Combat and retrograde movement are complete, and the Coalition is working on strategic movement and planning reserves.

4705	1	Coalition	2	70		1	0	5	5	32.50%	22.75	N	Destroy defenses 5 on planet.
		Alliance	2	18		4			3	27.50%	4.95	N	5 Fighters
	2	Coalition	2	65				0			0		Devastated
		Alliance	0	0							0
4203	1	Coalition	2	76		1	-2	3	3	22.50%	17.1	N	Cripple BATS, SIDS, 4 fighters
		Alliance	1	18		4			3	22.50%	4.05	N	Cripple K4
	2	Coalition	2	74		1	0	5	5	32.50%	24.05	N	Dead BATS
		Alliance	1	11		4			1	22.50%	2.475	N	(+2)
4204	1	Coalition	0	7				0			0		2 Casualties
		Alliance	0	6							0		1 Casualty (Coalition Retreat)
2713	1	Coalition	4	87		4	2	10	4	42.50%	36.975	Direct CC (28)	Cripple 2xFF (-1)
		Alliance	4	79		4			3	40.00%	31.6	N	Cripple 2xAD5, F5 (-3), 12 Fighters
	2 (Pursuit)	Coalition	4	24		1	0	5	2	25.00%	6	N	Cripple FF
		Alliance	0	42	-1	4			6	32.50%	13.65	Direct CripF5(6)	Cripple E4 (+1)
3203	1	Coalition						0			0		Declined Approach
		Alliance									0		Retreats over 3304
3304	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Kills D6
3005	1	Coalition	2	94		1	0	5	4	30.00%	28.2	N	Dead CL, 2xFF
		Alliance	0	16	-1	4			5	30.00%	4.8	N	5 fighters
2509	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead DD, retreats
2610	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats
1017	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead HR,CU, Retreats
1117	1	Coalition	0	11		1	-2	3	2	20.00%	2.2	N	2 Fighters
		Alliance	0	25		4			3	22.50%	5.625	N	Cripple E4
	2 (Pursuit)	Coalition	0	9				0			0
		Alliance	0	24							0		Dead E4

Final tallies:
Gorn:
Killed: DNT,BDS,CL, 4 PDU, SB 4402, BATS 4203
Crippled: 6xBD,5xCL,3xCC,2xBC,CM

Federation:
Killed: CC,CL,DD,3xFF
Crippled: 5xFF

Romulan:
Killed: SUP,K7R,KRM,4xSPF,2xFHC,CON [and FAL,KRM no salvage]
Crippled: FHF,10xSKE,BHE,K7R,SPF,13xWE,4xSK,5xSP,K4

Klingon:
Killed:D6,E4 (and F5 no salvage)
Crippled: 2xAD5,F5,2xE4

Hydran:
Killed: HR,CU
Crippled: None

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Monday, September 06, 2021 - 06:52 pm: Edit

The Coalition has ended turn 15, accepting that exhaustion is upon it.

Reserves are :

2 strong Lyran reserves in 1401 (where there is a Klingon Starbase going up (again));
1 Decent Lyran reserve in 0416.
1 Klingon reserve in 0718
1 Klingon reserve in 0615
1 Klingon reserve in 2106
1 Klingon reserve in 2505
2 Romulan reserves (one strong, one very decent) sitting on the FRD park and MB in 4107.
1 Romulan reserve (leftovers) on planet 3912.

The Lyrans have supply tugs in 2304 and 1708 to ensure continued supply to the FRD park in 2204.

The Lyrans are putting up a PDU in 1001, which may go unnoticed if the Capital is attacked, or not.

The Klingons have planted 4 more PDUs on Kzintai (total of 12 now - they'd love to put them elsewhere, but the Starbase isn't up yet!).

The Romulans are fixing cripples as far back as Remus...

By Kosta Michalopoulos (Kosmic) on Monday, September 06, 2021 - 07:41 pm: Edit

[Ooops. My comment moved to the appropriate thread.]

