Siege of Tortuga - Dystopian Wars Battle Report

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The Italian Admiral's Garibaldi continues! While they negociate a treaty with a Covenant warlord that would bring the Praetorian Guard in line with the rebels, a massive Empire force converges on the rebellion's main base, Tortuga, to crush it! Bringing along some Alliance loyalists, the siege will test both forces to the limit.
Will the Empire/Alliance combined force manage to break the peace talks between the Praetorian Guard and the Italian Rebellion, while destroying the main pirate fortress in the Southern Pacific? Or will they be repelled, thus allowing Garibaldi to call upon the entire might of the Praetorians to help liberate Italy from Napoléon's grasp? Watch here to find out!
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00:00 Introduction + Explaining the scenario
03:55 Empire Fleet - Vengeance Fleet Omega // Siege Force
05:20 French Fleet - Expédition de Maintien de l'Ordre // Siege Force
06:23 Italian Fleet - Garibaldi's Rebels // Tortuga Defenders
08:36 Covenant of Antartica's Fleet - Praetorian's Emissary // Tortuga Defenders
09:23 First Turn
22:19 The Antartica's Aerial Armada Arrives!
25:15 Second Turn
37:23 The Second Zhanmadao drops on Tortuga!
40:40 The Fall of Tortuga
42:12 Debriefing / Opinion on Empire/French
44:11 Debriefing / Opinion on Italians/Covenant
46:44 Conclusion
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[@MrLemonbrick]

I loved the ship and the tables you play on great terrain with painted ships makes for wonderful battles

[@kuvuta]

Always love watching the Italians. Absolutely my favourite subfaction

[@stephenschneider3521]

You have taught me a lot about how to appraise the game rules and house rule things I like and don't like. This makes the game much more fun for a casual player. Thanks.

[@Bootskum1]

y'all keep pumping these out! keep it up! I've been really enjoying them!

[@shandius194]

Fun to see an Italian fleet

[@calumpowalisz-trochlell5869]

Awesome to see the enlightened aerial units on the table

[@lordcypher7922]

Just starting out as an Italian player, so loved this battle report. Plus contemplating starting an Empire fleet. Thank you.

[@Westenmensch]

Soo excited to see an actual Japanese fleet led by the Generator-generater-generatest-monster-vessel-of-doom in full action :)

[@sgtwolf0053]

This was a fun battle, and great board set up too! Would love to see more and more stuff like this going forward for sure!

[@wildanimalvids]

Love your videos been introduced to dystopian wars in the last month or 2 and started with the union starter set. Love to see some more union games from you as I learnt so much from watching your games love the content keep it coming 😁

[@toddebert6276]

Great looking ships! I always appreciate the story behind your battle reports.

[@nekomatafuyu]

Those are some beautiful fleets.

[@LordofMyOwnMind]

i really liked the amount of terrain in this battle meant a lot more manoeuvring. plus as always two beautiful fleets

[@jirga_jirga]

Absolutely love that terrain. Ships are lovely too of course. :)

[@mathieusicard2749]

cool to see some ships from V2 ! Great game and brutal saucers !

[@ropeany1]

very fun looking battle. Lots of surprises with the dice in this one which makes it even more fun

[@Bootskum1]

Also really like your campaign storylines!

[@user-kd4eb7py2v]

The terrain is beautiful

[@melniborne]

Superb map and models guys.

[@painting.for.my.sanity]

A great BatRep, as ever

[@MrJones-xl5df]

Very cool to see all the different factions, especially the Empire.

[@loveandwargames]

Indeed! We try to get a lot of variety each BatRep 😊

[@azogtheuglee4889]

That Saucer Swing goddam

[@thomashodson-cottingham3733]

great battle report; lots of carnage

[@albericcqrlic4883]

Alliance... Alliance everywhere !

[@dimitrihenry5183]

La peintures des japonais est vraiment cool.

[@paulhunter3028]

Nice one :)

[@PaulHunter-ob7br]

Great :)

[@cameronw6981]

Really interesting battle report

[@loveandwargames]

Thank you!

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

That's a lot of blue in the empire fleet lol

[@riccardosipone8565]

Italin will seek revenge!!!!

[@joeward6576]

Great looking terrain! How many hours did it take to playout this scenario?

[@loveandwargames]

Thank you! We spent about six hours at the shop, but that including setup up, recording, lunch, a break, lots of discussion and banter around the table… so I’d say about 2 hours of actual gameplay :)

[@badgerskullpainting3772]

Needs more imperium ;)

[@jaszko9715]

I wasnt there of course but the zhan ma dao seems a bit over tuned