DARKSTAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: DUCHESS ANNABEL’S WAR IS OVER
Designing "German" Pocket Battleship P3
KMS Von der Tann (KS-1208)
Scharnhorst-class pocket battleship
Imperial Prussian Navy - Psi Serpentis and Duchess Annabel’s War
Design and Roll-Out
The actual gameplay warships record sheet for the Scharnhorst-class pocket battleship in snow complete. Hard copies are printed up and this ship is ready for her “maiden voyage” playtest hopefully this weekend. 😀
Meanwhile, smaller battles between French task forces of the New Roman Alliance and the Black Dragons of the Khitan-Tunguska Free State are hopefully on the cards for tonight, tomorrow, or perhaps Saturday.
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Warship record sheet for the Scharnhorst class pocket battleship. It lists the weapons mounts, maps out the components that can be damage, tracks velocity and initiative, helps players with the costs for facing turns at different velocities, shows shields and armor, and lays out the locations and firing arcs of all the ship's weapons. Modifiers that can accrue in combat are also tracked here. These are usually slipped into plastic document protectors and written on with dry erase markers for greatest ease of repeated play. 
I see the bridge and magazines have been kept at the heart of the ship, at least that mitigates some risk of serious damage when taking hits for such a lightly protected vessel. Then again, hitting this one from the rear seems like the best option to do dangerous damage quickly.
Also, huzzah I caught up with DarkStar! Finally had time, can’t wait to read the next post.
Thanks so much @davehawes for taking the time to go through all these posts and leaving so many great comments! Yes, the stern of Dakstar warship is always its most vulnerable sector, “crossing the T” across the stern is almost always a killing move … when you can pull it off. Another way is mass aerospace craft (fighters / bombers) / torpedo attacks into the enemy stern. This is why most Darkstar warship classes have more mass drivers for point defense along the back of the ship to protect vulnerable engines and reactors.
Always a pleasure. Mass bombing run across a targets stern sounds pretty awesome.
Indeed raking an opponent’s stern is pretty deadly @davehawes … as we saw this afternoon in the battle report between the French and Russians (Deep Space Engagement – 12 Jan 2519 – Helioshock Boundary)