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Federation Economy (Alliance Turn 16)

On Map:

Turn	Y176S	Alliance Turn 16	Exploration:	309
Starting Treasury	0.125	0	FFF:	15
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	3	6	17	67
Off Map				0
Capital	7	8	0	59
Captured
Transfers
Salvage				9.75
Repairs				0	zas
		TOTAL INCOME	and Treasury	135.875
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
[CVA+NAC+DWA+FFE]	1	ff, nac, dwa, fbe	1			19
cc	1	ca	1			8
ca	1	ca	1			8
nca	1	nca	1			6
ncl	11	ncl, ff	9,2			50
dw	4	ff	4			12.00
ff	8	ff	8			24
Total						127
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
cl	1		lsc	1	cap(MA)	4
cl	1		lsc	1	cap(MA)	4
Total						8
Activations						Cost
Total						0
Other Production						Cost
Total						0
Other Costs
cp
Total						0
Grand Total						135
Ending FFF						0
Ending Treasury						0.875

Off map, the Feds built an FCR and bought a command point (bringing their total to three in the bank). They also have 34 EP trapped in the off map area due to the interruption in supply.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 03:13 pm: Edit

Kzinti Economy (Alliance Turn 16)

The Kzinti are still locked up in the off map, and need to conduct some repairs.

Year/Turn	Y176S	Alliance Turn 16	Exploration:	168
Starting Treasury	0.875	0	FFF:	6
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	0	0	0	0
Off Map	1	2	10	31
Capital				0
Captured
Transfers				20
Salvage
Repairs				18
		TOTAL INCOME	and Treasury	33.875
Schedule	#	Actual	#		fff	Cost
DN	1	ff	1			2.5
bc	1	ff	1			2.5
nca	1	ff	1			2.5
cm	3	ff	3			7.5
dw	3	ff	3			7.5
ffk	3	ffk	3			9
Grand Total						31.5
Ending FFF						0
Ending Treasury						2.375

Repairs			bc
Hex	Ships	EP	nca
OFF	6xff	6	FRD
	3xff, 2xmec	6	FRD
	cva, mec, dwe	6	Starbase
		18

The Kzinti start fixing the ships they had crippled and presumably getting ready to do it all over again when the Lyrans get their Starbase built.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 03:17 pm: Edit

Gorn Economy (Alliance Turn 16)

The Gorns get a turn's grace to build some ships in the capital since the Federation came and defended them from the nasty Romulans on the Coalition half of the turn. Will they get another? Who knows!

Year	Y176S	Alliance Turn 16	Exploration:	42
Starting Treasury	0		FFF:	9
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map		5	13.5	42
Off Map		2	4	15
Capital	1	1		8
Captured		1	17	7.4
Transfers
Salvage				7.5
Repairs				20
		TOTAL INCOME		59.9
Schedule	#	Actual	#		fff	Cost
DN	1	dnt	1			18
bc	1	bcm	1			10
cm	1	dd	1			3
hd	3	dd	3			9
bd	4	dd	4			12
dd	1	dd	1			3
Total						55
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
Total						0
Activations						Cost
						4
Total						4
Grand Total						59
Ending FFF						3
Ending Treasury						0.9

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 03:20 pm: Edit

Hydran Economy (Alliance Turn 16)

Year/Turn	Y176S	Alliance Turn 16	Exploration:	168+19=223
Starting Treasury	5.25		FFF:	23.75
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map			1	2
Off Map
Capital	1	1	3	14
Captured
Transfers				32
Salvage				3.65
Repairs			TR CAP
		TOTAL INCOME		56.9
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost	FFF
PAL	1	cu	1			2.5
rn	1	cu	1			2.5
irq	1	irq	1			6	0.5
cw	2	hr	2			10	3
kn	1	kn	1			4	2
dwf	3	dwf	3			8	1
ff	2	cu	2			5
Total		Total				38
Other Production						Cost
pdu						21
Total						21
Other Costs
Total						0
Grand Total						59
Ending FFF						8.25
Ending Treasury						3.15

The Hydrans also accept delivery of a PGS from the Guild and build an FCR in the off map area. They have 27.5 EP waiting to be repatriated in the off map main grid.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 03:35 pm: Edit

