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SCENARIO: EVACUATION

by NATE MONTES

Another scenario which features merchant ships and transports strongly.

This time a threatened planet is evacuated, and the Imperial defenders

must try to stave off the attacking ﬂeet to protect a motley collection of

vessels. See Nate’s following article for details of these merchant ships.

BACKGROUND

As word spread that enemy forces would soon

overrun the world of Guidus Prime, ships of all

types began a completely disorganised large-

scale evacuation of the planet, leaving with

whatever provisions they could and usually

either virtually empty or badly overloaded with

passengers. The meagre ﬂeet contingent under

Captain Johannes Victor and the overtaxed

orbital defence network did all they could to

prevent lone merchantmen from departing the

system and dooming themselves to certain

capture by pirates, vile Orks or Chaos vessels.

As the renegade fleet approached Guidus

Prime and knowing that reinforcements would

not arrive on time, Captain Victor decided the

time had come to evacuate the planetary

government, vital planetary assets and as many

other ships as possible rather than lose

everything in a hopeless battle.

The ﬂeet contingent departed the system with

nearly twenty transports, including the vast

ﬂeet tanker St Helena , the stellar liner Via

Lactis , various Q-ships, two heavy transports,

well-armed Galaxy freighters and swift clippers.

The august captain found his hands full. Some

of the ship masters were old and retired

Imperial ofﬁcers itching for one last glorious

ﬁght, and others were cowardly and already

panicking. Keeping the evacuation fleet

together would be difﬁcult.

FORCES

Attacking Forces. Attacking forces are

randomly generated. To determine the total

strength of the attacking forces, make D3+3

rolls against the table below.

D6 Roll Result

1 One attack craft counter.

2 Two attack craft counters.

3 A squadron of escort ships worth up

to 100 points.

4 A squadron of escort ships worth up

to 150 points.

5 A squadron of escort ships worth up

to 200 points.

6 One cruiser, heavy cruiser or

battlecruiser worth up to 210

points.

Defending Forces. The defending force gets

up to 200 points worth of transports. The

defending convoy must include at least 10

transport ships, but can include more. It

cannot inlcude more than three ships of the

same type, except for normal transports.

The transports can be either

normal transports (worth

10pts each for this scenario),

as listed on page 114 of the

BFG rulebook. Any of the

ships lised on page 19 of Warp

Storm can be used for the

points cost given, or any of

those listed in the Merchants

ships of the Imperium after

this scenario can be included.

The defender may also choose

up to 300 points of ﬂeet ships

to protect the convoy.

Even if assembled in squadrons, all transports

and civilian vessels must individually roll for

leadership, they suffer -1 leadership, and they

must roll for special orders and against

leadership separately.

BATTLEZONE

This scenario is set in the inner biosphere

region as the convoy is leaving the system, with

celestial phenomena placed normally. Because

they have already left the vicinity of Guidus any

roll that produces a planet should be treated as

nothing.

SETUP

The convoy is already assembled in formation

as it leaves the system, but because it is so

large, it takes up a lot of area. Because the

attacking player is still approaching in-system

as the convoy tries to escape, it sets up on

either side of the long edges of the table within

45cm of the table edge and no farther than

60cm from the short table edge opposite the

convoy’s entry point. Both sides are aware of

each other as they come into sensor range.

FIRST TURN

The defenders have the ﬁrst turn.

SPECIAL RULES

All the special rules described for the Convoy

scenario on page 74 of the BFG rulebook apply,

with the following modiﬁcations.

Transports cannot successfully disengage

unless they travel off the opposite table edge

because enemy ships will have sensors closely

tracking them.

Q-ships do not have to be identiﬁed as such,

and they do not have to be revealed until they

are ﬁred upon. Q-ships have no transport

value.

At the beginning of each defending players turn

after the second turn, the defending player

rolls a D10, with the results as listed on the

following table. Except where noted,

transports affected by table rolls automatically

45 cms

60 cms

45 cms

pass leadership. The defender may select the

ship or ships that are affected by the results

table each turn. However, the ship inﬂuenced

by the table is affected for that turn only. Which

ship is effected is the defending player’s

choice.

D10 Roll Result Table

1 PANIC! All transport ships go All

Ahead Full. Roll for leadership for

each ship separately with no re-rolls.

