Imperial Battlefleet quest

>>43726789

>Retribution class

I want big lasers

>>43726789
>>Apocalypse Class Battleship: Only has Lance and Nova cannons, is a bit harder to maneuver that most ships

>>43726789
>>Emperor class battleship: Can have up to 8 squadrons of attack crafts in it's hangar bays. Has a few Lance batteries and other minor turrets and cannons
Can't go wrong with the Emperor!

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>>43726789
>Emperor class battleship: Can have up to 8 squadrons of attack crafts in it's hangar bays. Has a few Lance batteries and other minor turrets and cannons.
Carriers are king for a reason, and that reason is force projection.

>>43726789
Apoc all the way. Fleet must be maining lances, nova cannons and Grand Cruisers

>>43726789
>Retribution Class Battleship: Strong prow, main cannons are on it's broadside

Emperor class.

One more vote, for either the emperor, apocalypse or the retribution class battlehips, unless any of you will give the Oberon class some love

>>43726844
>>43727069
>>43727156
Seems to be three unless someone is samefagging?

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>>43727200

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>>43726844
>>43727069
>>43727156

You are the captain of the Emperor class battleship the "Ceremite Star", a very old ship, built in the orbital docks of forge world Cognis.

The ship also has the following:
>300.000 souls on the ship
>250.000 of them are regular seamen/spacemen?
>50.000 of them are Naval armsmen who defends the ship from any (an hopefully) all potential boarders
>It has 8 full squadrons of attack crafts
>7 years of water, food and munitions
>5 main Lance batteries
>50 smaller flak turrets for close range/anti fighters
>Hull is 100%

The only thing missing is the amount of frigates.
>I want 3 people to roll 1 d5 each. The total sum will be the amount of frigates we have for our small fleet

Rolled 4 (1d5)

>>43727285

Rolled 1 (1d5)

>>43727285
Rollin one.

Rolled 1 (1d5)

>>43727285

>>43727285

Rolled 1 (1d5)

>>43727316
Rollin 3

>>43727316
>>43727318
>>43727399

This does not bode well for the longevity of this quest

>>43727417
No it does not continue anyways

>>43727417
Nope but the Imperium always has more ships for us to get destroyed by bad rolls. Though I am wondering what segmentum we are in.

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>>43727302
>>43727316
>>43727318
There are 6 frigates in our fleet that provides us with additional support, supplies and firepower.

You are currently stationed in orbit over the hive world Assak and have been resupplied with people, food, water and munitions.

The astropath onboard the ship has picked up 3 distress signals from 3 planets not far away:
>Agri world Apel-Sin who is requesting aid due to incomming Ork ships
>Death World Terrabys's Jaw has an inquistor who is requesting ships to repel a tyranid splinter fleet from escaping the planet
>Shrine world Jyrka is requesting help in order to battle heretic ships in orbit

>>43727510
>Death World Terrabys's Jaw has an inquistor who is requesting ships to repel a tyranid splinter fleet from escaping the planet

>>43727510
>>Agri world Apel-Sin who is requesting aid due to incomming Ork ships
More food is always good. And it keeps the crazies away for a bit longer.

>>43727500
Forgot about that. How about this, roll a d5
1 Ultima Segmentum
2 Segmentum Tempestus
3 Segmentum Obscurus
4 Segmentum Pacificus
5 Segmentum Solar

>>43727510
>Shrine world Jyrka is requesting help in order to battle heretic ships in orbit
purge the heretics

Rolled 4 (1d5)

>>43727575

>>43727510
>>Death World Terrabys's Jaw has an inquistor who is requesting ships to repel a tyranid splinter fleet from escaping the planet

>>43727510
>Death World Terrabys's Jaw has an inquistor who is requesting ships to repel a tyranid splinter fleet from escaping the planet

this seems to have two advantages:
a) attaking fleeing our routed foes
b) getting in good with an inquistor

