Date sent: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:59:59 -0400 From: Steven W Rushing Subject: [B5W]: Minbari SJ vs Centauri To: "INTERNET:babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU" Send reply to: babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Minbari SJ vs CEntauri. Tourney Duel Centauri: 3 Primus, 3 Altarian, 30 Sentri Minbari SJ: 1 Sharlin, 3 Tinashi. 9 Nials Rules: Tourney setup with Minbari ships sans jammer (no power back, no hits on jammer) Results: Game conceeded by Centauri on turn 4. Status of units after turn 4... Sharlin: Left side had lost 2 fusion cannons, 1 neutron cannon and had light damage to structure and thruster. Rear had damaged fusion and scratched thruster. Tinashi-1: Minor structure damage to front and damaged one neutron cannon. Tinashi-2:Front lost EP gun and minor structure damage. Rear lost one neutron cannon and had some damage to fusion guns and structure. Tinashi-3: Front lost 1 Ep gun and some light structure. Nials: 5 left. Primus-1: Right side and most of front gone. Unable to maneuver against sharlin who was on his left. Primus-2:Left side and half of front gone. One battle laser on rs left but not armed until turn 5. Primus-3: Left side gone, suffering -2 init due to cnc crit. Altarian-1: Relatively intact. light structural damage. Altarian-2: 2 matter cannons one twin and some forward structure gone. Altarian-3: Sent to great maker. Sentris: 22 left. First turn saw neutron cannon fire (13) and batlaser (6) with the primuses losing most of those lasers. primuses fired at tinashi who were running mostly defensive. Fusions fired as well. 10 NC hit and 3 batlas hit. Second turn saw Primuses firing batlas at Sharlin who was mostly defensive. Sharlin fired rear NC and fusions at altarians as the altarians pursued the the tinashis. Sentris mostly lost initiative and went after the tinashis though 2 flights danced with nials who were shooting at primus weak side. Altarians had no shots due to def EW. Sentris damaged tinashi and warmed the nials. Nials stripped wounded side off primus. Sharlin fusions killed one MC on a Altarian. Third turn saw sharlin maneuver at range with primuses closing while altarians and tinashis dogfighted. Nials lost initiative against sentris. Nials moved to hit primuses other weak side, to prevent him from turning toward primus. Tinashis and Altarians exchanged fire. Sentris hit with 24 guns and killed no nial but damaged all (2 dropped out) Nials finished offf primus side. Fourth turn saw Sharlin firing neutron cannon from the FA at altarian number 3, one in sustained mode. Dead Altarian 3. Twin array and fusion fire between a primus and Sharlin on the flank. more dogfighting between Altarians and Tinashis and Nials and Sentris continued dogfight tho nials were drawing sentris well away from the fight. battle could have continued for sometime, but the centauri plaers were fairly convinced of the outcome being against them. They conceeded. power shenanigans note... Sharlin turns ep gun and 12 fusions off every turn. This produced 27 power which on turn one was used for +2 EW and on subsequent turns was used for +1 EW and sustain on one neutron cannon. meanwhule, every turn he fired 6 fusion cannons as it was fairly easy to pick which ones to keep armed. Maneuvering note: Sharlins and Centauri ships ran speed 9. Tinashi and fighters ran speed 12. Sharlin made good use of extended turn rule to enable 2 same direction turns on turn 2 without overthrusting to go from FA guns shooting on turn 1 to RA guns shooting on turn 2. Again, the result seems to indicate Minbari in tourney setups are competitive without jammers at current bpvs. next weekend... Sharlin, 3 Tinashis, 9 Nials all SJ against 1 Nova, 1 Omega, 1 hyperion, and as many Furies as that allows! News reported courtesy if the Steve Information Network (SIN) bringing you all the information you need to know swr