate prices
plunge, no pressure.
Saturday Afternoon
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Undivided
System
Gothic Thrust (Full Thrust variant)
Game Master
Greg Davis
Players
4 - 6 players
Complexity
Yet another Black Crusade. The Imperium of Man has been consistently
losing convoys headed to the front and has sent a flotilla to secure
their supply line.
Meanwhile, the Chaos raiding fleet has detected a significant portion
of the Imperial Fleet approaching and have recognized an opportunity
to cripple local Imperial naval forces and to gain personal glory.
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Jerky Time
System
Full Thrust
Game Master
Dave Skelley
Players
4 - 6 players
Complexity
Galactic corporate fleets tend to be very powerful but very small. So when the Ming
Association fleet was called away to defend its shipping lanes , the Eurasians used
the opportunity to blockade Agri planet 375. Whether the move was the local district
commander acting alone, or approved by the high ruling committee is unknown. The move
occurred so quickly that the task force brought no ground forces except its own
inherent marines. With such a small force the only territory worth taking was Jerky
production facilities.
The Jerky King (a Subsidiary of the Ming Association) products are in constant demand
across the known galaxy. Profits are only rivaled by illegal drugs and arms sales.
Control of even a portion of this operation can keep multiple planets solvent for decades.
It came then as no surprise when a NSL fleet appeared in system and headed to Agri 375.
This force came with and ground assault transport and there was no doubt that they
were to contest the blockade and take the Jerky facilities. The only real question was;
could whoever remained be able to hold back the Ming Association fleet when it returned?
Eurasians have blockaded the planet. And are in orbit. NSL have jumped in system and
wish to crush the blockade. Eurasians must break orbit and meet the attacking force
and preserve their hold on the system. Both forces hope that the real owners do not
return and disrupt everything.
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Rite of Succession
System
Full Thrust
Game Master
Ken Wang
Players
4 - 6 players
Complexity
"Arrrgh! Ye represent yor pirate clan. The Pirate King was ambushed
by the law; and now we must choose a new Pirate King. Now ya scallywags,
which one of yor clans be strong enough to take the Kingship? Ye thinks
ye be strong enough? Bring yorselves and yor second to the Veil Noir
system and ye can settle the score in accordance to the Pirate Codex!
Last one standing be King."
Each Captain will place their name in a hat. Each Captain will draw a
name from the hat. The name drawn will be their primary target. If
the Captain defeats his primary target, he then takes over the
defeated Captain's primary target until there is only one.
If you happen to draw your own name then you are free to target
anyone. Any ship that comes within 6 inches of you, exhibits
"hostile intent"; and you are free to fire in self defense.
Also, anticipate terrain surprises.
Note: All battleships and heavy cruisers will have same hull design,
but the weapons systems have been modularized. Choose your weapon
module to match your playing style and see if you can take the title
of Pirate King! Oh, and come prepared with a clever pirate clan name.
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Get Three Coffins Ready!
System
Cinegrunt!
Game Master
Stuart Murray
Players
2 - 6 players
Complexity
"Paw! Paw! Billy-Bob just done shot Deek. He killed him Paw!, he killed him!"
"Tarnation! Round up the Boys we gonna have us a lynching..."
Western gunfight using Cinegrunt! More plot holes than grannie's string vest!
More Western cliches! More half-remembered movie lines! More exclamation marks than ever!!!
Saturday Evening
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Staunch the Bleeding
System
Full Thrust
Game Master
Tom McCarthy
Players
4 - 10 players
Complexity
Humanity is under attack by an alien star fleet and no power has been able to
repel the enemy. Not since the Siege of Sol back in 2194 has the human race
come under such a sustained and implacable attack. The alien ships seem to
launch new attacks every week, and humans are being driven out of systems at
an alarming rate as none of the great powers seem able to win a space battle
against these aliens. Reports of their capabilities are contradictory and
confusing, but Earth's children must find this new foe's Achilles heel soon
or be exterminated.
The human side will field a rag-tag mixed fleet of Fleet Book era designs
from NAC, FSE, NSL, UNSC, etc. while the alien attackers will be custom designed.
Players will be assumed to be experienced FT players. Help will be available for beginners.
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The Real Navy
System
Full Thrust
Game Master
Carl Scheu
Players
4 - 8 players
Complexity
Tired of those games filled with dreadnoughts, can you be a squadron
commander in the real part of the fleet? Then this is the game for you.
