It is now fixed.

By David Cheng (Davec) on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 11:16 pm: Edit

DaveC over Greg_T
I too got the java error when trying to report the win.

My apologies to Greg for standing him up on Sunday night. I just blanked. Focusing too much on yard work before the cold weather blew in. I even wrote a note to remind myself, in bright sharpie ink, but I foolishly left it on the computer desk where I did not go all day... Doh!


Quick summary of the game.
Gorn launches an S (A) at range 20. I turn off. He turns in to follow the plasma and ups his speed to 30 to keep pace. He also launches S(B) and F several imps later.

This is not how I thought the fight would go.

However, since I am turned away, I have space to drop to speed zero over the turn break. I hear the ghost of Tim Sheehy telling me to weasel. I do. All (now 72) is real. 8 collateral to the #3.

Gorn keeps coming in. His phasers vs my fighters roll consistently horrible. He cripples 1, but Ftr 2 survives with only 6 damage to get to range 0 and do 32 points to his #2 shield.

Somewhere in there, I also shot his #6 with ph1s, rolling above average. He blocks 5, but it goes to exactly zero. The OL Hellbore hits at range 4. 14 internals gets me three 3's on the DAC, so I end up hitting two Impulse(!)

Turn 3 is a bit of a run & reload turn. But the Gorn feels pressured because I am now chasing at speed 20 with a Hellbore ready (only fired one on turn 2). He is forced to give me a down shield as he turns in to fight. I am able to mizia, and I hit with my second OL Hellbore.

We call it a night at this point.

-DC

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 07:54 am: Edit

Thanks, Paul!

Now that I think about it, I did try to submit my game win twice, so maybe the submissions got held up in error, and then both resolved at some point?

Sorry for the confusion!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 10:31 am: Edit

And there is this

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 01:20 pm: Edit

Ooh. Shiny.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 04:00 pm: Edit

At this juncture, half the first round games have concluded, three in the upper part of the tree and one in the lower part of the tree.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Friday, November 15, 2019 - 03:31 am: Edit

Great to see Sapphire Star #2 up and happening.
I have a new computer, working it out with re setting up the SFBOL, and then I should be ready and available as a wild if needed. (May your photon dice always be 1)

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Friday, November 15, 2019 - 10:31 am: Edit

Game 1.07 got through 2 turns.

Turn 1: WAX goes 31. RKR goes 31 then 19 then 31. RKR slips in and WAX slips out. At range 16 RKR lets fly enveloper from tube B, which is about to go out of arc. WAX turns in, RKR turns away. WAX can't make it to range 8 without running into the torpedo, so turns back out and runs in the direction from whence he came. RKR speeds up to 31 and proceeds to the middle of the map. WAX launches 5 drones over a few impulses.

Turn 2: WAX goes 31. RKR trundles along at 21 all turn. WAX out-runs the torp with the RKR in pursuit, and takes 2 damage on the 25th movement of the torp, both of which are blocked by reinforcement.

The RKR tractors two forward drones and kills the other 3 drones, but needs freaking 5 phaser-3s to do it due to horrible rolls. WAX launches more drones to keep the number of drones on the map to 6 (launching a total of 9 drones from 5 racks in two turns).

WAX turns and heads in the direction of the NE corner. When most of the way there WAX turns C to avoid the corner. RKR lets fly a 30 pointer (tube A) and a 20 pointer (tube C). WAX slips out and heads more towards the east side of the map, RKR pursues, trailing drones. On impulse 24 the RKR releases tractor to get behind the other two drones and fires 2*ph-3 at them (the last two), rolling 5 and 6. Both drones live.

A bit later I turn in to avoid his FA so I'm going B and he is heading D. This convinces him the S torp is real, so he unloads into it. S torp is fake. F torp hits, but it's the 15th movement so only hits for 1 damage. He also fires some phasers at me and an overloaded disrupter, rolling OK and hitting with the disrupter to take 12 off of my #1 shield. I slip in a bit, and since he had just turned D I manage to get to range 5 and fire 4*ph-1, rolling *outstanding* (5, 1, 1, 2) and doing 17 damage to his #3, all of which sticks. I also let fly an F torp from tube D.

We end the turn with him running away D towards SE corner, and me facing B, though my turn mode is satisfied. Still, chasing him will be harder next turn due to relative facings. However, the F torp will keep him running towards the SE corner for a while.

I have 1 torp hot (A tube) and 3 tubes empty. Tube B is in its first turn of arming. I still have the fake in B tube. WAX has power and drones to burn, as is typical.

Game to continue tonight, 11/15/19 7:30 p.m. CST, 8:30 p.m. EST.

