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The Count is Dead... the Count is Dead!
Finally, on turn 7, the Counts SB has finally been killed.
So, far dice have been marginally positive towards the Coalition or even.... other than persuits.
Coalition have now failed 2 of the 3 pursuit attempts over the space of 7 turns!
Was a 50/50 (and a rolled a 6) but it did mean 1 or 2 Kzinti ships survived.
Damage so far
Coalition : D6M killed and a pile of cripples
Alliance : CC, BC, DF and a SB killed and a smaller pile of cripples.
I was nearly able to capture 1802 on the cheap (William retreated from 1802 to 1902 to save the BATS) and in effect I could retreat back to 1802 from 1902, as William would have had to retreat to 1801 as 1902 was a partial grid.... but he pursued instead.
Currently - 1704 is under assault... no deaths yet!
Paul went for it at the Marquis SB. It looks like it will go down, with the usual piles of cripples for all. The progress the Klingons and Kzinti were making on their respective repair problems is hereby reversed.
On the bright side, the Kzinti will now have Federation support for their repairs. That should help considerably.
Did the Feds send a reserve fleet to the Marqyuse SB? If the Feds aren't attacked on turn 7, they're still allowed to activate their 4th fleet in fleet in support of the Kzintis.
They had moved a bunch of their ships forward to locations where they could react to two of the Marquis BATS. Paul chose not to attack those BATS. They did have a small reserve fleet on their SB. They sent this to Dmitris. Although the SB is likely to go down, I was fine with the battle there as the Klingons are taking another boatload of crips, thereby helping the Hydrans. Additionally, it had a chance of holding, which obviously would have been a disaster for the Klingons.
…..and for the first time in the game - 2 Kzinti SB's have died in a turn!
The Marquis SB is dead!
Dice for once was nice to the Coalition.
Coalition lost a TGC+BP (direct killed and avoided the Auto Kill rule) and a D7C direct killed, plus 5 Lyran cripples and 21 Klingon cripples.
2 Klingon CP's spent and 3.6 Ep's of Drones fired
Alliance lost a SF (Auto Kill) and the SB plus 15 cripples.
2 Kzinti CP's was spent.
Kzinti also lost a crippled FF (from the 1504 fight) when I fighting retreated over it.
Round 5 was brutal.... 6 6 6 was rolled (so Auto Kill rule applied - but William chose to kill the Battle Tug on the line - He self killed the poor SF!)
Marquis fleet is down to 12 fighters and the BATS in 1803 has no fighters (they reacted in ….and died!)
Northern front is completed and the Marquis provinces are cut off (7 Ep's will be available for it).
Yeah Marquis Fleet ended that battle with 20 uncrippled ships. I had been hoping to take the battle a bit deeper. On round 5, it was already clear that the SB could not hold. I had a chance to kill a battle tug, so I did. I've always found the last part of such battles to be a challenge. The problem is that you need to keep your fighters alive and your SB uncrippled in order to preserve compot. But you generally don't have a single round where you take 48 damage, which is what it would take to do 4 more SIDS and kill 30 fighters.
On round 7, we had another round where I was going to take a lot of damage. I decided to use that as my opportunity to end the battle, even though the fleet still had a few ships I would have loved to cripple while fighting under the SB.
So the Klingons have fewer crips than I had expected. As partial compensation, the Kzinti fleet is also in better shape than I thought it would be, and we did kill a BT and D7C.
Anyone want to be a D7C captain?
718 has fallen, but another D7C was direct killed by the Evil Hydrans.
A HR and CR died (along with the 3 PDU's) in exchange (plus a stack of Coalition cripples).
The number of dead on the Hydran side was key... as the Hydrans were then unable to retreat into 617.
IDK how key that was as the defending fleet at Hydrax is no joke, to say the least. At any rate, 718 is lost, yes.
Hurrah....the Hydrans have finally lost a Paladin!
After two non-even battles in 215 (pinned) and 416 (reserve arrived), which I ran from both at, 3 approach rounds have been fought over 617.
William rolled much better in 1 of the 3 rounds and we tied in two (3/5/2 for me and 3/5/6 for William) - both sides have bounced BIR around abit and VBIR as bounced too.
Round 1 saw a RN die, Round 2 the Paladin and a Lyran DN was directed on (and I self killed a F5S to reduce the chance it was captured) and no deaths occurred in round 3.
Coalition have already crippled 10 ships.
...but now we can attack the planets!
willing to throw out a ballpark figure for what's available to each side in 0617?
Left...
Uncrippled - about 80 Coalition Hulls v 50 Hydran Hulls
(Prior to battle, including Defences and Fighters it was 97 Coalition Eq's v 96 Hydran Eq's).
