Date sent: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 01:43:27 -0400 From: Steven W Rushing Subject: [B5W] BATTLE REPORT: Centauri d Narn at 3k (longish) To: "INTERNET:babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU" Send reply to: babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU 980817 Battle Report: Centauri d Narn 3 K Tourney rules with 3K fleets to try and test the lower sizes and save time. Also a NCW new only ship selection limit, unofficial. NARN: 1 Bintak, 18 Goriths, 1 DagKar 6 HLaser, 1 Mag , 8 ITorps, 8 Emines, 5 Twins, 5 LPCs, 18 fighters CENTAURI: 1 Centurion, 2 Darkener, 2 Mograth, 1 Maximus. 7 BLaser, 2 Plasma Stream, 10 MatterC, 14 Twins, 5 Guards Setup: Centauri setuo in 4220 F speed 9 for Centurion and 10 for all others. Narn set up Dagkar in 0130B speed -5 (reverse at the start), Bintak in 0125B speed 6 and fighters between them speed 10. Result: After turn 4, the Narn resigned. Bintaki was dead, Dagkar was seriously wounded and had no targets in arc. Most goriths were fine, about 4 dead. One mograth was drifting offmap, other had just one gaurdian, One darkener hurt, rest fine. Analysis: Narn missed Centauri plan to drive by the Bintak and hit the Dagkar on turns 3-4. Once you close in on Dagkar, its toast. narn fighters missed turn 4 firing shot due to poor movement on 3. Nark were wishy washy on turn 2 and allowed range to close too much for matter cannons and not enough for the narn mag gun and such. narns needed to fight the battle at LONG range or very very close. narns needed to bring fighters in at same time and same arc as ion torpedoes to overrrun centauri defenses. Cenauri just kept maneuvering and got in. Gorith decision to abandon attacks on lightly armoured frigates and move to heavily armoured centurion was BAD! Guardian arrays vs mag gun is nice. Turn 1: Power shenanigans saw Bintak turn off twins and 2 pulses. Mograths turn off plasma streams, Maximus turn off 3 twins. Initiative saw centauri win except the dagkar beat one of the medium ships. EW: Bintak 5 OEW at Mog1, Centurion and Darkener 2 OEW at Bintak, all else defensive. Speed: Bintak, Dagkar, and Centurion maintained speeds. All else accelerated to 12. Standoff: 4 Emines fired. No Itorps. Movement... Bintak turned to C, moved 6, turned back to B. Dagkar turned A, moved backwards 5, and turned back to B. Frigates turned E and moved 12 with some slips and Mograths turning back to F Centurion moved mostly forward with a turn to E. Darkeners followed figates. Fighters closed. Fire: No fire from narn. 3 BLasers fired at Bintak, one hit for minor damage. 2 Emines did damage to frigates, one due to drift, no crits or system losses. One Darkner took a rear thruster crit. Turn 2 Power shenanigans saw all systems online including Plasma streams. Initiative saw centauri win. EW: Maximus went 1 OEW at fighters & 4 OEW at Bintaki, Mograths went 1 at fighters & 3 at Bintaki, Centurion and Darkners went 1 at fighters & 6 at Bintaki. Bintak went 8 at MograthA and Dagkar went 3 at each Mograth. All else defensive. Speed changes: Bintaki slowed to 4. (?) Standoff: Dagkar fired 3 IT at each Mograth while Bintak fired 1 IT at Mog1. 4 Emines fired. Movement saw Bintak slip twice towards C but otherwise close. Dagkar moved 5 backwards. Every Centauri ship lined up straight ahead of Bintak getting all weapons in arc heading E.. Frigates and Darkner at ranges 7-10 and Centurion at 14ish. Fighters move to rear of Mograth 1. Fire: Guardians fired to reduce 3 ion torpedoes to an 8, 3 were at 11, 1 was at 16. 5 of 7 still hit (sigh) fighters concentrated on rear of mograth 2 and some at mograth 1. 1 emines hit in the area and one drifted in (sigh). Every weapon excpet Centurion twins fired at Bintak front and Centurion twins fired at goriths. massive fire including twins en masse, 9 of 10 mattler cannons hitting, 4 Lasers hitting, 4 HLaser hitting, Mag gun taking a -5 from 8 to 3 and missing due to Guardians. Front of Bintaki was mostly stripped (all weapons gone), One mograth lost its front, the other its rear. 3 fighters lost. Turn 3 PS: saw Bintak take side lasers offline, forwards were gone. (real time remaining was enough for 2-3 turns max so why arm guns that will never fire. Cheap but effective) Initiative: Centauri won. EW: One mograth went full defensive (only one guardian remained), other and maximum went 6 OEW at fighters and 2-3 at Bintaki, Centurion went mostly OEW at fighters. Narns went Dagkar all defensive and Bintak 8 OEW at centurion and rest defensive. Speed changes saw none. Standoff: 4 emines fired and 1 ITorp at Centurion. Movement: Bintak shortened turn mode and made two turns to F. Dagkar moved to turn to C (heading F) and do a start stop pivot to end facing B again, moving F. De-reared Mograth coul still slip and agie pivot and was heading in the right direction. All frigates moved to LS of Bintaki within range 3 and used agile pivots to line up 8 twin and one plasma stream at range 3. Centurion moved mostly E and fighters purued them. Fire: Emines missed. Goriths fired at rear of Centurion and discovered what heavier armour means , some damage, nothing critical. 16 auto hit twins and the PS hit the LS stripped 2 armor from the structure and smashed everything tho structure held. One rear laser fired at Cneturin and hit for some damage. Bintak took -2 power for critical. Bintaki fired twins offensively at frigate and intercepting guardians did some good. Turn 4 PS: Narn turned off recently fired laser (time, cheap) and one ITorp (just fired, same deal). Init: Centauri won. EW: Narn locked up darkners with OEW, Mograth and Maximus went OEW at DAGKAR!! Centurion locked up bintaki and a little to fighters. Speed changes, none. Standoff: Surprised DagKar had 2 Emines and 6 ITorp. 6 Itorp went at a darkner and 2 emines fired. Movement. Bintak turned to E. Centurion and Darkners lined him up. Ranges were real close. Fighters were out of position. Frigates closed to fire 1 Matter cannon, and 16 twins shots auto at Dagkars front. Dakar turned to D moving A. Fire: one emine hit but most of the ships were not in EMine arc. Massed twin and matter cannon fire killed 4 ITorps and 4 Emines but front held. Bintak dies to Darkener and Centurion fire. Darkner damaged seriously by ITorps. NOTE, one I torp was partiall intercepted by guardian. End of game.