It was a good weekend - and yes the Centauri can at least be pleased that the homeworld remains in our hands - unlike Earth :lol:
Sadly I was one of the more useless minions and only managed to win 1 game out of 6 - and that was only due to the presence of the Grand
Admiral and his Adira.
My Fleet -
Liati, 2 Primus (1 with massdriver), 2 Balvarian, Elutarian, Demos, Maximus
Enriched by a "Olympic" breakfast on the way down we began
Game One: Anhilation LOST
As I had a massdriver and was well up for it - I was sent to Sol to "liberate" it from its corrupt govement. There I was confronted by Low Roller (Lee ) and his Earth Force.
(Warlock, 2 Omega, 2 Novas - with Space Station and platforms)
A great game to start with much fun - smashed most of the defences and we both emerged with battered fleets and grins! Funniest part was finally closing to almost 10" of the Space station and then losing my front arc. Lost on VP. I retuned home to find Drazi squaters - got my Primus back but no coin for my Maximus (The Admiral had to spend a full and hard earned coin to get any fraction of your battle point back)!!
Game Two - a Contrast- vs Bens Gaim - Annhilitation
LOST
Re vist to Sol (part one)After the first game against this fleet - cotaining more than 150 fighters + breeching pods - in a
fun :roll: tournament ,we were told that whoever had to fight the fleet could run at any point as there was no point in fighting it. I agreed and spent a few turns outside the range as he pushed his hundred or so counters twowards me, jumped most of my ships out and held him up for a few turns so he could not reinforce another table by opening jump points from ship in hypersapace. No fun I think for either of us...........
Game Three - Beta III - -vs Psi Corps
DRAW
Another good fun game - still down a Maximus ( Imiseed it in a number of piints - both for the anti fighter and interceptors) - I faced off against two hunters, A Marathon, 2 Chronos and a Mothership. A good opponent whose dice cursed him in the first part of the game - killed both hunters quite quickly, but then he
somehow pulled a great retrival out of the bag and forced me to a draw as I lost a Liati (with its +1 vs stealth) and a Primus. The Admiral was very disapouinted as he thought it was in the bag when he saw the game early - hangs head in shame...............
After a good night out with food, drink, good company and the most excellent accomodation .............we returned to the fray...
Game Four - A new Day LOST
Vs Greg's Psi Corps - a good friend and practice partner so we knew each others fleet well.......Recon Run
I circled the planet and Greg launched his smaller fleet - only allowed 3pts - 2 hunters, 1 mother ship, carrier, 2 shadowcloaks) in to try and scan the fleet! Two turns of mayhem left all but one Shadowcloak and a battered but not quite crippled mothership - just one more hit, just one more hit...........he managed to scan all my ships and kill an Elutarian and won by 3VP!!!! A good close game but Greg pulled it off with skill and wnet off to annoy David attacking Sol - more shame for me!!!!!!!
Game five - Welcome to Sol. Anhiltaion
WINAgainst..............Lee Again - we setteled down to a another fun game - only slightly spoiled by his revelation that his Warlock had a F arc refit :shock: - I had by now a Liati with GEG 1
One turn into the game - and obviously well aware of my inability to win anything - the Admiral appeared in his Adira :shock: - opening a jump point some 12 inches or so behind Lee's entire fleet. It was all very one sided then - despite Lee's best attempts - including 6 or 7 weapon crits on the Adira!!! Lee escaped with one Nova and Earth was ours!!!!!!!!!
Game Five Recon run - me attacking LOST
vs Ken's Minbari - 2 Tinashi, 2 Tigara, 1 Morshin, 2 Ashinata
I had Primus, Liati, Balvarian, Maximus, Demos,
Very apprehensive about this (ie I moaned a bit with my old sparing partner and friend) as I had to break stealth to even attempt to scan!
All started badly with the Balvarin and Maximus getting hammered as I tried to approach and scan - returned the favour by the Liati seeing the two Ashinatas - battering both and scanning and battering a Tig. The Balvarin vansihed under the tinashi squadrons fire and the Primus got hurt. Demos crippled one Ashinata. Maximus died The 2 the Demos was shattered by return fire. Both Tinashis are scanned
Next turn the Demos died to fighters and the Primus was smashed by a 6,6 crit form the two Tinashi's after it had managed to see a tinashi (despite a re -roll formits refit) and cripple it. The Liati (with GEG2) cruised round and destroyed the Tinashi and a damaged Tigara before being overwehelmed by the Minbari fleet in the course of three Short (for me) and long (for Ken) turn. Again I had failed on points...............and let the Centauri down - at least I could go home to a homeworld
All in all good fun.......................and thanks to all involved in organising the event, the evening out, the wonderful place to stay and my excellent travelling companions, opponents and all the new / renewed friend from the forum and previous tournaments!Also my new ships etc Derina!