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 07:49 pm: Edit

Federation Economics Alliance Turn 15

[From Trent]

On map I have 45 (on) +59 (cap)=104
Plus 12.45 in salvage then - 6.5 in repairs and another .125 in starting treasury equals a grand total of 110.075.
I built a bunch of little ships for little attacks. I also built a dn and a few ncls to add to my big fleet. In all, I built DN,24xFF,NCA,NCL, 3xDW
I did my scout conversions using cl’s now instead of the more scarce (at this point) DD’s.
Ending treasury .575
Off map, the Feds built FCR,Command Point, ending with 24.5 EP remaining in the off map main grid.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 07:52 pm: Edit

Kzinti Economics Alliance Turn 15

The Kzinti earn 29 EPs off map, and take delivery of 20 EPs from the Federation, as well as adding 3 EPs from salvage. They began the turn with .875 EPs in treasury.

They build NCA, 3xMEC, 2xDW, FFK, DWE, BC and end the turn with 4.875 EP in treasury. They had no repairs or other construction this turn.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 07:54 pm: Edit

Hydran Economics Alliance Turn 15

On map I made 3xHR,2xTG,DE,2xFFT.

I need to get eps from the off map and need ships to defend, so the Hydrans made some ships, made a fcr off map, and are preparing to again bring EPs on map to the Capital via tugs.

The Hydrans built their 19th PDU in the Capital since they had the available EPs this turn.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 08:48 pm: Edit

Gorn Economy

	Y175S		Exploration:	30
Starting Treasury	0		FFF:	9
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map		5	13.5	42
Off Map		2	3	13
Capital	1	1		8
Captured		1	16	7.4
Transfers
Salvage				7.5
Repairs				6.5
		TOTAL INCOME		71.4
Schedule	#	Actual	#		fff	Cost
cc	1	cch	1			11
bc	1	bcm	1			10
cm	1	mcm	1			10
hd	3	hd	3			15
bd	4	bd	4			16
dd	1	dd	1			3
Total						65
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
Total						0
Activations						Cost
Total						0
Other Production						Cost
Total						0
Other Costs
Other Costs
Total						0
Grand Total						65
Ending FFF						3
Ending Treasury						6.4

Pretty simple. Build the stuff, including maulers for defense since they are allowed.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 10:47 pm: Edit

Alliance Turn 15 involves significant combat. In Gorn space, only one combat hex: The Federation slipped a boatload of FF's and a few NCL's into the Romulan FRD park. The Roms obviously thought these were headed to 4402, as they didn't arrange to pin them out of the FRD park and MB in 4107 came under attack by a decent sized but low quality Federation fleet.

Elsewhere, in Federation space, the Feds attack targets of opportunity, beating up on some isolated ships and small garrisons but avoiding most of the Klingon fleet on its significant defensive positions like 2305 and 2504.

The Hydrans retake 0519 without opposition but otherwise stay out of trouble.

The Kzinti come into 1401 with the full fleet, clearly intending to stop the Starbase upgrade... again.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 12:33 am: Edit

Finally getting time to put this up. Here is Combat so far in AT15.

[Raids were unopposed province disruption in captured provinces.]

Hex	Round	Faction	EW	ComPot	Shift	BIR	BIR Roll	Tot.BIR	Rolls	%	Damage	Direct	Damage Taken
2715	1	Coalition						0			0		Coalition retreats from a declined approach.
		Alliance									0
2714	1	Coalition	5	72		4	0	8	6	42.50%	30.6	Direct LSC (30)	(+1)
		Alliance	4	82		4			6	42.50%	34.85	N	9 Fighters, Cripple 2xF5, F5S, 2xD5 (-3)
	2 (Pursuit)	Coalition	4	33		1	-2	3	3	22.50%	7.425	N	Cripple NCL
		Alliance	0	46	-1	4			4	22.50%	10.35	Dir Crippled F5S
2413	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead F5 - Coalition retreats
		Alliance									0
2610	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead F5 - Coalition retreats
		Alliance									0
3001	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead D6 - Coalition retreats
		Alliance									0
3007	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead E4 - Coalition retreats
		Alliance									0
2509	1	Coalition	6	89		1	0	5	6	35.00%	31.15	Direct LSC (30)	(+1)
		Alliance	4	84	-1	4			4	27.50%	23.1	Direct E4 (12)	8 Fighters (+3)
2502	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead D5,E4 - Coalition retreats
		Alliance									0
4107	1	Coalition	8	94		4	-1	4	6	32.50%	30.55	N	Self kill 4xFF (-1)
		Alliance	0	20	-2	1			3	20.00%	4	N	Cripple SPF+ (-3)
	2	Coalition	8	96		4	0	5	2	25.00%	24	N	Cripple 3xFF, Self Kill FF
		Alliance	0	20	-2	1			1	17.50%	3.5	N	(+1)
	3	Coalition	8	96		4	1	6	2	27.50%	26.4	N	Cripple 2xFF, Self Kill 2xFF
		Alliance	0	20	-2	1			3	25.00%	5	N	Cripple KE (-3)
	4	Coalition	9	105		1	0	5	5	32.50%	34.125	N	Cripple 5xFF,NCL (+3)
		Alliance	0	55	-2	4			5	27.50%	15.125	Direct FRD	(-)
	5	Coalition	9	105		1	2	8	4	37.50%	39.375	Direct FF (16)	Cripple 6xFF (-3)
		Alliance	0	54	-2	5			6	37.50%	20.25	Direct FRD	Cripple KE (-2)
	6 (Pursuit)	Coalition	0	59		4	-1	4	3	35.00%	20.65	Direct	2xFF,NCL
		Alliance	0	31		1			2	22.50%	6.975	N	7 Fighters
519	1	Coalition						0			0		Dead FF - Coalition retreats

