To:             	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Date sent:      	Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:56:27 -0400
Subject:        	[B5W] Battle Report #2
From:           	dderidex@juno.com (Alexander M Fulton)
Send reply to:  	babylon5-wars@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

Narn vs Centauri

Centauri (me):
1xOcturion
3xAltarian
42xSentri (aaaah, fighter cover ;^)

Narn:
2xG'Quan
12xFrazi
12xGorith
1xDag'Kar
3xThentus

Summary:
Hey, I won this one!  Octurion is HARD to use, but
can be effective.  Note, ALWAYS deactivate those plasma
streams.  I have never used them (or even been able to) and
that 14 power gives you 11 EW and 11 Thrust - hard to pass
up!  Again, the Dag'Kar was a pain, but with no costly
fighters, I could spread my points out more = more fighters
make it through.

Report:
Turn 1: Octurion takes 2 (of 3) ion torp hits to front.  I, stupidly,
            had used my EW all offensive.  Turned out it did no good, as I
            did not get the numbers I wanted to fire on his G'Quan. My
            ships were all at 6, Sentris at 12.  He started at around 10.
Turn 2: He fires all his heavy lasers and med. lasers at my Octurion.
            Only 1 Med. laser hits, and heavy lasers do moderate damage.
            My weapons fire is pathetic (2 stbd Battle Lasers and about 4
            matter cannons) doing almost nothing to his lead G'Quan.  One
            of my Altarians takes a beating from his ion torps.  By now I
            have lost 1 1/2 flights to emines (and MAN, my fighters were
            going EVERYWHERE - I don't know HOW he kept hitting them!)
Turn 3: Turned Octurion off (to stbd.) to bring my port 2 Battle Lasers 
            and aft-port battle laser to bear, along with several more
matter
            cannon shots and a hail of twin array fire, managed to remove
            most the weapons from one G'Quans front.  Also, close range
            twin fire, combined with Sentris and a few lucky matter
cannon
            hits manages to almost remove the front from a Thentus.  By
now,
            his Frazis are tangling with my Sentris, and destroyed an
entire 
            flight in one shot - I also lost a flight to emines, and 1/2 a
flight to
            dropouts from a near-emine miss.  Of couse, that same emine
            toasted a flight of Frazis ;^).
Turn 4: More matter cannon fire (from alternating sides) hits his other
            G'Quan pretty hard - doing nice damage to its front.  Twin
fire 
            almost removes its port side, it does toast its thruster. Turn
5: My damage: moderate damage to 3 sides of my Octurion, 1 Altarian
            with a front missing, about 1/2 my fighters toasted, moderate
             damage to all sides of my other Altarians.  Narn: 1 G'Quan
with 
             missing weapons, 1 with a hardly hanging on front and stbd. 2
             Thentus with missing fronts.  As movement of this turn
landed me
             in good positions for weapons fire, and he would not be
recharged
             for most of his weapons for another turn (he had lost most of
his 
             med. lasers already) he conceded the game.

Conclusion:
The Centauri live or die by twin fire.  The matter cannons, while a great
weapon, is FAR too unpredictable.  Sometimes you can take a G'Quans front
structure off with 3 or 4 shots, sometimes it takes 3 or 4 shots to
destroy a heavy laser! The battle laser also suffers from
unpredictability.  If you roll high (and I don't) then these weapons are
for you.  Twins tend to be much more stable, though.

--Alex F

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