| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Monday, April 18, 2022 - 05:31 pm: Edit |
Fleet counts, end of turn A28. The changes are from ONE turn ago:
| U | C | Total | |
| Z | 52 | 5 | 57 (-1) |
| H | 46 | 0 | 46 (+1) |
| F | 253 | 41 | 294 (+2) |
| G | 86 | 23 | 109 (-2) |
| Alliance | 437 (+2) | 69 (-2) | 506 (+0) |
| U | C | Total | |
| L | 131 | 64 | 195 (-2) |
| K | 178 | 138 | 316 (-15) |
| R | 69 | 31 | 100 (-11) |
| Coalition | 378 (-15) | 233 (-13) | 611 (-28) |
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Monday, April 18, 2022 - 05:33 pm: Edit |
The Alliance continues to send major forces to the Romulan front. Paul wisely sent them a bunch of the best Klingon and Lyran ships when that was still possible. Without that, they might well have lost Romulus by now.
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 03:53 pm: Edit |
Not sure if it's the lack of quality sleep or the Positive COVID result, but brain is still mushy - but I have been able to do the C29 economics.
And the Coalition is poor!
Lyrans - Built 2 x CW, 3 x FF and repaired 55.5 Eps of ships (plus re-converted the re-captured ex Lyran Ex Federation Lyran BC back to a Lyran BC.... 'air fresheners' on their own have been unable to remove the Human Stink from the ship so far!)
Klingons - Built 2 x D5, D5V, 5 x F5, 4 x E4 - plus repaired 42.5 Ep's.
Romulans - Built 2 x SK, SN - plus 6 PF's for the Lyran PFT converted a Con to a PHX and repaired 19.5 Ep's of Ships.
They did also scrapped a captured Fed FF.
Operation movement to start!
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Monday, April 25, 2022 - 06:16 am: Edit |
Turn C29 combat is underway. There are surprisingly few battles. There are Hydrans on the map, but the Coalition chose not to attack them, possibly due to strong reserves. Paul did cut them all off. The Romulans are under heavy pressure and chose to limit themselves to three attacks.
There are a fair number of battles on the Fed/Kzinti front. Several planets will be retaken by the Coalition. There are close battles at major 2306, which recently recovered from devastation, and at minor 2610 in front of Earth.
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, April 25, 2022 - 12:32 pm: Edit |
Coalition decided on a different approach this time.
Kzinti Front - 4 Battles - 3 planets will be regained
Hydran Front - No Battles - but about 70% of the Hydran Navy is on Map and Out of Supply.
Federation Front - The most battles - possibly 6 planets will be captured - and a large Federation fleet has been re-cut off.
Romulan/Gorn Front - 3 Battles - 2 have dragged Alliance reserves away from the Romulan capitals and 1 is the mugging of a OOS Federation FF pair.
PLUS 97 Alliance Ship Equivalents are Out of Supply (alas next to the Romulan capitals).
Battles - Dice again have been pretty brutal on the Coalition - for 9 rounds it was 3.55 for the Coalition v 4.11 for the Alliance - and SSC again is the Alliance Friend (+2 v -4 - I rolled a 5 and William rolled a 10 - so 1 casualty each - the other way round would have seen 2 Federation ships die - rather than just retreat!).
2518 we did see what should have been a very much 1 sided fight - but the Dice meant the losses the Coalition suffered was pretty high though. 2518 was liberated from the Tholians though.
The battle over 2610 reversed the dice - and both sides are now on 3.68.
A very tough fight saw the bulk of both sides self cripple (I miscounted and directed on a FF - which meant I did than have to self kill a crippled F5 later in the battle) - but 2610 was captured.
Feds had a CVS, non-escorting FFE and SC left - plus 5 fighters - Klingons had 2 x FV (4F in total), a D5P(6PF) and D5 left uncrippled - wanted 1 more round, but William ran (I probably shouldn't have over crippled by 4... and then failed the pursuit).
Fair to say, repair yards will be busy again!
(Alliance Compot tanked* at the end - last round was 49 v Coalition 61 - I rolled well at the start and William rolled well at the end).
Alliance are on a 100% success for pursuits (3 of 3) and Coalition are on a 100% failure for persuits (1 of 1).
* - Never really noticed it - but Federation Esorts are not that good crippled!
| By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Monday, April 25, 2022 - 12:43 pm: Edit |
I fail to see how an average of 3.55 is "brutal" for the Coalition over 9 rounds - relative to 1 round of a bad roll? Sure, the Alliance out-performed you by 0.56 pips on average, but that's well withing the probable statistical variation. I believe 1 sigma on a six sided dice is 0.85 pips on either side of 3.5, so you are *well* within 1 sigma.
Quote:Battles - Dice again have been pretty brutal on the Coalition - for 9 rounds it was 3.55 for the Coalition v 4.11 for the Alliance - and SSC again is the Alliance Friend (+2 v -4 - I rolled a 5 and William rolled a 10 - so 1 casualty each - the other way round would have seen 2 Federation ships die - rather than just retreat!).