By John Rigley (Crash) on Friday, November 15, 2019 - 10:34 pm: Edit

Game 1.07 over on turn 3
Turn 3 Rom is at R4 form the AUX off my #2 to his #1 . Rom comes out doing speed 21, I come out doing a fast 12. By the amount of time he was thinking I could tell ,he did something in his shorts. Imp 1 I eat the F torp on my full #2 for 15 and took it like a AUX should. He then launched his S and a fast load F. imp 2 he slip away my 6 drones gave chase. imp 3 I slip closer to him now Range 3, and did a speed change to 8 , and fired 10 p3s into the F torp knocking it down to 3. Imp 3 I turned into the Plasma eating it on my #1 for 3 internals. and he moved straight , now Range 2 . I tractor him for 2 power at this range, which he did not fight. are speed are now 13 for the Ron and 3 for the AUX. Now it became a race to the wall be for the drones got him. I used batteries to jump my speed up, to keep him off the wall and help push him into drones. He took 2 type 1 on his #4 and was about to take a other on the #4. when he conceded , knowing that I still had the HB and 3 more drones in the air.

Real good game Ted

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Friday, November 15, 2019 - 11:36 pm: Edit

That was a good game.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Saturday, November 16, 2019 - 08:25 am: Edit

Actually, the wall was not the key. I checked the tourney rules. Whether I bashed him into the wall or I bashed myself into the wall, the tractor would not be broken. It would only break if he pushed me into the wall. Once I was caught, the real key was how lucky my defensive phaser fire would be. With a bit of luck I would have ended up dealing with 11 drones with only a couple of drone hits on different shields - easy peasy. However, my luck did not hold and I just took too many drone hits.

Luck did not kill me though, greed did.

The real mistake was not to HET away as soon as I saw the slow down. Had I done so I would have taken some shield damage and maybe a few internals, but otherwise I would have been fine, trundled off, and then started lobbing plasma at a slowed down pig - and I would have had the advantage.

Greed kills.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, November 16, 2019 - 04:53 pm: Edit

2.1 bakija (THN) vs Kingzilla (RFH)

Starts Monday, 11/18, at 7:00pm ET.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 08:10 am: Edit

And by that I mean "8:00pm ET"!

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 02:14 pm: Edit

We are currently at five completed game for the first round (I have asked Paul Franz to update the data to reflect John Rigley's victory), and have three games that need to be finished by Thursday, 21 November 19.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 08:40 pm: Edit

2.1 Kingzilla (RFH) over bakija (THN)

Well, that was a disaster.

T1: I move 21/28 split, arm 4 standard disruptors. Seth moves 14/20 with something like 16 reinforcement on his #2 and standard torps. He slips away, I slip towards him. At about R13, he launches a standard S torp. I look for a place to put a web that will catch the plasma which is probably fake and also put up a firebreak. I get a web on the map, then move it all 1 hex closer, as that looks appropriate. We close a little more. Right before the web solidifies, I shoot him in the face with 4 standard disruptors, hit with 2, do 6 damage to his #1. Next impulse, I turn into R5 adjacent to the web, get 5P1 on his #1, roll weak, do about 14 more damage. I slip, and impulse 32, I end up having to move into the web. Romulan slips into R2 with a clear line of fire. I shoot his #2 with some P3s, which hit reinforcement. He shoots me with 3 bolts, 5P1, a couple P3s. S+F hits, I take 58 damage, doing 23 in after 5 battery reinforcement. I lose a few phasers, the snare, and 7 (?!?!) power.

T2: I got not much I can do here. I figure he might HET away, and if he does, I can probably catch him in a web. I plot 0 with some TACs, recharge guns, overload disruptors. I can't fire all of my guns till impulse 6. Romulan plots speed 26/25/something so he moves all the first 8 impulses. Impulse 2, he does something completely unexpected--he just, ya know, turns off, gets my web in the way of my own guns, and just gets out to R6+ before I can shoot him. I throw it in here, as I was just terrible tonight.

As is often the case, the Tholian was killed by 1. If I had put the web 1 hex further away, I was fine. If I turned an impulse sooner, I was fine. But I was off by 1, and got mangled. I probably could have kept fighting for a while, and probably made a game of it, but I was down 7 power, speed 0, wasn't going to do anything significant on T2, and was going to be fighting really, really up hill for a long time.

By Andrew J Koch (Droid) on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 12:34 pm: Edit

That Seth is cagey.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 08:57 pm: Edit

Heh. While I agree that Seth is certainly cagey, in this game, all he really needed to do was go forward and shoot me when I ended up at R2 :-)

I was dumb; I put the web 1 hex 2 close. Or turned one impulse 2 late, 'cause I had, like, 2 points of reinforcement on my #6 shield, and said to myself "Self, the web is about to be solid. The Romulan can fire 4P1 at me at R8. I'd better keep those 2 points of reinforcement facing him, in case he shoots me!", when if I had instead said "Huh. I'd better turn now, so I can end the turn still behind the web, instead of being forced to go through the web and get shot at R2, 'cause I am moving speed 28 and can't HET..."

