I have E-mailed the tree and schedule to the players.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 03:20 pm: Edit

There are four Gorns, three Klingons, three WYNs (combined, two Black Sharks and one Aux), two Hydrans, a Fed, a Kzinti, an Andromedan, and an ISC.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 07:12 pm: Edit

No Tholians. No Romulans. No Lyrans.

Interesting.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 - 01:39 pm: Edit

NOTE: One of the issues with Sapphire Star III was that an E-mail address did not work, and it turned out the opponent of that individual accidentally listed an incorrect E-mail address. The email addressed that I have provided and am using are (as they were previously) those that were part of the sign ups. If anyone is having difficulty contacting an opponent, let me know. Do not wait a week trying.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 08:23 am: Edit

1.07

bakija (GRN) vs Zero_G (ZIN)

Scheduled for Friday, 4/17, 7:00pm ET (or Saturday 4/18, 9:00am Australian time).

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 09:43 am: Edit

I am free to be a replacement

By Mike Johnson (Akira) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 10:14 am: Edit

1.03. Cadet_Stimpy (GRN) vs Akira (ISC)

Game underway, we have completed five turns. Shields on both ships are in rough shape. Some internals scored on each side with a high ratio of power and weapons hits. My gunners in particular have been careful to minimize damage to Stimpy’s freshly-painted hull.

Next session TBD.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 11:30 am: Edit

MadJack (WBS) VS Kingzilla (Hydran)

Very short summary and mostly without detail:

T1- I load 3 overloads & 1 Standard, hold 2 sui's and make 18 moves. My plan is a range 8 shot killing the fighters. I think he has standard hellbores and makes about 26 moves. I end up getting WAY too close turn 1 (range 3) off center. I roll good and kill the fighters with just overload disr and take 24 off his shield 6 with phasers. He hits with everything and rolls up on phasers. I took like 15 internals'ish on my #6. I lost a couple p3, 1 disrupter, a couple power. No drone racks.

T2 - he works on running. I HET to get behind him and try to keep up. He is moving like 27 moves all turn. I shoot a few phasers at his #5 and he shoots a few phasers at my #1. We both only did about 10 points of shield damage. End of turn I have 6 drones on the board.

T3 - He works on running even more. I thought he might park and weasel so had a couple overloads ready. He runs - I shoot the overloads and they both hit his #4 for 12.

T4 - I don't know if he is running again like crazy or maybe will want to fight. I am behind him at maybe 12 hexes. I haven't been able to charge very much as I have been trying to get to him and using almost everything for speed. I make 17 moves and have only 1 overload. I charged phasers and batteries so am at least doing better that way. He parks the first half of the turn and weasels the 6 drones. I am not really in a good position to shoot not having more disr ready. I start thinking maybe he overloaded the hellbores too so I turn out and head towards the upper left corner of the map. I end up literally in almost the top left corner hex. He speeds up to 14 and we end up like 14 hexes apart. He does not discharge overloaded hellbores unfortunately. I launch 4 drones imp 32.

T5 -
Ok he is going to be able to sit on me this turn if he wants to bad enough. He will however have to make his way through 8 drones to do it. I go speed 8 so the drones can get out there. He goes speed 14. We all move a little and he rolls terrible killing the 4 drones with p3's. I cried for him a little. He moves to range 8 and is not in my FA. I am trying to protect my #1 from phaser fire as long as I can in case I have to chase him again. He fires just 2 overloaded hellbores and only hits with 1 (thank goodness). I had reinforced my very hurt #6 so took no internals and still had batteries. He speeds up to speed 20 and HET's to range 9 when I don't move. We both move the next impulse but are still range 9 but now he is in my FA. I had a speed change planned that I made happen sooner with batteries so I would move to range 8, me on his 12 point #4. I fire 3 overloads and 6 p1. Roll great for the first time in my life and did about 20 in. Got a hellbore on the 1st internal and a Gatling phaser because most of his phasers were out of arc. I think I also got 4-5 power. I am behind him with 1 drone on the map. It is going to be very difficult for him keep me off his #4. He gratiously concedes here.

