I had an evil thought. I've never used field repairs on the Hydrans, ever. But depending on what Paul does, this time they just might be worth it.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Sunday, August 18, 2019 - 05:07 am: Edit

Coalition turn 8 has ended.

After much debate and analysis by the Coalition high command, 3 Reserve Fleets have been allocated to the Kzinti Front and 4 Reserve Fleets to the Hydran Front.

Due to the high number of cripples in the Hydran theater, 2 more FRD's was moved to 1214.

Not surprisingly, no Ep's spent on Field Repair or Strategic Movement.

Klingon high command was also concerned about the extensive use of Drones (10.6 Ep's spent, balance is -10 Ep's) and are seeking more cost effective ways of supporting battle forces. Although partially made in jest, the Klingon's request for further aid from the Lyrans fell on deaf ears (balance 0.3 Ep's).

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Sunday, August 18, 2019 - 06:48 am: Edit

Looking at Paul's reserves and FRDs, chances of holding Hydrax are slim. The North may present some interesting possibilities however.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 08:22 am: Edit

Kzinti economy, turn 8.

Survey roll 11
Survey total 82
Survey EP 8
Offmap 17
Provinces 1
Income 26
From last turn 0

Total Money 26

Repairs
Barony 5.5

Builds
Shipyard (1/6) 15
FF 2.5

Total spending 23

Money after Econ 3

Marquis grid: 3EP provinces+1EP saved
Spent 2 on supplies and 2 on repairs. Balance 0.

2CP available.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 08:26 am: Edit

Hydran economy, turn 8.

Survey roll 4
Survey total 64
Survey EP 6
Offmap 17
Capital 12
Planets
Provinces 4
Income 39
From last turn 0.5
Tug+Offmap treasury 16
Total Money 55.5

Repairs
Hydrax 7
2nd fleet SB 1

Subtotal 8

Builds
PAL 16
RN 7.5
HR 5
3CU, 3HN 15
Skipped: HR, TR

Subtotal 43.5

Conversion
KN>DE 4

Total spending 55.5

Money after Econ 0

Also: 2CP available.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 08:35 am: Edit

Federation economy, turn 8.

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 49.75

Total Money 215.5

Repairs 30 (almost all Kzinti ships)

Builds
TG (sub for CA) 6
CVA+ECL+2DE 69
2NCL 10
NCD 7
FFE(at SB 2004) 4
FFE (at 4th fleet SB) 4
FFE 4
activate CL+FF 2

Subtotal 106

Conversions
Earth
CA>CVS(FFF) 2
CA>CC 2

SB 2004 (FF>FV, CA>CC) 9
7th(CA>CC) 2
5th(CA>CC) 2
6th(CA>CC) 2
BATS>SB(2103) 36 . (Another provocation as the Klingons are apparently too cool-headed.)
3rd(DN>DN+) 2

Subtotal 57

Total spent 193

Remaining after econ: 22.5

By chris upson (Misanthropope) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 08:36 am: Edit

a SHIPYARD? what exactly are you gonna do with one of those things?

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 08:53 am: Edit

Borrow from the Feds and produce a dozen ships a turn or whatever?

By Douglas Lampert (Dlampert) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 12:19 pm: Edit

Hey, the Feds are managing to spend more money this turn than they're taking in at 75% economy.

If they keep building and converting at this rate, they won't have the money to give the Kzinti.

(Of course, to spend that much they had to build a CVA group paying for all fighters and also convert a starbase. They might not spend quite as much once they are in the war.)

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 04:37 pm: Edit

Well, at least the high level of combat in the Kzinti theatre has ensured the new ship yard has only started now

...but the Feds have pretty much ruined the repair back log the Kzinti had built up

Shame the Hydrans also got to build so many new ships!!

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 - 09:19 pm: Edit

Yeah, I know, the Kzinti already have four perfectly good shipyards in the Barony. They were building wonderful ships inexpensively from readily-available parts. However they have now run out of parts.

Feds gotta spend their money somehow. It doesn't earn interest in the bank. Hence all the conversions. They will soon run out of CA however.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Monday, August 26, 2019 - 07:05 pm: Edit

Hydran turn 9 op move is almost done. The Hydrans pinned the four Coalition reserves and are attacking various province raiders. They are also attempting to temporarily retake all of their onmap planets, and they are attacking an FRD. The Alliance has yet to bag an FRD this game, so it's high time.

On the Kzinti front, the Feds are attacking various small Klingon forces in Kzinti space, and the Kzinti are thus far attacking planet 1506 (Zursk), which has both a significant defending fleet and a bunch of Coalition crips. They also have the beginnings of an assault on BATS 1705 and a fair number of ships left to move.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 08:24 pm: Edit

Above should have said "turn 8". Alliance turn 8 op move is now done. The Kzinti have strong attacks on planet 1506 and BATS 1507 and 1707.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 03:01 am: Edit

Well, I couldn't defend everywhere so William has hit me where generally I am not!

