Hi Folks :)

Rebellion is one of my all-time favorite games, both mechanically (I think they picked up a lot of good ideas from Master of Orion) as well as thematically (I'm a fan of the old SW Expanded Universe).

I've started doing a challenge run where I limit myself to only using one of the two: playing as Rebels and only using characters, no battles. I have ideas for doing a "battles only, no characters or special forces" run as well, once I finish the current one.

If you want to check out how it's going, there's a bunch of recorded videos out already in this playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdyTWLFZyc8MGc8m1GpLDHNfoYFMCzqpI

And here's a direct link to the first video:

https://youtu.be/dPj-E28VwFQ

Be advised, the first few videos had some technical problems, and I was also still getting the hang of the whole thing, because these are streamed on Twitch and then uploaded to YouTube. New episodes come out weekly, every Tuesday around 18h CEST.

I hope you check out the videos, and if you have any advice for playing the game, or for recording it, let me know! :)

P.S. When I went to the forum to post this today, I saw the thread about the new patch allowing widescreen, etc. I'll try and set that up for my second run.

Episodes 7 and 8 are out now:

https://youtu.be/l5H8BZKqqLw

https://youtu.be/di738dferyA

I continue training up Luke's Padawan, exploring the Outer Rim and fortifying the core sectors. I also slowly realize that I don't have much of a strategic plan and I start thinking about one. The Corellian sector is still problematic. I've set up keyboard macros for some functions so my gameplay is becoming smoother at this point.

Soooo, it's been a while, and Episodes 9 through 17 are out, and a lot has happened!

The Empire took control of the Corellian sector and so far we haven't been able to recover any systems there.
Luke has met Vader and learned of his heritage.
Our characters have become crazy strong due to constant missions we've been running and we're able to Incite uprisings on Imperial planets pretty reliably.
We continue to harass Coruscant, to little effect.

You can watch it in this playlist on the By Pen and Paper channel:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdyTWLFZyc8MGc8m1GpLDHNfoYFMCzqpI&si=GdbbpntjKyJG-7it


But, things are about to change in the next few episodes.........

New episodes come out weekly, every Tuesday around 18h CEST :)

Well, all 20 episodes of my first run with the Rebels are out, and you can watch them in the new playlist :)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdyTWLFZyc8MQQcXmg4J2G49PJ1Nkm769&si=kipv7DheVDPl9Yy2

I managed to win in the end, mostly because a lot of my characters got insanely overpowered by doing a lot of missions. Luke basically knocked out an entire Imperial Fleet!

I'll start my next run soon, where I will play the Empire and I will use Military only, no Characters and no special missions :)