Im not seeing any stranded fleets, which do you mean?

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 07:19 pm: Edit

Oh, that's my bad - I thought that the fleet in 1101 wasn't able to retrograde.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 04:18 pm: Edit

A4 is done. A few minor skirmishes, nothing really noteworthy.

The alliance pulls back to the capitals (a few ships are at EXP SB and an FF is in 1801). The Hydrans set up a small reserve offmap (and a larger one in 0617 which will just get pinned), the Kzinti put two small reserves (51 total compot offmap).

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 04:18 pm: Edit

*Lyran C5 Eco.

*Survey roll: 9. New total = 40 + 9 = 49 (2 provinces explored).
*Starting treasury: 16.8 - 24 (Field repair on C4) = -7.2.
*Income: 115 (base) + 4 (explored) + 1.6 (8NZ) + 3 (provs 0701, 0803, 903) + 1 cap min(1202 Zimdars) = 124.6.
*New Treasury: 117.4 EP.
*Used two CP on C4.

*Production (0408):
10 BC
10 STT
15 3CW
12 3DW
7.5 3FF (404 608 408)
0 CP (now have 6 - 2(C2) + 1 = 5 CP)
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54.5

*Overbuilds:

*Repairs:
1.5 (408) CL
18 (1407) 2C8 2BC 2CC 2Cw
5.5 (1411) CW 2DD 2FF
2 (0109) DD SC
2 (0212) DD FF
2 (0413) CC
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31

Conversions:
6 0408 CL->BC
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6


Homeless ships paid for:
Klingon 9 (on C4):

*Total spent: 91.5
*Treasury: 25.9 EP.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 04:25 pm: Edit

*Add one EP to Lyrans (didn't give them one for Zamyan (1001) ).


*Klingon C5 Eco.
*Survey roll: 7. New total = 17 + 7 = 24.
*Starting treasury: 0.8 (DBB adjustment below).
*Income: 142, 6FFF +2 (exploration) + 10 EP (5 Kzinti 5 Hydran cap provs) +2 (min 1105 Zelkrat 1506 Zursk)+ 5.8 (29NZ hexes) = 151.6.
*DBB C4-A4: -4.8
*New Treasury: 157 EP.

*Production (0408):
5 B10 (4 + new roll 4 = 8).
9 C8
5 D5 (sub D7)
10 D6M(sub)
53 2D5 D5V(6FFF) 6AD5
24 6F5E (one in 1716, one in 1509).
7.5 3E4
0 CP (now have seven CP).
7 Activate 2D6 2F5 3E4.
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120.5 EP

Repairs:
18 (1407)
2 (1307)
2 (1507)
1.5 (1013) D5
1.5 (1214) D5
2 (1011) 2F5
6 (0914) D6M 2CW
2 (1415) 2F5
1 (1107) DD
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36

Conversions:

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Total spent: 156.5.


Treasury: 0.5 EP.

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 08:08 pm: Edit

The Klingons sent 14 ships to ensure that the Marquis' area is cut off from the offmap. Too much for me to send my reserves to. On the bright side, the fight in the capital is very even without the defenses (85 SE (516-578) plus 91 fighters vs 100 SE (606-638) plus 36 fighters), so depending on how much I direct and how much I'm willing to cripple I should be able to hold it another round, especially as I still have 3PDUs and a SB. He does have 3D6M, so it might be pretty close.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 08:43 pm: Edit

Pretty sure you have 7 PDU and a starbase. :p

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 08:47 pm: Edit

In operational movement, the Klingons attacked 1401 (pinnng all the units there) and sent enough to 1502 to capture it even if the reserves show, and enough to 1701 to force the Kzinti to fleet if reserves show.

A lot of Coalition ships were left unmoved in this theatre.

In the Hydran theatre, the Coalition again pinned all the ships at the capital, sent a force to kill 0716 and to capture 0718 (Hydraxaport) which still has 4 PDU. They also sent forces to 0416 (which will be captured (even if the o\ffmap reserve of LM 2TG LN SC) show up. A small force went to 0519 .

The Coalition cut off the offmap from the Hydran capital again.

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 12:22 am: Edit

Ah, so I do. But the Hydran offmap isn't cut off! I have a supply route through 0119-0219-0319-0419-0519 and then from there to 0618-0617.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 01:21 am: Edit

Yes, I botched it.

