I took on the might of the Corumai and co in a 5 point battle today, Getting Phil back into the game, we went for a straight fight, no scenery. Fleets were.
EA Crusade. Marathon, 2 Dephi, 2 Hyperion, 3 Chronos, and 3 Hermes. (I realise there are better breakdowns, but this was easy ;-) )
Brakiri had a Corumain, Kabrokta, Avioki, Halik, 2 Wangs (shakara)
Brakiri won initiative, with 2 scouts each, I accepted. Setting up on marathon to the very left, with the hermes behind it, and the 3 chronos to the left. The Hyperions set up to the right, just inside the 2 dephis.
the Brakiri set up with the Corumai glaring at the Hyperions (eep!), insode the Corumai were both wangs. in the middleish was the kabrokta and halik, and the avioki faced the Marathon. as Phil has heard me bitch about the Marathon, I guess he figured one Avioki could take it
anyhow,
Turn 1. EA win, wang moved forward, chronos advances into no moans land, second wang moves forward, second chronos moves forward. halik moves, third chronos moves forward, all very dull, nothing in range!. Avioki moves, All hermes move as squadron and caf the avioki (flash missiles) the Corumai moves forward in an ominous manner, looking angrily at the ships that can shoot it. The Marathon moves to boresight the avioki staying out of range, and sadly, the Kabrokta cannot get anything to boresight, boo hoo... so trundles forward, the delphis, and hyperions both advance on the Kabrokta, only two getting in range, poot!
Firiing, and the EA fire their hermes at the avioki, some decent damage from the flash missiles, with a -1 speed crit to the already slow beats. The Brakiri respond firing one bank of Corumai beams at a Delphi they locked onto. and do pitiful damage. the rest of the foring was all EA, the Marathon put a big dent in the Avioki with several crew crits, but it';s an avioki, it doesn't care! the one delphi in range tikles the corumai, but the hyperions put some hurt on the kabrokta, takin it to half damage!
Turn 2. Brakiri win initiative.
EA all stop the hermes squadron, wang closes on hyperions, chornos moves forward to fill it's arcs, second wang moves, another chronos moves forward covering many approaches. Halik moves in to target impertinent chronos, EA counter by moving third chronos in, and also covering avioki. Sad avioki moves hoping to beam Marathon, Marathon not being stupid moves very quickly out of the forward arc iand boresights the kabrokta, somhow i messed up movement here, the kabrokta had by this point boresighted a chronos, I musta got the halik outta turn, meh. the corumai trundles forward, 2 hyperions and 2 delphis boresight it. the delhpis actually being about 2 inches away saying go on, blow me up, I dare you...
firing ws straight forward, the avioki with only one chornos in forward arc, failed spectacularlarly to do much damage, and it's pulsars got intercepted. the Hyperions unloaded on the corumai, scratching it's paintwork and making it angry, while secondary batteries chipped away at the kabrokta and did some hefty damage to a kabrokta. the kabrokta in tuen unleashed hell, it's arcs almost full it whooped a chronos, to just short of crippled, a Hyperion took a smack, as dod a delphi. OW! the Marathon fired at the Kabrokta doing a good wad of damage and weapons crit (-1 AD) and manage dto hit another wang for monimal damage, aft guns hit the avioki chipping away some more. the Corumai fired next, 6 dice of beam and 20 pulsars into a hyperion... can you guess what happened next? thats right, said hyperion exploded, doing 3 crits to it's fellow hyperion. The Corumai however failed to spot the 2 delphis! the delphis fored at the corumai for minimal damge, the wangs for some damage, while the halik lit up a few tarets, mostly intercepted, the remianing hyperion managed to get some revenge on the corumai with a decent slew of damage, if not crits. however, one Chronos had inflicted a speed zero no special on the halik, and a -4 speed on theavioki, I love raid Chronos'!
