Another great game of X-wing last night!
This time we pitted an Imperial Star Destroyer v a Republic Venator class destroyer, both with fighter escort...this wasn't going to be pretty!
The ISD 'Heavy Breathing' came in a 334pts and the Venator 'Slave Girl fantasy' at 344pts with the fighter escort making up 160pts and 150pts respectively to even things out. Both Destroyers used the templates and rules created by sans_fi but were fitted out differently using equipment cards
2 players per side, with me and a friend playing the Imps for the simple reason my cup of tea was on the windowsill and I didn't want to move 
A few early victories went to the Rebels as the Venator blasted my Tie advanced and a couple of Tie fighters into tiny bits, the other fleet of ties commanded by captain calamity decided to fly a flanking manoeuvre taking in the local scenic spots until 'eventually' he started to draw the fire of the enemy fighters (a Y and B wing in the mix). It was a policy that sort of worked in the same way France surrended in WWII so we didn't have to fly sail as far to give the Bosh a jolly good spanking!
Things got close and dirty for a while as the fighters engaged in a vicious dogfight within the asteroid field, meanwhile both Destroyers traded devastating broadsides with the ISD coming out in a slightly better position
Meanwhile the Y wing and B wing also broke through attacking the ISD with impunity, returning fire with laser cannons and torpedoes both fighters joined the debris cloud floating around the battle field
It seemed that I was fighting this battle on my own with half of the fighter cover gone and the ISD taking a battering when finally the second group of Imperial fighters broke through and did a good job of weakening the shields on the fore section of the Venator, followed by withering fire from the ISD, it's shields buckled and internal explosions ripped through the super structure severely crippling it
In the face of utter destruction the Rebel forces decided to retreat and fight another day....Huzaaah!
No doubt, sometime in the future these two Leviathans will cross swords once again!
We allowed the two Destroyers to move using only the 1 or 2 straight and shallow turns and ruled that if you moved no energy was created that turn, seemed to work nicely as the battle progressed it became critical that you managed the energy efficiently, charging lasers, recovering shields and using various special actions
It also seemed a little unfair that the ISD would always fire before the Venator (same initiatives) as the damage these two monsters could inflict was a real battle changer so we decided to dice off each turn with the Empire winning ties
All in all a great game, looking forward to the rematch...hopefully on a bigger table!
'Two worlds collide, rival nations' as Survivor once sang...
Malek and black Squadron flying escort
Red Squadron, Blue Squadron and Dutch flying close support for the Venator
Things got close in and nasty in the Asteroid field, surprisingly no Tie Fighters were taken out by an Asteroid...shocker