Command any number of Escort Squadrons, where the bulk of the fleets
are made up of the working parts of the fleets, Frigates, Escorts and
Light Cruisers. A fun game for experienced Full Thrust players and novices alike.
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Wot... Wot... Mars Again!!
System
Stargrunt
Game Master
Connell & Barosi
Players
6
Complexity
Her Majesties' Royal Martian Expeditionary Force (HMRMEF) ventures to the
surface of the red planet in search of the secrets to the Martian flying
machines.
Marvel at vast hidden caverns and a stunning underground world of
fantastic beasts and alien life forms. Gaze in awe at the latest and
greatest of Great Britain's steam and heliograph technology. Her
Majesties' greatest heroes give their all for queen and country while
the majestic denizens of Mars defend the red planet's secrets.
See it in ULTRA PANAVISION!!!!
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Sunday Morning
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Astrosmash! Fly Till You Die
System
Silent Death
Game Master
Tom McCarthy
Players
4 - 12 players
Complexity
Astrosmash returns!
Each player starts the game in a small single person fighter, with the
goal of inflicting a certain amount of damage on other players, and then
escaping the board. Your reward for escaping is to return in a bigger,
slower fighter that needs to inflict more damage before it can escape.
Whoever said "In space, no one can hear you scream" didn't have their
radio on when the guy next to him got skragged...
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Serpent Strike on the Coyotes
System
Battletech - Alpha Strike
Game Master
Indy Kochte
Players
4 - 6 players
Complexity
In 3059 the Star League Defense Force decided enough was
enough, and with Operations Serpent and Bulldog, took the
war to the Clans. Goal: the obliteration of Clan Smoke Jaguar.
Along the way, one SLDF ship got badly separated due to a
mis-jump - so badly it ended up in Clan Coyote space! Still,
a Clan is a Clan, and as evidenced by the lack of any armed
Clan starships, no Clan was expecting ANY Inner Sphere
presence here! Ready your 'Mechs, for it is time to teach
the Clans what it means to be invaded.
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Echoes Out of Time
System
FMA Skirmish
Game Master
Damond Walker
Players
6 players
Complexity
Rank incense clouded the darkened room while a withered husk of
a woman in loose fitting robes slowly rocked back and forth.
With sightless eyes she sought the light of the Emperor when a
flood of incoming data overcame her completely. In a moment of
complete rigidity the data was recombined and header encryption
removed. Collapsing to the floor she leaned upon her staff and
gasped air as she bled from her left nostril. Message transfer
only ever lasted a short time but with each passing year it took
her longer to recover.
Head held aloft, looking at nothing in particular, she relayed
the message to an awaiting servo-skull that recorded the content
and then left through dedicated duct work to the Inquisitor's
rooms on the sleek cruiser.
Joints cracked as she stretched. Wiping the blood from her
face she sighed, "Here we go again."
In the Inquisitor's quarters the servo skull clattered a
printout on narrow parchment. The Inquisitor tore the paper
and the servo skull quickly returned from where it came.
===Incoming Message===
===Author: ANTINIOUS T.===
===Origin: +++CLASSIFIED+++ ===
===Date: (3)031012.M42===
===Decrypting===
===Opening===
Inquisitor Harlow,
The following is a vid-capture transmitted using Inquisition
security protocols, sent (2)167993.M41, received (4)871008.M42.
The agent felt this pertinent enough to bring it to the
attention of the Grand Inquisition on Holy Terra itself.
The Ordo would request that, if possible, you make best speed
to Orphage III and verify the contents of the vid-capture.
The heads of the Ordo would have you confirm their suspicions
and if confirmed it goes without saying that all life on
Orphage III is forfeit.
Contact information will be sent via separate message.
Your faithful servant,
A.
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I'm Your Ice Cream Man - The Director's Cut
System
Axles and Alloys
Game Master
Scott Howland
Players
3 - 6 players
Complexity
In the hot and dusty future, only one this is better than
being shiny and chrome, its ice cream. Our local despot
(Immortan Jon) awaits the latest shipment of the refreshing
treat (just don't ask where they get the milk), rival gangs
attempt to hijack the shipment before it reaches his compound.
Are you MAD enough to hijack the frozen gold, of are you
ready to ride in to Valhalla protecting Immortan Jon's tasty treats?
