CT12

The Coalition forgot to do raids, and then we remembered to do raids, so the Coalition successfully raided 3 Alliance provinces (1801, 2606, 3107). Nothing dramatic, but at least something.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Wednesday, February 02, 2022 - 06:33 pm: Edit

CT12

Moves are done and reserves have been deployed.

On the Hydran front, there are 3 battle hexes; 0211 and 0312 are both about 15 Lyran ships vs 6 Hydran ships each, where 2HN will die. 0218 sees about 30 Hydrans vs about 50 Klingons (the Hydrans will probably lose a CU and retreat). The Coalition did not attack SB 0215 and the main Hydran fleet.

On the Kzinti front, 4 battle hexes. Planet 1001 will see a ZIN FF die and the planet get recaptured; planet 1105 will see the planet recaptured with no opposition; planet 1504 will see a small Coalition ship die as the planet is saved by a reserve. SB 1704 sees about 150 Coalition facing about 100 SEQ of Kzinti. It is unclear if the Coalition plan on trying to kill the SB (which they can certainly do with SIDS if they are inclined).

On the Fed/Klingon front, 6 battle hexes. Planets 2106 and 2509 will be recaptured with no opposition. Planet 2306 will be saved by a reserve, killing a small Klingon. 2308 sees 4 Feds fighting 4 Klingons; Klingons have an advantage, but not a huge one. Planet 2610 sees a Fed reserve vs a modest Klingon fleet in a probably even fight. Planet 2708 sees about 50 Klingons vs about 60 Feds, including a reserve.

The Fed/Romulan front sees 3 battle hexes. Planet 3210 will be recaptured with no opposition. Planet 3612 will be recaptured, killing a small Fed. SB 3611 has about 110 Romulans facing about 80 Feds over the SB.

Not a huge number of battle hexes, but possibly 2 Starbases exploding this turn.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, February 03, 2022 - 03:58 pm: Edit

CT12

Combat is well underway. Most of the one and done combat hexes are concluded--in Hydran space, not much happened. The Hydrans lost a couple HNs in Lyran space, and traded a TR for a D5 in hex 0218 and retreated, but are still on the map. SB 0215 was unattacked this turn.

In Kzinti space, the Coalition recaptured planets 1001 (killing an FF) and 1105, but were repelled from planet 1504 by a reserve (losing an E4). There is still a giant pile of ships on SB 1704 and it remains to be seen what happens there.

On the Klingons front, the Klingons recaptured planets 2106, 2509, and 3210, but were repelled from planet 2610 by a reserve. There is still a big fight over planet 2708 where the Feds have a ship advantage and the 4PDUs still, but it seems likely the Klingons can get in and maul the PDUs if that is their plan.

The Romulans recaptured planet 3612 (killing an FF), and are currently engaged in combat over SB 3611. Both sides have spent a command point, but not much has happened yet; in R1, the Feds rolled bad (a 1 vs a 4 at BIR4), the Romulans mauled a SB SID, and the Feds killed a scout on the line. Seems likely the battle will last a while.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, February 05, 2022 - 08:51 am: Edit

CT12

The battle over SB 3611 is 4 rounds in, and it isn't going real hot for the Feds. So far, the Romulans have rolled 4, 6, 4, 6 where the Feds have rolled 1, 4, 1, 4. On the upside, the Feds have had a -1EW advantage most of the time (with a -2 one of the times).

The Romulans have mauled 4SIDs so far, crippling a bunch of NCLs and FFs so far; the Fed have killed all the small scouts the Romulans could put on the line, lots of fighters, and crippled a bunch of cruisers. One mauler has shocked out, one was self crippled, but there are plenty in the hex.

The Romulans had more fighters in the hex at the start than the Feds did, and still have more fighters in the hex, as the Feds are running out. SB will certainly be destroyed.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Saturday, February 05, 2022 - 02:50 pm: Edit

Unless the dice gods swich over

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, February 05, 2022 - 03:58 pm: Edit

Heh, nah, at this point, even if the Feds roll 6's every round till the SB is crippled (they didn't on R5, it was a Fed 4, Rom 3, which is, well, at least something!), the SB still goes down. The Romulans have a lot of ships and a lot of fighters, and plenty to take damage on. I mean, it would be nice if the Feds rolled 6's for the next 3 rounds and all, as it would cripple a lot of ships, but they SB till gets sunk regardless.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, February 05, 2022 - 09:49 pm: Edit

And just when have the Dice Gods ever favored you, Gregory?? I do remember your "luck" in our face-to-face games.