Unless the dice gods favour me like they favoured the Alliance on turn 5.... 617 will easily remain Hydran (and even with tremendous Coalition luck... I don't think 617 will fall this turn).
so if a full hydran line was kept from retreating into the hex, that finesse is probably worth a minor or two getting devastated on the cheap? nice pick up.
Doh
617 was 97 Eq v 86 Eq's - so the 10 Eq's in 718 couldn't retreat to 617.
Probably will not make much difference.....but every little helps!
Combat for Coalition is over...
...and the dice gods alas returned with a vengeance.
Last 5 rounds for the Hydrans allowed them to roll 3 5's and 2 6's - Coalition rolled 2 1's, 4,5 and a 6.
Hydrans again caught the retreating 617 force and got the 1/3rd chance to kill the crippled DN 
(and I rolled a 1 so again did no damage back - a repeat of turn 6!)
Average across the turn was 4.19 for the Coalition (so I did roll generally well) and 4.46 for the Alliance so William rolled even better!).
Hydrans lost the Pal, 3 x RN, TR and 6 PDU's.
Coalition lost 2 x DN, D6M, STT, 2 x F5S - plus a stack of cripples.
No capital planets are devastated yet.
A couple more pips on the dice might have forced William to take a cripple or two to keep his fighter count up - but it just didn't happen
Hydran losses exceed what they will be able to build this turn. So they are losing both fleet and ground. This turn it was major planet 518.
Losing the Paladin definitely hurt.
C7 is done.
Retro has seen major forces over 1401, 1407, 1507 in the North and 1214 and 814 (FRD) in the south.
3 FRD's have been sent south.
2 Reserves (1401 and 1407) are in the North and 5 reserves (4 in 714 - Tug supply point) and 1214 are in the South.
54 new (or repaired) Coalition hulls went south...
Yes with five of his seven reserves on the Hydran front, it's pretty clear who is the next target.
The Kzinti need to cause trouble.
Kzinti economy, turn 7
Survey roll 10
Survey total 71
Survey EP 6
Offmap 17
Income 23
From last turn 0
Total Money 23
Repairs
Barony 20.5
Builds
Barony FF 2.5
Total spending 23
Money after Econ 0
Marquis grid:
Collect 7EP. Spend 4EP on repairs and 2EP on 24 fighters plus full supply for 10 ships. 1EP remaining.
Also: 1CP.
Yes, they count as new construction.
Hydran economy, turn 7
Survey roll 9
Survey total 60
Survey EP 0
Offmap 0
Capital 24
Planets 3
Provinces 5
Income 32
From last turn 6.5
Total Money 38.5
Repairs
2nd fleet SB 1
Builds
RN 6
3HR 18
2LN 10.5
CU 2.5
Skipped: CU, 3HN, 2AH
Subtotal 37
Total spending 38
Money after Econ 0.5
Old Colonies 23
repairs, build AH 7
On board tug for Hydrax 10
remaining 6
Also: spent 2CP during the Coalition turn. Currently have 3CP.
Federation economy turn 7
Survey roll
Survey total
Survey EP 0
Offmap 6
Capital 59
Planets 64
Provinces 92
Total before exhaustion 221
Percentage 75
Income 165.75
From last turn 0
Total Money 165.75
Builds
TG (sub for CA) 6
DN 12
2NCL 10
NCD 7
FF 3
FFE (at 4th fleet SB) 4
FFS 4
activate CL+FF 2
subtotal 48
Conversions
Earth
CA>CVS 14
2DD+FF>2DE+FFE 3
CA>CC 2
3rd(CA>CC, FF>FFS) 3
7th(CA>CC) 2
5th(CA>CC) 2
6th(CA>CC, FF>FFS) 3
4th
CA>CVS 2
DD>DE 1
2004 BATS>SB 36
Subtotal 68
total spent 116
remaining after econ 49.75
As Paul is not set up to attack their Feds, they are doing their best to provoke him by upgrading BATS 2004 to an SB. They will also shortly be setting up an MB there and towing in 2FRD. My guess is it still won't work.
Can you do base upgrades when at limited war? I am not sure...
Yes - (654.1F), if supporting …
Alliance turn 7 op movement is done. With 5 Coalition reserves on the Hydran front, the Hydrans decided to play it safe. The bulk of their fleet is at Hydraxaport. They are also picking off a province raider that is out of range of the reserves.
The Kzinti have picked 5 fights. The two bigger ones are over the planet Zursk (1507) and BATS 1707. The other three are province raider pick-offs with enough force to deal with a single reserve, should one come.
The Federation have op-moved the bulk of Home Fleet to the 4th fleet area, just in case their attempts to provoke the Klingons are actually successful.