The only real fight was in the aforementioned bloodbath in 4107, where the Feds took a ton of cripples and lost 10 FF's to kill two FRD's and deal some additional random damage to the Romulan cripples (and reserves who showed up to defend them). The Romulans hadn't even considered the possibility that this obvious pinning force of a couple NCL and 20 FFs would actually attack something that had reserves in range, have the reserves actually show up, and then stay and fight.

[As it happens, I thought then and still think the price was too high, but Trent wanted those FRDs.]

1401 next!

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Monday, October 04, 2021 - 11:10 am: Edit

1401 was a predictable bloodbath. Dice started out okay on approach (Coalition 3-2-3 in three rounds against alliance 4-5-4) with an Alliance advantage that meant nothing because the Alliance was just putting up frigates to get crippled until they got in.

Over Kzintai, the dice went absolutely nuts. Seeing that the Kzinti had 112 COMPOT, the Lyrans decided not to try to protect the base with low BIR and went BIR 4, resulting in a net BIR of 8. Then the Kzinti rolled a '5' allowing them to vaporize the base in one round, while the Coalition's '4' allowed them to vaporize an entire carrier group in return (the CVA was and is fine, a CV group died here).

Predictably, in its third round of combat in anger, the STL shocks out for the second time.

Having this success, the Kzinti decide to stick another round and kill PDUs. This time, their luck runs out - BIR rolls up, the Coalition rolls a '6', and they take 119 damage "And an autokill," (as if it mattered), crippling their entire line and requiring a bunch of self kills.

Pursuit is also predictably painful:

1401	1 (Approach)	Coalition (94)	4	151		4	-1	4	3	25.00%	37.75	Dir FF(AH)(12)	6 Fighters, Cripple 5xFF
		Alliance	0	57	-1	1			4	25.00%	14.25	N	12 Fighters, Cripple TCB (-10)
	2 (Approach)	Coalition (82)	4	146		4	0	5	2	25.00%	36.5	Dir FF(AH)(12)	6 Fighters, Cripple 5xFF (-1)
		Alliance	0	57	-1	1			5	30.00%	17.1	N	6 Fighters, Cripple CC, (-8)
	3 (Approach)	Coalition (76)	4	146		4	-2	3	3	22.50%	32.85	Dir FF(AH)(12)	6 Fighters, Cripple 4xFF (-2)
		Alliance	0	56	-1	1			4	22.50%	12.6	N	5 Fighters
	4	Coalition (70)	9	249		4	-1	8	4	37.50%	93.375	Maul CVGrp (74)	Kill CV+MEC+MEC+FKE, 18 fighters
		Alliance (12 DBB)	0	112	-2	5			5	35.00%	39.2	Direct BTS (36)	6 BTS Fighters (-3)
	5	Coalition	8	237		4	2	11	6	50.00%	118.5	SK CV+2xMEC	SK FKE,CL; Cr CV+3xMEC+DWE,NCA,BC (STT NS)
		Alliance	0	112	-2	5			4	37.50%	42	Direct 3PDU (30)	9 Fighters
	6 (Pursuit)	Coalition	0	70		4	1	6	6	37.50%	26.25	Maul 36	NCA, BC, 5xFF
		Alliance	0	54	0	1			5	35.00%	18.9	N	Cripple DN,STT

Retrograde is coming.