Garth L. Getgen

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, February 05, 2022 - 10:47 pm: Edit

CT12

For the last 4 rounds of combat over SB 3611, the dice turned around, and the Feds outrolled the Romulans, but not devastatingly so. The 8 rounds have been:

-ROM: 4, 6, 4, 6, 3, 2, 2, 1

-FED: 1, 4, 1, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3

The Romulans have had at least a -1EW shift every round. On R1, VBIR rolled down 2 for the first time in the fight, and between the Romulans picking BIR1 and rolling a 1 with a -1EW shift, they couldn't maul the last SB SID (only did 15 damage total), so they have to fight a 9th round to cripple the SB.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, February 06, 2022 - 08:40 am: Edit

CT12

SB 3611 blows up after 9 rounds of actual combat and a clean up round.

For the 9 rounds:

-ROM rolled: 4, 6, 4, 6, 3, 2, 2, 1, 6 (avg 3.8)

-FED rolled: 1, 4, 1, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3 (avg 3)

So the Feds came back around some the second half of the fight, but didn't roll any 6's (and totally would have taken the free autokill), where the Romulans rolled 3 of them (mauling SIDs every time, so no free autokills).

After 9 rounds (as noted above, R8 saw the Romulans totally forget to shoot and only score 15 damage with a BIR too low to maul), the Feds evacuated the crippled SB and fled, having burned the last of their fighters on R9. R10 saw the Romulans just kill the crippled SB for some fighters.

Total Carnage:

ROM Killed: SKF, 2K5S, 3K5, 3SK
ROM Crippled: 2KRM, FAL, 5KE, FH, 4SPF, 10SP, 2SK, BH, 2K5 (94 points of repair).

FED Killed: SAV, SB
FED Crippled: CC, 4NCL, 11FF (38 points of repair).

The Feds killed 3 small scouts early (requiring the Romulans to replace a cruiser with a SE to avoid a -2 shift for the rest of the fight, lowering their compot by, like, 7), and then killed 5 point ships each round to keep ship numbers down while maximizing other cripples. If the Feds had just dropped that damage, they would have crippled another 20 cruisers, which certainly would have been ugly in the short run (but only an extra dozen SEQ missing this upcoming turn), but in the long run, I'd rather kill 9 ships.

A few maulers shocked out, but most of them were self crippled. The Fed self killed the SAV on the line in the middle of the fight 'cause it was going to die anyway, and it saved an FF from getting crippled.

The Klingons have now moved in to destroy Kzinti SB 1704, which also will certainly go down (there are, like, 180 ships and 120 fighters attacking in the hex; the Kzinti have about 100 SEQ, so certainly can fight, but the SB will certainly get SIDs to death if the Klingons are so inclined).

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, February 06, 2022 - 06:30 pm: Edit

CT12

Combat over SB 1704 is now 3 rounds in. The Kzinti are rolling nuts with a 6, 5, 6 in the first 3 rounds; the Klingons are rolling terribly with 1, 2, 2. The Klingons mauled a couple MSCs on the line the first 2 rounds, leaving the Kzinti with only a TGS and a couple SF in the hex, but on R3, the Klingons packed the. line with D6Ds, and the ZIN dialed the SB to 18/6EW, to about break even with the Klingon EW for neutral. I suspect that the Klingons are gonna start mauling SIDs this round, and the Kzinti dropped 49 damage with a free auto kill on R3.

The Klingons are getting kicked in the teeth, currently, but they'll still kill the SB if they want.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Monday, February 07, 2022 - 08:16 am: Edit

CT12

Combat over SB 1704 continues, and things have turned around for the Klingons, rolling 6's on both R6 and R7 (with the Kzinti rolling 2 and 1 respectively, seeing the Klingons do the same, or more damage in both rounds), allowing the Klingons to shoot down the last good Kzinti scout (the TTS in the scout position), leaving the Kzinti with a couple of SFs and the SB for EW support (which means that the Kzinti are losing, like, 20+ compot to avoid an EW shift, which may or may not be a god idea, but the napkin math I have done suggests it saves the Kzinti a couple points of damage compared to a -2 shift). The Klingons have numerous D5S, at least one D6S, half a dozen D6Ds, and, like, 10F5Ss still.

