Defenders of the Gelron Sector - Encounter at Neg'rett

Defenders of the Gelron Sector

Duke Al-Rek of the planet B’yath has recently declared in favour of the Rebel Alliance, freeing his planet from Imperial control, and starting open warfare in the surrounding systems. An Imperial Armada has been dispatched to regain control of the sector. The battle has begun…

Battle One: Encounter at Neg’rett

The Planet Neg’rett is under attack by Imperial Forces. The defenders have barricaded themselves in the Capital City and are resisting fiercely. An Imperial Battle Group in orbit is bombarding the garrison. Your Task Force has been dispatched to disrupt the Imperial attack...

Mission:

Opening Salvo

Setup: After deploying fleets, assign 1 objective token to each ship.

Special Rule: The first time a ship performs an attack against another ship, discard the attacker’s objective token. If the attacker belongs to the first player, he adds 2 red dice to the attack pool. If the attacker belongs to the second player, he adds 2 dice, each of any colour, to the attack pool.

End of Game: Each player increases his final score by half the fleet point cost of each enemy ship in the play area that has at least 1 damage card, rounded up.

Imperial Forces are first player.

Objective:

Major Victory: Defeat the Imperial Force by a margin of 100 points or more

Victory: Defeat Imperial Force by a margin of 1 point or more.

Any other result is a Rebel defeat.

Imperial Tactics:

The IEF is bombarding Neg’rett, and will therefore attempt to remain in close range of the target beacon (objective marker). Imperial Ships will follow normal target rules, but will also consider the target beacon as an option, but only counting black dice armament (using CF if available). In the event of a tied result, the Imperials will fire on the Rebel ships as priority.

For each roll of CRIT/HIT on the target beacon, the Imperials gain 1 victory token (10 points).

The Imperial Commander is Cautious.

Commander Kerazin: Each friendly ship gains +1 Engineering value.

The Imperial Focus Point is fixed and will not move during this scenario – it is directly opposite the deployment zone, in line with the target beacon.

TF1734 will default to REPAIR commands, passing tokens to the Star Destroyers, first to Valorous,

then to Glorious. If both Star Destroyers have REPAIR tokens, TF1734 will give SQUADRON orders – sending Squadrons in range to attack Rebel forces, or passing tokens if no Squadrons are in range.

Imperial Deployment and Formation is as per the picture below…

(I realised after creating this image that I had put the Imperials on the wrong side of the table - but it looks nicer with the planet there. Put the target beacon about distance 5 1/2 from the table edge. It should be in black range of the Victory Star Destroyers at the start of Round 2.)
(Also, the fighters at the front corners are too close to the Victories - so move them out a bit otherwise they get overlapped automatically)

Imperial Expeditionary Force

Valorous

Victory I (73) - Flagship
- Enhanced Armament (10)

- Commander Kerazin
= 83 Points

Glorious

Victory I (73) - Flagship
• Enhanced Armament (10)
= 83 Points

TF1734

Gozanti Cruisers (23)
• Comms Net (2)
= 25 Points

Squadrons:
• 2 x TIE Advanced Squadron (24)
• 4 x TIE Fighter Squadron (32)
= 56 Points

Total Points: 247

Rebel Forces may deploy in the setup area as normal.

R’yath Defence Force

Faithful Consort

CR90 Corvette A (44)
= 44 Points

Valiant Choice

CR90 Corvette A (44)
= 44 Points

Purposeful Defender

Nebulon-B Escort Frigate (57)
Captain Doya

= 57 Points

Squadrons:
• 2 x X-wing Squadron (26)
• 4 x Z-95 Headhunter Squadron (28)
= 54 Points

Total Points: 199

Captain Doya: The Rebel Player may reroll two dice per round.

Surviving Rebel Ships gain a Veteran Captain for the next battle.
One surviving X-Wing gains a Brace token, and one surviving Z-95 gains a Scatter token.




Edit:
I played this through against the AI, and made a number of mistakes, and the Rebels lost.

So I had another go, did slightly better remembering everything from the AI, and the Rebels won (by 5 points). Here is a LINK to the vassal log file so folks who want to play this (or watch the recorded battle).

Or here is a little video report as well...