Great very difficult game.

By Richard Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 11:34 am: Edit

When you said he parked, did he go speed 0? If so, he could not go to 14 later in the turn.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 11:47 am: Edit

He did a 9/4/14 split thing turn 4.

By Richard Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 12:01 pm: Edit

Thank you.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 03:37 pm: Edit

So he moved through the parking lot at a slow pace without actually parking

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 06:55 pm: Edit

Andy Koch:

That is why officer Taylor issued him the violation citation.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, April 17, 2020 - 09:16 pm: Edit

1.07 bakija (GRN) vs Zero_G (ZIN)

We got through 2 turns.

T1: I move 15/17/24 (18 moves), Kzinti moves 26/20/26 with 4 standard disruptors. We just go straight, slipping towards each other a bit. We get to about R12, and I launch my off side enveloper and slip away a bit. He gets to R8 from my #6, shoots me with 4 standard disruptors, 2P1's. Hits 3/4 disruptors, does 9 damage after 4 reinforcement shows up. He turns off, I turn in. He launches 4 medium drones as I close in. I ID his drones and kill them each with a P1. He sees I'm getting closer, so the HETs directly north (he's A, I'm F) and runs towards my North wall. We end at about 8 hexes.

T2: I move 17/24, he moves 26/25/23, speeding up to 26 on impulse 27 (I'm pretty sure that was a battery). He runs North, I chase. He eventually turns East as I close in. He fires a couple P3's at the enveloper and it evaporates before it hits him. He gets right against the wall. At R6, I launch my right side F torp and fire a couple RS P1's at his #3, doing 2 damage. He slips towards me so he doesn't hit the wall, I turn East. He launches 4 hast drones and shoots my #6 for 7 more damage with a couple P1s at R5. I launch my facing S torp (standard) and I hit him with an F bolt and 4P1's for 23 damage. He uses a couple batteries to keep his shield up at 1 box. I HET in the opposite direction (E) and run from his drones. He keeps slipping away from my incoming plasma. His fast drones catch up, so I tractor 2 of them and shoot the other two down with P1s (all IDed as I's). Right before he misses a move and gets pasted in the 1 box shield with a plasma torp, he speeds up to 26, allowing him to evade the plasma till the end of the turn by turning away. Impulse 32, I have an S and F torp directly off his #4. He shoots up the Plasma S with a bunch of P3's. We end at R16, him directly against the North wall facing B, me in the West portion of the map, facing E. I have a couple fast drones in tractor beams. He is about to be hit by potentially 23+5 plasma damage on impulse 1 on his #4.

I have 16 damage on my #6; he has 23 damage on his #3. He has used 4 medium and 4 fast drones.

We'll continue in the near future.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, April 19, 2020 - 09:10 pm: Edit

1.07 bakija (GRN) vs Zero_G (ZIN)

Three more turns in.

T3: We started at range 16, him against the N wall with an S and F torp about to hit him, me running in the other direction. I move 16 all turn, keep two fast drones in tractor. He moves 15/26 with no armed disruptors. Impulse 1, the S and F hit him, but the S is fake. The F does 5 damage, finds 2 reinforcement, does 3 to his #4. I shoot down his two tractored drones with a couple P3's (rolling good enough), and just run towards the W wall the whole turn. He turns around, launched a shuttle in the middle of the turn, it is the SP, which opens and launches 6 speed 20 drones. We end the turn at about R12, me close to the W wall.

T4: I move 12 all turn, he moves 26 for a few impulses, slows down to 20 for most of the turn, speeding back up to 26 late. He comes in a bit, but seeing me at speed 12, fires 4 standard disruptors, hitting my #3 for 6 damage (2 hits at R9+) and turns off. I pitch out an enveloper from Tube B to encourage him to run away the rest of the turn. He runs from the enveloper, I just turn and come about near the W wall. Late in the turn, the enveloper hits him for 2 damage (woo!). We end at about 15 hexes, his 6 drones 3 hexes from my ship.

