Operational Turning Points: The Red Corsair

Operational Turning Points: The Red Corsair
Product information
Type	Scenario Pack (PDF)
Development	Ben H. Rome
Primary writing	Jason Schmetzer
Pages	31
Cover Artwork	Matt Heerdt (design & layout)
Interior Artwork	Jason Vargas, Matt Heerdt (evolved faction logos design) Ray Arrastia, Brent Evans (portraits) Ray Arrastia (unit logos)
First Publication
Publisher	Catalyst Game Labs
PIC	35607
Published	15 May 2010
MSRP	$7.99
Content
Era	Clan Invasion era
Timeline	3055
Series	Operational Turning Points
Followed by	Operational Turning Points: Death to Mercenaries

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Description

Operational Turning Points: The Red Corsair is the first release of the Operational Turning Points web-exclusive PDF series produced by Catalyst Game Labs. The scenario pack is based on the Chaos Campaign Warchest system and provides a multi-planet campaign about the incursion of the Red Corsair pirate band into the Federated Commonwealth during the Clan Invasion era.

From the Back Cover

In 3055, an unknown pirate menace threatened several Lyran border worlds. Known only as the "Red Corsair", this brutal pirate leader broke several militias and preyed upon her victims with no mercy. In response to ComStar's pleadings, forces from Clan Wolf and the famed mercenary Kell Hounds pursued the mysterious pirate band across several Lyran worlds to a climactic showdown deep in Clan Wolf space.

Operational Turning Points: The Red Corsair opens up the battle for players to join in the fight (as detailed in Michael Stackpole's novel Natural Selection) using the successful Turning Points PDF exclusive format. Return to a time when tensions were high along the Lyran-Falcon border, and one wrong move might spark another interstellar war!

This campaign series uses the Chaos Campaign rules and gives players the option of fighting individual Missions and Touchpoints, following a campaign arc, and inserting it into their own campaigns. This PDF exclusive includes detailed information on several of the worlds affected by the Red Corsair, a rundown of the forces involved in the conflict, an overview of the historical campaign, and several tools and tracks that players can use to run historical characters and battles from this time period. Only the players' imaginations are the limits.

Contents

• Unexpected Guests (short story)

• Introduction

• Atlas
  • Kooken's Pleasure Pit
  • Deia
  • Yeguas
  • Arc-Royal
  • Elissa

• Terrain Table
• Random Assignment Table
• The Path of the Corsair

• Personalities
  • Nelson Geist
  • Red Corsair
  • Conal Ward

• Combatants
  • First Kell Hounds Regiment
  • Second Kell Hounds Regiment
  • Zimmer's Zouaves
  • Thirty-first Wolf Solahma Cluster
  • The Corsairs
  • Kooken's Reserve Militia

• Campaign
  • How to use the campaign
  • Red Corsair Campaign (map)
  • Mission: Strike
  • Mission: Defend
  • Mission: Assault
  • Mission: Interdict
  • Touchpoint: Kooken's Pleasure Pit
  • Touchpoint: Deia
  • Touchpoint: Yeguas
  • Touchpoint: Zanderij
  • Touchpoint: Arc-Royal
  • Touchpoint: Elissa

• Record Sheets
  • BLR-1G BattleMaster Red Corsair
  • Gargoyle Conal

Notes

Unlike other sourcebooks, Operational Turning Points: The Red Corsair lacks an explicit table of contents. The list shown here was assembled from page headings.