Author Topic: Historical: Liberation of Terra (Read 4535 times)

Blacknova · « **on:** 19 May 2011, 14:49:03 »

This was on the Catalyst Twitter this morning.

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Waking up to an outline for the two volume Historical: Liberation of Terra sourcebooks...ah, now that's how to start off a day! rnbg

Very early days, but at least now we know it is being thought about.

I am Belch II · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 May 2011, 15:00:25 »

Would be really neat!! HOpefully a Warship list, at least numbers of types of ships, if not some more names.

SteelRaven · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 May 2011, 15:03:59 »

"You will fight to the last soldier, and when you die, I will call upon your damned souls to rise and speak horrible curses at the enemy!"

Cyc · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 May 2011, 15:11:59 »

Hmm...Two books for Terra alone or two covering the whole liberation of the Hegemony and Terra?

Skyth · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 May 2011, 15:19:41 »

How which time Terra is liberated are we talking about?

Kerensky taking it back from Amaris?
Comstar capturing it?
WoB Capturing it from Comstar?
Stone Capturing it from WoB?

Blacknova · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 May 2011, 15:24:50 »

From recollection it is Kerenskys campaign against Amaris, as both the WOB attack and Stones have been detailed already and the campaign of Blakes was pretty limited in comparison.

TigerShark · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 May 2011, 15:53:38 »

Can't wait.

Got cash set aside for this monster.

Wrangler · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 May 2011, 16:09:03 »

Yeek gads, two volume....I didn't even think that this thing was still kicking around the pipeline. Glad to see its moving along, there hadn't been much talk about it.

I wonder what heck going be in a two volume set? Periphery Uprising and then the Liberation?

TigerShark · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 May 2011, 16:28:22 »

Quote from: Wrangler on 19 May 2011, 16:09:03

Yeek gads, two volume....I didn't even think that this thing was still kicking around the pipeline. Glad to see its moving along, there hadn't been much talk about it.

I wonder what heck going be in a two volume set? Periphery Uprising and then the Liberation?

The book will probably focus on the "Liberation" of Terra, but I would expect that the naval battles preceding the ground fighting (which occurred throughout the Terran system) will be analyzed as well. There's a reason we haven't seen the stats for the Caspar M5 drones!

Also, I'm hoping that there will be some sort of "imperial" 'Mechs available to the Rim Worlds / Amaris Empire forces on Terra. It's obvious that the wealth of technology that the Hegemony hoarded was now available to the occupying army. They had over a decade to create new designs (including the Behemoth, which never made it past the prototype stage) to combat the SLDF juggernaut. I really look forward to what they come up with!

LastChanceCav · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 May 2011, 16:30:24 »

I hope one volume details the conquest of the RWR, and another the assault to pry the core worlds from the Republican forces, culminating in the invasion of Terra itself (or some combination there of).

Cheers,
LCC

Wrangler · « **Reply #10 on:** 19 May 2011, 17:19:25 »

Quote from: LastChanceCav on 19 May 2011, 16:30:24

I hope one volume details the conquest of the RWR, and another the assault to pry the core worlds from the Republican forces, culminating in the invasion of Terra itself (or some combination there of).

Cheers,
LCC

I hope your right LastChanceCav, the Periphery least according to the ye old Star League sourcebook had mentioned that Armais had raised star league size divisions go raise holy cain to rally entire SLDF to go after them.

It will be interesting how it will be filled out, i hope we get some lost missing designs in these books.

Nebfer · « **Reply #11 on:** 19 May 2011, 18:00:33 »

I think it would be reasonable to think that book one would be leading up to Terra, while book two is the invasion of Terra and it's aftermath.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #12 on:** 19 May 2011, 18:40:22 »

Like many I'm hoping for a list of warships involved! And here's hoping its the entire campaign written out, from Amaris blowing Camerons head off to Kerensky calling for the Star League forces to go into the Periphery to escape the Successor Lords attempts to subvert them.

Blacknova · « **Reply #13 on:** 19 May 2011, 19:12:00 »

I would love to see a list of WarShips involved, but it is likely not going to be feasable.