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, April 25, 2022 - 02:57 pm: Edit |
Ted
I would agree....except that timing has generally helped the Alliance (got the the required roll in 2 battles for example) and again the Coalition has wasted damage as not rolling enough to do anything.
But on top of the A28 inbalance.... it just seems luck and the Coalition are not said in the same sentence!
Who doesn't want to get the right roll at the right time 
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, April 25, 2022 - 03:57 pm: Edit |
Hopefully, no one blinked.
C29 combat is over.
Quickest combat since probably C1/A1!!
Lyrans lost DD and 2 x FF
Klingons lost D5V (was naked and helped the Romulans escape), 2 x D5 and a F5
Romulans - Nothing for once!
Kzinti lost MEC and FF
Hydrans - Nothing for once!
Federation - 6 x FF, FFS and FFE - plus 1 Command Point Spent**
Gorns - Nothing
Tholians - BATS and 2 x PDU
** - The one other serious assault (other was 2610) was 2306 was I think, in my favour (accepting I had alot of Lyran FF's there....) - compot wise Alliance had 5% more - but the Feds spent a Command point making it a 10% difference - so I ran after 1 round.
Kzinti Front - 1 Major and 2 Minors re-captured
1 Modest Kzinti fleet is OOS
Hydran Front - Nothing captured, but all on Map Hydrans are OOS (1 fleet does have the Expeditionary Supply Tug)
Federation Front - 4 Minors re-captured and one large Federation Fleet is OOS again
Klingons Front - 2518 liberated - no Alliance ships are in Klingon space.
Gorn Front - Nothing captured
Romulan Front - Nothing re-captured, but a large Gorn and large Federation fleets are OOS (in 4513)
A small number of Romulans in Western Romulan space are OOS.
Retro and SM to be done!
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 06:22 am: Edit |
C29 has finished
In Hydran Space, the 'Hydrafahl Cordon' has been set up to contain the Hydrans. 2 Max size reserves are in 416
In Kzinti Space, the 'Marquis Line' should reduce the Kzinti Pretender ability to counter attack. 2 Max size reserves are in the region.
In Federation Space, 'Operation Whirlwind' will continue into Spring 183 (turn 30) with the bulk of Klingon reserves been dispatched to Federation space. 3 Max size reserves are in the region - with Earth once more in range.
In Romulan Space, 'Operation Citadel' has been activated, with defence of the Romulans capitals receiving maximum priority. 2 Modest size Romulan reserves are in 5014 , to cover both Capitals and 4812, which has a small fleet covering it - plus a small reserve in 4613.
Klingons and Romulans spend 6 Ep's each on Field repairs (a C8V and Condor - both will be critical to help defend the coming months counter offensives by the Alliance).
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 01:56 pm: Edit |
Kzinti Economy, turn 29
Survey roll 12
Survey total 310
Survey EP 22
Offmap 17
Provinces 4
Total 43
Percentage 0.5
Income 21.5
From last turn 1
Total Money 22.5
Repairs 19
FF 2.5
Total spent 21.5
Remaining 1.0
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 01:57 pm: Edit |
Hydran Economy, turn 29
Survey roll 10
Survey total 259
Survey EP 20
Offmap 17
Total before exhaustion 37
Percentage 0.5
Income 18.5
From last turn 2
Total Money 20.5
2RN 12
3CU 7.5
Remaining 1EP
4CP available
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 02:01 pm: Edit |
Federation Economy, turn 29
Survey roll 25
Survey total 464
Survey EP 30
Offmap 6
Capital 59
Planets 27
Provinces 62
NZ 3.8
NZ planets 1
Conquered 8
Scrap D7, D6 4
Income 200.8
From last turn 9.65
Total Money 210.45
Repairs
Earth 6.5
Near Earth 9
6th 6
3912 11.5
9th 4
BATS
Survey 8
Subtotal 45
Builds
8FF, 5FFE, FFS 48
9NCL, 2NAC, NVS 64
2CC 18
DN+ 14
Subtotal 144
Conversions
FFS 1
4FFE 4
NAC 1
Subtotal 6
Total spent 195
Remaining after econ 15.45
Command Points 3+1=4
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 02:03 pm: Edit |
Gorn Economy, turn 29
Survey roll 11
Survey total 120
Survey EP 10
Offmap 12
Capital 24
Planets 13
Provinces 34
NZ 5.8
NZ planets 1
Conquered 2
Income 101.8
Percentage 0.75
Exhausted Income 76.35
From last turn 3.5
Scrap KR 2
Total Money 81.85
Repairs
SW 8
Gdhar 2 8
Gdhar 3 6
4309 5
Subtotal 27
Builds
2HD, HDP 20
2DD, 2DE 14
CC 10
MB 10
Subtotal 54
Total spending 81
Money after Econ 0.85
5CP available
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 03:22 pm: Edit |
Alliance income alas it pretty good still.