Slow progress as we lost another half-turn to a power outage and had to reconstruct the board. I'm glad I take notes.

[Now that I look at it, my spreadsheet notes are missing the minus points for the Coalition in pursuit - since those are limited to three, the result is the same. In addition, the STL shocking out should be reflected on the fourth round (the first time the Coalition used a Mauler), probably because there wasn't room in the cell due to all the dying Kzinti.]

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Monday, October 04, 2021 - 01:27 pm: Edit

Total Casualties for AT15:

Kzinti:
Killed: 3xFF, 2xCV, 4xMEC, FKE, CL (and NCA,BC,5xFF no salvage)
Crippled: CVA, 3xMEC, DWE, 9xFF

Hydran: None

Gorn: None

Federation:
Killed: 2xLSC, 8xFF (and 2xFF, NCL no salvage)
Crippled: 14xFF

Lyran:
Killed: FF
Crippled: TCB,CC,DN,STT,STL

Klingon:
Killed: BTS->SB (1401), 3 PDU (1401), 2xF5, 2xE4, D5, D6 (and F5S no salvage)
Crippled: 2xF5, 2xD5

Romulan:
Killed: 2xFRD
Crippled: 2xKE, SPF

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 10:55 am: Edit

AT15 is over.

The Federation mostly retreats back to the Capital, abandoning most of the planets we have been fighting over to reoccupation.

The Gorns are in 4402, preparing for round three of the assault.

The Hydrans are also in their capital, and the Kzinti are in the offmap.

The Federation and Gorns, relevantly, use all their joint strategic movement to bring CVA+escorts+FCR's to the Gorn Capital.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 12:00 pm: Edit

Coalition Turn 16 Economy (Lyran Star Empire)

As usual, the Lyrans build their schedule, convert one very large ship, and do a bunch of maintenance work for the Klingons, as per their treaty (apparently). The Lyrans repaired Klingons, only Klingons, and the Klingons did not repair any Klingons this turn. The only crippled Lyrans are in 1401 (where of course there is no repair capacity at all.)

75% exhaustion is now included in the spreadsheet formulas for all Coalition factions.

The lack of repairs in recent turns has really assisted in permitting the Coalition to keep the pedal down.

Year/Turn	Y176S	Coalition T16	Exploration:	171 + 9 = 180
Starting Treasury		85.05	FFF:	9
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	3	3	16	56
Off Map	2	2	11	38
Capital	4	5		35
Captured		5	11.4	16.4
Transfers				7
Salvage				0.625
Repairs				17
TOTAL INCOME AFTER REPAIRS				99.675
Starting Command Points:				1
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
DN	1	CVA	1	9FFF		24
CA	1	CA	1			8
NCA	1	NSC	1			10
CW	3	3xCWE	3			18
DW	3	DWE,2xFF	3			10
FF	2	FF	2			5
FF	1	FCR	1			9.5
Total						84.5
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
CL	1	BC	1		408	6
Total						6
Activations						Cost
Total						0
Other Production						Cost
MB						10
Total						10
Other Costs
Total						0
Grand Total						100.5
Ending FFF						0
Ending Treasury						84.225
Ending CP						1

Repairs
Hex	Ships	EPs	By
2204	2xF5,F5E,2xAD5	6	FRD
2204	AD5	1.5	FRD
416	D5, 2xE4	3.5	FRD
416	3xD6	6	FRD
	Total	17

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 12:05 pm: Edit

Coalition Turn 16 Economy (Klingon Empire)

The Klingons catch a breath and successfully upgrade their battleship, not that it will likely see a lot of action in the very near future, with the Federation content to trade the same few planets for the last few turns and to make progress mostly by murdering province raiders every turn.

Other than that, it turns out that (to my eyes) upgrading D5's to DW's isn't a terrible deal, so we do some of that.

