Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad

Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad
Product information
Type	Scenario Pack (PDF)
Development	Ben H. Rome
Primary writing	Nick Marsala
Pages	24
Cover Artwork	Matt Heerdt (design & layout)
Interior Artwork	Jason Vargas (evolved faction logos design) Ray Arrastia (maps)
Publication information
Publisher	Catalyst Game Labs
Product code	CAT35603
First published	21 March 2009
MSRP	$4.95
Content
Era	Jihad era
Timeline	3067 — 3072
Series	Jihad Turning Points
Preceded by	Jihad Turning Points: Sian
Followed by	Jihad Turning Points: Atreus

Description

Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad, the fourth release in the web exclusive Jihad Turning Points PDF series details the Word of Blake invasion of the Lyran Alliance's capital world Tharkad. The scenario pack contains six unique Chaos Campaign tracks that players can use to form a campaign arc that stretches from the Blakist invasion in 3067 until the planet's liberation in 3072.

As well as featuring a full color topographical map of the world, along with a printable version for use with BattleForce 2, the title includes random map tables, as well as suggested optional rules from Tactical Operations. It also has a listing of the units involved in the campaign and suggestions for which random assignment tables to use for each in addition to optional force abilities. Finally, record sheets for two unique 'Mechs and five WarShips are included.

From the Back Cover

“

THARKAD ABLAZE Seat of power for the Lyran people since 2407, the frozen shores of Tharkad have sparkled with the might of the merchant princes of House Steiner for centuries. Then came the Jihad. Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad fleshes out the details of the conflict surrounding this pivotal world published in various Jihad Plot Sourcebooks. Additionally, players can join one of the myriad of forces fighting for control—and survival—of House Steiner's seat of power. This campaign series uses the Chaos Campaign rules and gives players the option of fighting individual battles, following a campaign arc, inserting it into their own campaigns and even create their own scenarios with optional rules to give their games a "Tharkad flavor." The ebook includes a detailed map of the world of Tharkad, a run down of the forces involved in the conflict, and several tracks that players can use to run simple lance-on-lance battles, or stage up to a world-wide invasion. Only the players' imaginations are the limits.

”

Contents

• Wild Things (short story)

• Introduction

• Atlas Tharkad
  • World Map & Planetary Data Sheet
  • Planetary Information & Maps

• Campaign
  • Combatants
    • Lyran Alliance
      • Royal Guards
      • Twenty-fourth Lyran Guards RCT
      • Third Lyran Guards RCT
      • Twentieth Arcturan Guards RCT
      • First Kell Hounds
      • Thirteenth Wolf Guards Cluster (Clan Wolf-in-Exile allies)
    • Word of Blake
      • Thirty-seventh Word of Blake Militia Division
      • Fortieth Shadow Division
      • Lowbräu
  • Tracks/Scenarios
    • Sifting Through the Rubble
    • Taking a Bullet
    • New Year's Eve Massacre
    • Reasserting Authority
    • Homecoming
    • Will of Steel

• Record Sheets
  • DGR-7FC Dragon Fire Gregory
  • FNR-4A Fafnir Peter
  • Essex-class destroyer
  • Fox-class corvette
  • McKenna-class battleship
  • Mjolnir-class battlecruiser
  • Sovetskii Soyuz-class heavy cruiser
  • Tharkad-class battlecruiser

• Four page BattleForce 2 map of Tharkad

Notes

• Unlike other sourcebooks, Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad lacks an explicit table of contents. The list shown here was assembled from page headings.
• When originally published in PDF form, an error was made regarding the DGR-7FC Dragon Fire Gregory BattleMech. The record sheet found in the back of the book was printed with the wrong name. Also, the error was repeated in record sheet itself, giving it Triple Strength Myomer movement when it was not equipped with TSM.