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The Road to Schaumburg, take 2

"Experiment" number 2 was double carriers. Two Relthoza carriers, loaded with 6 fighters and 2 interceptors each, form the backbone and heavy hitters of the list. A squad of carrier frigates with 4 bombers makes up the "oh shit, where did they come from?" component of the list, while regular workhorses are represented by one squad each of drone frigates, Relthoza light cruisers, and Ba'Kash cruisers with weapon shielding. We played a modified Recover Resources, mission 1 from the Schaumburg Prime Offensive primer. I like this version far better than the standard one as picking up the objective is less random, and you have to hang onto it while trying to steal any from your opponent. Still not a mission that my dice like very much, but it wasn't as bad as some other attempts at it I have tried. The intention of this list was that the two carriers would hang back, hiding under their cloaks and granting each other Stealth through the Systems Network, and fl...