Firestorm-Armada-Rulebook.pdf

BOOK CONTENTS

WELCOME

TARGETING

THE ENEMY

Line of Sight

Arc of Fire

GAME BASICS

Range

MODEL TYPES

WEAPONS

ATTACK DICE

SPACE TERRAIN

Initial Attack Dice

Modiiers to Attack Dice

GAME CARDS

Attack Dice for Flights

Types of Game Card

Hand Size

FIRING OPTIONS

Using Game Cards

Linked Fire

Card Tactics

Combined Fire

Multiplayer Games

Split Fire

GAME SETUP

SYSTEM RATINGS

Squadron Organisation

Point Defence To Hit Numbers

Escort Squadrons

Primary/Torpedo To Hit Numbers

Star Admiral

Shield Systems

Fleet Organisation

Cloaking Field

Game Length

Defensive Fire

Battle Field Setup

Deployment

MINES

Victory Condition

Dropping a Mine

Victory Points

Cascading Mines

Shields and Mines

COHERENCY

Command Distance

KILLING MODELS

Commanded Element

Damaging a Model

Out of Command

Critical Hit Table

Damaging a Flight

ORDER OF PLAY

Combat Sequence Summary

Turn Card Phase

Initiative Phase

BOARDING

Squadron Activation Phase

Assault Points

Activation Sequence

Crew Points

End Phase

Boarding Assault

Boarding Procedure

FLIGHT TOKENS

Anti-Boarding Point Defence Range

Carrier Models

Anti-Boarding Point Defence To Hit

Flights

Anti-Boarding Point Defence Damage

Weapon Stats

Resolving Boarding Assaults

Flight Formations

Winning a Boarding Assault

Landing Flights

Sabotage

Launching Flights

Boarding Assault Sequence Summary

Rearming Flights

Intercept Move

END PHASE

Flight Activation Sequence Summary

End of Game

Compulsory Actions

MOVEMENT

Damage Repair

Moving a Flight

Remove Game Markers

Moving a Squadron

Draw Game Cards

Minimum Movement

Turning a Model

MODEL ASSIGNED RULES

Proximity Vectoring

Moving Of Table

CRITICAL HIT TABLE

Fold Space Travel

Belly Up

DAMAGE MARKERS

Cut Engines

CRITICAL HIT MARKERS

Driting

GAME MARKER KEY

Collision and Ramming

MAKING WAR!

Combat Sequence

Declaring Point Defence Attacks

Declaring Primary and Torpedo Attacks

Resolving Primary and Torpedo Attacks

Defensive Actions

Apply Damage

Firestorm Armada Space Combat Rules

THE FIRESTORM

ARMADA TEAM

INTERNAL PLAYTESTING

AND PROOFING

MANuFAcTuRING

& ASSeMbly

Marin Jones

Christopher Peacey

Drew Cox

Gordon Chamberlain

Jamie Allen

Jef Henderson

George Shearn

Jack Paterson

Harriet Rhodes

Luke Marin

Andy Walpole

Neil Fawcet

Christopher Worth

Franco Sammarco

Jonny La Trobe-Lewis

Gary Bent

Ben MacIntyre

Kaie Bennet

Ricky Brewer

Stephen Rhodes

Christopher Drew

Andrew Jones

Digital Sculping & Modelling

Christopher Drew

Marin Jones

Christopher Peacey

Jonny La Trobe-Lewis

Dave Kidd

Graphics, Paining & Ficion

Paul Kime

Sally Taylor

Christopher Worth

Neil Fawcet

Franco Sammarco

Giovanni Bosio

Ben MacIntyre

Jonny La Trobe-Lewis

Andrew Jones

We would like to thank our External Playtest Groups

and our Online Community for their invaluable

feedback, all of which has contributed to making

FIRESTORM ARMADA an even beter game.

PRIMARY WRITERS

Andy Walpole & Christopher Worth

INITIAL GAME cONcEPT

Neil Fawcet

THE SPARTAN GAMES TEAM

The contents of this book are

2009-2013.

January 2013 - PDF ediion

business Management & Web

Frances Fawcet

Kaie Bennet

Gary Bent

Lizzie Wood

Ricky Brewer

Stephen Rhodes

Firestorm Armada Space Combat Rules

WELCOME

TO A WAR-TORN

GALAXY

THE RACES

he FIRESTORM ARMADA game is set far in the future

of mankind where several great races are locked in a brutal

war. Vast leets of warships, both human and alien, clash

in epic space battles with the military might of numerous

allied systems supporting them.

he FIRESTORM ARMADA setting has huge potential as

a setting for space combat, and it is a perfect platform for

using the fantastic models produced by our creative design

team in a fun game that lasts just a few hours.

he rules allow a small skirmish, involving just a few

models per side and only two players, to be played as

easily as a massive game between space armadas that

could easily contain several large Capital Class vessels,

hordes of smaller vessels and with several players per side

commanding the leets.

At the heart of the bitter conlict are two great alliances:

the Alliance of Kurak brings together the main races of the

Terran Alliance , Aquan Prime and Sorylian Collective .

To this we add the smaller, but by no means weaker, races of

Veydreth, Terquai, Hawker, Ryushi, Xelocian and Tarakians.

In addition to the core rules we have created a mechanic

that allows for the use of Game Cards, which are designed

to add a Fog of War to the game. You never truly know what

card your opponent has in their deck of cards. But then

again, your opponent does not know what cards you are

holding!

