More Death Star Pics..a second game.

More Death Star Goodness!

 Star fighters, check.

 Ok, go get them!

 SO easy, even a kid can do it!

The Y-wings start their attack run. I use long pieces of clear plastic, wider than the trench, to support ships flying over the trench rather than down in it.  Starfighters have to execute a 'talon roll' to enter the trench.  When Imperial ships enter the trench, the trench laser batteries go silent.

Mega Star Wars space battle ala "Rebellion in Space"

Here was a big game of Rebellion in Space run at Green Dragon Hobbies.

 The Imperial Fleet is well represented with some additional assault shuttles and an Imperial frigate.

 The Rebel convoy is led by a well armed freighter and a Corellian Corvette.

 A-wings, X-wings, and Y-wings, oh my!

 Here comes the Imperial assault.

 "Draw their fire away from the Transports."

 The two Capital Ships exchange a withering fire along each others broadside.

 Rebel fighters to the rescue.

Star fighters in some classic dogfighting dancing.

"Rebellion in Space": Attack on the Death Star

Here are some pics from my "Rebellion in Space" game: Attack on the Death Star with all of your favorite characters and events held at the Recon 2006 game convention in Tampa, FL.  Yes, I actually built 12"x12" panels to create the surface of the Death Star and The sunken Trench on a 5'-6" x 8' table. Judging by the reactions, it did garner a lot of 'oohs and aahs'.  It was certainly cool to look at, and even more so to play. I was amazed at the end of the game and people were picking up fighters and running them down the trench with a video camera.

 Gold Squadron (Y-wings) making their attack run.

 An overview of the game board.

 An overview of the game board.

 Red 5 leads the way down the trench at full throttle.

 The game table before the game starts.

 "Keep half your fighters out for the next run to draw their fire."

 "A new group of signals, Imperial fighters are heading your way!"

Gold Squadron approaches the exhaust port, directly below the main port.

"It only impacted on the surface!"

Star Wars Starship Battle Game: "Rebellion in Space" rules

This game using my own "Rebellion in Space" rules was run at the Recon game convention in 2005.  It plays like in the movies, and I don't believe in 'relative' scale capital ships.  I like capital ships that dwarf the star fighters. "My young padawan, you'll soon learn that I don't know how to do anything 'small'!"

The star fighters are all Galoob micromachines, the Corellian Corvette is an Action Fleet toy, and the Rebel Transport is a Galoob playset.

'Vipers in Space' Game: Attacking the Colonial Fleet...again.

Here are some pictures from a Battlestar Galactica starfighter miniatures game, using my 'Vipers in Space' rules that play pretty much like the classic TV series. The rules can be found on the BSGgaminginminiature yahoo group. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/BSGgaminginminiature

 Engage the fighters. 1" starfighters are from Studio Bergstrom miniatures. (See links)

 Sorry, I don't use 'fleet scale' capital ships.  I like to use larger ones that look much better in the 'relative' scale category.  This Battlestar Galactica is one of the Monogram plastic models.

That's not a very fair fight?

The other rag tag fleet ships (Mining Ship to the lower left and the Colonial Movers ship to the lower right) are resin models from Minimodelmadness and are of the same scale as the Battlestar model kit.  

Another view of the 'Colonial Movers' ship.