There were 972 ship slated for the strike on Terra, with likely many more arriving after the inital asault. Although the SLSB (page 91) does not state what the numbers of WarShips to JumpShips was, there were likely hundereds of WarShips involved, not counting Caspar Drones and any RWN vessels that had survived that long. We might get lucky and get a listing of class and numbers, but it would be one hell of a job to name nearly 1,000 ships.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #14 on:** 19 May 2011, 19:16:41 »

I have faith the Writers are up to the challenge of naming a 1000 warships. If nothing else it might give them a chance to have a little fun and name warships with funny names once more.

Blacknova · « **Reply #15 on:** 19 May 2011, 19:22:44 »

Oh, they are up to it, especially if Kit is let anywhere near the project. Question is, does Herb have the patience to wade through 1,000 pop culture references?

Hellraiser · « **Reply #16 on:** 19 May 2011, 19:31:46 »

Given the scope of the periphery fighting, then the conquest of the RWR, then the invasion of the Hedgemony, and finally Terra itself, and the aftermath....yeah, I would say 2 books is needed for sure.
Just look at what the 4th SW Atlas involved and that took 2 books.
The Wo39 got a full single book and involved a lot less fighting.

Honestly, I DON'T want to see a warship name list.
If anything I might like to see the 402 surviving ships so we have a starting figure for the clans.
But naming the SLDF fleet is a bad idea IMHO, it limits our options for the eventual inclusion of other classes of ships.
What if we had named them all when only 2750 was around? Then we would be out all the lovely designs that arrived w/ 3057R. No, until TPTB decide to never create a new class of warship for the AoW/SLDF era, I'm quite okay NOT knowing the name of every ship to enter the Terran system.

Blacknova · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 May 2011, 20:01:47 »

Good point

Demos · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 May 2011, 20:15:13 »

Yay. Good news!

I also think that the first volume covers the occupation of the RWR and the re-capture of the TH, with the second volume centered on the assault on Terra itself. Maybe some additional campaign rules/campaign tracks, and a mini-TRO (Caspar, anyone?)

A naming of the Fleet is not necessary. Why so? If some funny names are needed, they could be included in the text.

mikecj · « **Reply #19 on:** 19 May 2011, 20:27:27 »

tagged for review.

2 Volumes- awesome!

mbear · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 May 2011, 05:46:01 »

And just to pump fuel on the fires of speculation.... From Facebook:

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It's always been two volumes...just the attack on Terra alone still remains the single most massive battle in BT history...and then you've got the entire Hegemany Campaign...then the Rim Worlds Campaign...then the Periphery uprising...and to do it in Historical-style details, with campaign rules and deployment tables...no possible way you could do it in 1 volume unless it was SO size...just better to do it as two. ;-)

But notice that the first comment from Randall says an outline, so it's probably a long ways off.

JPArbiter · « **Reply #21 on:** 20 May 2011, 06:22:49 »

Quote from: I am Belch II on 19 May 2011, 15:00:25

Would be really neat!! HOpefully a Warship list, at least numbers of types of ships, if not some more names.

Random assignment tables and painting guides for the Rim Worlds Republic Military!!!!

Weirdo · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 May 2011, 06:58:32 »

Remember, a fleet list would likely only be a list of the ships involved at the Battle of Terra, which still leaves plenty of room for future ships that simply weren't present for that(either destroyed prior to the attack, or left behind to guard their rear areas, or somewhere else entirely. And of course, there's plenty of room during the rest of the Star League's history for other ships, ones that were retired or destroyed sometime in the two centuries before the Amaris Coup.

On the other hand, a complete fleet list is still highly unlikely. I will still be very disappointed if we don't get at least a couple dozen new class-and-names, and every class or name that doesn't have an accompanying name or class(respectively) will also be a disappointment.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 May 2011, 07:18:23 »

Maybe they should do three books and shoehorn in even more background info, I know I'll buy three books if the did them.

Dragon Cat · « **Reply #24 on:** 20 May 2011, 11:08:14 »

Awesome two more books to buy!!

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Author Topic: Historical: Liberation of Terra (Read 4535 times)