3 PDUs will replace those destroyed in 1401.

Year/Turn	Y176S	Coalition T16	Exploration:	97 + 6 = 103
Starting Treasury		79.775	FFF:	12
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	4	7	26	93
Off Map	0	0	5	10
Capital	5	8		49
Captured	3	7	39.2	52.2
Transfers
Salvage				9.975
Repairs	and DBB	DBB		0
TOTAL INCOME AFTER REPAIRS				163.125
Starting Command Points				5
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
C8	1	C8	1			16
D7	2	E4	2			5
D5	8	8xD5	8			40
D5W	1	DWS	1			10
F5Q (F5L,2xF5)	2	6xE4	6			15
F5W	3	3xF5W	3			12
E4	1	E4R	1			9.5
Total						107.5
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
F6	1	F6E	1		1411(1)	1
B10	1	B11V	1	8 FFF	1411(1)	4
D5	3	ADW	3		1411(2,2,3)	9
D5	1	DWL	1		1411(3)	4
Total						18
Activations						Cost
Total						0
Other Production						Cost
F6	1					0
PDU	3					21
Total						21
Other Costs
Total						0
Grand Total						146.5
Ending FFF						0
Ending Treasury						96.4
Ending CP						6

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 12:10 pm: Edit

Coalition Turn 16 Economy (Romulan Empire)

The Romulans would have liked to spend a lot more EPs on repairs, but with two dead FRD's and a shortage of capacity anyway, that isn't happening. They do get to use the "plasma exception" which I was glad I remembered, once.

They start replacing the fleet of maulers that died en masse last turn, but it will take a bit.

The Romulans are foreseeably going to need some cash from somewhere... or some help.

Year/Turn	Y176S	Coalition T16	Exploration:	29 + 11 = 40
Starting Treasury		29.825	FFF:	12
Income	Major	Minor	Provinces	TOTAL INCOME
On Map	1	4	31	79
Off Map			2	4
Capital	2	8		34
Captured		5	18.8	23.8
Transfers
Salvage				20
Repairs				41
TOTAL INCOME AFTER REPAIRS				84.6
Starting Command Points:				2
Schedule	#	Actual	#		Hex	Cost
NH	1	SUP	1	4 FFF		11
FH	1	FHF	1			10
SP	5	SPF, 4xSP	1			27
SK	3	2xSK, SKR	3			19.5
SEH	1	SEH	1			2.5
WE	1	WE	1			6
SN	1	SN	1			2.5
Total						78.5
Conversion Program			Actually Produced		Hex	Cost
WE	1	KE	1		4613	3
						3
Activations						Cost
2xSN						2
Total						2
Other Production						Cost
Total						0
Other Costs
Total						0
Grand Total						83.5
Ending FFF						8
Ending Treasury						30.925
Ending CP						2

Repairs
Hex	Ships	EPs	By
4107	2xSPF,2xSP	6	FRD
4012	2xSK	2	BATS
4010	KR	2	BATS
3914	KE	2	BATS
4110	KRC	2.5	BATS
4310	KE	2	BATS
4510	KE	2	BATS
4710	2xK4	2	BATS
4910	K4,SKE	2	BATS
5010	KE	2	BATS
4611	KE	2	BATS
4411	3xKE,2xSKE	8	SB
4514	FHP,FHF,SPC	6.5	SB
	Total	41

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 09:28 pm: Edit

Coalition Raids Turn 16

Klingons raid the Feds with a CF each to 3201 and 3308, each time against abstract POLs.

Romulans raid the Gorns with an FFH each to 4201 and 4707, again opposed by abstract police ships.

In each hex the POL is at -4 and the fast cruiser at +2:

3201: Klingons roll 7+2=9 (2 Casualties), Federation rolls 4 - 4 = 0 (no casualties)
3308: Klingons roll 11+2=13 (6 Casualties), Federation rolls Federation rolls 10 - 4 = 6 (1 casualty)
4707: Romulans roll 11+2=13 (6 Casualties), Gorn rolls 11 - 4 = 7 (1 casualty)
4008: Romulans roll 11+2=13 (6 Casualties), Gorn rolls 11 - 4 = 7 (1 casualty)

Thus, all but the raid in 3201 fail, since the defender's roll is a lot more important!

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Sunday, October 10, 2021 - 10:49 pm: Edit

CT16 Operational Moves have begun.

So far the Coalition has dropped some absurd number of ships on the Hydran capital, and attacked the Hydran ships in 1117 and the undefended planet at 0519.

Coalition intentions in the Capital are probably deductible from the fact that nearby Aux Carriers did NOT arrive with the fleet (although there's nothing stopping them following) and this being the fourth turn since the outer planets were devastated.

