Hi all - great fun and excellent opponents.........thanks to all that attended and involved in organising.............
My fleet list already posted on the forum in "For the Glory of the Republic".
Games:
Game One (Neil) - appologies in advance for any misremebered bits!
Couple of Maximus, Corvans and a Sullust - I approached his fellet at speed whilst he drifted into a conveniant dust cloud, first exchange of fire dented my Maximus's with little reply. A corvan and maximus died in exhcange for reasonable damge to one frigate, the Sullust then died in exchange for some more damage and both Nials died against Sentri and a Razik respectively (

). The Minbari scout ran off table persued by my remaining Corvan, leaving a lone Maximus with a frigate directly behind it in a dust cloud. The frigate polished off the fighters and damaged the pride of the Centauri fleet. In retrun it fired the turreted antifighter weapons and...............scored a 6,6 critical! It then considering its job done moved off table leaving two critically damaged Minabri firgates. Great fun! In the EXP session Neil managed to recruit some blokes from the local Minbari garage to repair the crippled ship!
Game Two (vs LBH)
I was expecting a hard nasty battle when I saw it was ISA - Greg's favourite! Luckily LBH's dice rolling was terrible - Sullust gets 8 hits with its beam - no dodges - dead white star................and the game went downhill from there - the same Maximus that had crippled the Minbari Frigate managed to survive and with the 24 EXP earned across the fleet - I gained a whole slew of exciting other duties - giving one Corvan 2 Haven Escorts (one of which had its own Haven Escort). A Sullust gained Shadow pods and I was all set for a good 3rd game.............
Game three (vs Paul I think)
Hmm having spent soooo much tme congratulating myself on my good luck and boring various people about my new Corvan Battlegroup (see above) etc etc plus telepaths and free crew and resource points........I was not thinking of what to take.........
Orginally I had planned to take my Tertius, Mangus's and any surviving Sullust but stupidly choose to take my Corvans (and escorts) plus a Ellutarian and Sullust as wellas the Tertius - Having My Octurion and reducing my opponent with Diverting Raid I was ready - problem was so was my opponent!!
His fleet was two ships - an Adira and a Octurion - hmm, oh well I thought - I have numbers - then watched as he blasted through my fleet in rapid succession - criticals abounded and sheer weight of damage meant ships vanished at a rapid pace (especially the Scout and its Havens - not that I should have used them! - idiot!) He didn't bother to get his fighters out - didn't need them! and the only ship that survived on my side was - you guessed it - the Maximus from the first game (having charged right upto both ships and taking a barrage from both ships on one turn with 5 damage / crew taken! ! I did manage to gain two big damage criticials on the Adira but the Octurion was untouched! Still at least the Centauri won -My opponent played very well and I am only grateful he had not squadroned them as someone suggested afterwards!
Game 4 (vs Low Roller)
My game having finished very quickly

, I was able to watch some of my next opponents games against LBH - where the latter did me an immense favour by tearing huge chunks out of most of his ships - including the Warlock. Alhtough my fleet was depleted from the third game I still had untouched Magnus's, Balavix and Primus plus Maximus and Corvans........
It proved to be a great fun game - if one sided (his Warlock died in turn 2 so badly decrewed it had started the battle)- my low level ships meaning that the few remaing EA Omegas had little to fire at and my fighter screen shreading his in short order. As a exciting melee formed in the centre - lots of cool explosions followed , with both his and my ships detonating and both Primus and Balvarix losing their engines enabling an Omega to boresight both!! The rest of the feet slowly picked off the battered EA ships and left the Centauri in possession of the Field.
All in all - great fun - I didn't do too badly - mid table and enjoyed all my games - my opponentns were the very best of sports........the format was very interesting and made it exciting! It may be best in the future to clarify some of the issues raisedon the day regarding for instance RR points
I was all set to re-roll the result that gave me the points when LBH (Bless him!

) checked with MAtt and confirmed that you could use RR pts gained this way --------allowing repair of crippled ships and purchasing new ones..............
so all in thanks!
