My Space Fleet is Invincible! — Let's Play Twilight Imperium Third Edition

Activate Diplomacy II secondary. Tap Rarron for three influence and throw in a counter from strategy allocation to snag Primor.

Pass on Production

Activing Warfare II's primary and placing High Alert token (+1 move, +1 combat) on Wren Terra.

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 1
Strategy Allocation: 0
Fleet Supply: 3 (+1)
Activations: 0
Total in play: 8/16

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Arc Prime – 4/0
Wren Terra – 2/1
Qucen'n -- 1/2
Primor -- 2/1 (Ground Troop Refresh)
Rarron -- 0/3 (Green Tech Spec)

UNITS (Deployed/Total)
Arc Prime/Wren Terra -- Space Docksx1, Dreadnoughtx1, Carrierx2, Destroyerx1, Fighterx3, Ground Forcesx2
Qucen'n -- Ground Forcesx2,
Rarron -- Carriersx1, Ground Forcesx1

TECHNOLOGIES OWNED
Hylar V Assault Laser
Antimass Deflectors
XRD Transporters – +1 Carrier movement

(I'm assuming that tech specialties on exhausted planets still count when I make this play.)

The Mentak will spend a strategy allocation CC to activate the Production secondary and exhaust Tequ'ran and Xxehan to build a Cruiser and two Ground Forces at Moll Primus.

Moll Primus 4/1 - 2 GF, 1 Cruiser
Tequ'ran 2/0 - Red Tech - 2 GF
Xxehan 1/1 – Green Tech - 1 GF

Strategy Allocation: 1

Edit: Oh hey, I'm being attacked. Ninja'ed, in a very real sense.

Wait! You can execute Warfare II's primary, or you can activate and send units to Dal Bootha, but not both in same turn. Separate actions.

As it is, `Hrist, you're in range to attack with everything but your Dreadnought, but without the High Alert bonus.

Once all that is figured out, you can start combat by rolling the dice for all your units, then Lucas can do the same. Take casualties, repeat until one of you is out of ships, then move on to ground invasions. If either of you want to pay pre-battle Action Cards, announce them before you start fighting.

Edited previous move.

I can just activate the Dal Bootha system on my next turn to send reinforcements there, right? I'm not eager to spend my last strategy token on this secondary.

Yeah, you can do that. Oh, and tech specialties are always in effect.

Here's the Warfare II card for whoever wants to move reinforcements around:



WARFARE II
1. Sarcasmorator — PASSED
2. Lucas — PASSED
3. Egarwaen — PASSED
4. Epithet — PASSED
5. L1Z1X Mindnet — PASSED
6 `Hrist — PRIMARY
7. Severian — SECONDARY
8. Googleshng — PASSED

Alright, I'll pass on the secondary then.

I'll activate secondary, and move both my carriers with their cargo back to my home planet.

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 4
Strategy Allocation: 2
Fleet Supply: 3
Activations: 0
Total in play: 10/16

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Darren – 2/4
Arinam - 1/2, Blue Tech Specialty
Meer - 0/4
Centauri - 1/3
Gral - 1/1, Blue Tech Specialty

UNITS (Deployed/Total)
Space Docks: 1/3
Ground Forces: 6
Shock Troops: 0
PDS: 0/6
Fighters: 4
Carriers: 2/4
Destroyers: 1/8
Cruisers: 0/8
Dreadnoughts: 0/5
War Suns: 0/2

UNITS (Location)
Darren - Space Dock x1, Ground Forces x2, Carrier x2, Fighter x4
Arinam - Ground Force x1
Meer - Ground Force x1
Centauri - Ground Force x1
Gral - Ground Force x1
Tar'Mann Space - Destroyer x1

Pass.

I guess I'll pass.

severian, you should be OK to take your turn so long as you're not attacking Egarwaen before he can decide on the Warfare II secondary.

No attacking Egarwaen this turn, though he'd better stay on his side of the Nebula...

