The scenario 2 matchups are now deeply buiried in this thread, could that info be put into the part at the top. Ive lost the Hydrans email.

I guess he's got to do the solo scenario first so Ill watch for that and schedule when he has time.

By Christopher M Schrader (Eastcoastfolk) on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 07:26 am: Edit

Declassified Communications Intercepts Y174

From: Maltodextrin, Director of Alien Contact Maltodextrin

To: Disodium Inosinate, Minister of Security

Subject: BEST staffing

I have received approval from the Department of Isolation for all of the preselected Bureau of Alien Contact staff for this operation. Apparently Iron Oxide has obtained additional assurances from the Assembly that has removed some of his concerns over “contamination”. Corundum and the operation staff he has selected are preparing to depart for the operation staging area and will integrate with the commanders and communication staff assigned to the DD's and Freighters tasked to BEST.

Maltodextrin

By Troy Latta (Saaur) on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 04:12 pm: Edit

-=MEMORANDUM=-
The Drexari must be protected.
Enemy vessels now 3.29 hours from engagement range. Enemy felinoids positively identified as "Kzintis."
Directive: Exterminate.
The Drexari will be protected.
-=MESSAGE ENDS=-

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 04:23 pm: Edit

Communication from DD Squadron Cats Glory to Kzinti Patriarch.

Our first task to escort several freighters ended in failure.
The Xorkian Emperor has assigned the 2nd task, a battle with a Drexian fleet.
We currently have them on radar and expect to make contact in about 3.02 hours.
Will advise on progress.

End Communication

By Josh Driscol (Gfb) on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 05:01 pm: Edit

May the ECM drones stay with you Frank.

But the Drex have never been a very friendly sort, so good luck.

By Troy Latta (Saaur) on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 10:38 pm: Edit

Note for the future:
No matter how bad-ass you think you are, don't try to overrun an equal BPV Kzinti squadron.

By Kenneth Jones (Kludge) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 02:34 am: Edit

Sorry been really strapped for time. EVERYONE is going on vacation and a slow week has been 3 12hr shifts.

Add in the 110 degree days and... Well it hasn't been pretty.(It has been smelly.)

By Troy Latta (Saaur) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 10:45 am: Edit

Haven't added up victory points yet, but I lost two ships, the third disengaged with light internal damage, but not nearly crippled.
Frank lost his DWL and one of his DDs took a good chunk of internals. I doubt it was to the crippled point yet, though.
Remind me: what are the rules on re-purchasing destroyed ships?

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 01:38 pm: Edit

Can we get some more info, sounds juicy

By Josh Driscol (Gfb) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 02:09 pm: Edit

The question on the tip of my tongue, how do the Drexari taste Frank? Yeah, id probably have the prisoners in a marinade, first class M planet you pass you can have a barbecue with your Drexari captives.

I think one ship can be replaced free, not sure about the other lost ship. That will learn you not to mess with the Kzin.

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 02:22 pm: Edit

Battle between Kzinti and Drex is over with Drex losing 2 ships and the 3rd ship disengaging and Kzinti losing the DWL.

T1 saw both fleets approaching, Kzinti at speed 20 and Drex at 12/11/12.
We got to R22 ish end of turn and Kzinti fired disruptors while Drex held their fire.

T2 the fun starts !
Drex plotted 19/20/19 while Kzinti plotted 12/21 with the intent of launching a SP on 2.1 which I forgot to do and hauling the shuttle back in on T2.10. I did launch the SP on imp 3 so decided to just let it go and deal with the immediate threat, the Drex !


I quickly found out that Kzinti DID not have the EW advantage as I first thought.
These Drex can get up to 10 EW for a cost of 6 power !
YIKES !!

I then decided not to play EW games.


Long range fire from Drex on imp 11 blew up the SP launched on imp 3, just before she popped !

Both fleets closed to knife fighting range and started blasting away.
Drex shot at the DWL and blew her up over 2 imps with about 70 internals to go.
An overkill shot.
The 2 Kzinti DD's took BES damage on their # 4 as I knew the DWL was toast so I issued the order for it to be folloiwng the 2 other DD's.

Kzinti blew up a BD over 2 imps ( BD was forced to move forward with a downed shield so I chose to fire with just enough weapons to blow her up ).
The 2 BD's took BES damage on their # 4 as well as Troy issued the same orders for the doomed ship to be following in the rear.

At R2, Kzinti launch 4 drones targetted on 2nd BD and 3 hit after Drex fired phasers at the drones.
That left 1 BD left and she turned away but not before Kzinti getting 6 internals through the # 4, 4 F Hull and 2 A Hull.

DD Minotaur has 13 internals, dis A, BRDG, Aux, ph 3 # 4, DRN 1, 2 F Hull, 1 A Hull, trac, imp, 2 L warp, 1 R warp.