After 6 rounds, the SB has only taken 3 of 8 SIDs still, but maybe the Klingons will maul another SID on R7, leave the Kzinti with a giant pile of damage to take, and still not come out looking that bad.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Monday, February 07, 2022 - 07:59 pm: Edit

CT12

And SB 1704 went down in a late battle disaster, as the Klingons rallied from their earlier failure and then rolled insane for the last 5 of 10 rounds of combat.

The battle ended on R10 when the Kzinti were out of fighters, and took all but one SID hit on the SB, fleeting under the cover of the crippled, 1SID SB.

For the 10 rounds, the dice were:

-KLI: 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5 (avg 4.1)

-ZIN: 6, 5, 6, 1, 4, 2, 1, 6, 2, 2 (avg 3.5)

That is, indeed, four Klingon 6's in a row capped off by a 5. Gah.

The ZIN lost TTS (scout tug), 2MSC; crippled 2CC, 6CL, 3DD, 4FFK (43 points of repair).

The Coalition lost 4D6D, 4F5E, F5S, DW; crippled 2D6M, 3CC, D7, 11D5, 2STJ, DW, F5L (73 points of repair).

After R10, the Kzinti fled with no fighters under cover of the crippled SB with a single SID left (and also no fighters) that was killed by the Klingons for some fighters.

The Klingons had way better EW than the Romulans did; the Kzinti had a -2EW shift advantage for the first couple rounds (till both MSCs were blown up), and then had to shift the SB down by 18 compot to even out the EW for the rest of the fight (which, again, seemed like a better plan than having a -2 shift, and I'm pretty sure I came out marginally ahead by neutralizing the EW instead of having, like, 20 extra compot on the line and a -2 shift).

One fight left, over Fed planet 2708 (still with all 4PDUs).

By Jason Langdon (Jaspar) on Monday, February 07, 2022 - 09:04 pm: Edit

Not only did the Feds start with a lot of 6s, then the Klingons finish with a lot of 6s, but I also rolled for shock 5 or 6 times across the 2 SB battles and I only succeeded on 1 of them.

So many 6s !!

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Tuesday, February 08, 2022 - 02:43 am: Edit

Jason

'Succeeded' - as in 'passed the shock roll' or failed it?

i.e. Did 1 Mauler Shock or 3/4 Shock?

Dice certainly flipped - about the best the Kzinti can say is they rolled higher earlier - which is generally better than rolling higher later (as compot drops generally)?

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, February 08, 2022 - 10:41 am: Edit

The Coalition shocked out 5 or 6 maulers, which was way more than reasonable, given the number of rolls involved (they probably shocked out, like, 6 of 8 maulers that rolled for shock between the two SB assaults).

The Kzinti rolling hot early was certainly helpful, but they only got a single auto kill out of it (BIR rolled low on one of them, and the 3rd 6 rolled was at BIR3), but the big issue was that the Coalition rolling all those 6's late happened at the point when the Kzinti didn't really have much left to take damage on, so that string of 6's resulted in the battle ending a couple rounds earlier than expected. The last round, the Klingons rolled a 5 (compared to the ZIN's 2), dropped 45 damage on the Kzinti, and all they really had to take damage on was a few FFs, maybe some escorts if they wanted to hit them, the only remaining fighters in the hex, and then whatever SIDs were left. So they burned all their fighters, took 5SIDs on the SB (7 and 8 for the uncrippled side, and then 3 on the crippled SB, leaving a crippled, fighter less SB with 1 SID hit left), crippled a couple more FFs, and fled.

The Kzinti certainly could have crippled a bunch more ships and fought longer, but they were going to need to cripple escorts and carriers to do that, and they didn't want to cripple escorts and carriers. As now there are a bunch of angry, forward deployed Kzinti in range of Klingon SB 1509 and various other things the Klingons probably want to avoid getting killed.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, February 08, 2022 - 06:55 pm: Edit

CT12

Combat is over!

The last fight was over Fed planet 2708, where the Feds kept the Klingons out for 2 rounds (having a EW advantage doesn't help on the second round when the Klingons roll another 6), and then they came into the planet, mauled all 4PDU, the Feds crippled a bunch of ships, the Klingons fled, the Feds pursued, trading a SWAC for a dead crippled D7C.

