To:             	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Date sent:      	Sun, 16 Aug 1998 12:14:51 -0400
Subject:        	[B5W]: Battle Report
From:           	dderidex@juno.com (Alexander M Fulton)
Send reply to:  	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

Okay, got a number of games in a Saturday (3 against the Streib, won't
bother posting them here, but they did bring up some interesting
questions):

Game 1:
1 Altarian (6 Sentri)
   vs
1 Var'Nic (6 Gorith)

Comments:
1) First, the horrible to-hit for the side of the Gorith is really not
that much
    of a liability, assuming the Narn player saves enough thrust to do a
    combat pivot during the turn.  You can almost always force the enemy
    to take a shot at your front or aft - to-hit of only "7" instead of
"10".  And,
    since the armor is the same all around, it really makes no difference
in
    flight level combat WHERE your fighter is hit - the to-hits are the
only thing
    that changes.
2) The Var'Nic is a nice platfom - 3 med. lasers and those twins ;^) 
And, of
     course, the Narn do not make the same mistake many Centauri ships
seem to
     of putting the entire main armament on one structure block.

Summary:
Well, it didn't go as well as I (the Centauri) would like.  The Altarian
got some
really crappy rolls and the Var'Nic was *lucky*, getting some hits it
really should
not have.  Of course, my bro pointed out that this probably made up for
by TBolt
shots in the last game where, when firing the GPulses on 6 TBolts, I
rolled 5 6's.
Hehehehe - that was nice ;^)  Anyway, I ended up with about 75% of my
forward
structure gone without accomplishing any significant damage to the enemy.
I don't think hardly any damage came from his ships - it was almost all
from the
Goriths (which I could not keep off my back and which won - EVERY TURN - 
initiative over my Sentris).  As he still had a number of fighters left
and had finally
finished off all of my Sentris (and had done heavy damage to my ship -
including 
destroying 4 of my 5 twins) - I conceded the game.

Battle Report:
Turn 1) Started closing range - no real weapons fire as both sides had
gone turtle.
             Sentris and Goriths closing at speed-10 and speed-12,
respectively.  Note
             that I forgot turn cost is rounded up - I should have been
going speed 9 with
             the Sentris.  Var'Nic travelling at 10 and I was at 6 (so I
could turn twice).
Turn 2) Turned towards the "top" of the map to put some range up - as my
EW was
             better and my weapons recharged faster, I wanted to keep the
range as high
             as possible with my Sentris doing damage to his ship.  Fired
stbd matter 
             cannon- hit doing 7 pts of damage to his stbd. structure. 
He fired a heavy 
             laser and removed 1of my front twins and doing HEAVY damage
to the other.  
             Next turn the fighters closed to range with each other - he
destroyed one 
             Sentri and I (with better to-hits) completely missed his
entire flight with my 
             Sentris.
Turn 3) My Sentris closed with his ship (they lost initiative the
Goriths, so I had no idea
             where they would be).  His ship destroyed another Sentri
with the twins and
             his Goriths finished off the front, damaged, twin array, as
well as giving my 
             matter cannons some nasty crits.
Turn 4) Our ships are too close for my taste now, but I managed to get my
fighters
             on top of my ship pointing back (hoping his Goriths go for
the aft shot).  They do,
             and I fire on them.  My two aft-firing twins left manage to
hit once (with four shots)
             and damage a Gorith (no drop-out).  He destroys both my aft
twins.  My fighters,
             at point blank range with his and no jinking, again MISS all
shots.
The next 2-3 turns has him finish off the rest of my fighters.  I managed
to keep his Var'Nic
out of a good firing position, but without anti-fighter weapons and no
fighter support, I 
really can't win, so I concede the game.

I really don't think the game was unbalanced, the forces we picked seemed
to fight really
well against each other.  It is just that really crappy rolls decided the
game (the matter cannon,
while a GREAT weapon for smashing up primaries- as I found in the next
game - relies
ENTIRELY on good die rolls.  And, when that is just not happening, you
are in trouble if that is
all you have).

--Alex F

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