The Galaxy has been in war for years. All who have participated have suffered greatly at the hands of their enemy, but none have suffered as much as the Lazax. The Lazax have all but given up on their chance to preserve the galaxy and have turned only to themselves and the Winnuarians on Mecatol Rex. They have reached deep within themselves to think of any and all ways to stop the upcoming destruction.
No one was sure how the idea was started, but it was agreed by all members of the Mecatol council and the Lazax Emperor himself that the only way to stop the upcoming destruction was to explode the surrounding stars around them creating a barrier of supernovas.
At one the command was launched and executed to all the surrounding areas. The results was mostly unsuccessful. Only 33% of their attempt was successful. In one case they created a blackhole. The rest of the attempts only resulted in the destruction of the distant suns creating asteroid fields. One unexpected result was the explosion of wormholes that were created in the surrounding areas.
The rest of the races were enraged by what was attempted. They knew the lazax to be untrustworthy, but never would they believe they would go so far to kill billions of people to protect themselves. That was what instigated the technological great leap forward. All across the galaxy, all other industries came to a stop as science, technology, and ships were built all for the purpose of destroying the Lazax and each other.
Rules in play:
House Rules:
Will use bidding to determine location in Galaxy
Artifacts are not associated with planets, They will be claimed like trade stations.
Mech units are subjected to bombardment
All planets will contain DS counters, but they will all be green counters.
The Red DS counters on Mecatol Rex are normal PDS.
Race will start with 2 bonus tech of their choice. (Must meet prereqs)
Will start with the following laws already in place:Code of Honor, Free Trade,and Research Grant
All SO will have to do with Mecatol Rex (If I can help it.)
Standard Rules
Leaders
Sabatage Runs (though I doubt they will be used)
SE objectives (will play to 10 VP)
Race specific Tech, both SE and Shards
Artifacts
Shock Troopers
Space Mines
Wormhole Nexus
Tactical Retreats
Custodians of Mecatol Rex
Preliminary Objectives
Flagships
Mechanized Units
Mercenaries
Will use all SE Strategy cards 1,2,3,4,6,7
5 Will be Trade III and 8 Will be Imperial II
I will be using the vassal forums and module. For those of you who have not played: Information can be found here:
Afterwards you will need to download the module found here:
vassalengine.org/wiki/Module … the_Throne
Please download the 1.03 version. strangtim and I spent a lot of time together building this module. We are aware there are some mistakes. Hopefully someday we will get around to creating that bigger map and fixing the mistakes.
If your familiar with vassal you might know about logfiles. We will not be using them, I will do everything in a saved file and post it periodicallly. (maybe every 3-4 turns, more if something big happens.) you can use the saved file to update the game on your own to keep tabs.
I will be using their forums, I have not created a spot at this point.
24hour posts are suggested, will give exceptions as needed. I’ll have a map up on that forum soon so you can look at it.
I’m looking for 3-4 players. I’m saving 1-3 for people I’m familiar with. Hope to see you.
To see map, look at attachment. Join as observer.
