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Takiro

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Battle of Nyserta
« on: August 28, 2017, 11:49:45 PM »
A year ago today, my friends (Matt, Jeremy, Gus) and I restarted our BattleTech Tabletop gaming with an alternate take on the Third Battle of Nyserta. Briefly mentioned in the Diamond Shark section of the Invading Clans Sourcebook this conflict seemed to be an easy ‘layup’ for a Ghost Bear Clan ticked off about the whole invasion went. But what if it was not? The scenario I am about to detail to you is another intriguing possibility of things that could have happened in the Mechwarrior universe. Allowing me to radically expand on a conflict not given that much attention was like setting up a giant bunch of dominos only to have them knocked over. Plus, it had been a good long while since we had gotten together for such a large-scale action involving seventy-five BattleMechs. Still that was only one-eighth of the total forces committed to battle between the five armies which did battle. The scope was daunting but the whole affair did convince me that such events were plausible even if the reasons given for the deviation are paper thin at best. I hope you have as much fun reading and discussing this tome as we did playing everything out. Hopefully it will be the first of many. Enjoy!

1. Changing Tides (Conversation between Star Colonel Jonathon Clarke of Omega Galaxy and Angus Labov)
2. Labov's Sacrifice (The Merchant Factor's capture on Star's End and the revelation of the Two Rivers Star League Cache)
3. Planetary Information (Nyserta World Info)
4. Cache Fever (Pirates, bandit hunters and mercenaries arrive intent on seizing the Cache)
5. Honeypot (Ghost Bear decision to attack the Cache and not land at the Trial site)
6. Siege of Two Rivers (Diamond Shark defenders are assailed by four different attackers)
7. Omega Solution (Two Clusters from this Second Line Galaxy arrive from the Trial site to deal with the aggressors)
8. Accounting (The final results of the battle leaves Diamond Shark strengthened and Ghost Bear angry)
9. Apex Predator (Jonathon Clarke challenges Ian Hawker's leadership of the Clan)
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Re: Battle of Nyserta
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2017, 07:35:30 AM »
Is the covered food dish the Two Rivers Cache?
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Re: Battle of Nyserta
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2017, 08:18:27 AM »
Lol, no Abele that was my Mech carrier. Hard to carry 75 minis all at once. :)

I do have larger versions of those pictures but didn't know if they would have fit.

The Cache or rather the corner of the cache is represented by the city scape map. I figured the Star League Supply Depot located there would have been somewhat hidden by the terrain as the Corps of Engineers was fond of doing.
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