A Billion Suns - The G-Corps Solo Campaign - Ep 01
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.พ. 2021
- G-Corps is back. Their CEO, on probation from their defeat by C-Sec in the Let's Play must prove himself back in the shipping lanes against local independent contractors prior to being allowed back into the corporate wars. A vital specimen must be recovered and enemy agents brought back with intelligence for the board of directors to welcome them back into their good graces.
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"Mr Barker, if you'll step through this doorway over here we'll take care of your exit paperwork.
Click.
"Fwoosh!" says the Airlock.
"Yes, sir, Mr. CEO sir... Mr. Barker has been given his exit interview. Yes, I'll have one of the exterior maintenance drones collect his body before it scratches the exterior paint of your new command ship."
"ALL POWER TO THE TURBO BLASTERS!!!" That's a suitably Space Opera thing to say.
1:08 - getting you ready for the black void of space.
In space, no one can hear...your voiceover. :)
Mad love for the Deltron 3030 reference. I my experience solo games can be rough. What helped me was halving the total potential revenue to give myself a rough operational budget.
Oh just spend 20 and succeed? Well looks like he's got a good chance of-
*Frigate immediately arrives to suplex your dreams*
Aight fair enough.
ah 3030 a simple time but all that changed 20 years later when the clans invaded.
Hahaha at that Deltron 3030 line at the start I was like ‘is he going to? HE IS!’
Oof - seems like G-Corp's standard executive chair is actually an ejector seat. I'm enjoying this - looking forward to whatever nefarious schemes Owen comes up with with when it's safe to play again.
Damn didn’t expect the CEO to be fired in the first solo game 😅 GG
Deltron moment = instant thumbs up
Love it. YOU FIRED!
Yeeeeeeeeeees 2 days in a row!
Awesome campaign! Looking forward to your next game and using what you learned.
Content schedules be damned! A billion days of a billion suns!
@29:43 you work out 35 - 12 as 27, costing yourself 4 credits.
ProMath skills
I think you need to plan on how much you can score at the beginning. If you bring more ships than you can make profit, then you auto fail.
Thanks Ash. ‘Nuff said!
That was pretty cool.
Great video, thanks for sharing your adventures with us 😄
- I am not 100% sure but concerning the duds but I think it is: reroll yes, modify no
- I looked up the rules for independent contractors, those who jump in because of the jump points use the round number instead of the mass for determining the number of ic ships jumping in.
- gunships have silhouette 4, corvettes have 5, I think you just slipped one line down.
I miss the days when games like this and Stargrave would have been specifically made to dovetail into each other.
FWI, the linked solo campaign is not in Wargames Illustrated, it is in Miniature Wargames Issue 456.
The min of darkness between 1:00 and 2:00 did scare me a bit...
Seems he was talking through it all as we come back to the end half of a sentence...
Yeah I don’t know why TH-cam did there. I’m clipping it out but it will take Google a bit to render it
"Rolling 40 D6..." Wha?! Rolls 4D6. Ah, OK. XD
I wish there was more distinction between each player's ships, they all looked the same.
Now how about some Battletech BattleSpace? :) There are the rules in Total Warfare...
Nuts to BTech, where's the Gamma Wolves setting space combat game? Lunarian scavenger blockade runners, Martian colonial gene-harvesters ("We don't want your women, just some ova"), Belter rock-bombers who want to finish off the arcologies for good, O'Neil Colony survivors, all brawling over Earth's orbital space while tangling with Tiamat nano-clouds and ghost ships. There's some potential there, especially if you go all Gundam with it and tie the games together.
Insta fired. Corporate life is tough.
The random contractors really seemed unbalanced, of course you rolled bad but it appears the table will generally see that you're usually outclassed. Reminds me of one of the enemy Mech generation tables for Battletech (mercenary expansion IIRC) where the tables were created in such a way that we'd always be out-tonned (but nice if we managed to get any salvage).
