From:           	"Rob Schultz" <blckaddr@hotmail.com>
To:             	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:        	[B5W]: Olympus playtest
Date sent:      	Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:55:10 PDT
Send reply to:  	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

1xG'Quan + 2xOlympus vs. 5xVorchan

We didn't get a lot of turns into this before having to stop due to 
unexpected guests.  But in a nutshell:

The Q'Quan and Olympus fought at speed 9 and the Vorchans held at 10.

After closing for two turns the Vorchans and G'Quan were closing head on 
at range 10-12 and the two Olympus were on on diverging courses on 
either side of the Q'Quan.  The Vorchans and G'Quan exchanged fire at 
range 10-12.  The Vorchans got the best of this taking nothing but some 
structure, 2 non-crit. system hits and a lucy primary taking out a port 
thruster.  The G'Quan lost most of its forward weapons, including the 
heavey lasers, and one thruster.  The Vorchans player ignored it after 
this figuring it would be awhile turning around.  

At this time one Olympus also got a hit with a rail gun and removed a 
twin array from a Vorchan.

The next turn the Vorchans turned to port in order to engage the port 
side of one Olympus which by now was attempting to pivot to bring it's 
launcher and rail gun into play.  The other Olympus, now behind the 
Vorchans and turning to starboard launched two missiles which hit one of 
the Vorchans aft taking out structure and one aft thruster.  The 
Vorchans fired on the pivoting Olympus taking out a bit of structure and 
the port thruster.  (No more pivots for him.)

At this point guests arrived and things had to be shut down.  The 
Olympus player was convinced, as he always is when we don't have time to 
finish, that he was about to execute the Corbomite/Piccard Manuever and 
win the day.  The Vorchan player (me) kind of figured that since we were 
using a fixed map and the Olympus was not going to be able to pivot back 
in time without its port thruster the fight was about to become one 
Olympus vs. 5 Vorchans and was "gonna be fun!"  

That's about it.  Draw what conclusions you can.  Since we were not 
using any fighters the weak fighter defense of either side never made 
much difference.  The Olympus player has a kind of unique tactical 
doctrine that seems to involve getting his ships isolated from the rest 
of the fleet and then spinning out of control of the map.  

For what it is worth I thought the Olympus a good ship to have in your 
fleet.  650 points does not seem out of line.  500, as I think someone 
suggested, would certainly be too little.  I think I could be talked 
into about 575 though.

Rob "Running With Scissors" Schultz
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