Ships Killed:

ZIN: TTS (scout tug), 2MSC, FF (SB 1704)
HYD: TR, 2HN
FED: DE, CL, 2FF, SAV, (SWAC), (SB 3611), (4PDU)

LYR: DW, FF
KLI: 4D6D, 2D5, 5F5E, F5S, F5, E4, (D7C)
ROM: SKF, 3SK, 2K5S, 3K5

So 12 Alliance ships killed (and 2SB); 26 Coalition ships killed, which might be the highest number so far this game.

A grim turn for the Alliance, as 2 important SB go down.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, February 08, 2022 - 06:55 pm: Edit

CT12

Combat is over!

The last fight was over Fed planet 2708, where the Feds kept the Klingons out for 2 rounds (having a EW advantage doesn't help on the second round when the Klingons roll another 6), and then they came into the planet, mauled all 4PDU, the Feds crippled a bunch of ships, the Klingons fled, the Feds pursued, trading a SWAC for a dead crippled D7C.

Ships Killed:

ZIN: TTS (scout tug), 2MSC, FF (SB 1704)
HYD: TR, 2HN
FED: DE, CL, 2FF, SAV, (SWAC), (SB 3611), (4PDU)

LYR: DW, FF
KLI: 4D6D, 2D5, 5F5E, F5S, F5, E4, (D7C)
ROM: SKF, 3SK, 2K5S, 3K5

So 12 Alliance ships killed (and 2SB); 26 Coalition ships killed, which might be the highest number so far this game.

A grim turn for the Alliance, as 2 important SB go down.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 03:46 pm: Edit

CT12

The turn is over!

In Hydran space, not much happened. A few small ships blew up, the Hydrans still have some space and SB 0215. The Coalition have a giant fleet over 0617, including a solid reserve, and about 50 ships (including a solid reserve) on SB 0411.

In Kzinti space, the Coalition killed SB 1704 and recaptured planets 1001 and 1105. The Coalition moved a lot of ships to LYR SB 1407 (about 150 ships, including a solid reserve); a solid reserve on SB 1509; about 35 ships on BATS 1807; about 20 ships on BATS 1809.

On the Fed/Klingon front, the Klingons recaptured planets 2106, 2509, and 3210. The burned the 4PDUs on planet 2708, but left it undevastated, in Fed hands. Most significant piles of Klingon ships moved back to hex 2914 (with 2xSB being finished this turn), where there are about 80 ships, including a light reserve.

On the Fed/Romulan front, the Romulans killed SB 3611 and recaptured planet 3612. The Romulans are mostly inside Romulan space, focused on the NW corner--about 20 ships in 3715; about 30 ships in 4012; about 25 ships in 4010; about 15 ships in 4310. There are light Romulan reserves in 4015 and 4812; a solid reserve in 4613.

The Coalition spent 56 EPs on field repair between the three empires. The Klingons spent upwards of 15 EPs on drone bombardment this turn.

Map:
http://www.lightlink.com/pdb6/SCD4CT12end.html

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 05:08 pm: Edit

AT12

y174 FA T12

Kzinti Econ:

Command Points: 0+1=1 (AT12)

Exploration: (3) 105+11=116 (+5, 130 next)

Treasury: 44.675 (CT12)

Off Map Stockpile: 6.5 (AT12)

On Map Provinces (24): 14
Off Map Provinces (6): 16
Captured Provinces: 0
On Map Planets: (52): 21
Off Map Planets: (11): 11
Captured Planets: 0
Smuggled:

Total EP: 106.675

Construction T12:
-2+.5 FF (DN, off map, .5 off map stockpile)
-2.5 FF (BC)
-6 NCA
-15 3CM
-12 3DW
-9 3FFK
-6 2SP
-5 CP

Construction Total: 57.5 (0.5 off map)

Conversions:
-2 CVL>CVD (1401, 7.5 FFF)
-1+1.5 FF>FCR (1401, 4.5 FFF)
(-3 CM>MSC off map)

Conversion Total: 4.5 (3 off map)

Repairs:
(-3 2CM off map)

Repair Total: (3 off map)

Adopt Homeless Ships: 0 (1 line LTT).