Instead, I will activate one of my racial Special Abilities:

Once per turn, as an Action, you may place your control marker on an unexhausted Planet Card you control. Until the end of the round, its Influence and Resource values are reversed.

I place a Control Marker on Meer, which switches its values to 4 resources and 0 influence.

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Darien – 2/4
Arinam - 1/2, Blue Tech Specialty
Meer - 4/0*
Centauri - 1/3
Gral - 1/1, Blue Tech Specialty

Googleshng is up!

Cool beans. One note: That ability is once per round (a lot of the uses of "turn" on the game materials are supposed to be referring to rounds, and this is one).

If I were just the biggest jerk in the universe, I could simultaneously colonize this here planet right between me and Sarc, bringing along a fancy high tech PDS, and immediately take a potshot at his adjacent carrier, without it even breaking that nice happy trade agreement we have, and cripple him pretty badly if I don't miss. I' not a big enough jerk to do that without any warning though, so for now I'm going to move everything I have on Capha to New Albion, properly securing that system so I won't be screwed out of annexing something again next time.

Activating New Albion/Starpoint, moving Dreadnought, Carrier, PDS, and Ground Troops from Capha, and capturing.

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Jol – 1/2
Nar – 2/3
Capha – 3/0
Arnor 2/1
Lor 1/2 (Red Tech Specialty)
Starpoint 3/1
New Albion 1/1 (Green Tech Specialty)

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 2
Strategy Allocation: 2
Fleet Supply: 2
Activations: 1


UNITS
Jol/Nar - Space Dock x1, Dreadnought x1, Fighter x2, Ground Forces x2 (1 on each)
Starpoint/New Albion - Ground Forces x1 (Starpoint), PDS x1 (Starpoint), Carrier x1, Dreadnought x1
Arnor/Lor - PDS x1 (Lor), Ground Forces x3 (2 on Arnor), Carrier x1, Fighter x1

Actually, you couldn't! You can fire at an enemy fleet moving within range of your PDS, or fire into a system you've activated, but you can't activate a system and then fire out of it at other ships. Plus, PDS fire occurs before planetary landings in the activation sequence, so you wouldn't have any PDS on the planet at the firing step to do so anyway. Also, you can always choose not to fire with a PDS.

Still, thanks for not trying to do what you couldn't do anyway! Now I won't have to destroy you.

And it's my turn, now. I activate the Sumerian/Arcturus system, moving my Carrier and its onboard GF from Lazar/Sakulag there and dropping the GF on Arcturus. Since I have a ship in the system, I also take control of the Sumerian trade station.

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 1
Strategy Allocation: 1
Fleet Supply: 3
Activations: 2
Total in play: 7/16

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Jord – 4/2
Vega Major – 2/1
Vega Minor – 1/2, Blue tech bonus
Lazar – 1/0
Sakulag – 2/1
Thibah – 1/1
Arcturus – 1/1
Sumerian – 2/2, Refresh Ability: 2 Trade Goods

UNIT DEPLOYMENT
Jord space: Cruiser x1, Fighter x2
Jord: Space Dock x1
Vega space: Carrier x 1
Vega Major: Ground Force x1
Vega Minor: Ground Force x1
Lazar: GF x1
Sakulag: GF x1
Beta Wormhole: Destroyer x1
Arcturus/Sumerian space: Carrier x1
Arcturus: GF x1

Lucas is up.

I'm going to pass on the Warfare II secondary.

Mentak spies have caught wind of a Space Vampire plot to begin a campaign of extermination against the pirates and Chamberlain Shvass immediately orders reinforcements sent to Dal Bootha.

Spending one command CC (1 remaining) to activate Dal Bootha and send them the newly built cruiser from Moll Primus.

Command Counters:
Command Pool: 1

Moll Primus: No ships
Dal Bootha: 3 Cruisers

Egarwaen is up.

"Wait... really?" "Yup. 100% pure cocaine. The entire continent. And that's before we get to the fauna..." "INVADE IMMEDIATELY!"

