Gratuitous Federation & Empire

 "We are coming for your Starbase, and this time we mean it!" - message from Klingon High Command to the Federation, Spring Y175. Both sides have been preparing for this major encounter, and the relative fleet strengths tell their own story: This is the Federation 3rd Fleet, led by the CVA Napoleon (underneath the admiral counter). And this is the Klingon Eastern Fleet. You can make out the CVA group Vindicator , but that isn't all there is. Underneath there Admiral's counter is a very large surprise - the newly completed B10 Battleship Invincible . I am really looking forward to the campaign for this Starbase; I've never seen a B10 on the tabletop before.

 This is the current situation, after the Coalition attacks in the spring: The Federation has committed substantial forces to this front in order to keep communications open with the Kzinti capital. The CVA Zhukhov  is constantly engaged with Klingon forces, the idea being for the Federation to bear the brunt of it all. The Klingons have just recaptured Lumien, while the Lyrans are consolidating their hold on the remainder of what used top Kzinti space.

 It is now Spring Y175 and there are some glimmerings of hope - or at least, no sense of impending disaster. The Federation has committed substantial forces, including a CVA group, to our mutual front against the Klingons, and it seems as though the Coalition has reached high tide point in their offensive. They are still dangerous, of course, and continue to occupy the majority of our pre-war territories, and the Lyrans decide to press the point by mounting another attack on our homeworld region. They are doing so without any aid from the Klingons this time, since the Boneheads are preoccupied with the combined forces of the Federation Fleet and our Marquis Fleet, but this is a typical instance of Lyran aggression. On their own they will not be able to conquer Kzintai, but they probably still have enough power to devastate the military infrastructure on several of our man planets before they are fully recovered - basically, this is an economic strike. Count R'rorash is placed in ch...