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Monday, January 07, 2019 - 11:04 pm: Edit

C5 combat is complete, and just retrogrades and the like remain for the turn. Both the Kzinti and the Hydrans hold onto their capitals but little else. The Hydrans still have 11 PDUs over Hydrax, and the Kzinti just have their starbase.

On A5 I don't foresee them having anything really to hit. The Hydrans will just have to try to keep their supply open and, failing that, decide how much they're willing to risk when the coalition takes down their capital. They have about 2PAL LB 2LM 6DG 7RN 2TR HR 3KN 7LN 4CR 9CU 10HN 3SC 2TG (59 ships) in the capital (plus 4 ships outside of the capital that can make it).

Really, they'd like to not lose the capital next turn so they can build a third PAL, but I'm not sure whether that's reasonable as a capital that's devastated aside from Hydrax only produces 12 EPs (+1 or 2 for the province it resides in).

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 05:58 pm: Edit

You could use Orion smuggling to send EP from off-map to the Capital on A5 to support A6 production if you think there is a good chance of holding on (or to support rapid combat repair if there isn't). Or a blockade run from offmap if you still have a strat node somewhere is Western Hydran space.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 06:55 pm: Edit

He could also save EP from A5 income.

I don't think you can merely transport EPs via Orion smuggling, you have to buy something. I could be wrong.

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 07:56 pm: Edit

Re: saving income. Yep, that too. :-)

Re: Orion smuggling. Hmm. 410.341 seems fairly clear that smuggling is used only for expenses at the moment of payment, but 511.352 indicates that Orion smuggling can be used to simply move EPs without expenditure. Possibly 511.352 is a special case?

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 10:55 pm: Edit

Well, it's just a straight loss if I save income and lose the capital, but smuggling is definitely a possibility. I'm pretty sure the Hydrans are happy building Paladins for 19. I hadn't considered smuggling. Can't I move it to the capital during A6 production (if I go that route)?

On the other hand, the Hydrans have a fair number of EPs for A5 production and saving 3 EPs probably wouldn't be a real issue.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Tuesday, January 08, 2019 - 11:56 pm: Edit

I'm willing to accept that you can use Orion smuggling to move EPs between main shipyards. I would suggest that we go with this idea: EPs can only be moved (by Orion smuggling) during operational and strategic movement in this way (applies to EPs not being spent, except where explicitly stated otherwise in the existing rules).

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Wednesday, January 09, 2019 - 12:01 am: Edit

So the Coalition end turn 5. They start sending some ships to the Fed border. The Hydrans are down to one PDU on Hydramax or Anthraxan (I forget which) the other has no PDUs, both are undevastated. The minors in those systems are devastated. The minor in the Hydrax system has its 2 PDUs. Hydrans still have 0519 with 2 PDUs, the other two on map planets are captured.

All Kzinti space in play is captured or disrupted, except 1401 (Kzintai is undevastated but has no PDU) they do have a SB there.

The Coalition have two decent reserves in 1402, a good and a bad one in 1407, two good reserves and a small one in 1013. The Klingons got 20 EP from the Lyrans and are around 15 EP in the treasury (the Lyrans have around 5-6).

The Hydrans have 15 EP offmap, the Kzintis have no real treasury atm (a few EP at the Marquise partial grid).

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 04:15 pm: Edit

A5 Movement is done. Both the Hydrans and the Kzinti will be killing a few province raiders. The Kzinti will also be fighting a few larger fights where they might be able to trade a few frigates for larger ships. The Hydrans are in a few fights where they can fight a round and retreat - but I don't think I really want those fights if I want to hold the capital. :/

There are fights over every planet the Coalition hold and the Alliance can reach, but the only one that I might win is 1502.

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 10:13 pm: Edit

A5 is over!

The Hydrans did well, trading CU CR for E4 D5 FF. Not a huge achievement, but positive. The coalition also have a few cripples (3cw e4a), while the Hydrans have no new ones. The Kzinti made a few mistakes. While they didn't lose too many ships, they had a bunch of ships crippled that they really shouldn't have.

