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pinecone Fleet Captain
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 1862 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject: After Action Report: Mongol with five stingers vs. D5W |
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The story of how I stopped calling stingers "stinkers":
Me (the Hydrans) and my Dad (the Klingons) approched each other slowly during the first turn. I launched my stingers and let off five fusion charges, gatlings, and my mongol's phasers for minor damage (my mongol used directed targeting against power, but he got a 2 on the burn through). He hit me with some of his weapons too, and three got through. The next turn he ran away, but I had the same speed and tracked him down to range two, where I fired everything, resulting In severe damage to his ship. He gave up when I used my final 3/4 energy to get three more gatling shots into his down sheild.
I learned two things here: Fusions don't look great because of the cool off rules, but they are almost as powerful as oveloaded distruptors for half as much energy.
Also, even without Twin fusions every turn, stingers are extremely powerful. |
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Kang Fleet Captain
Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 1976 Location: Devon, UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting how often it is that a battle only lasts a couple of turns. Sometimes it's all decided very quickly, but obviously sometimes it can also take a while.
How easy did you find it to get the Hydrans in to a useful firing range, Pinecone? _________________
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pinecone Fleet Captain
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 1862 Location: Earth
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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At the same speed as he, with acceleration I found it realativley easy to get into range 2, but I couldn't have gotten closer than that (which is why I Fired there). |
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Kang Fleet Captain
Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 1976 Location: Devon, UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm surprised he didn't try to avoid that range bracket - hadn't he heard that you don't wanna get too close to a Hydran?
Mind you, at least he'll know next time _________________
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Davec_24 Commander
Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 596 Location: England
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Definately a mistake you don't make more than once. In a similar game, my wife allowed me to close to range 1 with a Mongol and 3 Stingers once. Her D7 was pretty trashed after that one, and I don't think she will be getting within range 5 or so of me next time Gotta keep away from those gatlings and Stingers! |
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Nerroth Fleet Captain
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 1744 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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If your wife is not letting you get within range five, it might end up being a pretty lonely marriage... _________________ FC Omega Discussion (v3)
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Kang Fleet Captain
Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 1976 Location: Devon, UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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rofl _________________
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pinecone Fleet Captain
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 1862 Location: Earth
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed, I think he learned his lesson. |
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Davec_24 Commander
Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 596 Location: England
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Haha... *wife is also laughing* |
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Nerroth Fleet Captain
Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 1744 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Scoutdad Commodore
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Dr. Phil, "Now, Dave... tell us what your wife has done to you that makes feel the need to close to point-blank range and give her an Alpha Strike."
Dave, "Well, Phil.. she left her D7 in an open and defenseless position!:
Dr. Phil, "And the end result of that event was..."
Wife, "I've learned not to allow him to get close to me again, ever!!!"
Dr. Phil, "Now Dave, have you thought about the ramifications of your decision to take advantage of a helpless opponent? And if so, do you think you've learned a valuable lesson here that our viewers might benefit from?"
Dave, "I sure have Phil."
Dr. Phil, "And what would that be?"
Dave, "Always allow your wife to have a 25% advantage in Basic Victory Points, 'cause when they talk about the cold, dark vacuum of space... that ain't nothing compared to the cold, dark vacuum of separate rooms! "
Dr. Phil, "Ummmm.... Errrrr... I don't think that's the message at all!"
Wife (being restrained by the ushers), " Why I oughta murderize the bum!"
NOTE: No persons, real or simulated were harmed during the creation of this satire. The persons depicted in this vignette are the creations of the author and any similarities to Dave and his wife are purely co-incidental. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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Savedfromwhat Commander
Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 657
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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ROFLAWLing |
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