Operational Turning Points: Fronc Reaches

Battletech: Operational Turning Points #7

by Geoff Swift, Ben H. Rome (Project Development), Brent Evans (Battletech Line Developer)

After the Jihad, Inner Sphere border worlds were no longer easy pickings for Periphery pirate bands. Instead, they returned their attention to the Periphery’s weaker nations. The nascent military and non-existent intelligence assets of the Fronc Reaches made the young nation a particularly tempting target. Opposing them were the Colonial Marshals, who risked everything to permanently drive the pirates from their worlds, but faced vastly superior numbers. Would the campaign be the dawn of a new nation, or the twilight of the Marshals? Operational Turning Points: Fronc Reaches gives players the chance to recreate this desperate struggle for the very survival of a young nation. This campaign uses the Chaos Campaign and Alpha Strike rules in concert to allow players to fight individual Missions and Touchpoints, follow a campaign arc, or inserting the Marshals’ bold plan into their own campaigns. Included are detailed information on the worlds involved, full details of the units which took part in the campaign, an overview of the historical campaign, and several tools players can use to run historical characters and battles from this time period. The only limits are the players’ imagination!

39 pages, ebook

Published March 15, 2019

Reviews

[BrokenMnemonic · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my favourite of the Operational Turning Points series that I've managed to read so far. It has a wealth of detail on a number of planets in the Fronc Reaches, and the defence industries and institutions there, that I don't think has been published before. The tracks are interesting, with a focus on details like looting, recovering salvage and dealing with linked defences that make them look a little intimidating to run, but also satisfyingly challenging and a very nice alternative to beat the opposing unit/kill the opposing commander/seize a particular objective. It's also really nice seeing details on units that've only been mentioned in passing before, like Shen-se Tian.