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January 27
Battletech Tournament
Saturday Jan 27th. 11am
Cost: FREE
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BLAKE ATTACKS!
SITUATION
Training Ground Tiger, Sian Center for Martial Disciplines 7 January 3074
Enjoying a normal day like any other since the last Blakist attack nearly four years ago, Capellan defenders had been lulled into a false sense of security. Knowing their deep-space patrols would alert them to any impending arrivals should the Blakists decide to attack again, many of the ground patrols became lax.
What they did not realize was that the Word of Blake was already planetside; Confederation defenders did not comprehend what was happening until patrols started to disappear in rapid succession.
GAME SETUP
Recommended Terrain: Wetlands, Forest, Training Grounds
Attacker
Recommended Forces: Eighth Division, Twenty-fourth Division
The Attacker (800PV) begins by entering at least half of their force from their designated home edge on Turn 1. The other half deploys as Hidden Units (see p. 168, AS:CE) anywhere on the battlefield.
Defender
Recommended Forces: House Imarra, Third Canopian Fusiliers, Red Lancers
The Defender (800PV) may set up anywhere on the battlefield, but not closer than 20″ from the Attacker’s home edge. All other edges are considered the Defender’s home edge.
Randomly place or designate four turret-mounted large lasers (6 Armor, 1 Structure, 1/1/0) on the center on the map within 18″ and LOS of at least one other turret. Secretly designate one turret as the master control tower. See Live Fire Training, below.
OBJECTIVES
1. Breakthrough! At least a third of a player’s force must exit
the map via one of the opposing player’s home edge(s). (Reward: 400)
2. Annihilation. Cripple/Destroy over 75 percent of the opposi- tion’s entire force. (Reward: 700)
SPECIAL RULES
The following rules are in effect for this track:
Live Fire Training
The buildings are considered to be part of a C3 network; three turrets have fire control computers that function exactly like a C3 Slave Module; the master control tower functions exactly like a C3 Master Computer. When attacking, each turret is considered to have a Gunnery of 5. The turrets are part of an automated network and automatically attack the closest unit (Attacker or Defender) within range and LOS of each turret. When multiple targets are present, the turret attacks the heaviest target; in the case of ties, roll randomly to determine which unit to attack.
House Rules/Options:
Multiple Attack Rolls (AS:CE 175)
Forced Withdrawal (AS:CE 126)
AFTERMATH
It all happened so fast. The small patrols were eliminated so quickly, many did not get off an alert to their command posts, and those that did found their command posts were under attack as well.
In fact it was so swift that when the Word of Blake forces attacked the Sian Center for Martial Discipline, the House Imarra group training there thought it was a surprise quiz held by the Center’s instructors—until their comrades started dying.