DARKSTAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: DUCHESS ANNABEL’S WAR IS OVER

So as you may have seen in another project thread:

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1303724/

… we’ve been having great success with playing tactical wargames via web conference with OTT / BoW community members all around the world.  So far we’ve been doing great with Panzer Leader and Arab Israeli Wars, but on Saturday December 1st we’re expanding this idea to Darkstar.

Myself and @davehawes will be playing online Darkstar on a virtual game board using MS Excel, pitting a British light carrier force against a larger, but slower and less-agile cruiser battlegroup of the Holy Russian Empire.  We may even have a couple of spectators!

Meanwhile, work continues on an official, codified rule book.  As previously reported, all summary concepts, initiative, and movement rules are written and illustrated, both for warships and aerospace craft.  I’ve now completed aerospace combat, including dogfights, aerospace torpedo and missile attacks, recover and rearming rules, strafing attacks, etc.  I’ve also written and illustrated how mass drivers work, and warships torpedo strikes.

I’m now working on warships combat (main guns blasting away at each other).  So that’s range calculation, base to hit, adjusted hit targets, weapons arcs, and target facing rules.

Next step, applying damage.

This is up to 27 pages and counting.  The good news is I’d say I was at least halfway done at this point.