Dumb. I was dumb :-)

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzilla) on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 09:40 pm: Edit

What a wild game, never thought the WEB would help a RFH 2x in one game. 1st with the Tholian not being able to use the web as shield so I got the alfa strike at r2. 2nd when t2 started he had to wait a few impulses to fire so I can move and us the web as a shield for me.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 07:47 am: Edit

Heh, yeah, that was terrible. I was strongly considering trying to tractor you on T2, so we'd both just be stuck in the web and at R2 all turn, and then hopefully even things up on T3. But it would have had to allocate, like, 16 power to tractors, and wouldn't have been able to actually hurt you much on T2, and if you even got, like, a single F torp and phasers on a facing shield, I probably lose the tractor anyway.

But at least that would have been better than just watching you drive away and then surrendering :-)

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzilla) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 09:00 am: Edit

I thought you would try the trac so I had 5 bats & 4 in trac. I wanted to make sure to get so distance from you.

By Majead Farsi (Devil) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 09:28 am: Edit

Devil Over Klenotic

I'm not very good at write ups but will give a summary from what I can remember, Drew can correct me :

T1- I start at 14 to approach and get 4 drones out in front of me (Drew did same speed). Near end of turn (i 25) I fire 4x standard dist missing with 1 and colouring his #1 a little. He launches both fighter.

T2- I start again at 14 with drones in front. I overload distruptors with the aim of killing the fighters asap. I worked out that I was not going to get to the fighters before they could fire so used batts to increase speed. I got to fire my distruptors at his fighters (think range 6 not sure), 1 KIA and the other only 1 x disruptor hit. Following impulse I killed it phasers. So managed to get to kill the fighters before they could fire. But as we approached he starts showing off by killing my drones with his gat. I launch another 4 drones thinking to reduce the phaser damage before he fired the helbores. well he did chew up these drones too. Then he did what I thought was brilliant and tractored me so I couldn't just run away at range 2 and kept me centre lined. I had just used up batts for speed so no defence. We were my #2 to his #1. This where he had done another chancy and thoughtful move. He had overloaded 2 of his fusions and overloaded 1 more fusion and helbore with batts I think. he hit with everything (can't remember if any phaser were in here or not) but the result was 19 internals on me and 4 shield damage all round with 1 extra on one of the back shields. He hit 1x dist, 1x drone, 2x p3 , 2x power, 1x tractor and the rest non essential. I fire what i had at his#1 and left him with 12 on that shield. On the next impulse i turned and brought my #1 facing him. This is where I thing his only error was! he kept the tractor and kept me close. If he had not, he would have won this game.
T3- I didn't know what he was going to do but did not want him to just run away. I plotted to have 3x overloaded dist, and a possible 12 in tractor. Rearm what phasers i had. Movement wise not going anywhere. He starts at 28 and I know then that he is running and with me having not plotted for high movement was going to lose him. I decided to go for tractor and if it failed just Alpha what ever I had to fire on first turn and see what I got. I managed to tractor him using batts too (so did he) and kept him close. I had time now and waited to see if he would turn and give me a full shield. He did not which suggested a serious reinforcement on the #1. I still waited to see if he would slow down at all as I could not really get to him with SS etc he was going 14 being tractored. But as we went through the impulses he started slowing down which I was happy about. I withheld fire until he slowed to 2 which was same speed i was going. Then at around impulse 24-25 I started launching SS and fired disruptor x 3 overloaded (1-5 to hit). I hit with 2 only, rolled a 6 on one ( the photon curse! was still with me!). I launched 3 drones 2 big one s and 1x standard. He used the rest of his phasers to kill them all. I managed to bring his shield down on the following impulse with a couple of p1's and p3 and then started to fire phasers every impulse to try and strip him of weapons. Altogether a had 28 internals over 3 vollies but i failed to hit a single phaser. I did hit 2x fusion and both Helbores though which kind of ended the game.

A good game (fast), Very well played Drew , other than not dropping the tractor I don't think you made very many mistakes.
Thanks

By Drew Klenotic (Tillek) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 10:00 am: Edit

Looks about right. I'm at work now so if I see anything in my notes I'll mention it later...

As for the heavies in turn 2, I was just not sure if I'd get within 8 so I di a 50%/50% and allocated 1 HB and 2 FB as overloads, and then the other HB and Fusions as regular, that way if I didn't hit R8, I'm only throwing away half the heavies (and then I used reserve to OL one of the Fusions when the chance showed itself).

But I'll post more later when I get home.

It was a good game though. You tractoring me was probably the last thing I was expecting.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 11:31 am: Edit

Majead wrote:
>>I'm not very good at write ups but will give a summary from what I can remember, Drew can correct me>>

Rule #1 for a good game write up: Tell us what ships you are in :-)

By Majead Farsi (Devil) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 12:40 pm: Edit

Sorry Peter I was in Wyn shark BB and Drew was in Hydran. A quick look at the Tree would have confirmed it too. But I'm not good at write ups

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 01:49 pm: Edit

Six of the first round games are completed, two remain to be completed (and the winners of each of the two remaining first round games will face each other in the second round) which officially starts on Friday, 22 Nov.