Total Spent: 62.5 (6.5 off map)

Treasury: 44.675 (AT12)

Off Map Stockpile: 0 (AT12)

FFF Left: 0 (AT12)

DBB:

Salvage:
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Hydran Econ:

Command Points: 1+1=2 (AT12)

Exploration: (3) 86+13=99 (+4, 100 next)

Treasury: 42.65 (CT12)

On Map Provinces (22): 3
Off Map Provinces (4): 12
Captured Provinces: 2
On Map Planets: (35): 0
Off Map Planets: (13): 13
Captured Planets: 0
Guild Treasury: 5 (25/30 AT12)

Total EP: 77.65

Construction T12:
-15 Shipyard #5
-5 2CU (0215, off map)
-5 DE (3 OCS FFF off map)
-0 PGV
-5 CP

Construction Total: 30

Conversions:
2+2 2LN>DE (0215)

Conversion Total: 4

Repairs:

Repair Total:

Total Spent: 34

Treasury: 43.65 (AT12)

FFF Left: 0 (OCS Hybrid)

Salvage:

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Federation Econ:

Command Points: 1+1=2 (AT12)

Exploration: (8): 160+29=189 (+7, 190 next)

Treasury: 113.5 (CT12)

On Map Provinces (92): 53
Off Map Provinces (6): 20
Captured Provinces: 0.6
On Map Planets: (123): 89
Captured Planets: 0

Total EP: 276.1

Construction T12:
-18 CVA (15 FFF)
-9 3FF (ECL, 2DE)
-9 CC
-6 TG
-7 NCD
-45 9NCL
-36 12FF (2204, 3604)
-0 SWAC
-7 PDU (Earth, now 19)
-5 CP

Construction Total: 142

Activations T12:
-1 CA
-3 3CL
-3 3FF

Activation Total: 7

Conversions:
-4 DD>SC (2908)
-2 2DD>DE (2908)
-3 3FF>FFE (2204)

Conversion Total: 9

Repairs:

Repair Total:

Adopt Homeless Ships:

Total Spent: 158

Treasury: 118.1 (AT12)

DBB:

FFF Left: 0

Salvage:

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Gorn Econ:

Command Points:

Exploration: (2): 0+5=5 (+0, 20 next)

Treasury: 0

On Map Provinces (36): 36
Off Map Provinces (6): 6
Captured Provinces: 0: 0
On Map Planets: (45): 45
Captured Planets: 0

Total EP: 87

Construction T12:
-18 DNT
-6 TG (BC)
-5 HD (CM)
-10 2HD
-5 LTT
-12 4DD (BD) (4206, 4403, 4805, off map)
-3 DD
-14 2PDU (4402; now 10)

Construction Total: 73

Conversions:
-5 CL>LSC, BD>BDE (4402)
-3 CL>CV, CL>CLE (4403)
-1 CC>CCH (4206)
-1 CC>CCH (4503)

Conversion Total: 10

Activation:
-2 CL

Activation Total: 2

Total Spent: 85

Treasury: 2 (AT12)
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Tholians T12:

Build for AT12 D, PC

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 06:48 pm: Edit

Here come the Gorns!

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, February 11, 2022 - 07:40 am: Edit

Hopefully? Maybe? I mean, they certainly are building things and moving things this turn. Whether or not they are actually *attacking* anything is certainly in question, however.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Friday, February 11, 2022 - 11:12 am: Edit

Curious, why would the Gorn NOT attack?

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Friday, February 11, 2022 - 02:28 pm: Edit

They don't have enough ships on T12 to realistically accomplish anything other than getting brutalized over Romulan bases by scads of fighters and maulers, which just results in getting mangled and losing innumerable cripples in terrible pursuit fights?

The Romulans have tons of ships in the North Fleet already. If they reinforce the North Fleet with some reserves and some new ships, the Gorn crossing that border on T12 is just running uphill into a wall of spears. And just getting the Romulans closer to the Gorn Capital while it is most vulnerable.

It's exciting that the Gorn get to attack preemptively. But it seems mostly like suicide to try to do so if the Romulans are remotely paying attention.

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Friday, February 11, 2022 - 02:36 pm: Edit

Depending on what the Romulans can send on C12- surely the Gorns just send ships to aid the Feds - and attack a single hex where they can get an advantage?

By Timothy Linden (Timlinden) on Friday, February 11, 2022 - 03:46 pm: Edit

I have usually found the Gorn-Romulan front early on focuses on trying to control 4309. As once the Romulans have that secured, they have a supply/strat point to threaten both forward SB, a capital hex and the planet in 4705. Which usually occupies nearly the entire available Gorn fleet for a bunch of turns as they try to deny 4309 to the Romulans. You could send some ships to do some support in Fed space if they can retrograde to 4206, but that is not much.

Tim