2 A fast clipper panics and goes All

Ahead Full.

3 A fast clipper panics, comes to new

heading away from the closest enemy

formation and travels full distance.

4 An armed freighter turns towards the

nearest enemy formation and travels

full distance to engage.

5 The transport convoy maintains

formation discipline and follows your

commands.

6 A transport and a Q-ship turn toward

friendly escorts and move full

distance to help engage the enemy.

7 Two transports and a Q-ship turn

toward friendly escorts and move full

distance to help engage the enemy.

8 A transport has engine trouble and

can only move half distance for one

turn.

9 Two transports have engine trouble

and can only move half distance for

this turn.

10 The transport convoy maintains

formation discipline and follows your

commands.

GAME LENGTH

The game ends when the last transport leaves

the table or is destroyed.

VICTORY CONDITIONS

Victory Points can be tallied normally for

crippled or destroyed ships. In addition, the

points value of each transport that leaves the

opposite table edge can be added to the

defender’s tally.

MERCHANT SHIPS

OF THE IMPERIUM

EXPERIMENTAL RULES by NATE MONTES

Nate originally wrote these rules to add character to his Evacuation scenario, so

his evacuating ﬂeet could be a ragtag bunch of different ship types, but the rules

will be just as useful in any game of BFG involving convoys. What we liked about

them was that they cheerfully allow BFG players to utilise some of the old Space

Fleet miniatures as alternative merchant vessels and to equip pirate ﬂeets.

FAST CLIPPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 pts

Extremely fast vessels for their size, fast

clippers utilize improved main drive engines

that take up more than half of the vessel’s total

mass. Most of the power from these

engineering plants is directed to propulsion,

these ships are virtually unarmed and rely

solely on their great speed to keep them out of

trouble.

Famous ships: Upsalla Menander

TYPE/HITS

SPEED

TURNS

SHIELDS

ARMOUR

TURRETS

Fast Clipper/1

30cm

90°

ARMAMENT

RANGE/SPEED

FIREPOWER/STR

FIRE ARC

None

Notes: Fast clippers are very lightly armed and cannot be used as Q-ships. High-performance

main engines allow them to move +5D6cm on All Ahead Full special orders. They have half the

capacity of a standard transport and suffer –1 leadership. Its planetary assault transport point

value is 1. These ships can substitute strength 2, range 15cm left/front/right dorsal weapons

batteries for a –5cm speed reduction at no additional cost.

The Upsalla and the Menander are two of the

most famous vessels of this class and though

they lack the transport capacity of standard

Imperial transports, on ﬁve separate occasions

have been cited for bravery in successfully

running the blockade of St Jowen’s Dock by

Orks during the Armageddon War, bringing

some desperately needed provisions and a ray

of hope during dark and foreboding times.

Imperial Fleetlords have commissioned their

shipwrights to build some of these vessels for

Navy purposes, with minor modiﬁcations to

make them more suitable for military use.

Note: For fast clippers I use unmodiﬁed old

Games Workshop Spacefleet Thunderbolt

cruisers.

GALAXY CLASS ARMED FREIGHTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 pts

Galaxy class armed freighters are an ancient

transport design dating from the very

founding of the Imperium. Radically

different from and for the most part

replaced by the much higher-capacity

Imperial transports, these vessels retain a

much more substantial weapons ﬁt than the

ships that replaced them, since they were

originally designed for a time when

interstellar space was much more hostile

before the great crusades.

Famous ships: Dyenna’s Pass

TYPE/HITS

SPEED

TURNS

SHIELDS

ARMOUR

TURRETS

Escort/1

15cm

45°

ARMAMENT

RANGE/SPEED

FIREPOWER/STR

FIRE ARC

Dorsal Weapons Battery

30cm

Front/Left/Right

Notes: Galaxy class ships are a design radically different from current Imperial class transports

and are considerably better armed, but they can only transport half the capacity. They are

restricted to +3D6cm when under All Ahead Full special orders and suffer –1 leadership. Its

planetary assault transport point value is 1. (+40 points): One or more can be modiﬁed as Q-

ships when operating in large groups.

