Date sent: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:16:12 -0400 From: "Asmaul (McChesney)" Organization: None To: "babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU" Subject: [B5W]: Battle Report Centauri vs EA Send reply to: babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Yesterday I nealry finished a game, it looked pretty close by the end but you can judge that. EA Player (not me): 1 Omega 1 Hyperion 1 Olympus (I was really surprised he didn't take a Nova) 5 Flights of Starfuries Centauri (me): 3 Primae 2 Vorchan 3 wings of Sentri (which really sucked against his 5 flights) Westarted at opposite ends of the board, the long way. He later complained that this gave me too much of an advantage but of well. Turn one he gunned it with his fighters and went screaming towards me while his larger ships moved ahead at speed seven, the oly moved to one side of the board. My ships had a speed of thee and maneuvered for better firing next turn. No shots were fired. His cap ships continue on at speed seven about one third of the way across the board while his fighters close on my Primae. I should have been ready for this and fired all my twins and had my sentris go out against them but I was to concerned with his Omega and Oly. I had full offensive EW and fired all twelve battle lasers against his Omega, destroying most of the front but not entirely removing it unfortunately (pretty bad rolls considering about half of them hit). His ships didn't fire. Turn three: His ships close in; his Omega fires its lasers, Hyperion fires lasers and the oly fires missiles - all of this at two of my Primae and one Vorchan. Minor damage results, I was turtleshelled at the time. Due to my earlier stupidity the fighters were now in close and destroyed the side of one Primus and heavily damage the side of another. Ouch. My sentris and twins fired on them, destroying most of one wing and half of another. The Vorchans are able to destroy the entire forward structure of his Oly though that doesn't do much. Turn four: His Oly fires more missiles doing some damage to a Primus. Minor weapons fire strips one Vorchan of its weapons and damages the other even more. The surviviing Vorchan maneuvers for a better position. His cap ships close, especially the Omega which lostboth retros in turn two - still at speed seven. My ships move as much as posible in an attempt to get out of athe Omega's arc to avoid the second part of a sustained shot. Though I can't escape it I do manage to take it in a fresh side. Not much else hapens, more Starfuris destroyed, Primae take massive damage from them. On turn five tow Primae centerlines with the Omega - we call it quits because I have to leave soon anyway and the Omega and one Primus look doomed. I quite easily could have lost but we didn't really know at the time. Some bad critical rolls had disabled sensores and resulted in power losses but his Oly was pretty cut up and a Vorchan was about to got ramming up its rear. My biggest mistake was obviously letting his fighters getting too close by not sending out my Sentris and forgetting to lock on to them with my twins. Another problem was that I had to let him use hsi interceptors on my lasers becuase he wouldn't believe me; in fact he even misquoted the FAQ to support himself. ugh. The Olympus is not terribly powerful if you've got some DEW tohugh it can take quite a beating. If you go all offensive it'll rip you to shreds. -- Jasper (Asmaul) McChesney - jasp@javanet.com http://www.javanet.com/~jasp/asmaul1.html Windows 95; the most user friendly pile of crap ever designed.