Re: [SG] boarding action inspiration

JDoch226@aol.com asked:

>Can anyone suggest some books that would provide inspiring
>descriptions of boarding actions (as I work on my 25mm starship deck
>gameboards)?

"The Fleet" series of anthologies (edited by David Drake and Bill
Fawcett) include several boarding battles. My favourites are Gary
Gygax's "Pay Tribute to the Fleet" (in "The Fleet") and its sequel
"Battle off Dead Star 31" (in "Breakthrough"), but there are several
others as well.

"Crusade" by David Weber and Steve White uses boarding combat as a
rather major plot device.

In the Honor Harrington series (also by Weber) there's the Masadan
takeover of the ex-PNS battlecruiser in "The Honor of the Queen", the
assault on the Blackbird asteroid base in the same book, the prisoner
breakout in "In Enemy Hands" and the capture of PNS Krashnark in
"Echoes of Honor". None of these are "proper" boarding battles, but
they feature a fair bit of serious small-arms combat in ships or other
space installations.

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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