Nightmares about Minbari
Mongoose
On the subject of luck vs averages.
Recent large battle, Bin'Tak was guarding our flank. Enemy sulusts were deployed in front of our entire fleet (refused flank deployment), enemy won the initiative and fired the sulusts first. Battle lasers hit the Bin'Tak, criticals ensue, Weapons: cat explosion. Bin'Tak can't fire.
If you ignore averages, that suggest that the Bin'Tak is way too week and should be upgunned, anybody think that's valid? No? Wonder why.
Coincidentally, Bin took two more criticals in rapid succession; engines offline (no movement) followed by Vitals: engineering, no repairs. So a war priority ship that was guarding our flanks ended up not firing a shot all battle. Was going to say doing nothing, but that's not true, it did absorb a massive amount of enemy fire that might have been directed at our other ships.
Recent large battle, Bin'Tak was guarding our flank. Enemy sulusts were deployed in front of our entire fleet (refused flank deployment), enemy won the initiative and fired the sulusts first. Battle lasers hit the Bin'Tak, criticals ensue, Weapons: cat explosion. Bin'Tak can't fire.
If you ignore averages, that suggest that the Bin'Tak is way too week and should be upgunned, anybody think that's valid? No? Wonder why.
Coincidentally, Bin took two more criticals in rapid succession; engines offline (no movement) followed by Vitals: engineering, no repairs. So a war priority ship that was guarding our flanks ended up not firing a shot all battle. Was going to say doing nothing, but that's not true, it did absorb a massive amount of enemy fire that might have been directed at our other ships.