Alliance raids:
---------------

The Coalition isn't leaving lonely ships anywhere anymore, so:

3306 : A Federation DNL attacks the garrisoning Klingon D6 Cruiser.  The DN rolls down, the Cruiser rolls flat, and both sides end up scoring zero casualties.  As a result, the raid has no effect (planets not affected by raids - not that the Klingons will get an EP for the planet in its first turn under control anyway - and the province was already disputed by the presence of the crippled FF's in 3307.)
3003 : A Federation CF disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.
0701 : A Kzinti BF disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.
1305 : A Kzinti FF disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.
0219 : A Hydran CU disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.
1219 : A Hydran CU disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.
0915 : A Hydran CU disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.
1019 : A Hydran CU disrupts a captured province, too far from the province garrison to be under protection.

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 05:50 pm: Edit

ncl x 11 = ncl x9 + ff x 2 = 50

Shouldn't that be 51 (9*5 + 2*3)??

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, November 14, 2021 - 04:54 pm: Edit

Alliance Operational Movement:

In Federation space, the blue menace pulls essentially all 185+ SEQ out of the capital for various adventures, sending 48 ships south to attack the Vindicator Battle Group, 6 ships to 2711 as a blocking force, and 10 ships to 2610. Admiral Koznets' Flying Squadron (in fact a major force of ~100 ships lands on the Klingon Apocalypse group in 2509. Meanwhile, the northern fleets attack Chicago (3306), planet 3005, and the Klingon blockading force in 2801. In the south, small groups attack planet 3210 and a couple of province raiders.

In Hydran space there are fights brewing in 0718 (where a high quality force of Hydrans is potentially taking back the long-Klingon-held planet), 0519 (where a Hydran fleet is attacking a few Lyran garrison ships), and 0518, where the Hydrans have the Lyran Enemy's Blood Fleet (60 ships plus fighters) pinned.

The Federation has also moved cripples from the Gorn capital back into their space and from the 3307 to the Capital, and floated more boats around the Orion cluster, appearing to be interested in permanently reacquiring it.

The Hydrans are putting up fixed defenses on the minor planet in the capital system, having the maximum in the capital already.

The Federation has built PDUs as well but they have not yet begun set up and may go elsewhere.

Combat Hexes include:

0518
0519
0718
2509
2610
2713
2801
3005
3306

There is no combat in Gorn space as the Gorns and Feds continue to hunker down. Notably, because the Federation was cut off, the Feds have only two fighters for the CVA and none on their FCR's (!) but presumably something will be done about this, unless the Alliance has decided not to keep running the 4402 meat grinder.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, November 21, 2021 - 04:58 pm: Edit

Combat is complete on AT16.

Aside:
Trent has reminded me that Heavy Fighters for the Hydrans are coming, so there is the potential for a new capital assault. Yes, I'm aware that he told me that because he very much wants me to attack the Hydran Capital. We'll see.

Anyway, there were two major fights, but in each the Alliance decided eventually that sticking around and forcing the issue would be too expensive and backed off. The fights in 2509 and 0718 were therefore less conclusive than they might have been, although both sides lost some useful ships. Relevantly, the Federation easily reopened supply to the Gorn capital by recapturing 3306 and 3005 and chasing the Klingons all the way back to the 29 row since the D6 was alone in 3306, and died.

Dice were up and modestly in favor of the Alliance.

