The first draft of the rules that would become Sword of Terra, written nearly a decade ago, included the following rules for boarding actions: Boarding An Enemy Ship In order to board an enemy ship you must be within 1” of the target. You then decide how many of your marine points you wish to allocate […]
This is part of a series of posts to expand the options for the beta version of Sword of Terra and reveal more of the game’s setting. Decades before the Great Colonial War, the colony world of Azure was quarantined in response to a virulent pandemic and then abandoned by the United Terran Systems. The […]
This is part of a series of posts to expand the options for the beta version of Sword of Terra and reveal more of the game’s setting. The rampant lawlessness of far flung star systems was used as a justification for Earth’s Unification War that resulted in the formation of the United Terran Systems, but […]
This is the second in a series of posts I’m planning to expand the options for the beta version of Sword of Terra and reveal more of the game’s setting. Following the Sonoran Declaration, the leaders of the newly formed Confederation of Free Colonies knew that they desperately needed to strengthen their naval forces. While several former […]
This is the first of several posts I’m planning to expand the options for the beta version of Sword of Terra and reveal more of the game’s setting. In the decades leading up to the Great Colonial War, the admiralty of the United Terran Systems Navy was focused on the idea of laser weapons superior to more traditional ballistic cannons. […]
I think I have the core rules for my space ship combat game, Sword of Terra, in a pretty good spot right now, so I’ve decided to post a playtest version so that other people can start trying out the game. You can download the playtest pdf here and a pdf with blank tokens here. […]