No damage to DD Unicorn.

Drex also shot down 8 drones and 1 shuttle.
I think we can use CDR x 3 for repairs ?

Not sure what Bpv the Drex ships are at.
Troy tells me the fleet is at 324 so I am guessing each ship is worth 108 Bpv ?
Some thing about a CASE refit as well ?


Great fun.
Throughly enjoyed playing Troy !
He was very patient with me in explaining Omega rules !
Very weird stuff !


Thanks for the game Troy !
If I missed anything Troy, please correct me.

Cheers
Frank

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 02:25 pm: Edit

Mike,
I suggest fleets start at R30.
Troy and I were at opposite corners at R50 !

Maybe have 1 fleet R15 from center and 2 hexes to the left and other fleet at R15 from center and 2 hexes to the left as well.

We used map size 42x30 but I now seem to recall map is 50x50 ?

Cheers
Frank

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 02:26 pm: Edit

Josh,
Drex has a strong metallic taste !

By Mike Johnson (Akira) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 03:33 pm: Edit

Troy- you can replace one ship absolutely free. Any others will cost you victory points equal to their BPV.

Frank- map is 42x30, and yes you get all shields, contorl spaces, scanner, sensor, and damcon back plus 3x damcon of other boxes for free. You could also use one of your repair/resupply actions to fully repair one ship for no victory point cost.

Holy #^%$ you guys really laid into each other!! Gonna be interesting to see what the squadrons look like in scenario three- could be a bunch of cripples limping after each other!

By Troy Latta (Saaur) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 03:46 pm: Edit

-=MEMORANDUM=-
The Drexari must be protected.
BD 1194 escapes with easily-reparable damage. CPU notes glimmers of observed organic reaction, designation: "shame".
Freighter convoy intact, mission remains.
Directive: Dispatch BD 2914 via repair/resupply. Unit already has CASE refit. Dispatch BD 3419 via purchase. Cost: 106 VP.
False "shame" emotion circuits purged.
The Drexari will be protected.
-=MESSAGE ENDS=-
OoC: The two you dispatched totaled 215 BPV, Frank (106+109).
Summary covered it all, but you forgot the fun bit where you sped up to run away from your own ECM drones.

By Josh Driscol (Gfb) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 03:50 pm: Edit

Frank your not supposed to eat the Drex, I belive its the Drexari that are edible. They may well have a metallic taste, thank you from us all for welcoming them to the alpha quadrant properly.

If somebody could prop the Hydran up for just a few hours I could give him concordium justice.

Ive not word from him on scheduling.

Not saying that he's given up, but Mike what happens if you cant get your opponent to schedule with you. Will an alternate be assigned, and is there any deadline for phase 2?

Im undamaged but with Hellbores in my future that probably won't continue into round 3, but these are good destroyers.

By Mike Johnson (Akira) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 06:08 pm: Edit

Josh- I'm using a loose schedule of one scenario per month. If we get close to the two month mark I'll condider the options, up to and including a forfeit.

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 06:43 pm: Edit

Troy,
Yep, I forgot about that part, me cleverly speeding up to leave my ECM drones behind !

Thing is, the speed plot was plotted !
I have no idea why I did not move at 20 instead of 21 !!

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 07:56 pm: Edit

Francois wrote:
>>The 2 Kzinti DD's took BES damage on their # 4 >>

What is "BES damage"?

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 08:08 pm: Edit

BES is basic Explosion Strength.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 08:18 pm: Edit

Ah. Ok. I've never seen it referred to like that.

By Francois Lemay (Princeton) on Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 02:48 pm: Edit

Mike,
I will use rule 6.3 and completely replace my lost DWL.
Will call it DWL Gryphon 2.

I also will use 6.0 and resupply my fleet.

DD Minotaur will use DAMCON x 3 to repair the following systems; Dis A, DRN 1, 2 L warp, 1 R warp, imp.
This leaves BRDG, AUX, ph 3 # 4, 2 F Hull, 1 A Hull and trac still damaged.

I get the following VP for Kzinti.
215 for killing 2 Drex BD's plus 25% VP for the disengaging Drex BD (109*25% = 27.25 ) plus blowing up 4 shuttles ( 4*2*100% = 8) for a grand total of 250.25.

Hope I did this correctly ?

Cheers
Frank

By John M Ledbetter (Daltwisney) on Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 09:08 pm: Edit

Sorry, The Hydrans are here, just a little preoccupied. I will try to get my solo scenario done early this week, and then we can set up our 'meeting' with the ISC.

By Josh Driscol (Gfb) on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 02:53 pm: Edit

Hi John, I understand been buisy also.

I have the displacer scenario finished, and am ready to meet the Hyrans, when your finished with the first scenario send me an email and we will setup a time.

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 03:57 pm: Edit

Fred is having PC problems, will play when he gets them figured out