Dice	12	45	3.75
Dice	12	53	4.416666667

Hex	Round	Faction	EW	ComPot	Shift	BIR	BIR Roll	Tot.BIR	Rolls	%	Damage	Direct	Damage Taken
3210	1	Coalition						0			0		Cloak fails. SSC (2 casualties) (SNB retreats)
		Alliance									0		No casualties (2xFF in combat)
3116	1	Coalition						0			0		SNB Cloaks out
		Alliance									0
3306	1	Coalition						0			0		D6 Dies, Federation recaptures.
		Alliance									0
3005	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead F5, Klingons retreat
		Alliance									0
2801	1	Coalition	1	59	-1	1	-1	4	3	22.50%	13.275	Direct Crip FF	3 Fighters
		Alliance	4	93		4			6	32.50%	30.225	N	11 Fighters, Self Kill D5, E4A
518	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead 4xHR
519	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead 2xCU
118	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, withdraws/retreats 0217
2610	1	Coalition	1	75		1	0	2	4	22.50%	16.875	N	Cripple 3xCL
		Alliance	0	70	-1	1			2	15.00%	10.5	N	Cripple F5,F5S (+1)
	2 (Pursuit)	Coalition	0	44		4	1	6	4	32.50%	14.3	Direct 3 Cr. CL
		Alliance	0	36		1			5	35.00%	12.6	N	Cripple MD5,D5 (-1)
2509	1	Coalition (86)	8	103		4	2	10	5	45.00%	46.35	Direct LSC (27)	Cripple 2xCC, 1 fighter
		Alliance	5	103	-1	4			6	45.00%	46.35	Direct F6E (26)	12 Fighters, Cripple 2xD5 (-6)
	2	Coalition (74)	8	98		1	-1	4	4	27.50%	26.95	Direct LSC (27)
		Alliance	5	100	-1	4			4	25.00%	25	N	12 Fighters, Cripple D5
	3	Coalition (62)	8	98		1	1	6	4	32.50%	31.85	Direct SC (27)	5 Fighters
		Alliance	5	100	-1	4			1	22.50%	22.5	Direct D5 (22)	1 Fighter
	4	Coalition						0			0		Rolled a '6' for pursuit
		Alliance									0		6
718	1	Coalition (92)	8	101		1	-1	4	5	30.00%	30.3	Direct RN (24)	4.5 RN Fighters, 1.5 Fighters
		Alliance (188)	3	122	-2	4			2	17.50%	21.35	Direct F5S (18)	3 Fighters
	2	Coalition	8	101		1	2	7	4	35.00%	35.35	Direct AH (16)	19 Fighters
		Alliance	3	118	-2	4			4	30.00%	35.4	Direct DWE (22)	7 Fighters, Cripple F5,D5 (-6)
	3	Coalition	8	101		1	0	5	4	30.00%	30.3	Direct DE (22)	3 DE Fighters, 7 Fighters
		Alliance	3	117	-2	4			5	27.50%	32.175	Direct CWE (25)	1 Fighter
	4	Coalition (81)	8	102		1	0	5	4	30.00%	30.6	Direct HR (22)	3 HR Fighters, 6 Fighters
		Alliance (153)	4	93	-1	4			6	32.50%	30.225	Direct CWE (24)	6 Fighters
	5	Coalition (75)	8	95		1	-1	5	3	25.00%	23.75	Direct HR (22)	3 DE Fighters (-1)
		Alliance (144)	4	92	-1	5			6	30.00%	27.6	Direct F5E (18)	6 Fighters
	6	Coalition (69)	8	91		1	-1	5	1	22.50%	20.475	Direct KN (18)	2 Fighters
		Alliance (141)	4	91	-1	5			6	32.50%	29.575	Direct AD5 (23)	7 Fighters

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 02:07 pm: Edit

We forgot a fight. In 2713, the Klingons trade an F5 for an NCL, and retreat after one round. The Feds rolled down and could only cripple the F5, but the Klingons self killed it to avoid a pursuit against DN, CVA, etc.

Retrograde is ongoing.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 09:57 pm: Edit

Alliance Turn 16 is over. The Alliance is mostly hunkering in the capitals this turn, although there is a large and dangerous Federation fleet (50+ ships) in 3203 and another decent fleet in 2713 (33 ships).

Reserves are set, but apart from the potential to reserve out of the capital in Gorn space if the Romulans inexplicably decide to go somewhere else, they may not be particularly relevant this turn.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 10:01 pm: Edit

CT17 Lyran Economy:

Year/Turn	Y176F	CoalitionTurn17	Exploration:	180 + 11 = 191
Starting Treasury		84.225	FFF:	0
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	3	3	16	56
Off Map	2	2	12	40
Capital	4	5		35
Captured	0	5	9.4	14.4
Transfers
Salvage				6.125
Repairs				16
TOTAL INCOME AFTER REPAIRS				99.175
Starting Command Points:				1
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
BC	1	BC	1			10
CA	1	STT	1			10
NCA	1	NSC	1			10
CW	3	CW,CWE,STJ	3			18
DW	3	DWE,2xFF	3			10
FF	3	FF	3			7.5
Total						65.5
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
CL	1	BC	1		408	6
DD	1	NCC	1		608	6
Total						12
Other Production						Cost
MB						10
Total						10
Other Costs
BATS	1401					15
Command Point						5
Total						20
Grand Total						107.5
Ending FFF						0
Ending Treasury						75.9
Ending CP						2

The Lyrans spend a few of their stockpiled EPs on a new MB and the inevitable but probably doomed BATS upgrade in 1401, but otherwise build predictable ships and don't try to do anything fancy.

