Dramatic SFB: Vudar Colony vs Tholian Raid

[Matthew]

The Vudar fleet of a CL, DD, FF, and police flagship, began the game in 
orbit around a heavily fortified colony. The Tholian fleet warped in at 
a range of 27; A DD squadron, frigate-based scout, and Armed Web Tended. 
The Tholians elected to take the time to form a globe at that range, 
which explains why everyone began at weapon status 3.


Expecting withering Ph-IV fire, the Tholians left their webbed-fort and 
began laying a line of web towards the colony. A Web Anchor Bouy was 
left to anchor the back of the line and the web was pushed forward by a 
single destroyer. Thus the defenses could only ever fire at one ship and 
that ship was a heavily shielded destroyer. The Scout stayed in the 
fort, clouding subspace around that one lead ship.


The Vudar continued to orbit their planet. Nobody fired.


For three turns, this happened. The Tholians advanced under web, the 
Vudar circled their planet. The Tholians placed the end of their line at 
range 15 to the colony and anchored it with a second anchor bouy. That 
ended turn 3.\


On the fourth turn, the Vudar broke orbit. The began forming up 
perpendicular to the Tholian advance, but could not go too fast because 
of their previous speeds.


The Tholian scout, realizing that the fleet is beginning to get near the 
end of it's range, exited the fort. It took over the anchor duties of 
the rear bouy, which deactivated it, and then allowed the web to 
collapse down to the second anchor. This made it easier to reinforce the 
web and also meant that the laid web could be taken in a different 
direction. The scout emptied it's shuttle bay and then took on the bouy.


The AWT began taking on the web-generation duties. It extended the line 
to range 11 from the colony. The squadron is just behind the web and has 
been discharging it's overloaded disruptors menacingly.


The Vudar fleet has formed up in such a fashion that they may intend to 
hook around the existing web to hit the ships that the colony cannot 
hit. The Tholians look to be extending the web in such a fashion that 
short sallies will allow them to destroy bases, but are otherwise free 
of reprisals from that direction.


--Matt