SirNitram wrote:Rogue 9 wrote:Ummm... What? Unlike you, Nitram IS posting casualties, and heavy ones at that.
Okay, I have a weakness for concentrating on my larger vessels. I don't plan on coming out of this assuming that all my destroyers survived, I just haven't been dealing with them much. I'll change that.
Oh joy, I smashed up Destroyers despite bringing heavy hitters.
Whatever.
The battle's not over yet, in case you failed to notice. You're still running an operational (albeit damaged, to what extent you haven't said) dreadnought. Nothing's to say you won't get anything bigger; in fact I'm thinking the
Curie is likely to fall to it fairly quickly in the current situation.
No. The Destroyer will hit the Warrior. That's why only one got through, the escorts dealt with the rest.
One of us is confused about the positions of the ships, then. Could be me. I'll review what I thought I sent my ships to do.
1.) Two battleships and two cruisers gun for your uncompleted dreadnought, moving to flank it with one BB and one cruiser on each side. Your other dreadnought moves to engage the
Warrior and
Curie, the former a BB, the latter a heavy cruiser. Meanwhile, my other cruisers and about 2/3 of my escorts move to attempt an encirclement of your fleet. The third battleship,
Gladius, remains with the carriers and missile ships along with the remaining escorts.
2.) Your unfinished dreadnought concentrates on the
Dauntless, the BB on its other side. Its PD systems take out the attempted torpedo attack. Escorts and possibly cruisers move to engage
Dauntless, taking down its shields. Bombers and attack craft swarm your light battleship, overwhelming its PD systems while taking heavy losses. Its status is thus far unknown beyond this.
3.) The
Dauntless moves to disengage under fire from your escorts. Your dreadnought begins shooting out her sensors. The
Gladius and two heavy cruisers begin to move to relieve the
Dauntless. Meanwhile, the
Warrior also disengages in a bid to clear the furball and prey on your lighter ships, her shields failing as she does so. Upon this, the two remaining cruisers and several escorts move to her aid.
4.) The
Gladius and accompanying cruisers arrive at the
Dauntless. The
Gladius moves to cross the T of the pursuing ships, mangling several. The ones that can still maneuver move to ram a BB, identified by you as the
Warrior even though it is on the other side of your two dreadnoughts and on an entirely different heading. The minelayers in the flotilla moving towards the
Warrior lay a quick and dirty minefield in front of your pursuing dreadnought, which was supposed to suck, as the mines are designed to lay in wait and rocket into passing ships that aren't paying attention. I did not expect the mines to stop pursuit, just maybe slow it down for half a minute.
5.) Either
Gladius or
Warrior is rammed by a destroyer that was mangled by the
Gladius; determining which ship was actually rammed is the point of this exercise. Your operational dreadnought shifts some of its guns from the
Warrior and its screen to the
Enterprise, attempting to hit open hangars which are sensibly oriented away from it. I give my casualty reports now to shut Thirdfain up and shift focus to the escorts engaged with your fleet.
Bullshit. Where's this pissant shielding, then? Or is the loving caress of three supercapitals not enough to bring down this 'pissant shielding'?
This pissant shielding is currently down and you're picking the sensors off the hull(s) as a result. I don't even know if the shields are even down on your completed dreadnought; you haven't said one way or the other. And by my count, the only one with three DN-equivs here is me. You have one fully operational DN, one uncompleted, unshielded, and only partially armed one, and one lighter battleship.