With the Imperium besieged on all sides by the

enemies of mankind and the Imperial Navy’s

fleets thinly stretched, there has been a

resurgence in the use of these vessels, as

merchant guilds seek to protect their cargos.

The strength of the Galaxy class was aptly

demonstrated when an unescorted convoy of

these vessels was intercepted by a six-escort

strong pirate band in the Adventium sub-

sector. Retired Imperial Navy ofﬁcer and Ship’s

Master Horatio Braun of the Dyenna’s Pass

skillfully directed the lumbering transports to

ﬁght off the rogues for nearly a week for the

loss of only two Galaxy transports. The convoy

was eventually rescued by a Space Marine

escort squadron responding to distress signals.

Galaxy classes are a favorite of various pirate

bands throughout the galaxy, because they

combine a sizable cargo hold with a strong

weapons ﬁt.

Note: For Galaxy freighters I simply use old

Games Workshop Spaceﬂeet Castellan Shield

ships. The statistics shown above are those

listed for Armed Freighters in Warp Storm p.19.

TARASK CLASS MERCHANTMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 pts

Used by the Imperial Navy, the Adeptus

Mechanicus and countless trading guilds,

planetary defence forces and pirate ﬂeets for

millennia, the Tarask class merchantman is a

stout, versatile and dependable little vessel

with a spacious cargo hold (for its size) and an

innate simplicity of design and maintenance.

Easy prey for Ork pirates and renegades

throughout the galaxy, they have sprouted

numerous variants and been subject to endless

modiﬁcation in the ongoing battle to stay one

step ahead of the pirates and deliver their

cargos to their destinations.

Famous ships: Priano

TYPE/HITS

SPEED

TURNS

SHIELDS

ARMOUR

TURRETS

Escort/1

20cm

45°

ARMAMENT

RANGE/SPEED

FIREPOWER/STR

FIRE ARC

Dorsal Weapons Battery

30cm

Front/Left/Right

During the interdiction of the Ruis system, a

merchant transport flotilla led by the

merchantman Praino was set upon by an Ork

Kill Kroozer attempting to pick them off one by

one. Undaunted, and in an amazing show of

courage, Ship’s Master Paris turned his vessel

to and sped off at full speed to ram the massive

Kroozer amidships. Though her ship was

destroyed in the process, the Kroozer was

badly damaged and was unable to come to bear

upon the remaining transports before the

escort squadron arrived to drive the crippled

vessel off. The suicidal act earned Paris a place

in the vast Chamber of Heroes in the Imperial

Palace on Terra.

Note: For Tarask Merchantmen simply use old

Games Workshop Spaceﬂeet Stalwart Escort

ships.

GOLIATH CLASS FORGE TENDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 pts

Goliath class forge tenders are

light cruisers typically operated by

the Adeptus Mechanicus and have

been contracted by guilds, military

units and planetary forces to

perform maintenance repairs on

remote outposts and merchant

vessels throughout the Imperium

for endless centuries. Despite

their size they only have the

capacity of a standard transport.

Famous ships: Pontifex Ironika

TYPE/HITS

SPEED

TURNS

SHIELDS

ARMOUR

TURRETS

Cruiser/6

15cm

45°

ARMAMENT

RANGE/SPEED

FIREPOWER/STR

FIRE ARC

Port Weapons Battery

15cm

Left

Starboard Weapons Battery

15cm

Right

Dorsal Weapons Battery

15cm

Front/Left/Right

Notes: Goliath class ships repair 1 damage point after being in base contact with another ship

for one full turn (including itself) if not crippled. It has the capacity of a standard transport. It

suffers –1 leadership and is restricted to +3D6cm when under All Ahead Full special orders.

This ship has no planetary assault transport point value.

Their large crew of servitors, extensive

machine shops and maintenance facilities

enable these ships to quickly repair damaged

ships.

Today Goliaths are relatively rare, but their

services are always in great demand, and

occasionally one will be seen in the company of

a large Imperial armada or Space Marine force.

Intelligence reports indicate that some of these

vessels, crewed by heretic tech priests survive

to this day within the Eye of Terror, but the

existence of these vessels bearing the foul taint

of Chaos has not been conﬁrmed.

Note: For Goliath class forge tenders I simply

use old Games Workshop Space Fleet Goliath

repair ships.

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