>>43727510
Terraby's Jaw

>>43727624
Ah-uh. Wouldn't want to meet ork snipers

>>43727671
That will only happen if we piss them off

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>>43727615
>>43727624
>>43727657

You decide to aid the Inquisitor, you give an order the fleet to set course to Terraby's Jaw. After a many hours of doing a quick jump in the warp you come across a single black and red coloured Retribution class battleship surrounded by 10 or so frigates in the same colour scheme.
You are getting rediation readings from the planetes surface, and you can see that these readings originate from the ship bombing the surface with it's shells and Nova cannons.
But as you approach you can see that many frigates are burning/crippled/destroyed.

What do you order your ship and the fleet to do?
>Hail the Inquisitors ship
>Position yourself on orbit and start to bomb the planet
>Hold position for now
>something else (write in)

>>43727592 Also we are in Segmentum Pacificus

>>43727791
>>Hail the Inquisitors ship

>>43727791
fuck, so many spelling errors, please forgive me Anons

>>43727791
Hold position and hail the ship

>>43727791
>>Hail the Inquisitors ship

>>43726789
Is this a civilization quest or will there be characters

>>43727875
I guess more like a hybrid one. The main ship "is" a character in a way, but you still have resources, a crew and other ships and frigates

>>43727791
>>Hail the Inquisitors ship

>>43727791
>Hail the Inquisitors ship

>>43727908
Right so no characters then

>>43727839
>>43727812
>>43727920

You hail the Inquisitors ship. He says his name is Lexus from the Ordo Xeno. He has been in orbit around this planet for 2 weeks now. Bombing shooting down bioships that comes from the planet. But now he is running thin on manpower and supplies. Lexus "asks" if you could assist his ships in destroying incomming bioships.

What is your response
>Yes or no

>>43728174
Yes, of course

>>43728174
blast 'em

>>43728174
Yes, not much of a choice here.

>>43728174
>Yes

>>43728174
>Yes

You order the fleet to bolster the Inquistors fleet and provide support.

*Ok this is how combat is going to work:
You have 2 action points, you can spend them on thing like: Fire main cannons, launch fighters, evade, retreat, etc
When shooting, you will have X amounts of shots, let's have a simple autocannon as an example. It fires 10d100 shots, and if it target a slow moving ship then it hits on 60 or less (I will modify these depending on the situation)
You can choose to use X amounts of availabe frigates to help your chances, becuase one frigate can increase any required dice value by 5 (unless a frigate is a target for an enemy or is unable to provide support of any kind
Do you guys got it? Any questions?

writing the encounter after this post, so it gives you time to ask questions about the combat system

>>43728376
6 Launch squadrons to set up a cap.
Leave the other 2 to cycle through when cap squadrons need resupply

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>>43728376
As your ship begins to send missiles and other kinds of bombs down to the surface your ships radar picks up 3 incomming lesser bioships, they could be a threat if the manage to latch onto the ship and release it's xeno abominations onto the ship.

The 3 bio ships have 10 HP each

What do you want to spend you actions points to do?
>Fire cannons (Hit chance of 50 with 5 d100). does 4 damage each
>Fire flack (Hit chance of 30 with 15 d100. Does 1 damage each)
>maneuver the ship (will decrease the bioships accuracy with 20)
>Launch fighters (roll 10 d100, on 40 and below you make a damage, but on a 80+ you lose a fighter. You have 8 squadrons to lanch, each of them has 10 fighters. Does half a damage each, unless on 5 or below, then it hits on a 3)
>Do nothing (saves an action point for the next round)

>>43728627
>Launch fighters (roll 10 d100, on 40 and below you make a damage, but on a 80+ you lose a fighter. You have 8 squadrons to lanch, each of them has 10 fighters. Does half a damage each, unless on 5 or below, then it hits on a 3)
>maneuver the ship (will decrease the bioships accuracy with 20)

Rolled 81, 48, 81, 51, 10 = 271 (5d100)

>>43728627
Fire the cannons and move the ship!

