Greg Smith
Mongoose
Game 1:
Rescue vs Derek (Klingons)
My fleet: Kirov, 2 DWD war destroyers.
His D7c, D5W and a frigate.
At first it seemed like my firepower couldn't knock out a Klingon frigate. But after several rounds of shooting at long range, it fell. Then I mopped up his remainder. His fleet couldn't stand against my massed drone firepower once I out numbered him.
Result: 20-0 to me
Game 2: We Come in Peace vs Andy.
My fleet: Dreadnought, 2 Ramius, 1 Texas, 1 Callahan.
Him: Dreadnought, 2 Ortega 2 Burke (I think)
We both set up to grab objectives in the first turn. His dreadnought faced mine for one. My police cutter face a destroyer, two smaller ships faced off a third and one of his went for the fourth.
His dreadnought got 4 photon torpedoes through the shield of my dreadnought, inflicting massive damage and crits. Despite that it grabbed an objective and limped away with all hands on deck, repairing several escalating crits.
I kept parking my smaller ships next to one objective and exploding them, so couldn't prevent him getting away with two objective on one side of the board. My Texas seriously damaged the frigate that claimed the fourth objective, but was just short of preventing it fleeing the table.
Result 3-17
Game 3: Fleet Action vs Paul
My fleet: the combined fleets from games 1& 2.
Paul's Romulans were out sinked and he didn't win initiative. I held my position and deployed a large number of suicide shuttles as his cloaked fleet approached. He decloked and tried to draw me out but I wouldn't take the bait. He didn't win initiative all game and couldn't get close firing for his plasma. His phaser rolls were terrible and he did precious little damage while my drone told badly on his ships. To get close, his KRC dreadnought lunged into my fleet, and overloaded photons from my dreadnought wrecked its weapons before it could inflict hell. It was quickly finished off before even the swarm of suicide shuttles could bomb it. After that annihilation was inevitable for Paul's few remaining ships.
Result 20-0 to me.
Game 4: Rally Point Red vs Stuart.
My fleet: prvious fleets plus: Kirov, Chicago, 2 Manta Ray & Kearsarge
This was the game that would win or lose me the tournament. Having played Stuart previously, I knew it would be an interesting and challenging game.
With our fleets showing up with random amounts of damage and criticals, rolls before battle commenced would be crucial. Stuart's ships suffered a lot of criticals but Two of mine (a Ramius and a Callahan) were destroyed and two more we crippled.
So rolling randomly fro ship entry, I had two relatively undamaged ships heading for his early entrants. But very quickly his fleet were reinforced by much of the remainder of his fleets. My dreadnought and 2 cruisers were quickly faced by 4 dreadnoughts on his side. With ships destroyed before I started and two of my ships (a battlecruiser and a new fast cruiser) refusing to arrive throughout the game, I felt like I was fighting with one hand behind my back.
I destroyed a dreadnought and a Prometheus, but lost a dreadnought, battlecruiser and new heavy cruiser.
Rally Point Red is a fun scenario, but a lousy tournament game.
Result 3-17.
Overall 4th place.
Rescue vs Derek (Klingons)
My fleet: Kirov, 2 DWD war destroyers.
His D7c, D5W and a frigate.
At first it seemed like my firepower couldn't knock out a Klingon frigate. But after several rounds of shooting at long range, it fell. Then I mopped up his remainder. His fleet couldn't stand against my massed drone firepower once I out numbered him.
Result: 20-0 to me
Game 2: We Come in Peace vs Andy.
My fleet: Dreadnought, 2 Ramius, 1 Texas, 1 Callahan.
Him: Dreadnought, 2 Ortega 2 Burke (I think)
We both set up to grab objectives in the first turn. His dreadnought faced mine for one. My police cutter face a destroyer, two smaller ships faced off a third and one of his went for the fourth.
His dreadnought got 4 photon torpedoes through the shield of my dreadnought, inflicting massive damage and crits. Despite that it grabbed an objective and limped away with all hands on deck, repairing several escalating crits.
I kept parking my smaller ships next to one objective and exploding them, so couldn't prevent him getting away with two objective on one side of the board. My Texas seriously damaged the frigate that claimed the fourth objective, but was just short of preventing it fleeing the table.
Result 3-17
Game 3: Fleet Action vs Paul
My fleet: the combined fleets from games 1& 2.
Paul's Romulans were out sinked and he didn't win initiative. I held my position and deployed a large number of suicide shuttles as his cloaked fleet approached. He decloked and tried to draw me out but I wouldn't take the bait. He didn't win initiative all game and couldn't get close firing for his plasma. His phaser rolls were terrible and he did precious little damage while my drone told badly on his ships. To get close, his KRC dreadnought lunged into my fleet, and overloaded photons from my dreadnought wrecked its weapons before it could inflict hell. It was quickly finished off before even the swarm of suicide shuttles could bomb it. After that annihilation was inevitable for Paul's few remaining ships.
Result 20-0 to me.
Game 4: Rally Point Red vs Stuart.
My fleet: prvious fleets plus: Kirov, Chicago, 2 Manta Ray & Kearsarge
This was the game that would win or lose me the tournament. Having played Stuart previously, I knew it would be an interesting and challenging game.
With our fleets showing up with random amounts of damage and criticals, rolls before battle commenced would be crucial. Stuart's ships suffered a lot of criticals but Two of mine (a Ramius and a Callahan) were destroyed and two more we crippled.
So rolling randomly fro ship entry, I had two relatively undamaged ships heading for his early entrants. But very quickly his fleet were reinforced by much of the remainder of his fleets. My dreadnought and 2 cruisers were quickly faced by 4 dreadnoughts on his side. With ships destroyed before I started and two of my ships (a battlecruiser and a new fast cruiser) refusing to arrive throughout the game, I felt like I was fighting with one hand behind my back.
I destroyed a dreadnought and a Prometheus, but lost a dreadnought, battlecruiser and new heavy cruiser.
Rally Point Red is a fun scenario, but a lousy tournament game.
Result 3-17.
Overall 4th place.