But who knows!

The Hydran reserves are pinned in 0617.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Monday, October 11, 2021 - 11:50 am: Edit

[As an aside, three repairs by the Klingons were discovered after econs were posted. The Klingons also repaired 2xAD5, E4 at Starbase 2318 for four additional EPs.]

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 01:07 am: Edit

Moves continue, now accumulating in Federation space. It appears that after having drained Southern Federation Space almost entirely over several turns, the Klingons are now going to pay attention again (in part because the skeleton crew in the South wasn't going to be able to reopen supply to the Orion zone).

The C8V Vindicator and about twenty ships are facing off with a battle line of Feds in 2714, a Klingon D6 has stepped back on undefended planet in 2715 (these battle hexes are NOT in range of the four strong reserves in the Capital).

In 2808 another C8V group that didn't have a really good target is attacking a small stack of Feds who were floating around apparently looking for a fight.

In 2810 a decent sized Klingon fleet is attacking several Feds on the planet, and a small fleet is attacking three Feds in 2711.

Moves continue; lots of Klingons left to move, and all the Romulans.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 04:13 pm: Edit

Coalition Operational Movement

In Hydran space, three combat hexes:

0519: Four Lyrans stepping on an undefended and devastated planet.
0617: 220+ Lyrans and Klingons against 160+ Hydrans, over a bunch of planets denuded of PDUs but about to recover from devastation and the SB+20 PDU at Hydrax.
1117: A battle line of Klingons against a few Hydran CWs and FFs

In Federation space, the Klingons spread out and try to hit everything that isn't nailed down (that is, everything that isn't within 2 of Earth):

2608: Several wandering Feds being attacked by a Klingon force led by C8V Apocalypse.
2610: Almost 30 Klingons attacking a force of four Federation FFs led by a CA, defending the planet.
2711: Ten Klingons attacking four Feds.
2714: 20 Klingons led by C8V Vindicator against ten Feds that reserved into the area last turn.
3005: Five Klingons led by a D5 retaking an undefended devastated planet.
3203: A decent fleet of Klingons (27 ships with carriers and fighters) attacking the BATS that links the Feds to the off map area.
3206: Six Klingons (2xD6,4xE4) attacking a BATS.
3211: The Romulan first Star Legion (10 Ships) against 3 Feds (and maybe four more that can react in - waiting for this response)
3306: A reinforced battle line of Klingons attacking a major planet with 4 PDUS where a pile of crippled FF's returning from Romulan space are parked.

3509: The Romulan Second Star Legion (9 ships) attacking a devastated planet defended by 5 Feds (2xCA 3xFF).


In Gorn Space:

4402: Approximately 160 Feds and Gorns (including 20 Gorn Cripples) defend the shipyard from about 90 Romulans, all fixed defenses having been deleted previously. Given the numbers the Gorns will certainly win, but the actual balance of forces is closer than the numbers, as the Gorns and Feds have a -lot- of 5 COMPOT ships and will be giving away EW and fighters.

In noncombat movement, the Klingons move some repairs that weren't on an SMN this turn to captured planet 2509, the Lyrans retreat their cripples from 1401 towards repair, and the Romulans shift some FF's around to more efficiently garrison provinces.

The only operational movement left is the Romulans figuring out where all their ruined ships (something like 38 cripples just in 4107) are going to go to meet mechanically inclined Romulans or subject peoples.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 05:08 pm: Edit

All four Federation reserves head to hex 3203 to protect the lifeline to the off map area. With the Hydrans and Gorns fighting in their capital hexes and all quiet on the Kzinti front, these are the only relevant Reserves.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 03:24 pm: Edit

Combat is complete on CT16.