So even if you didn't set up those extra jump points and deployed bigger ships, the way the random contractor generator table is set up you'll still get out-massed/classed. Bring a frigate and they'll just show up with something bigger.
You aren’t wrong. From a design standpoint, the random contractor start out really unbalanced (in the players favour) because they don’t have an intelligent human piloting them.
So the logic of having them out mass you if that they’ll never outthink you, so the only hope they have is to brute force their way to victory. And they do need to have a chance of victory, else the solo mode is too easy.
It’s still quite sensitive to the spawn roll, so maybe there’s something that would work better than that roll. I’m very open to suggestions!
My first though was turn 1 the Spawn roll is D2... turn 2 it’s D3 and turn 3 it’s D6... with the same modifiers. spoiler I’m going to try that next video ♥️
I really like this game. And I just found a bunch of Star Fleet models I never made. Maybe instead of skinning this game in the Infinity universe, I do Star Trek (instead of literal credits, they’re ‘good will credits’.)
Hmmm ...
Maybe see about grabbing some Ferengi minis for the Independent Contractor ships...feels very apropos for them to sniffing around looking to make a quick buck...er, bar of gold-pressed latinum. The weird alt-universe pseudo-Trek of SFB doesn't have them at all, but there are certainly other sources for figs of their ships.
Which system are these lovely ships from? Sorry, I didn’t hear the information in the vid, but I’m not sure if it was mentioned 🤨
Interesting new game!
Brigade Models!
@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames thx a lot!
Nice build. Kinda over my head though as far as rules. Do you 3d print your minis?
They’re from Brigade models!
@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames So you designed this whole game system yourself? That's pretty incredible. I 3D print my own minis, and am learning how to design them as well.
Hmmm. Looks interesting, (especially as it has solo play rules), but I'll stick with Dropfleet Commander for now I think.
Why not both! You already have all the ships you need to play ABS, so it’s virtually MAKING you money at this point. ;P
@@crikeymiles ...
Yeah but... Er...
Actually that's a good point. Lol
Hey there! Where did you get all your minis from? The little satellites and ships - I look online and only ever find Star Wars and Star Trek ones
Brigade minis!
Are the ship base/stands homemade? Or possible to buy somewhere?
Home made from MDF discs and brass rod.
Does anyone know what minis these are and the best place to buy these please?
If you're in the US, Scale Creep Miniatures is a Brigade stockist, so you could try them for ordering as well. Myself, I've always gone direct through Brigade and had a good experience, but it's been a while now and I'm not sure how bad the postage from the UK has become.
Amazing, thank you both!
@@jedarenoknight NP. You might also like Ground Zero Games' Full Thrust range - Brigade's stuff used to be very similar to GZG's aesthetic, although they've diverged quite a bit as more and more Brigade figs have been remade with 3d-printed master sculpts (the production figs are traditionally-cast resin and/metal ships).
Know it is only beta rules but that seemed brutal, few unlucky rolls and a frigate or two pop up and you are in trouble.
Well, solo games are supposed to be hard, right? :)
Tricky balancing act when your solo is a campaign rules set, though.
@@richmcgee434 currently there is no option for nothing to turn up, which means every time you bring something in, the ai will, fair enough. But on top of that each gate brings in something every turn. Not got my book yet, but from a casual observation seems potentially brutal.
@@ryankeyte9751 That’s a fair observation. An early iteration had nothing appearing on one of the results, and that did introduce a nice breath in the pace, but the issue was when noooothing deployed (because you happened to roll a row of ones and twos) and the game was crazy easy.
There’s definitely a sweet point I just haven’t quite found yet. Possibly the jump point spawns D6 *minus* the turn number, and 0 or below spawns nothing.
Having said that, in this game, all those extra frigates were just the game posturing, as Ash (rightly) fled with the spies, so they were only a theoretical threat, not an actual threat.
