Wife: "You want to buy HOW MANY for of those doggone little ships?!"

Husband: "But honey, we already spent all that time and effort building the Star Destroyer board! You wouldn't want us to waste all that, would you?"

I thought I would add our campaign rules to the mix too, just so y'all can see them and, if wanted, enjoy them with your own group…

Cheers!

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Each player starts with 21 points. They can buy either an X-Wing, A-Wing or Y-Wing. You then play missions and collect extra points through killing Imperial craft and completing missions.There must be a minimum of 3 registered players to play a mission. 2+ using their selected fighters and one using the Imperials, who will always have at least equal points value of the Rebel players.

Bonus points are rewarded per following:

• +1 pt Successfully completing mission objectives
• +0.5 pt Destroying a TIE Fighter
• +1 pt Destroying a TIE Advanced
• +1 pt Destroying a TIE Interceptor
• +2 pts Destroying a Freighter
• +5 pts Destroying a Capital Ship

If your Fighter is destroyed during a mission, you roll an Attack Die. On a Critical result, your pilot is dead. You must start over. On a Hit result, your pilot is injuried. You lose 3 points off your total. You cannot go below 21 points. After 3 Injuries, your pilot is retired. On any other result, you survive and are recovered.

You can fly off any table edge during a mission unless otherwise stated. Doing so means you survive the battle.

Once a player gets 20 kills with their current pilot, he becomes an Ace. Ace pilots may choose one free, permenant Commendation card.

If you play a mission without a campaign GM there, simply forward the details on, so they can update the current roster.

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Cilionelle said:

 I like this.  Also, I commend your effort on the SD.  Please keep posting progress.  

Some more progress…

And showing its modular nature…

X-wings flee as the Y-wing makes its run…

The Y-wing takes out the bridge (not shown… not even built yet!) and begins a tactical retreat.  TIEs are in hot pursuit.  There are some stragglers on the Alliance side too.

Y-wing close up.  Scale is clearly shown… that's the front 1.1 metres…

Some more pics… we did a bunch of work yesterday, getting the bridge diamond shape up.  The neck came this morning, with the rest of the 'layers' still to come.

Scale shots with just the wedge-shape…

And then the bridge superstructure…

And with the added Deflector Shield Domes (or are they sensor domes?) and "Beer Communications Tower"…

This morning was added the bridge's neck.  I love it when a plan comes together!  And it's starting to look more like a Star Destroyer and less like a weird table!

So there you have it.  We have a poll going on our campaign's Facebook group, as to the name of the ship… The options are below.  Let us know which of them you prefer.

1. VSD Subjugator
2. VSD Persecutor
3. VSD Umbara's Pride
4. VSD Strikefast

Cheers!

What happen to the pictures?

odinfellhammer said:

Seems like Photobucket is having a meltdown.  I've fixed the most recent ones, but for the earlier pics, here's a link to the library itelf.

http://s256.photobucket.com/user/Cilionelle/library/VSD%20Subjugator

Cheers!

I vote for an SSD in 1:270 @ 70.3 meters long.  Please do this.  

Nice work.  Thanks for posting pics.  I absolutely love this.  More pictures!!!  Will this be illuminated?  

I challenge you to capital ship v capital ship.  I'll put my gunships on a rolling tool cart and maneuver around your VSD.  Rather, I would roll up to it by round 25 because it gets a movement of "1" then I would roll an empty cart away in round 26.

Lol, actually I was just saying to Cilionelle it would be awesome if you lived in Australia so your Gunship could be present for the maiden battle 

Skorpious said:

Makr the Turbolasers shoot twice, just hit on a critical symbol, but if the Fighter does not evade, it would be outright destroyed. That would be somewhat realistic if you check your Stackpole and Alliston Books. Really difficult to target but with lots of BANG!

For Medium ships that would of course be a little drastic… Make it some 5 ish damage for them perhaps!

Oh and of course if the gunner missed a Rebel fighter in 1 distane of an imperial you should check if the Tie does not eat the stray shot perhaps XD that would be fun…

Like Black 5 radios: "Turbolaser battery 32 check your fire, Black squadron elements crossing your zone in hot pursuit of Rebel scum!"

Battery 32: "Negative Black squadron we have them in our aim! Break off pursuit we are firing"

BAM: "AAAAARGH!!!! *radio silence"

Black 6: "Battery 32 you #*^~#•$ you just killed Black 5!!"

Cilionelle said:

I think the first two are nice and strong, but probably more suited to an Imperial Star Destroyer. The second one sounds like a freighter to me. I think VSD Strikefast has got my vote.

My vote's for VSD Persecutor.

A while ago I had written universal rules to handle any kind of capital ship, from Space Platforms to Corellian Corvettes to Star Destroyers if people wanted them. Find them here.

Some the points are;

• A Ship is a composition of subsystems but all of them draw from a communal shield pool. It's a high amount, but once depleted, fighters can now attack specific subsystems.
• Subsystems never roll dodge dice for any reason, so Proton torpedoes do FULL damage. Subsystems typically have high hit points to describe their resiliency. If dodge is added to a subsystem, it's because of it's small size. Otherwise capital ships are the broadside of a barn so…
• Excess damage applied against a subsystem goes on a seperate track. It is possible to destroy (disable in a revision I have yet to state) the whole ship if this track fills up entirely. So it can't fire or move.
• Turrets move first but shoot last. So the operator determines where they are facing first, and then if they survive, they fire. Tiny turblolaser turrets can communally add their attack dice to fire on the same target. So a cluster of five lasers give five attack dice on a single target. Space mines do this also, which makes them dangerous to get too close to.

I ran into a problem with the concussion missile launcher though, it's too overpowered. In the last scneario I ran it was shooting down attacks and hurting Rebel fighters attacking the XQ platform… but everything else seemed to be working okay, and my players had fun in the two times I've run the sceanrio even though it was kind of imbalanced both ways.

For armament I'd consider looking at how VSDs were equipped in TIE Fighter. Technical limitations of the game (so not as many turbolasers as "canonical") helps us TT players because now there's not too much to keep track of.

You can find some inspiration on how to run Star Destroyer campaigns from one specific campaign in X-Wing where the Rebels are trying to deplete, and then destroy, an Imperial star destroyer. You were running missions from attacking a resupply convoy to blowing up the shields to bleeding out their escorts.

Anyway it's looking awesome. Keep us posted!

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Here's some links to the VSD names… the Persecutor sounds good but doesn't exist according to Wookieepedia.  The Strikefast is this one.  The Subjugator is this one.  And the Umbara's Pride isn't canonical either, but since Umbara was a planet with a turbulent history, and which eventually came into line under Imperial rule, I thought it was fitting!

Anyway, enough talk!  More pictures!  (Our friend Steve is doing an amazing job with most of the work on this - it's in his shed - and I just want to give him a shout-out.  Not sure if he's made an account on these forums yet)

After an abortive first attempt at the decks, it was determined that more support was needed…

And then the first layer of decking was placed over the top of it.

As usual, all pics are available here for those just joining us!  Keep the naming comments coming, guys!

I'm curious on how you're going to store and transport this thing.

From a modeler's perspective, greebling and painting this thing is going to be awesome. I need to get around to posting my XQ platform photos sometime… not nearly as grand as this, but a simple treatement got a bunch of compliments and it wasn't nearly as impressive as this.