Dead ships:
Kzinti: BC CL 3EFF
Hydran: CR CU

Klingon: 2D5 E4 F5E E4A
Lyran: CW 3FF

Overall, I'm in a better position than I expected to be in at this point. Richard is making me work for every (minor) victory, and has been very gracious when I make mistakes.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 10:30 pm: Edit

I killed your SC not CR. :p

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 11:36 am: Edit

C6 is progressing, I'll post eco later.

Coalition movement saw large fleets stack on 1401 and 0617. The Hydran offmap was cut off (and reserves blocked from coming on map) and a few Hydran pickets destroyed.

*The Kzintis had no ships outside 1401 or the Marquise area and had no reserves (I suppose they could have made the Marquise ships into reserves).

Combat is still ongoing, 1401 was captured by the Coalition.

By Sam Benner (Nucaranlaeg) on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 08:45 am: Edit

The Kzinti crippled everything I thought they could afford to cripple before letting their SB go down - 3 CV groups, DN, 3BC, TG+2BP, 2CC. They also lost a DN, a CLE, and an EFF (total repair cost: 30). This does mean that the Kzinti should be able to harass the Coalition effectively next turn (I might not be making many repairs until A8, when I can pay with Fed money).

I might have directed too much, though, as the Klingons still have a relatively intact fleet for attacking the Federation on C7 if they want to.

Coalition dead: STT 2DN TGA+2BP 2D5 CC(captured)

I don't think I have an accurate count of the coalition crippled ships, but the repair bill is low - at least 24, but possibly not much more.

Overall, though, the Kzinti were a little favoured by the dice (3.44 vs 4 average), and I think it went about as well as it could have.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 01:43 pm: Edit

Coalition cripples:

3cc 5d7c d7 2ad5 2f5e about 23 EP to repair all of them.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 08:50 pm: Edit

This was the Lyran eco at the beginning of turn 6.

*Lyran C6 Eco.

*Survey roll: 8. New total = 49 + 8 = 57 (2 provinces explored).
*Starting treasury: 27.8 - 20 (To Klingons C5) = 7.8.
*Income: 115 (base) + 4 (explored) + 1.6 (8NZ) + 2 (provs 0701, 0803) + 1 cap min(1202 Zimdars) = 123.6.
*New Treasury: 130.6 EP.
*Used two CP on C5.

*Production (0408):
16 DN
10 STT
16 2CW CWE
14 DW 2DWE
7.5 3FF (404 608 408)
2 (6FFF) VP
10 FRD
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75.5

*Overbuilds:

*Repairs:
1.5 (408) CL
12 (1404) 3CC 3D7C
5 (1411) 2D7 SC
6 (1013) 2CC D7C
2 (0212) DD FF
2 (0413) 2FF
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28.5

Conversions:
6 0408 CL->BC
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6


Homeless ships paid for:
Klingon 9 (on C4):

*Total spent: 110
*Treasury: 20.6 EP.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 09:26 pm: Edit

*Klingon C6 Eco.
*Survey roll: 7. New total = 24 + 7 = 31.
*Starting treasury: 23.5 (DBB adjustment below).
*Income: 142, 6FFF +2 (exploration) + 11 EP (7 Kzinti 4 Hydran cap provs) +3 (min 1105 Zelkrat 1506 Zursk 1504 Lumien)+ 5.8 (29NZ hexes) = 153.8.
*DBB C5-A5: -8
*New Treasury: 169.3 EP.

*Production (1411):
5 B10 (8 + new roll 1 = 9).
16 C8
10 D7V (sub D7, 6FFF)
10 D6M(sub)
46 8D5 AD5
23 2F5L 3F5E F5 (one in 1716, one in 1509).
7.5 3E4
0 CP (+1, -4C5 now have 4 CP).
4 Activate 2D6 2F5.
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121.5 EP

Repairs:
12 (1407) 3CC 2D7 F5 SC
2 (1307) CC
2 (1507) F5 F5S
1 (0906) SC
8 (1013) 2D7C 2D7
6 (0815) 2D5 2CW
2 (1214) D7
2 (1011) 2F5
6 (0914) D6M 2CW
2 (1417) 2F5
--------------------
43

Conversions:
3 (2318) D6->D6D
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Total spent: 167.5.


Treasury: 1.8 EP.