Turn 3. EA won initiative, so the halik went forst, damned speed zeros.. to be quck all chronos's moved towards the corumai, all wangs tried to get into the chronos. the Marathon close on the corumai after it trundled forward, the Hermes all stopped again targeting the avioki, the avioki moved it's massive 2 inches. the del[phis flew past the corumai, and the Hyperion snuggled in. the Kabrokta parked in the middle of the Chronos. lots of firing later, the Chronos's took out the kabrokta and one wang, the kabrokta and corumai took 2 chronos to the verge of death (butnot quite crippled or skeletoned), all hail my might interceptors, the Hyperion died horribly, but refused to explode, the marathon was battered to a skeleton crew, shock! Fighters did some damage to the other wang and avioki (obviously this happened first, I just remembered!) the halik however was removed from play along with the Kabrokta, yay! (that kabrokta is one mean mo-fo!)
Turn 4. EA Win initiative, after the mauling off the Corumai, they look scared.
the Chronos' move forward again, into the path of the Corumai. The Delphis try to come about, and fail. the marathon closes on the corumai which trundled to wards the Chronos, the Avioki gets the Hermes in range, who promptly all power past it, HA! much shooting later the Corumai is at like half damage, the Chronos and marathon look mauled, but still functional thanks to some good interceptors. the delphis manage to elude all fire. tha last Shakara dies, and the corumai gets some more scratches, the Avioki kills one fighter, what a dull turn!!
Turn 5 Brakiri win initiative chronos mive forward as does corumai, Marathon moves right in saying shoot me, and I explode in your face.. the Delphis manage to get into the action, one targets the poor avioki with speed 2 trying to turn round! the corumai opens up with everything, and again is intercepted almost to nothing, despite getting a huge number of hits! the Chronos manage to take it to skeleton crew (I love raid Chronos!) the Marathon takes it to dead, pure and simple! the Delhis fail to hurt the Avioki, but it is 2 points from crpled, and 2 from skeleton, and moving 2" a turn!!
Turn 6. The Brakiri gamefully give up, although 3 buggered chronos and a knakered marathon are facing the wrong way, it;s an avioki and will take 3 years to turn around. it does have 5 furies and two delphis targeting it, it's pretty guaranteed dead!!
overall, man, that Kabrokata is a beasty, as is the Corumai, till you can swamp it with ships! Phil likes to play big ships, but think he realised a couple of smaller ships would have done him well, in fact, he played Drazi after I left and beat them!
Again, I loved My Chronos, ship of the moment, againI am gutted they become skirmish level, ggrrr!!
Phil took pictures, I'll link em if he posts them anywhere!
EA Crusade. Marathon, 2 Dephi, 2 Hyperion, 3 Chronos, and 3 Hermes. (I realise there are better breakdowns, but this was easy ;-) )
Brakiri had a Corumain, Kabrokta, Avioki, Halik, 2 Wangs (shakara)
Brakiri won initiative, with 2 scouts each, I accepted. Setting up on marathon to the very left, with the hermes behind it, and the 3 chronos to the left. The Hyperions set up to the right, just inside the 2 dephis.
the Brakiri set up with the Corumai glaring at the Hyperions (eep!), insode the Corumai were both wangs. in the middleish was the kabrokta and halik, and the avioki faced the Marathon. as Phil has heard me bitch about the Marathon, I guess he figured one Avioki could take it
anyhow,
Turn 1. EA win, wang moved forward, chronos advances into no moans land, second wang moves forward, second chronos moves forward. halik moves, third chronos moves forward, all very dull, nothing in range!. Avioki moves, All hermes move as squadron and caf the avioki (flash missiles) the Corumai moves forward in an ominous manner, looking angrily at the ships that can shoot it. The Marathon moves to boresight the avioki staying out of range, and sadly, the Kabrokta cannot get anything to boresight, boo hoo... so trundles forward, the delphis, and hyperions both advance on the Kabrokta, only two getting in range, poot!
Firiing, and the EA fire their hermes at the avioki, some decent damage from the flash missiles, with a -1 speed crit to the already slow beats. The Brakiri respond firing one bank of Corumai beams at a Delphi they locked onto. and do pitiful damage. the rest of the foring was all EA, the Marathon put a big dent in the Avioki with several crew crits, but it';s an avioki, it doesn't care! the one delphi in range tikles the corumai, but the hyperions put some hurt on the kabrokta, takin it to half damage!
Turn 2. Brakiri win initiative.
