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OOC!

I'm really looking forward to some starfighter action. I must confess, I haven't actually used the system for this kind of game so I'm really eager to get some experience. I just hope I don't blow up my fragile little A-wing too quickly!

I'm in the same boat. I've seen a few posts around the internet about squadron-based games like this, and they always seemed super interesting, but I haven't actually played in one until now. Very excited, and curious to see how a pilot/gunner split works out!

Should we roll Destiny points?

Submitted character. B0-N35 reporting in!

Is that... does that say... "boner"?

I read it as Bones but I think I prefer your interpretation lol

Don't look at the hidden words on my avatars...

I agree that the Y-wing should be Red Leader, especially since the "squadron leader" is flying it. I'm not bothered which number I get. Since there are five ships one of us needs to be Red 5. Should we roll for it? :-)

Remnant, what kind of ship are you flying? We already have one of each type (A-, B-, X- & Y-wing).

X wing. I was the last to jump in so I don't mind being Red 5.

I actually thought Red 5 would be a popular choice, what with it being Luke's callsign in Episode 1. Personally I'd be happy to be Red 2. That would make me wingman to the Y-wing and I can provide fighter cover for it.

I'm easy for whatever designation I get stuck with :)

Hmm which callsign does the most showboating? I'm asking for a friend, honest...

I may be mistaken, but it's my understanding that the callsigns line up with the squadron names (i.e. Rogue Squadron has a Rogue Leader, Rogue 1, etc.), meaning that a Blixus Squadron would follow a similar convention. That being said, I don't have an issue with changing it up.

That's right, the Squadron name would be the first part of the call sign. Maybe it would be more fun to each choose a callsign of our own, like in Top Gun (Maverick, Goose, Ice Man, etc). In that film both pilot and navigator had their own callsign.

I've also been thinking about the roles each craft would play. I think the Y- and B-wing should be wingmen, and they would be our heavy element. The two X-wings would be our strike element and my A-wing would be recon and support.

By the way, if we do decide to come up with our own callsigns, Rayf could be "Jaggalor".

Okay, so it sounds like our priority is getting the transports and the Malta out of danger and back into hyperspace. Should we prioritise hitting the boarding parties and stay away from the carrier?

That is a sound strategy; I like it. We'll probably have to fight through the little guys a bit, but if their goal is to board, then once they can't, they'll bail. Hopefully.

X wings and the A wing to go after the fighters, the B and Y wings to take on the boarding craft?

Sounds good to me.

Darth; are we starting at Extreme range? How about our transports? Are they in the same range band too?

Not studied up on Star Wars naval combat but the Carrier is likely support/long range transport. Crippling the transports to slow them down so they're easy pickings for the B/Y Wings (rough to board if someone's blown out your engines) and X & A wings dog fighting out the other smaller fighters and providing support. The enemy smaller ships are there ensure the transports can board once they dock they'll flood in so we're keeping that as a secondary objective right?

1) Ensure convoy's safety to jump back into Hyperspace after the readjustment
2) Stop/Impede the Transport Boarding ships.
3) Fly are being Bosses and shooting stuff.

At the moment, their ships are at extreme range, the asteroid is at long range, and the transport furthest from you is at medium.

Let's go ahead and roll initiative, cool or vigilance, whichever you prefer.

You want the initiatives in here or the IC thread?

IC thread please

Agreed on all points. Without their transports, they shouldn't be able to attack any non-fighter craft very effectively, so hopefully at that point we're ready to jump out. Otherwise, we can just clean up until they are.

Yup. Wanna hunt some Headhunters!

Sorry it took so long. Initiative is up and a PC goes first

So the first three groups of enemies are a total of nine headhunters! And, with five more groups to go, we have here a target-rich environment folks! Woohoo!

Sorry, I guess I left it out but there are five groups of three z-95 each and two group of two boarding ships.

Edit: 3 groups two boarding ships

Nice. Can't wait to start stencilling headhunters on my hull.

Y'know, that or wondering just why I chose an A-wing.

I'm not very familiar with Star Wars stargighter types and squad strategies... But why is the B-wing so heavily armed?

And Y-wings are bombers, but it seems every ship has proton torpedoes... Is the bomber specialization reflected somewhere mechanically or is it just flavor?

Basically, what makes these ships act like their reputation suggests?

B-Wing is a bomber too, just a more hi tech one....well, they're both more heavy attack ships than strictly bombers. The bombers all typically carry a heavier payload (the Y And B wings have more ammo for their torps in addition to more guns) and have higher scores in one or all of their Defense (shields) and Armour ratings, and their Hull Trauma and Strain thresholds, they offset that by having slower speeds and handling scores than the out and out fighters like the A Wing. As for the X Wing I'd pretty much consider that to be halfway between the 2 really.

Got it, thanks! That does make more sense.

Is there a way to speed up combat / prevent the lag we're experiencing?

Would it be helpful if everyone pasted actions then we sorted it based on initiative? Or is there a tried-and-true pbp standard? It's just dragging quite a lot here at the start.

In some games there are three groups of combatants; the ones who go before the bad guys (i.e. beat their initiative roll), the bad guys, and the ones who go after. That way the GM gets to move all of their NPCs at once. I find it helps.

Edit: So the bad guys either have one initiative roll for all of them, or you take the average of their rolls. The players are sorted by those who beat that initiative and those who don't.

Ok, I'm assuming this game is dead now so I'm withdrawing from it to clean up my active games list