Hex	Round	Faction	EW	ComPot	Shift	BIR	BIR Roll	Tot.BIR	Rolls	%	Damage	Direct	Damage Taken
617	1 (Appr.)	Coalition	8	99		1	0	5	3	27.50%	27.225	Maul HR (12)	3 HR Fighters, 12 Fighters
		Alliance (313)	1	113	-2	4			4	25.00%	28.25	Direct STT (28)
	2 (Appr.)	Coalition	7	98		1	0	5	2	25.00%	24.5	Direct HR (22)	2 HR Fighters (1 HR Fighter re-seated)
		Alliance	1	113	-2	4			1	17.50%	19.775	N	6 Fighters, Cripple 2xCW
	3-5	Coalition						0			0		All planets redevastated for fighters
		Alliance									0
519	1	Coalition						0			0		Planet captured
		Alliance									0
1117	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead CU - retreats 1116
2608	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead NCL - retreats 2708
2610	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF - retreats 2710
2711	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF - retreats 2710
2714	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead NCL,FF - Retreats 2813
3306	1	Coalition	6	71		4	1	6	3	30.00%	21.3	N	21 Fighters
		Alliance	4	42	-1	1			6	35.00%	14.7	N	Cripple 2xD5S
	2	Coalition	0	77	-1	4	1	9	4	37.50%	28.875	N	Capture planet.
		Alliance	4	15		4			5	42.50%	6.375	N	Cripple F5L
3206	1	Coalition	0	30	-1	4	-1	7	2	27.50%	8.25	N	2 SIDS
		Alliance	1	18		4			2	30.00%	5.4	N	Cripple E4 (+1)
	2	Coalition	0	26	-1	4	-1	7	2	27.50%	7.15	N	6 Fighters (+1)
		Alliance	1	18		4			4	35.00%	6.3	N	Cripple D6 (-1)
	3	Coalition	0	22	-1	4	-1	7	3	30.00%	6.6	N	Dead BATS
		Alliance	1	12		4			1	27.50%	3.3	N	Cripple E4 (-2)
3203	1	Coalition	3	77		1	0	5	2	25.00%	19.25	Direct DW	(+1)
		Alliance	4	96		4			3	27.50%	26.4	N	Self Kill E4, 22 fighters
3210	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats
3509	1	Coalition						0			0
		Alliance									0		Dead FF, retreats
4402	1	Coalition (151)	8	103		1	2	7	2	30.00%	30.9	Maul DE (15)	Cripple 3xFF (+1) SPF+ Shocks
		Alliance(45F12G)	1	102	-2	4			2	25.00%	25.5	Maul K7R (18)	8 Fighters MCM No Shock
	2	Coalition (143)	8	100		1	2	7	4	35.00%	35	Maul DE (14)	Cripple 4xFF (+2)
		Alliance	1	104	-2	4			3	27.50%	28.6	Maul WE(9)	Cripple SPF+, 13 Fighters, MCM No Shock
	3	Coalition (130)	8	101		1	0	5	2	25.00%	25.25	Maul DE (14)	Cripple FF, 7 A-10s
		Alliance	1	101	-2	4			3	22.50%	22.725	Maul BHE (10)	12 Fighters
	4	Coalition (118)	8	96		1	0	5	6	35.00%	33.6	Maul HD (15)	Cripple SC, 14 Fighters,
		Alliance	1	101	-2	4			6	30.00%	30.3	N (Auto)	18 Ftr, Self Kill SPF+, Crip SP (-6) (MCM Shock)
	5	Coalition (100)	8	96		1	0	5	3	27.50%	26.4	Maul HD (15)	11 Fighters, MCM No Shock
		Alliance (24f12g)	1	98	-2	4			5	27.50%	26.95	Maul FHM (21)	SPF+ Shocks
	6	Coalition (100)	8	100		1	0	5	1	22.50%	22.5	Maul HD (22)	1 Fighter, BCM Shocks
		Alliance(13f12g)	1	98	-2	4			5	27.50%	26.95	Maul FHM (20)	7 Fighters
	7	Coalition (93)	8	98		1	2	7	2	30.00%	29.4	Maul BC (23)	6 Fighters
		Alliance	1	111	-2	4			6	35.00%	38.85	N (Auto)	18 Fighters, Self Kill SPF, Cripple KRC, MCM No S
	8	Coalition (75)	8	95		1	-2	3	4	25.00%	23.75	Direct CL (24)
		Alliance	1	111	-2	4			5	22.50%	24.975	Direct KRC (20)	5 Fighters
	9	Coalition (70)	8	95		1	-1	4	1	20.00%	19	Direct BD (18)
		Alliance	1	111	-2	4			1	15.00%	16.65	Maul SP (12)	5 Fighters
	10	Coalition (65)	8	95		1	0	5	5	32.50%	30.875	Direct BC (30)	1 Fighter
		Alliance	1	111	-2	4			6	30.00%	33.3	Direct KE (18)	15 Fighters, MCM No Shock
	11	Coalition (50)	8	93		1	0	5	4	30.00%	27.9	Direct CL (24)	4 Fighters
		Alliance	1	110	-2	4			2	20.00%	22	Direct KE (18)	4 Fighters
	12	Coalition (46)	8	96		1	2	7	3	32.50%	31.2	Maul BC (20)	Cripple 2xCL (-5) FHF No Shock
		Alliance(13f7g)	1	118	-2	4			1	22.50%	26.55	Maul SP (12)	15 Fighters, MCM Shocks out
	13	Coalition (31)	8	96		1	2	7	1	27.50%	26.4	Maul BC (20)	(+1)
		Alliance	1	117	-2	4			5	32.50%	38.025	Maul SP (12)	18 Fighters, Cripple SP, FHF (-9)
	14	Coalition (13)	7	106		1	0	5	6	35.00%	37.1	N (Auto)	Cripple SC,3xBD,CL, Self Kill CL (-5)
		Alliance	1	121	-2	4			5	27.50%	33.275	Maul SPC (14)	12 Fighters, Cripple FAL (-3),BCM No Shock
	15 (Pursuit)	Coalition (1)	0	84		1	2	7	1	27.50%	23.1	N	Cripple BF,MCM
		Alliance	0	65		4			5	37.50%	24.375	Maul	3xSPF+,FAL