T5: I move 4/14 (on 8). He moves 20, speeidng up to 26 late. I weasel his 6 drones on the map, avoiding collateral damage, turn on my AFC, and speed up to 14 on impulse 8. He comes in some, shoots me in the face with 2OL disruptors and 3P1's for 15 damage to my #1 and evades the rest of the turn. He launches 4 speed 20 drones and a mystery shuttle. I kill his shuttle with a tractor, it shoots me for 4 damage on my #2 as it is about to die. His drones end up at R1, I ID them all as I's, kill them all with P1s on impulse 32.

We end the turn at R8, me facing A, him facing F, me out of his L arc on his #5. His shields are 30, 29, 1, 21, 23, 30; mine are 15, 24, 18, 24, 24, 15. He has used his SP and launched 12 (type I) drones, including 4 fast, and is down a shuttle and has the spent SP shuttle still on the map. I have probably S, F, F armed this next turn, and am down a shuttle.

We'll continue some time this week.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 12:53 am: Edit

Cadet_Stimpy(Gorn) over Sir_Akira(ISC) in a closely fought 11 turn slugfest. At completion, Gorn had zero shield boxes left, zero phasers left, but 3 torps (1 repaired) & enough power to arm an EPT & tac it into arc to explode the ISC.

Very fun match & very close the whole time. I think that's the first time I've taken 5 ppd shots (including an overload) & still came out victorious.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 11:39 am: Edit

I am going to kill Brian Wednesday this week...Err sorry, Freudian slip there. We are PLAYING Wed at 1 pm eastern...

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 02:21 pm: Edit

So far, everyone has contacted their opponents and games have been scheduled (and three completed), so we are moving along very well.

Thanks to you all.

By Ronald J. Brimeyer (Captainron) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 02:46 pm: Edit

I tried to report my lose, but it says my callsign is not valid?

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 04:24 pm: Edit

Maybe there is a typo in your call sign in the tree, which happens some times?

It's got you as:

captainron

Which may or may not be your actual callsign? Nope. Just checked player search, and captainron is you.

I got nothing.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 07:47 pm: Edit

Game 1.05: AdmiralDZZI (GRN) vs. Andromedan (AND)
Date/Time: April 21, 2020 7:00pm EDT

By Ronald J. Brimeyer (Captainron) on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 08:02 pm: Edit

Steve, Put me in the replacement pool.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 01:41 pm: Edit

So far half of the first round games have been completed.

By Dana Madsen (Madman) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 10:27 pm: Edit

Game 1.01 truthamador (GRN) vs madman (KLI) is at end of turn 7. We'll finish up by Saturday.

I've kept my speed up most of the game, tried to stay out of range 5 and inside 10 unless I turn and run from a big torp. He's bolted once on T6 for a S-torp hit, I've mostly ran out the rest of the launches for minor damage and used my first weasel on T7. So I've only shot 8 disr all game, mostly power to speed and phasers and recharging batts after speed changes. Launched my scatterpack early and then the rest of the drones over the next 5 turns mostly to harass him, take some phaser shots and slow him down.

Adam (GRN) is down his #2 and #6 shields plus a couple pts to others. He has taken 30 internals in 6 volleys. 8 power, 8 weapons. 5 phasers and 3 plasma. He's fixed 2 ph-3 and a f-torp. End of T7 he is 5 hexes from me and moving away with no torps ready next turn.

I've lost my shield #4 and #5 plus a handful to the #3. I've taken 22 internals in 5 volleys. Used no repair yet. I've lost 6 power plus 3 batt, 4 weapons but 2 of them were empty drone racks. So I'm really only down a ph-3 and a disr. I'm at speed 0 end of T7 under emerg dec restrictions for another 6 impulses.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 08:24 am: Edit

1.07 bakija (GRN) vs Zero_G (ZIN)

We are planning to continue on Thursday, 4/23, 7:00pm my time (Friday, 4/24, 9:00am his time).