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Hello, and welcome to Let's Play X3:TC! I'll be writing this as a narrative, with dialogue between characters being shown by a little icon showing who's talking. There'll be a glossary in the 2nd post, as most of the ship designations and the names of races will be very confusing otherwise.

Let me know if you feel the big screenshots are too big, I'm just grabbing them off steam right now, but I can resize them and upload them elsewhere if needed.

And with that, let's be off!

What's that? Aliens are attacking Earth? Good Lord! This sounds like a job for... The Army!

The Army's busy? Brilliant. Guess we'll just have to form a shadowy paramilitary organisation and fight them ourselves then, right?

What do you mean "Right.". You can't be serious. I'm not even a Military man, for Gods' sake. Stop waving briefcases of money at me. Oh. That's a gun. Fine, fine, I'll do it.

Okay, the fate of the world in my hands, check. Surrounded by incompetents, check. Let's review our assets.
Not a bad start, although I'd love to find the idiot that designed the interior. Even I can tell you that having 3 seperate entry points to defend won't go well. We'll just have to do a bit of... redecorating. There's also problems with both storage and living space, so they'll be looked at while we're at it.
Ok, now for Funding...
Our chief of research informs me we can research either Motion Scanners or Laser Weaponry. Like there's any contest.
Shortly after all this, I'm informed our small, inefficient Radar system has detected one of these Interlopers flying almost overhead. The Nerve! I dispatch Interceptor 1 and the Skyranger to follow and neutralise it. It soon lands, and we're on it.
Another UFO, this time detected by the Interceptor on CAP over America. We set a deadly air ambush and knock him out of the sky. Then we wait a few days while the Skyranger captain sits on his hands, screws up refuelling, runs out of fuel 3/4s of the way across the atlantic, turns back, refuels again and eventually arrives. Wow.
A few days pass, and I get a sternly worded letter from the Australian Ambassador. Apparently, they've been playing host to a few Alien scout craft for a week now, and feel that the 'little blighters' have outstayed their welcome. I send out the Interceptors to LRCAP the outback and vector the Skyranger over there, this time with a full tank of fuel.





This is the Human side of the Orb vs BurP multiplayer game. Apologies for the size and number of the Screenshots, it's my first go at something like this. I'll accept some weapon/loadout requests, but within reason; no more than 3 people with Heavy Weapons, 2 with Sniper Rifles and 2 with Pistols. For the proper atmosphere when reading these, set Guile's Theme to repeat. It's what I was listening to.

An interest check; Can I get 2 teams of 3-5 players each to have a game of Battlefleet Gothic, Games Workshop's Grimdark 41st Millenium Spaceship combat game. I would be playing this on Vassal's BFG mod, using (at least at first) lists of my own devising. Players give me orders as to what they want their ships to do, and I do my best to follow these orders, giving screenshots of the entire battlefield and any particularly violent parts of the battle (probably with notes added in Paint.)

4 Players would be my Minimum, I think. I want to see teams, not just 2 people playing through me. I'll give details and fleet lists when the Minimum's reached.

Newbies are welcome, as I'll be taking care of all the rules myself. If the first battle goes well, I'll consider making this a Campaign sort of thing, with a Map and more than 2 teams.