Well, I can't give a full batrep, it was way way to hot and I ended up with a headache. we played in the conservatory with the sun beating down on my head!
anyhow
as guessed, my opponent used a brivoki, oh my!
Brakiri. Tashkat, takata, 2 Kaliva, Kabrokta 2 Haltona, 1 Brokados, 2 batrado, 1 Halik
Abbai. Brivoki, Juyaca, Lakara, Milani, many bimiths 2 tirace.
as expected the early part of the game was all the Brakiri as they had range, removing the initiative sink Tiracas and Milani so i could line up juicier targets for the Kabrokta. The Kalivas sat way back sniping. by mid game it was a grand mellee, the Bimiths wading in, but being more of an annoyance at first. the first Brivoki salvo hit the Takata, he was getting annoyed at the mines, but it survived, it's second shot scratched a Kabrokta, then his third salvo obliterated the Tashkat, yup one shot, one kill, although the tashkat, Kabrokta 2 haltonas and 2 kalivas (yes it needed ALL of them, had killed the Juyaca. The Lakara had died to a Stunning kabrokta shot the previous round. . . but with a skelly crewed Takata, and a half damaged kabrokta as my main warships i was wondering how to kill the Brivoki, whilst being continually mauled by bimiths (2 crits per salvo, bah!) and then, the kabrokta, and 2 haltonas went down to the brivoki and I was staring defeat in the face. Just to pile on the pressure, my halik then got a facefull of Bimith and died. I was left with my two sniping Kalivas, and a skelly crewed Takata. . against a brivoki and 4 bimiths. . . and then Kaliva A took over 100 damage from a TD beam shot from the brivoki, leaving me at minus 72. . . the remaining kaliva tried to do somehing, anything, but I never got the Brivoki's shield below 18 in the whole game. . . and it was the first time ever i killed a Juyaca!! The Brakiri just don't have enough oomph to deal with a heavy shield fleet, the beams being slow loading after you pop a shield, you are then barely able to scratch them while you reload!! and they recharge! bah!. The Abbai player also laughed at my Tashkat, sure he whimpered when it fired a ten dice beam, but once he realised that it could only do it every other round, and that my secondary armament was very inferior to the juyacas, he just taunted me!
next time, i return to my roots and take the narn for a spin, Mr Brivoki, meet Mr KaBinTak. . . . m'wah hahahahahha, oh, ok the brivoki has 28 points of crit immunity and the kabintak has the defensive systems of a marmoset but it should be fun