@@crikeymiles thanks for the response. I don't have my book yet, due any day and only experience I have is from watching Ash's playthroughs, but a bit of brain storming:
1. Maybe use a second card deck or multiple dice say 2d6 to smooth the curve a bit.
2. Maybe replace the each turn roll with an event deck, could then have some results bringing more fleets in, while others have a different effect,
3. Or maybe the two rolls are slightly different, so the ones in response to you deploying are more likely to produce something but the each turn ones are less likely.
Yes some could be seen as the game posturing, but I assume that would depend on the contract and if you need to deal with a frigate that would require you to bring on something big, but then bringing something big on may bring on another 😃
Guessing the solo rules will get play tested a lot right now. Thanks for another great game and thanks for doing solo rules for during the pandemic.
I gotta pick this up. What are the ships in the thumbnail?
Where did you get the missions from? I can't seem to find them on the site or the book
He literally says its beta solo campaign.... so obviously it hasnt been released yet
@@SlayerOfWorlds the beta rules for solo play are up on the website.... so obviously you didn't look before commenting
@Gerry mcCabe Thanks :D I'll be looking out for that :)
@@khazidDK issue 399 March afaik
The narrative solo campaign is in the “April” issue of Miniature Wargames (i.e. the one released in March).
Where are those play mats from?
anybody else in europe having problems gettibg the physical copy?
Ash Math: 35 - 12 = 27
Ash's CEO came up through Marketing.
🤔
Ash, what issue of Wargames illustrated contains the campaign?
It isn’t out yet.
The narrative solo campaign is in the “April” issue of Miniature Wargames (i.e. the one released in March).
@@crikeymiles Thank you so much! Upcoming right? Not last year?
The AI not having to worry about margins really goes against the grain of the game concept. You’re struggling to put gunships and fighters out while the AI has unlimited frigates. How can you get ahead in galactic business when your competitor has bottomless capital?
Where are the minis from?
Mostly Brigade
Where did you get the miniatures?
Mostly Brigade
@@johnscarr70 I'll check them out. Thanks!
@@shellbackbeau7021 good luck. Great range of ship classes and factions.
Well, interesting, but now I'm definitely skipping on this. The fact that the solo rules aren't in the core book but are already up as a free pdf makes me think that this will be another Gaslands, where a "Refueled" version comes out within a year or two and I wind up regretting buying in early instead of waiting to get everything compiled in print.
If folks are interested in other solo campaign-play starship games, I'd recommend taking a look at Two Hour Wargames' 5150 Star Navy and 5150 Fighter Pilot games. They support anything from a single fighter or starship up to squadrons or full fleets of 40-ish vessels, are built to play solo, co-op, or versus from the ground up, and are a bit more traditionally combat-focused than ABS seems to be. Bit abstract as well, but versatile - and once you get used to the game engine they use, you can learn any of the 2HW stuff pretty easily - and they cover everything from light roleplay to scifi ground comabt to fantasy and even some historical periods.
It's probably worth noting ABS was delayed almost a year (pandemic and art issues I believe, not the author's fault) so there's been time for Hutchinson to work on solo rules.
@@BetaRayBill32 Yes, I know. I was in on the playtest for the first several iterations, although I got very little chance to play it and then, of course, COVID happened. I'm not surprised by what the game is, it's just not to my taste in its final form. I am a little disappointed the solo rules weren't in the core book, though. Seems like the kind of thing you'd prioritize working on during the shutdown (where demand for solo rules boomed) but I'm sure that Hutchinson's life was at least as disrupted as everyone else's.
@@richmcgee434 I just listened to another interview that made it sound like Osprey's length or size of a blue book release made it impossible to include the solo rules.
Yeah, it would have been great to have the solo rules in the book, but I turned the finished manuscript into Osprey back Nov 2019(!) so solo rules didn’t seem like such a priority back then... Ah, simpler times...
@@crikeymiles Yeah, it's been a hell of a year, hasn't it? To think we mostly expected 9/11/2001 to be teh standout historical event in our lifetimes.