Campaign Status (UPDATED 9/8 With Results of Game 5)

[Ruckdog]

Here you will find the latest and greatest on the status of our Hurricane Season campaign! This post will be updated as the campaign progresses, so check back every so often to see what has changed 

Total Campaign Points:

FSA: 114

PE & EotBS: 112


Scenario 1: Battle off Cape Horn
Date Played: 14 April 18
Result: Crushing Triumph for FSA
Scenario 2: Delaying Aciton
Scheduled Date: 28 April 18
Result: Crushing Triumph for EotBS
Scenario 3: Battle of the Bahamas
Scheduled Date: 04 May 18
Result: Crushing Triumph for the FSA
Scenario 4: Operations Hammerfall
Scheduled Date: 5/25/18
Result: Crushing Triumph for the PE
Scenario 5: Battle of Guantanamo Bay
Scheduled Date: 7/26/18
Result: Minor Victory for the FSA
Scenario 6: Operation Ryuza
Scheduled Date: TBD
Result: TBD

[Ruckdog]

Updated with the results of Game 2! My Blazing Sun managed to claw back some of the defecit from my disastrous loss in Game 1, but the FSA is still in the overall lead. The full report will be up on the blog soon!

Game 3 will be played tomorrow, with the Prussians entering the fray in full force.

[Covertwalrus]

 Just read the report from Game 2 . . . Well, that was a rugged for the FSA was it not?

 Shows how initiative is often the key to DW 2.5 games IMHO; Even with the bad rolls, the EotBS really had the upper hand every step of the way against the FSA and all those telling hits until the BB showed it's face were what finally decided the game it seems.

 Maybe the FSA not having the little . . . Incident with the island might have made a difference, though Still, an exciting game - Well done both of you!

[Covertwalrus]

 Very much lookign forward to reading the next chapter - If i knew the password

[Ruckdog]

Updated with the restults of Game 3!

 Very much lookign forward to reading the next chapter - If i knew the password

It will be public soon! Just putting together the final edits.

[Covertwalrus]

 All good - I'm just impatient

 Be interesting to see how others experience with the 2.5 game is coming along- Been playing almost a weekly 1000 point game here locally, and the play is very different from 2.0 I find.

[Ruckdog]

Be impatient no longer! The full batrep for Game 3 is now up on the blog

http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2018/05/25/hurricane-season-scenario-3/

[Covertwalrus]

 Great game! Would have been quite different results I think if the 2.5 rules for Stratospheric Movement hadn't been introduced I guess. Still, a great win for the FSA here, though not surprising given the tonnage and that presence of that submarine

[thelasthuzzah]

Covertwalrus,

That submarine was good fun, and I was not aware of it's reputation at the time of use.  Andy and I had discussed me using it for a game (maybe 2, we'll see how my list for operation Gitmo Bay looks).

The Deathbringer was good (knocked out a CL, FF and finished the BB), but I think the Liberty carried the Lion's share of the load that game. 

The shield (3) and Sustained fire 3 on turrets gives even an unlinked shot a good chance to put damage on a large model.

[Ruckdog]

And, as I said at the time when we were playing, I’d much rather face a Deathbringer than an FSA Dreadnought, which is what the “historical” OOB for the scenario calls for! 

[Ruckdog]

The report for Game 4 is up on the blog!

http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2018/07/11/hurricane-season-scenario-4/

[Covertwalrus]

The report for Game 4 is up on the blog!

http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2018/07/11/hurricane-season-scenario-4/

 And again, even with the seriously unbalanced points costings, initiative seemed to be the turning factor here; I'd have thought the John Hernrys would have given the Prussian air wing some pause for thought, but sadly no.  That free 4 VP was handy, but having Meeya Meefla* so fragile as well was just a gift to the Prussians here.

I suspect this scenario was made to be a story arc, so that the players are driven towards a resolution rather than have a chance of changing the plot as it were. Still, it's one most RPGs do far more subtly, as do most war game scenarios. Though from the outside, it must make for an exciting looking game I'll say that

 Roll on the Battle of Gitmo! Still behind the FSA to pull one out! 


* A little SF joke, courtesy of the far future works of Cordwainer Smith.

[Covertwalrus]

  Waiting with anticipation for the next reports, commodores

[Ruckdog]

Yep! We're working on it  . The games have been played, we just need to get the reports written.

[Ruckdog]

The battle report for game 5 is finally complete!

http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2018/09/08/hurrican-season-scenario-5/