To: babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Date sent: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:15:35 -0400 Subject: [B5W] Battle Report #3 From: dderidex@juno.com (Alexander M Fulton) Send reply to: babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Narn vs Centauri Centauri (me): 1xOcturion 3xAltarian 42xSentri Narn: 1xBin'Tak 1xDag'Kar 3xThentus 18xFrazi Summary: Close game, almost gave up a few times. But, in the end, the Centauri pulled through a victory. The Bin'Tak can take a beating like nothing else. Especially combined with the low damage yield of the battle laser, it simply takes too long to destroy this monster! I tend to think the Octurion is overpriced. This is the second game in a row where a pair of Thentii almost removed the side of an Octurion - on what looked like average rolls! Report: Turn 1: Closed range. After the last battle, I decided to use all my EW this time defensively. Worked beautifully, but an Altarian still ended up eating 4 ion torps (grumble, grr). My speed were 6 and 5 for the Octurion, 12 for Sentris. Narn was 4. Turn 2: Narn accelerates to 10 on his Thentii and fighters. Bin'Tak fires heavy lasers, doing heavy damage to an Altarian, along with fire from a Thentus and 4 more ion torps, removing the front of said Altarian. Does it seem strange to anyone else that an Altarian has more forward structure than an Octurion?? Fired 4 battle lasers, 4 matter cannons, and 24 twins at Bin'Tak from Octurion 1 Matter cannon missed, and only 2 twins hit. Three Altarians each fired 8 twins and a matter cannon, 2 M.C. hit, and about 8 twins hit. So, with 4 battle lasers hits, 6 matter cannon hits, and 10 twin hits - how much damage do you think I did? Well, almost none. Removed 2 emines, 1 H. laser, 1 Lt pulse, damage a twin, and did minimal damage to structure. All 7 flights of Sentris hammer on of the Thentii - removing its aft and doing a few primary hits. Turn 3: Fires 2 Thentii at my Octurion's side - removes it. Other, damaged, Thentus is busy attacking the damaged Altarian. Frazis wail on another Altarian, and ion torps hit the third. After having turned my Altarians, my aft matter cannons and a crapload of twins, and 5 of the 6 remaining Sentri flights make short work of a Thentus that passed behind them to attack my Octurion. Octurion messes up the front of the only undamaged Thentus left with its aft-firing weapons and LOTS of twin fire!! At this point, with damage to his heavy weapons on the Bin'Tak, 3 Thentii basically out of action and my fleet with one Altarian destroyed and only 1 side of my Octurion missing (and only like 3 undamaged flights of Sentris left), the Narn player concedes the game. Don't blame him - next turn I would have gotten a crapload of matter cannons back! Also, although the shortest in number of turns played, this was our longest. It had A LOT of weapons fire - took like 4 hours to finish this game! Analysis: Bin'Tak is underpriced. It takes an *unbelievable* amount of punishment. Narn players disagrees, he felt the price was correct, considering he could not buy as many support ships as he would have liked. The Octurion is DEFINATELY underpriced. Its weapons suite is insufficient to deal the amount of punishment necessary to cripple another battleship (I would HATE to take this thing against a G'Quan!) and it takes very little to do critical damage to it. --Alex F ============================================== Access the Imperial Database New ships, scenarios, tactics, and play aids http://www.ImperialDatabase.base.org ============================================== _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]