Astra cartographica4/29/2023 Legendary Missions return in Critical Mass, this time with five missions designed to serve as the final engagements of a campaign phase. For obvious reasons I’d recommend replacing these with GT Missions from the 2021 pack if you’re planning to go this route (they’re just better missions with more balanced secondary objectives), but the principle here is the same, with each tree/phase ending in a Legendary mission from Critical Mass. The Matched Play Mission trees do the same thing but give you Matched Play missions from the Core Rules. Fortunately, they provide an empty page example to copy and fill in with your own tree campaigns. These are decent, and offer some interesting branches, but it would have been nice to see more variety here. The Crusade Mission trees use the missions from the Core Rules and include escalation options, and each phase culminates in a Legendary Mission from Critical Mass. One of the more useful features of this book is that it provides players with a number of pre-built campaign Trees using both the Crusade and Matched Play missions. Octarius campaigns in Critical Mass are organized like those in Rising Tide, though this time with a specified 5 phases of 3 rounds each (as opposed to the indeterminate number in Pankallis). At the very least, this will give many campaigns three sides to participate in multiplayer FFA battles like those outlined in Catastrophe. Where they do intersect is that unlike the two factions (Attackers/Defenders) introduced in Rising Tide, Critical Mass brings back the third faction of prior books, replacing Raiders with the more thematically named Agents of Disruption. While previous campaigns have had some ties, albeit mostly tenuous, to the Crusade books released simultaneously – Rising Tide had rules for fortifications while Containment had rules for Planetstrike using them, for example – Critical Mass campaigns don’t have much to do with the multiplayer rules in Catastrophe. As with the previous campaign books, Critical Mass has its own rules for running campaigns in the Octarius System.
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