This will take place at 21:00 (9:00 PM) GMT tomorrow (Sunday, June 7).
For those of you unsure of when that is in your timezone, at the time of this posting it is roughly 22:19 (10:19 PM) GMT. Here's a website that tells you the time in GMT: www.greenwichmeantime.com
As for the event itself, here's what will happen.
The BPA are transferring prisoners from Newgate Prison in Manchester to Planet New London for trial. Amongst those prisoners is a certain Lt. Austin Goodmen, accused of treason for stealing artifacts from Cambridge Research Station and giving them to Das Wilde agents, in return for the promise of a reprieve in attacks on Bretonia. While initially scoffing his efforts to recover the powerful, active artifact they are interested in, Das Wilde has since changed its mind and would like his help in securing it during the super-special-awesome-event I have yet to finish planning.
Anyway, the prisoners will be loaded aboard a Prison Liner and escorted by three or four BPA fighters- note "fighters" rather than "bombers". They aren't expecting any trouble (at least not from Das Wilde), the last known interaction between Lt. Goodmen and Das Wilde being them laughing at his failure to acquire the right artifact, or even ask for the right thing in return. The will proceed from Newgate around the asteroid field to the tradelane juncture at Birmingham Station, and take the tradelanes to New London. From there, they will follow the tradelanes to Planet New London where they will arrive at their destination.
However, somewhere along the Manchester route, Das Wilde will make a run for the transport. They will have a gunboat and three or four fighters- the gunboat will engage the prison liner, while the fighters occupy each other. This being a more or less scripted event to "advance the plot" as it were, the Prison Liner will not use shield batteries or nanobots, and when it is down to a quarter of its health or less it will be temporarily disabled. At that time, the gunboat will move up to the liner, take aboard some of the prisoners (including Lt. Goodmen) and withdraw. The remaining Wilde fighters will withdraw with it and cover its retreat, if necessary.
As you may have noticed, this event is designed for a Das Wilde strategic victory. That's the point- we could have just wrote about this, but it's more fun like this. However, as the gunboat and prison liner will be engaging only each other (unless BPA fighters attempt to pursue after it withdraws- not a smart move, if I may say so), the BPA has the potential to win a tactical victory by destroying some of the Wilde fighters.
Feel free to ask questions, that's what this thread is for.
EVENT SUMMARY:
21:00 (9:00 PM) GMT, Manchester System.
BPA Escort Group leaves from Newgate Prison, skirting the edge of the asteroid field and heading toward Birmingham. From there they take the tradelanes to Planet New London. The Das Wilde Strike Team will attack during the Manchester section of its route.
BPA Escort Group:
1x Prison Liner- Note: Will not use b/b during battle, will be disabled when it nears 1/4 hull integrity
BPT)Stockade (Jovial)
3-4x BPA Fighters (Hussars I presume, but if you use Paladins or something those are fine too)
BPA)Brian.McNabb - Paladin (Ors)
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Das Wilde Strike Team:
1x Rheinland Gunboat
Wilde.RNC-Henkersbeil (Johann Brunhild)
3-4x Das Wilde Fighters (Wraiths, although there may be some oddballs)
Wilde.Hektor.Schneider - Wraith (Sovereign)
Wilde.Eselin - Odin (Eselin)
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Victory Conditions:
Das Wilde Complete Victory: The prisoners are secured, all Das Wilde forces escape the battle and the BPA fighters are routed or destroyed.
Das Wilde Strategic Victory: The prisoners are secured, the gunboat and at least two Das Wilde fighters escape the battle.
Das Wilde Strategic Victory, Tactical Loss: The gunboat escapes with the prisoners, but one or no Das Wilde fighters escape with it.