I'm activating El'Nath and moving the Cruiser, Carrier, two Fighters, and ground force from Resculon into the system, then invading El'Nath with that single ground force. I'm also playing my Action Card, Rare Mineral, to receive three Trade Goods from the invasion.

HAND
Political: 1
Action: 0

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 1
Strategy Allocation: 1
Fleet Supply: 3
Activations: 2
Total in play: 7/16

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Muaat (4/1)
Lesab (2/1, Green Tech Spec)
Resculon (2/0)
Coorneeq (1/2, Red Tech Spec)
Velor (2/0, Red Tech Spec)
Lisis (2/2)
El'Nath (2/0, Blue Tech Spec)

UNITS
Space Dock - 1x Muaat
Ground Forces - 2x Lisis, 2x Velnor, 1x El'Nath, 1x Coorneeq, 2x Muaat
Fighters: 4 - 2x Velnor/Lisis, 2x El'Nath
Carriers: 1/4 - El'Nath
Destroyers: 0/8
Cruisers: 1/8 - El'Nath
Dreadnoughts: 1/5 - 1xMuaat
War Suns: 1/2 - Velnor/Lisis
Control Marker - Lesab

TRADE GOODS: 3

Epithet is up.

EDIT: Ah damn, I think I did that wrong. Well, at any rate, I believe everyone else now gets the option to play an Action Card, but I should have let them do so before I revealed what mine was?

Egarwaen, that is what the rules say, but I don't think it'll make a difference here. Cards have to be played at the appropriate time, and there aren't really many cards apart from Sabotage that are played during someone else's turn. I think the simultaneous reveal and order of play stuff mostly matters for battles and other situations where timing is important, like cards played during the Strategy and Status phases. A Sabotage is played after other cards are revealed, so there's no conflict there even if someone wants to deny you the goods.

Here's the latest map, with all the latest moves reflected upon it.

Googleshng, you'll notice I put your GF down on New Albion rather than Starpoint, since you need a GF to take over New Albion. The PDS went to Starpoint as you indicated. EDIT: Oh, and you retain control of Capha, of course:



Epithet is up.

Activating Vefut II, and moving Carrier x1, GF x1, and Fighter x1 to the system, and invading the planet.

PLANETS
Quinarra – 3/1
Tren’lak – 1/0
Ashtroth 2/0
Abbadon 1/0 (red tech specialty)
Loki 1/2
Perimeter 2/2
Vefut II 2/0 (red specialty)

UNITS (Deployed/Total)
Home space - Fighter x3, Dreadnought x1, Cruiser x1
Quinarra - PDS x1, GF x1, Space Dock x1
A/L/A space- Carrier x1
Abbadon - GF x1
Loki- GF x1
Ashtroth - GF x1
Perimeter space - Cruiser x1
Vefut II - Carrier x1, Fighter x1, GF x1

There's one small error on your map, by the way. I've got three fighters in my home system, not two.

OK, I'll fix that.

The L1Z1X Mindnet executes the Trade II Strategy Card.



The Mindnet has no active trade agreements, but gains 3 Trade Goods for executing the card.

THE L1Z1X MINDNET

CONSUMABLES
Action Cards: 1
Political Cards: 2
Trade Goods: 3

The Federation's trade agreements are worth 4, so under the rules of the Trade II card the humans gain 3 Trade Goods:

FEDERATION OF SOL — Sarcasmorator

CONSUMABLES
Action Cards: 1
Political Cards: 1
Trade Goods: 3

There are no trade negotiations this time around because no one else has any free agreements.

`Hrist is up.

The Mentak claim two trade goods.

Yin grabs 1 measly trade good


CONSUMABLES
Action Cards: 3
Political Cards: 1
Trade Goods: 1

The N'orr receive 2 trade goods, if I'm not mistaken.