They perform a few repairs:

Repairs
Hex	Ships	EPs
2204	STL	3
404	STT,DN	6
502	TG	2
705	CC	2
416	2xCW	3
	Total	16

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 10:03 pm: Edit

CT17 Klingon Economy

Year/Turn	Y176F	CoalitionTurn17	Exploration:	103 + 6 =109
Starting Treasury		92.4	FFF:	4
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	4	7	26	93
Off Map	0	0	5	10
Capital	5	8		49
Captured	3	8	34.2	48.2
Transfers
Salvage				13.25
Repairs	and DBB	DBB		5
TOTAL INCOME AFTER REPAIRS				158.4
Starting Command Points				5
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
D7C,D7	2	D7C,D7	1			17
D6	1	D6M	1			10
D5	8	4xD5,4xE4	8			30
D5W	1	DWS	1			10
F5Q (F5L,2xF5)	2	FWE,4xE4,F5R	6			25
F5W	3	F5W	3			12
E4	1	E4	1			2.5
Total						106.5
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
F6	1	F6E	1		1411(3)	1
D7	1	D7U	1	4FFF	1411(1)	25
D5	1	ADW	1		1411(2)	3
D5	1	ADW	1		2318	3
Total						32
Activations						Cost
F6						0
Total						0
Other Production						Cost
MB--->BATS	2505					15
Total						15
Other Costs
Command Point						5
Total						5
Grand Total						158.5
Ending FFF						0
Ending Treasury						92.3
Ending CP						7

The Klingons are putting together an intimidating carrier force, and this turn had the choice between D7U and twin DWB's, which was resolved for the D7U in order to keep COMPOT density as high as possible.

The Klingons have a few repairs, and a few cripples that were damaged too far from repair and will have to be fixed next turn.

Repairs
Hex	Ships	EP	By
3518	2xD5, 2xF5	5	SB
	Total Cost:	5

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 10:07 pm: Edit

CT17 Romulan Economy

The Romulans are burning their treasury to keep the pressure on:

Year/Turn	Y176F	CoalitionTurn17	Exploration:	40 + 12 = 52
Starting Treasury		35.425	FFF:	8
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	1	4	31	79
Off Map			2	4
Capital	2	8		34
Captured	0	5	21	26
Transfers
Salvage				22.25
Repairs				55.5
TOTAL INCOME AFTER REPAIRS				74
Starting Command Points:				3
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
CON	1	CNV	1	8FFF		27
FH	1	FHF	1			10
SP	5	SPF,4xSP	5			27
SK	3	SEH	3			7.5
SEH	1	SEH	1			2.5
WE	1	SN	1			2.5
SN	1	SN	1			2.5
Total						79
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
WE	1	KE	1		4514	3
SP	1	FHM	1		4613	4
SP	1	FHM	1		4411	4
SP	1	FHM	1		4812	4
						15
Activations						Cost
2xSN						2
Total						2
Other Production						Cost
Total						0
Other Costs
Total						0
Grand Total						96
Ending FFF						8
Ending Treasury						13.425
Ending CP						3

This turn there are more FHM's created to field truly impressive carrier groups in the capital, and an absolutely insane amount of repairs; the last of the repairs from the actual capital assault (rather than the ongoing battle.)

Probably, this turn the capital goes down, as the Gorns were unable to repair most of their cripples and will finally be outnumbered again with the CT16 repairs reaching 4402.