At least A30 will see the Feds drop to 75% income....
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 05:23 pm: Edit |
Various minor accounting adjustments result in -2EP for the Feds, but +0.5 for the Kzinti and +1 for the Hydrans
Feds would probably be considerably higher if they had kept more forces on the Klingon front. However, high command has chosen to instead concentrate on the Romulans.
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Sunday, May 01, 2022 - 11:42 am: Edit |
Ouch... looks like Remus will fall - as Romulus is pinned with just rubbish and the heavy stuff attacks Remus (and 4812 too).
Looks like a heap of pain is landing on them 
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Monday, May 02, 2022 - 09:05 pm: Edit |
To be fair, the "rubbish" includes 8 Gorn and 3 Fed carrier groups. Still weaker than what's at Remus.
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, May 07, 2022 - 08:55 am: Edit |
A29 Op move is done, and reserves have been dispatched. Nothing too surprising to me. Klingons and Lyrans used reserves to keep Fed planet 2610 and NZ planet 1910. One Lyran reserve is turning a space battle into something unfavorable for the Kzinti. Romulan reserves are making Remus a bit tougher, but it should still fall.
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Saturday, May 07, 2022 - 04:58 pm: Edit |
Remus did indeed fall. The battle at Remus went 6 rounds before his fleet retreated. In general, it was nastier than expected. Killed in the battle:
Gorn 2DN, BCH
Fed DN, NCL
Rom SUP*, SP*, FH, 4PDU on Remus, SB, 4PDU on side planets
K C8*
* means was already crippled.
The FH was captured.
Feds spent 1CP and 7.2EP on drones. In retrospect, they should have spent 2CP.
The Alliance also have 27EP worth of crips from the battle. We only have 3FRD in the region, so this is likely lead us to spend 18EP on field repairs so that the FRD can get us into a clean state for turn 30.
The Coalition for their part suffered a negative net amount of crips as the crips we killed exceeded the small number of ships they crippled.
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Sunday, May 08, 2022 - 04:40 am: Edit |
The 'battle of only if...'
I somehow got the master plan right for the Romulans on C29.... but overlooked the filler part of the plan (should have op moved more cripples around to 4812 and put more ships in the reserve fleets).
The B10 for example should have been in the reserve in 4613.
I wouldn't have been able to save 4514 (in effect, I had the choice of losing 4613 or 4514....), but perhaps could have got another two or three rounds over 4514?
Without the extra ships - might have got another round, but didn't want to trade escorts.
But I can at least use those ships in 4613.
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Sunday, May 08, 2022 - 05:29 pm: Edit |
...and another Romulan SB dies
The defenders of 4812 did their best - but it wasn't enough.
The SB and a SK died, in exchange for 2 Gorn DE's and a Fed FFE.
Alliance did also a drive by shooting in 4613 - but very little damage was done.
4715 also died - with a Fed FF dying and the crippled D7 and 4 PDU's dying in a hail of fire.
For once - the Romulans rolled equal (4 of 6 passed) on Cloaking's - the failures did see 1 ship die though and 1 ship crippled.
Both sides rolled well - alas Alliance still rolling better though 4.05 v 3.86
Just Federation and Kzinti Fronts to be finished.
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, May 09, 2022 - 05:19 pm: Edit |
Although not due to massive dice differences, last 3 main battles with full lines - Coalition has just missed killing anything and Alliance just got enough.
BIR has really helped the Alliance!
About the only lucky break the Coalition got was a Lyran FF survived SSC!
Survived uncrippled too!!
Although the Alliance is back to above average on captures (FH* and F5).
I think the FH when killed is up to about a 50% capture rate - Alliance must have captured 5 of them by now .
| By William Jockusch (Verybadcat) on Monday, May 09, 2022 - 05:54 pm: Edit |
How'd you do those enough vs. not-enough when the issue was a Gorn DN over Remus?
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 02:32 am: Edit |
William
Because I missed 2 of 3 the 'fair' chances (say 3+ needed) over Romulus last turn and got 2 of the 2 or 3 'fair' chances this turn?
So over the last 2 turns, I am probably on average for the number of DN's which could have been killed (but down still over the last 12 or so turns still).
| By Paul Howard (Raven) on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 02:46 am: Edit |
Well, the repair back log has just got worse for both sides.
2411 saw both sides cripple over 10 ships each (16 Federation - mainly FF's and 14 Klingon - mainly D5's).
Alliance also lost a NCL, 2 x FFE and a FFS (FFE and FFS killed in persuit), with the Klingons losing a AD5 and F5 (and a single PF).
Both sides traded blows over the Klingon Supply Tug - which survived the battle with the Federation eventually retreating.
Just the Kzinti front to be concluded.
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