2 Klingon BATS could die and several planets liberated...

Some interesting options though for the Northern Front Reserves.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 03:04 pm: Edit

Reserves have been dispatched. One is smushing a Kzinti attempt to liberate planet 1105. Two others went to BATS 1507 and might be enough to save it. There could also be some interesting retreat implications as the BATS is adjacent to planet 1506, which is also under attack. BATS 1707 has not been reserved and will therefore die horribly. A single reserve would not have saved it. Two might have, but Paul only had three reserves in the North.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Thursday, August 29, 2019 - 05:30 pm: Edit

Well, the Hydrans got to kill a Klingon FRD.....

Having moved some FRD's forward from 1214 to 1115 (to get some other likely cripples in range of an FRD) - meant I couldn't use forces retrograded to 814 to cover the FRD in 814 and small FRD park in 1115 - and losing 1 FRD is better than losing 3!

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Friday, August 30, 2019 - 10:32 am: Edit

Kzinti BATS assault at 1507 has ended in failure. Compots were about even which gave me hope, but it was not to be. Kzinti lost MEC and EFF killed, plus CVS and BC crippled, in exchange for 12EP of crips. Possibly I should have stayed longer to prevent pursuit, which is where he bagged the already-crippled MEC.

On the Hydran front, the Hydrans had a battle where they had like 40 compot less than the Coalition, but also 50 fighters vs. 6. They lost HN and CR killed in exchange for crippling 2CC, DWS, and SC.

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Friday, August 30, 2019 - 11:12 am: Edit

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By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Saturday, August 31, 2019 - 12:06 pm: Edit

Alliance turn 8 is done. The Alliance did kill BATS 1707 and kicked the Coalition off of planet 1306.

The Hydrans did indeed spend 10EP on field repairs to repair 2HR+RN at Hydrax. Paul did his retreats in such a way that the planned reserves couldn't get offmap, so they have no reserves.

The Hydrans have split their fleet between Hydrax and the 2nd fleet SB. The bulk is at Hydrax; the force at the 2nd is designed to make it difficult for Paul to split his fleet in a way that ensures capture of both.

The force at the 2nd is battle tug, LC, 2RN, 4-ship carrier tug group, KN, CR, 6CU, a capture Klingon, and a bunch of crips that provide 14 fighters.

The Federation force in Kzinti space is getting a bit adventurous. Most of the ships are forward deployed, rather than sitting on the remaining two Kzinti BATS.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Saturday, August 31, 2019 - 12:55 pm: Edit

To add to the success of the dead BATS and FRD - the Coalition also I think lost more hulls than the Alliance did.

I think 13 Coalition ships (mainly F5/E4/FF, but a crippled Lyran TGC and a uncrippled D7 did die)

Alliance lost 8 ships I think - again mainly small stuff but a Kzinti BC and MEC did die.

Coalition also took a lot more cripples.

A good turn for the Alliance!

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, September 02, 2019 - 04:07 pm: Edit

...and on to turn 9.

Lyran Survey roll of 8 (95), Klingon Survey roll of 6 (51) and B10 roll of 3 (24).

Lyrans build PDU, BC, TGC, 3 x CW, 3 x DW, 2 x FF and a FFE.

They convert a 2 x CW to a CVL (6 fighters paid for) and CWE and a CL to BC.

49.5 Ep's spent on repairs.

Balance is 0.3 Ep and 8 Command Points.

Klingons build a D7C, D6M, D7, 7 x D5's, D5V, AD5, F5E, 5 x F5's and 3 x E4's.

2 Ships De-mothballed (D6's), 1 Command Point and 1 B10 Roll.

49 Ep's spent on repairs.

Balance is 0.7 Ep and 2 Command Points.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Monday, September 02, 2019 - 06:39 pm: Edit

Paul's repairs are focused on the Hydran front, leading to the unsurprising conclusion that another assault on Hydrax is coming.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 07:20 pm: Edit

C9 movement is done. Paul is attacking both Hydrax and the 2nd fleet SB in force.

On the Kzinti front, there are two BATS assaults and two attacks on planets the Feds recaptured last turn. All are defended by significant Fed/Kzinti forces. One of the planets looks likely to fall; the other three I have no idea.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Friday, September 13, 2019 - 05:26 pm: Edit

C9 Combat has started

In the north, the re-inforced Kzinti CL fought off an attack crippled fleet.

Kzinti crippled a CL and CLE. Klingons crippled an E4.

In the south, after 2 rounds of combat, the Hydran SB is up to 5 SIDS, a SC was self killed (Auto kill requirement) and 3 RN and a TR are crippled,

Coalition have crippled 2 x CC, 2 x D7, 4 x D5, CW, 2 x 3D5V's and a F5S.

By William Jockusch (Verybadcat2) on Friday, September 13, 2019 - 06:50 pm: Edit

In the Hydrax battle, I think the Coalition is favored, but it's no sure thing. Hydrans have been putting all three PAL on the line, giving them an initial compot in the low 200s. It will be declining presently. Coalition compot was initially in the low 120s and will also drop.

Hydrans have gone high on the BIR, basically daring Paul to direct on their Paladins. Thus far, he has declined to do so.