Against them is the formidable Zenian League , a pact that

was created by the Dindrenzi Federation , Directorate

and Relthoza . As the conlict escalates so more and more

smaller allied systems have either joined, or been drated,

into the League . hese races include the Ba’Kash, Kedorians,

Works Raptor and the Rense System Navy ( RSN ).

You do not have to use the game cards, but we recommend

their use as they add an exciting dimension to your game

pl ay.

he territories of all six main factions converge in a vast

stellar region known as Fathoms Reach . his area bears

the brunt of the aggressive Dindrenzi Federation attack

on the Terran Alliance . Fathoms Reach is known more

evocatively as he Storm Zone and around this strategic

and economically vital area of space numerous lawless

Marauder Factions operates, prepared to break any

agreement to satisfy their own interest, as the two mighty

rivals clash in a struggle for survival.

If you go to our website you can see our superb range of

models for FIRESTORM ARMADA and any support

material for the game, such as downloadable tokens and

templates.

– www.spartangames.co.uk –

FIRESTORM ARMADA uses the same core mechanics

found in our fantasy naval game UNCHARTED SEAS ,

and further developed in our Victorian Science Fiction

game DYSTOPIAN WARS . At SPARTAN GAMES we

wanted a game that distilled complex science into simple

game mechanics to ensure that the feel of the game relected

a ‘ cinematic ’ version of space combat.

So Admiral, you are now ready to command the forces

of one of the great galactic powers in FIRESTORM

ARMADA . Join the Dindrenzi Federation as they invade

this region of space, hell bent on the destruction of the

Terrans, or support the Terran Alliance and conquer the

invaders. he choice is yours...

his edition of the game has allowed us to improve the game,

based on the feedback of our gaming community, and work

by our game designers. It has also given us the opportunity

to include extra material that has been produced for the

game since its release in a single hardback volume.

Firestorm Armada Space Combat Rules

THE ENEMY

A BRIEF GUIDE

TO THE RACES

Welcome to Firestorm Armada , Spartan Games’ exciting

and fast-paced space combat game which is set in a galaxy

far in mankind’s future.

he Terran Alliance , knocked reeling by these massive

attacks, has now moved to stem the tide, mobilising great

armadas and armies of its own from both the Storm Zone

colonies and Terran Hub systems further to the galactic

west.

Although the Firestorm setting as we know it encompasses

a huge portion of the Milky Way, the game is set mostly in

a strategically vital area of space named the Storm Zone , a

title given it by early Terran explorers in recognition of the

region’s volatile natural phenomena. hese have long made

traversing the area a challenge.

Whole leets have been smashed and colonies razed before

the fury of the Dindrenzi advance, but the Terran Alliance

ight-back is only just beginning. Already the whole Storm

Zone has been engulfed by the Terran-Dindrenzi War , and

now that conlict will only intensify.

Today, though, the Storm Zone’s name has gained much

greater signiicance. It is the stellar crossroads between

four great alien and human empires. To the galactic north

lie the worlds of the Aquan Sebrutan , while to the south

lies reptilian Sorylian Collective . However, to the east and

west lie the most signiicant players in the region. East of

the Storm Zone , and holding nominal dominance over it,

is the vast Terran Alliance , the oldest and, in the minds of

its government at least, greatest human stellar dominion.

Such is the scale of human dominion and inluence in the

galaxy that several other great powers have been drawn into

the inferno.

he Dindrenzi are supported by the empire of the spiderlike

Relthoza , who fear the possibility of renewed human threats

to their prized home-worlds, and who also harbour a desire

for expansion at the expense of their Sorylian neighbours.

However, to the west lies the Terran Alliance’s principal rival,

the young, vigorous and aggressive Dindrenzi Federation .

Once a part of the Alliance, when their domain was

called the Terran Commonwealth , the Dindrenzi wrested

themselves away from they believed to be overbearing

Te r r a n governance in a series of wars that lasted over a

century and climaxed with the nuclear annihilation of an

entire world.

he Federation are also backed by the shadowy corporate

plutocracy known as the Directorate . It is from the

Directorate as much as their own eforts that the Dindrenzi

derive their technological superiority over their Te r r a n

cousins. Many on both sides believe the corporate dominion

to have even greater inluence over the Federation than is

acknowledged.

For their part, the Terrans have called upon their long-

standing treaties with the Aquan and Sorylian dominions,

imploring them for military and logistic aid to stem the

Dindrenzi assault, while the greater military resources of

the Hub Systems are mobilised. Both empires also have

their own reasons for committing to ight the Federation .

Although a fragile peace held for a while between the

Terrans and the Dindrenzi , today that peace has been

shattered. he Terrans , cut of from the lucrative Outer

Reach ater the break with the Federation , devoted a great

deal of resources to renewed exploration elsewhere around

their domains.

he Aquans themselves have long been troubled by attacks

from Directorate raiders, culminating in the abductions of

whole colonies, with any pursuit by their own forces being

halted at the border of Federation space by Dindrenzi naval

lotillas.

But the Dindrenzi , driven by a mixture of hubris and

paranoia, spent years building up huge stellar and terrestrial

military forces. Determined to secure themselves against

any further Te r r a n threat, they launched these mighty leets

and armies into the Storm Zone in a powerful pre-emptive

strike. he Federation’s forces attacked and destroyed dozens

of Te r r a n installations, as well as holdings belonging to the

Aquan and Sorylian empires.

he Sorylians , meanwhile, have sufered much from

Dindrenzi -sponsored pirates and privateers assaulting

their trade routes, while Relthoza leets have repeatedly

attempted to make inroads into Sorylian territory.

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