The Captain's Game

Several exercises to test the candidate's skills using a real ship
before confirming promotion to a captain of the list.	All damage
carries over, but optional repairs can be undertaken; roll 1 beam dice
(open ended), this is the amount of damage repaired minus 1 for every
system you repair. (No damage control between battles.)
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Training Ship 'Kobyasha Can-do'
Mass: 44
FTL: Std
Main Drive: 6
Damage Track: 13; [oooo/oo*/ooo/oo*]
Firecontrols: 3
Pulse torpedo (F)
Class-2 (AP/FP/F)
Class-2 (F/FS/AS)
Class-1 (6-arc)
2 x PDS

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Challenge 1: Gunnery Range (can be run as a solo game).

Setup: 8 beacons are deployed as a slalom run.	Each beacon has 1 hit.
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30 MU
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The captain starts speed 10, 10 MU from the centre of the 'gate' & has 5
turns to destroy all 8 beacons.
It is possible to simply burn down the centre & rely on gunnery, but it
only takes 1 miss to fail.  The more common tactic is to 'slalom' from
one side of the course to the other, maximising weapons.

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Challenge 2: Rogue Asteroid (can be run solo)
Terrorists have sent an armed asteroid on a ballistic course towards an
inhabited planet.  Your mission is to destroy it before it impacts on
turn 6 . 
Setup: Your ship starts 40 MU away on the opposing vector (the planet is
8MU behind you) at speed 8.
Asteroid stats: Speed - 8.
Mass: 25, Strong hull, Hits: 10; [ooo/o*o/oo/o*]
Weapons: Firecon, Class-3 (6-arc), Class-2 (6-arc), Class-1 (6-arc),
PDS.

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Challenge 3: Hammer & Anvil (2 or 3 players needed)
You have been ambushed by 2 enemy frigates running silent.  Destroy the
enemy, while minimising losses.
Setup: 2 frigates (any frigate from FTFB) are deployed 25 MU on either
flank, crossing your 'T' (90 degrees to you own course) at speed 8.  You
are at speed 8 also.  There is no time limit to this scenario, but you
must survive it.

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Challenge 4: Scrambled Eggs.
This challenge is simple.  Survive your own promotion party!

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'Neath Southern Skies
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They seek him here, they seek him there;
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That damned elusive, Pimpernel.
	- 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Emma Orkzy