Repairs
Hex	Ships	EPs	By
4107	2xSP,KRC	5.5	FRD
4012	2xSKE	2	BATS
4010	FHF	2.5	BATS
3914	K4	1	BATS
4110	KE	2	BATS
4310	KE	2	BATS
4510	K7R	2	BATS
4710	2xSK	2	BATS
4910	2xSK	2	BATS
5010	2xBHE	2	BATS
4611	2xSKE	2	BATS
4411	4xWE,SP	7.5	SB
4514	5xWE	7.5	SB
4613	4xWE,SP	7.5	SB
4812	5xSKE,SP,SPF	8	SB
	Total	55.5

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 11:57 am: Edit

CT17 Raids

The Klingons send a Fast D7 to 3201 and 3302, both defended by abstract POLs.
The Romulans send a Fast Firehawk to 3504 and 3505, also each defended by abstract POLs.

In 3201, The FD7 rolls a 6 against the POLs (11). The FD7 retreats to avoid crippling.
In 3302, The FD7 rolls an 8 against the POLs (5). The province is disrupted.
In 3504, the FFH rolls a 7 against the POLs (4). The province is disrupted.
In 3505, the FFH rolls a 5 against the POLs (11). The FFH retreats to avoid crippling.

A bunch of POLs blow up, but this seems less important given they only blipped into existence five minutes ago.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Thursday, November 25, 2021 - 01:54 pm: Edit

CT17 Operational movement

The Klingons and Lyrans pile into 0617, and given that this is only Turn Two of the cycle of devastation in the Hydran Capital, they may actually intend to, like, fight or something. We'll see. There are about 190 Klingon SEQ including LAV, SAV. There are about 90 Lyran SEQ, also including LAV, SAV. The Hydrans have 20 PDU and SB on the homeworld, with about 150 ships and essentially unlimited fighters.

The Romulans pile into the capital hex 4402 for the Gorns, where they now have successfully leveraged their repair capacity over multiple turns to get "ahead". The Romulans have almost 200 ships and 130 fighters, against 79 Gorn and Federation ships with approximately 40 fighters.

Lots of ships left to move.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, December 04, 2021 - 11:59 pm: Edit