EA all stop the hermes squadron, wang closes on hyperions, chornos moves forward to fill it's arcs, second wang moves, another chronos moves forward covering many approaches. Halik moves in to target impertinent chronos, EA counter by moving third chronos in, and also covering avioki. Sad avioki moves hoping to beam Marathon, Marathon not being stupid moves very quickly out of the forward arc iand boresights the kabrokta, somhow i messed up movement here, the kabrokta had by this point boresighted a chronos, I musta got the halik outta turn, meh. the corumai trundles forward, 2 hyperions and 2 delphis boresight it. the delhpis actually being about 2 inches away saying go on, blow me up, I dare you...
firing ws straight forward, the avioki with only one chornos in forward arc, failed spectacularlarly to do much damage, and it's pulsars got intercepted. the Hyperions unloaded on the corumai, scratching it's paintwork and making it angry, while secondary batteries chipped away at the kabrokta and did some hefty damage to a kabrokta. the kabrokta in tuen unleashed hell, it's arcs almost full it whooped a chronos, to just short of crippled, a Hyperion took a smack, as dod a delphi. OW! the Marathon fired at the Kabrokta doing a good wad of damage and weapons crit (-1 AD) and manage dto hit another wang for monimal damage, aft guns hit the avioki chipping away some more. the Corumai fired next, 6 dice of beam and 20 pulsars into a hyperion... can you guess what happened next? thats right, said hyperion exploded, doing 3 crits to it's fellow hyperion. The Corumai however failed to spot the 2 delphis! the delphis fored at the corumai for minimal damge, the wangs for some damage, while the halik lit up a few tarets, mostly intercepted, the remianing hyperion managed to get some revenge on the corumai with a decent slew of damage, if not crits. however, one Chronos had inflicted a speed zero no special on the halik, and a -4 speed on theavioki, I love raid Chronos'!
Turn 3. EA won initiative, so the halik went forst, damned speed zeros.. to be quck all chronos's moved towards the corumai, all wangs tried to get into the chronos. the Marathon close on the corumai after it trundled forward, the Hermes all stopped again targeting the avioki, the avioki moved it's massive 2 inches. the del[phis flew past the corumai, and the Hyperion snuggled in. the Kabrokta parked in the middle of the Chronos. lots of firing later, the Chronos's took out the kabrokta and one wang, the kabrokta and corumai took 2 chronos to the verge of death (butnot quite crippled or skeletoned), all hail my might interceptors, the Hyperion died horribly, but refused to explode, the marathon was battered to a skeleton crew, shock! Fighters did some damage to the other wang and avioki (obviously this happened first, I just remembered!) the halik however was removed from play along with the Kabrokta, yay! (that kabrokta is one mean mo-fo!)
Turn 4. EA Win initiative, after the mauling off the Corumai, they look scared.
the Chronos' move forward again, into the path of the Corumai. The Delphis try to come about, and fail. the marathon closes on the corumai which trundled to wards the Chronos, the Avioki gets the Hermes in range, who promptly all power past it, HA! much shooting later the Corumai is at like half damage, the Chronos and marathon look mauled, but still functional thanks to some good interceptors. the delphis manage to elude all fire. tha last Shakara dies, and the corumai gets some more scratches, the Avioki kills one fighter, what a dull turn!!
Turn 5 Brakiri win initiative chronos mive forward as does corumai, Marathon moves right in saying shoot me, and I explode in your face.. the Delphis manage to get into the action, one targets the poor avioki with speed 2 trying to turn round! the corumai opens up with everything, and again is intercepted almost to nothing, despite getting a huge number of hits! the Chronos manage to take it to skeleton crew (I love raid Chronos!) the Marathon takes it to dead, pure and simple! the Delhis fail to hurt the Avioki, but it is 2 points from crpled, and 2 from skeleton, and moving 2" a turn!!
Turn 6. The Brakiri gamefully give up, although 3 buggered chronos and a knakered marathon are facing the wrong way, it;s an avioki and will take 3 years to turn around. it does have 5 furies and two delphis targeting it, it's pretty guaranteed dead!!
overall, man, that Kabrokata is a beasty, as is the Corumai, till you can swamp it with ships! Phil likes to play big ships, but think he realised a couple of smaller ships would have done him well, in fact, he played Drazi after I left and beat them!
Again, I loved My Chronos, ship of the moment, againI am gutted they become skirmish level, ggrrr!!
Phil took pictures, I'll link em if he posts them anywhere!