CONSUMABLES
Action Cards: 1
Political Cards: 2
Trade Goods: 2

Space Vampires claim four trade goods

Lightning crackles on the summit of Mt. Robert Pattinson. The Space Vampire Council of Vampires hisses at word that Bothan Spies have brought word of their planned expansion to the Mentaks.

The Space Vampire's instead cast their eye toward the appropriately named Hope's End. It is activated, and a Carrierx1, Fighterx3 and Destroyerx1 are sent with Ground Forcex2 from Arc Prime to claim it for the glory of the Space Vampire Empire. +2 Movement for Carriers and Destroyer and +1 from High Alert gives them enough to reach it.

Trade Goodsx4

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 0
Strategy Allocation: 0
Fleet Supply: 3 (+1)
Activations: 0
Total in play: 8/16

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Arc Prime – 4/0
Wren Terra – 2/1
Qucen'n -- 1/2
Primor -- 2/1 (Ground Troop Refresh)
Rarron -- 0/3 (Green Tech Spec)
Hope's End -- 3/0 (Advanced Fighter's Spec)

UNITS (Deployed/Total)
Arc Prime/Wren Terra -- Space Docksx1, Dreadnoughtx1, Carrierx1
Qucen'n -- Ground Forcesx2,
Rarron -- Carriersx1, Ground Forcesx1
Hope's End -- Carrierx1, Fightersx3, Ground Forcesx2, Destroyerx1

TECHNOLOGIES OWNED
Hylar V Assault Laser
Antimass Deflectors
XRD Transporters – +1 Carrier movement

`Hrist, only the Trade II card holder gets the full value for their contracts, so you get 3 Trade Goods.

For the map, do you want the High Alert token to travel with the fleet or remain at your Home System? Also, the refresh ability is for Shock Troops, not Adv. Fighters. That's a tech upgrade, not a unit in itself.

Severian is up.

The Yins are sick of being behind the times, and letting all the other peoples snatch up the women before they can even ask them out for sodas. To remedy that, they will try to purchase some ship upgrades, in the hopes of finding the Mass Relays to find the way to the Citadel - err, Hope's End.

Activating Technology II



We will purchase some Antimass Deflectors for free, so we can see through Asteroid Fields, and some XRD Transporters for 8 resources, to ship off our Carriers in double time.

Exhausting Arinam, Meer, and Gral for 6 resources and 2 Blue Tech Specialties.

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Darien – 2/4
Arinam - 1/2, Blue Tech Specialty
Meer - 4/0*
Centauri - 1/3
Gral - 1/1, Blue Tech Specialty

TECHNOLOGIES OWNED
Hylar V Assault Laser
Automated Defense Turrets
Antimass Deflectors
XRD Transporters

Everyone can buy a Tech card if they wish. In the meantime, Googleshng is up!

The Federation of Sol will spend a Command Counter, exhaust Jord and spend 2 Trade Goods to research Enviro Compensator.

CONSUMABLES
Action Cards: 1
Political Cards: 1
Trade Goods: 1

COMMAND COUNTERS
Command Pool: 2
Strategy Allocation: 0
Fleet Supply: 3
Activations: 1
Total in play: 7/16

PLANETS (Resources/Influence)
Jord – 4/2
Vega Major – 2/1
Vega Minor – 1/2, Blue tech bonus
Lazar – 1/0
Sakulag – 2/1
Thibah – 1/1
Arcturus – 1/1
Sumerian – 2/2, Refresh Ability: 2 Trade Goods

TECHNOLOGIES OWNED
Antimass Deflectors
Cybernetics
XRD Transporters
Enviro Compensator

The L1Z1X Mindnet has no CCs in Strategy Allocation, and so passes.

TECHNOLOGY II
1. Sarcasmorator — SECONDARY
2. Lucas
3. Egarwaen
4. Epithet — PASSED
5. L1Z1X Mindnet — PASSED
6 `Hrist — PASSED
7. Severian — PRIMARY
8. Googleshng — SECONDARY, and how!