Coalition Turn 17 Combat

Hex	Round	Faction	EW	ComPot	Shift	BIR	BIR Roll	Tot.BIR	Rolls	%	Damage	Direct	Damage Taken
617	1	Coalition (173)	4	136	-2	2	-2	4	6	27.50%	37.4	Maul 4 PDU (30)	7 PDU Fighters (-17)
		Alliance	9	375		4			3	25.00%	93.75	N	Self Kill 3xCW,3xDW, Cripple D6M, TCKB, DN
	2	Coalition (173)	10	124		3	-2	5	3	27.50%	34.1	Maul 2 PDU (10)	7 PDU Fighters (-5)
		Alliance	9	339		4			5	32.50%	110.175	N (-4)	Self Kill 3xCW,2xDW,DWS,Cripple D6M,3xDN,NSC
	3	Coalition (173)	6	121	-1	2	-2	4	3	22.50%	27.225	Maul 3 PDU (20)	2 PDU Fighters (-16)
		Alliance	9	321		4			5	30.00%	96.3	N (-2)	12 Fighters, Self Kill 3xCW,2xDW,DWS,Cripple D6M, DN
	4	Coalition (161)	7	119		2	0	6	5	35.00%	41.65	Maul 3 PDU (20)	16 PDU Fighters (-2)
		Alliance	7	306		4			5	35.00%	107.1	N (-10)	12 Fighters, Self Kill D5S, 2xCW, 3xF5L, 3xCWE, Cripple D6M
	5	Coalition (149)	7	110		2	0	6	3	30.00%	33	Maul 3 PDU (20)	1 PDU Fighter (-17)
		Alliance	7	279		4			5	35.00%	97.65	N (-2)	6 Fighters,Self Kill D5S,2xD5,3xF5L,Cripple D6M,2xCWE
	6	Coalition (143)	8	120		2	0	6	5	35.00%	42	Maul 3 PDU (20)	5 PDU Fighters (-13)
		Alliance	7	252		4			5	35.00%	88.2	N	20 Fighters, Self Kill 3xF5L, Cripple STT, 3xD5,AD5,F5E (-2)
	7	Coalition (123)	6	106		2	-2	4	4	27.50%	29.15	Direct PDU (10)	6 Fighters
		Alliance	5	225		4			2	22.50%	50.625	N	24 Fighters, Cripple 6xF5
	8	Coalition (99)	6	112		2	1	7	2	30.00%	33.6	Direct PDU (10)	24 Fighters
		Alliance	5	216		4			2	30.00%	64.8	N	24 Fighters, Cripple 3xD5,3xF5, AD5 (-2)
	9 (Pursuit)	Coalition	8	68		1	2	7	3	32.50%	22.1	Direct CR (16)	8 Fighters
		Alliance	0	66	-2	4			6	35.00%	23.1	Direct	STT,D6M,F5
	10 (Slow)	Coalition	0	35		4	0	8	1	30.00%	10.5	N	11 Fighters
		Alliance	0	97		4			5	40.00%	38.8	Direct LAV+DWE	30 (7 Fighters)
1116	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead CU, retreats
3210		Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats
3111		Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats
3113		Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats
2711	1	Coalition	0	59		4	-2	6	4	32.50%	19.175	N	Cripple 3xNCL (-2)
		Alliance	0	50		4			3	30.00%	15	N	Cripple 3xF5
	2 (pursuit)	Coalition	0	42		4	1	6	2	27.50%	11.55	Direct NCL (8)	(NCL was crippled) (+2)
		Alliance	0	35		1			3	30.00%	10.5	N	Cripple DWL (+2)
3203	1	Coalition	5	96		4	0	8	6	42.50%	40.8	Maul BATS (26)	15 fighters, D6M shocks out
		Alliance	5	111		4			1	30.00%	33.3	Direct D6D (27)	6 Fighters
3005	1	Coalition						0			0		Coalition Captures RDF
		Alliance									0
3306	1	Coalition						0			0		Coalition Captures RDF
		Alliance									0
2713	1	Coalition	8	114		4	0	5	3	27.50%	31.35	Maul CA (14)	15 Fighters (+2) D6M Shocks out
		Alliance	0	93	-2	1			5	27.50%	25.575	Direct D5 (22)	4 Fighters
2914	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats to 2813
2910	1	Coalition	0	89		1	0	5	6	35.00%	31.15	Maul DN (23)	Cripple NCL (+1), MD5 shocks out
		Alliance	0	93		4			4	30.00%	27.9	Direct D5 (22)	6 Fighters
	2 (Pursuit)	Coalition	0	30		1	1	6	1	25.00%	7.5	N	Cripple NCL (+3)
		Alliance	0	51		4			4	32.50%	16.575	Direct MD5 (8)	Cripple D5 (+2)
2708	1	Coalition	6	85		1	2	7	2	30.00%	25.5	Direct FFE (17)	8 Fighters (+1)
		Alliance	0	73	-2	4			4	30.00%	21.9	Direct D5 (22)

In hex 0617, the Coalition accepts 41 dead ships, including several scouts, escorts, and an LAV, and that including some dead in pursuit for whom there will be no salvage, to demolish all of the Hydrax PDUs. A high price, but necessary given the Coalition's evident intent to end the game via third capital knockout on CT18 or CT19. The Coalition has maintained a healthy fleet and can maybe even defend its starbases on 0615 and 0416 through AT17.

Federation space explodes with activity, but most of the fights fizzle out; neither side really has a lot to gain by trading ships and in most fights the weaker side is better off not accumulating cripples. The Coalition finally shoots out BATS 3203 with a mauler, after failing to kill it a couple of times before when they retreated from declined approaches, but elsewhere there are a few dead ships but not a lot of actual changes.

4402 is the only combat hex left.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, December 12, 2021 - 07:55 pm: Edit

So, after a lot of combat in 4402, there were high level diplomatic discussions, in which we agreed that three capitals would essentially undoubtedly fall before Alliance Turn 20, and decided that rather than make Trent suffer through two or three more turns without a lot of hope or (more to the point) things to actually do, we would close down the game. Amongst other things, if they were really going to resist, we would be in for 20+ (more) rounds over 4402, with the Alliance being progressively less competitive but unable to stop because if not now, when? Neither of us were really looking forward to, like, an entire weekend of BT+12 FFs vs. Romulan Carrier line #23A.

The plan is (sometime soon) to swap ends and run it back. I will be playing the Alliance, him the Coalition. I suspect there will be some balance options in play, but we haven't discussed it.

I'll plan to post it here, as usual, when we begin, but this is the last "game" post for HILTSWALTM.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Sunday, December 12, 2021 - 08:36 pm: Edit

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