The Romulans took a fairly efficiency minded approach, making no attempt to take the shipyard against the odds this turn and instead shooting for the biggest hulls they could after killing the various Federation escorts necessary to push the CVA off the line. They had an EW advantage throughout, and took fighters aggressively to protect their ships. As a result, after a brutal pursuit round, they had only a few additional cripples (although the Romulans will be running their repair capacity for a turn or two just to clear the backlog.

Elsewhere, the Klingons took advantage of the Federation bunkering in the capital and in Gorn space to spread further toward the Gorns themselves, and also to reoccupy the southern Federation channel to the Orion sector, which had been in danger of being cut off for a couple of turns.

Hydran space was pretty quiet; the big battle in 0617 ended up amounting to a couple rounds of approach, and then the Hydrans hung out at Hydrax while the Coalition dropped rocks from orbit on all the poor Hydran outer planets. Hydrax retains 20 PDU and the entire Hydran fleet (less a couple of stragglers) as protection.

Total Casualties:

Hydran:
Killed: 2xHR, CU
Crippled: None

Lyran:
Killed: STT
Crippled: 2xCW

Klingons:
Killed: E4
Crippled: 2xD5S,F5L,D6, E4

Federation:
Killed: 2xNCL,5xFF, 3xDE, (4xPDU,BATS)
Crippled: 8xFF

Kzinti:
None

Gorns:
Killed: 3xHD,3xCL,BD,4xBC
Crippled: 2xSC,2xBCM,2xMCM,3xCL,3xBD,BF

Romulans:
Killed:K7R,WE,BHE,2xFHM,SPF,KRC,3xSP,2xKE, SPC (and 3xSPF,FAL no salvage)
Crippled: FHF,KRC,2xSP

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Monday, November 01, 2021 - 12:16 am: Edit

CT16 is over.

The Coalition has reserves in 0416, 2106, 2405, and 4107, and the Romulans have pretty much every base within twelve of 4402 repairing ships this turn (looks like the total is 55.5 EP).

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Monday, November 01, 2021 - 11:52 am: Edit

An important note:

The Klingon conquest of BATS 3206 and planet 3306 this turn means that there is no SMN link between the Federation and Gorn capitals. This is essential because it means no new reinforcements from the capital. The Federation does have one fleet within 12 of 4402 however, at BATS 3203 (Essentially four full reserves from CT16 that chased off a significant Klingon fleet.) So they can still get those into the Gorn capital if they want, with BATS 3804 still alive to support them.

By Graham Cridland (Grahamcridland) on Tuesday, November 02, 2021 - 02:35 pm: Edit

Further Note:

[I neglected this in my write up, and I usually include placement of fixed defenses, so:]

In strategic movement the Klingons replaced the three dead PDUs on 1401 (Kzintai) and the Lyrans schlepped a Mobile Base to the same location and began setting it up.

[Deja Vu all over again.]