Rolled 34, 40, 65, 1, 44, 50, 24, 51, 20, 44 = 373 (10d100)

>>43728627
Launch fighters
Maneuver the ship

Rolled 55, 21, 97, 20, 28, 25, 91, 54, 48, 22, 85, 12, 42, 82, 36, 6, 49, 42, 40, 67 = 922 (20d100)

>>43728627
2 actions of
>Launch fighters (roll 10 d100, on 40 and below you make a damage, but on a 80+ you lose a fighter. You have 8 squadrons to lanch, each of them has 10 fighters. Does half a damage each, unless on 5 or below, then it hits on a 3)

Rolled 60, 83, 26 = 169 (3d100)

>>43728647
>>43728694
You launch the fighters as you maneuver the ship. The ships made 6 damage on one of the bio ships

Now the bioships fire thier acid spores. They now hit on 20 and below due to the maneuver of the ship.
If they hit they lower the hull with 6% each

>>43728757
all acid spores missed. Your turn 2 has now begun.

[I have also noticed a slight problem here. I didn't account for several people rolling simultaneously, any idea on how to fix this "who's rolls are chosen for the action" problem

Rolled 78, 1, 55, 53, 85 = 272 (5d100)

>>43728804
Fire cannons and continue to maneuver
Also I would suggest going for the first rolls that are for the selected action.

>>43728804
You could have everyone wait to roll after the vote is counted?

Anyway Manuever around some more and try to get some frigates to focus fire on one of the ships?

>>43728804
best of 3 or roll yourself after action is selected.

>maneuver the ship (will decrease the bioships accuracy with 20)
>Fire cannons (Hit chance of 50 with 5 d100). does 4 damage each

Im going with people rolling, and voting what best action(s) to take (from those that people have chosen to roll for and/or do

Rolled 49, 32, 46, 47, 96 = 270 (5d100)

>>43728870
Rolling the dice!

Rolled 47, 33, 37, 12, 59 = 188 (5d100)

>>43728804
>Fire cannons
and
>Maneuver the ship

>>43728627
>>43728804
also it apears that you are using a roll lo system but I felt I sould clarify that that is indeed what you are doing

>>43729057
Fire cannons maneuver ship

>>43728921
OP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YQfkD3m5_s

live damnit, live

I suspect OP was banned for a particular wordfiler issue involving ships and apostrophes.

One of you might want to check the suptg chat room or just wait around until midnight.

>>43731488

Ouch. Ok so in the meantime:

>>43727069

Carriers aren't king in BFG. In BFG, massed firepower is how you win, with attack craft playing an important secondary role.

Reasons: Fighters are too short-ranged relative to capital ships, have little combat endurance once engaged, aren't that much faster than their mother ships, and can be eliminated by a smart player using escorts and long-range gunnery.

That's not to say you can't play a carrier fleet in BFG. You can. But a pure guns fleet is perfectly competitive against one, and a mixed fleet can reliably beat either. And that's whether you balance your fleet by points or hulls.

That's why Mars battlecruisers and Dictator cruisers rock. You can have a gunnery-based battleship or battlecruiser lead a task force, with the carrier as the second biggest ship. Then fill out your fleet with a couple cruisers and some escort squadrons.

I have an emperor, but it's useful more because in addition to its launch bays it has murderous long range weapons battery firepower. Oberons are good in-universe for patrols and operating more or less alone; the flight bays replace the need for frigates and destroyers. But if I know there's a big fleet action coming, I'll take a Retribution.

>>43731664
Actually fights are faster than ships and have theoretically infinite range until they are eliminated from attacking ordinance or shipping. Most ships are slow 20cm while fighters are 30cm and can turn on a dime

>>43731488
Or maybe he just died.

>>43731488
>involving ships and apostrophes.

What?