Help!

[kirbykibble]

hello.
me and my Uncle are playing a scenario and im in a bit of a pickle.
Although i have the current advantage, i need to keep it.

In this game, it is a 2 by 4 map (large hexes) there is a federation starbase at the bottom right of the map. There is a planet counter that is about 16 hexes from it. at the top left of the map is an Andromedan Battle station.

Objective? destroy each others bases.

how it works is that each turn, 2 small freighters and 1 large freighter start at the planet and attempt to go to the base. When they do, i get 2 points for each cargo box i have. (about 200 points if i survive) Currently, my Uncle has a Dominator with no pa panel damage to the front (he dropped all shields and absorbed it by a energy module) It also has 21 rear Pa panel Damage. The Dom. has lost 1 displacement device and 1 phaser 2.

He also has an intruder with no damage at all.
and a deployed cobra. ( no damage)

I have a almost dead Frigate and a almost dead New Heavy cruiser.
There is a plasma armed dreadnought with hardly any front shields that got wiped out by the Dom. and Int.

I had banked my points (400) and bought a frigate and a BB.

I am trying to defend my Freighters and am thinking of replacing my reinforcements with a Tholian ship to stop the Andromedan ships and to go around and hit em hard with drones.

Im still wondering what i should do with reinforcements and tactics.

[Dan Ibekwe]

Hi Kirby

It's certainly an unusual scenario. I'd think it would be next to impossible for the Andros to build a base in the same system as an active Federation Starbase, and even more difficult for the Feds to return the favour.

That said, your big advantage would seem to be the firepower of the starbase. The Andromedan force is not going to win a firefight with that.

Keep your ships close to the base and repair the DNF's forward shield. Conduct what repairs you can on the NCA and FF, if they can be made serviceable. If they can't, fly them off the map to safety, or keep then next to the SB, whatever gives away fewer victory points.

Does the Andro force get re-enforcements too? If so, the scenario might be unwinnable for either side. Taking down an SB requires a very large force of attacking ships, enough to overwhelm both the bases' immense firepower, and any defending ships.

If your attacking force only roughly *equals* the defending fleet, and they have the sense to fall back on their SB...then you're goosed.

Tholian webs are of limited use against the Andromedans as they have an annoying habit of displacing over them.

Hydran Stingers are good at taking out bases, but against that Andro force, you will need rather a lot of them.

Massed drones can work, but again, you would need to saturate all those phaser-2's on the other side of the table, and still have enough left to fill up a PA panel and do significant internals.

That's my tuppence worth; Good luck!

[kirbykibble]

thanks for the help.... by the way i said that the Andro Base had malfunctions and *accidentally* displaced itself into Federation space.... i would say that massing drones may work but the andros would just simply out-maneuvour them. the stingers are particularly annoying but the hydran hellbores on their ships can so massive damage. i am considering the Isc with their PPD's or the Romulans with their Plamsa -R.

[kirbykibble]

heyo, i continued the game and now, he has some Pa panel damage to the Dominator in the rear.

he has destroyed My New Heavy Cruiser

and my frigate has no power.

My dreadnought has all of its shields regenerated and i have two New light Cruisers and a Destroyer.

I am planning to use 209 points of my reinforcements on a Mohawk Heavy Cruiser with 9 stingers.