Dramatic SFB: Solaris Arena Update

Sun Jun 24 19:58:14 PDT 2018

Hey guys,
I don't know if you saw my suggestion earlier for a pick up game:  Black Hole Race:  basically we all race around a black hole a certain number of times to win but people are free to shoot at each other. To make the game more entertaining either make every other lap the opposite direction or have people start going opposite directions.  What's nice about this scenario is you can add late comers either by starting them with some laps or making them spoilers on the track who just attack people.  You can use any size ships you want.
Paul (Grim).

   From: Ann Monaghan via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
 To: Paul Meyer <falrun at hotmail.com>; Paul Meyer via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> 
 Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2018 7:35 PM
 Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: Solaris Arena Update

 Paul, Nice write up ! Got an idea for the 2nd battle once we are done with Solaris Arena. Fleet max MC is 2. One side must have 2 MC 1 SC 3 ships, the other side cannot have a MC 1 ship in its fleet. Possible fleet MC 2 combinations are CL/FF and  2 DDs 3*CLs 4*DDs 6 FFs [ this could violate S8.0 but what the heck, its a JFF battle !  ] 2 CLs and 2 FFs CL and 4 FFs I would suggest the ships on each side are from the same empire and natural  enemies. May have to play around with the Bpv of each fleet which could lead to the MC 1 ships being very new vs the other side having much older un-refitted ships to balance things out  ?? Terrain could be used as well ? Figured I would throw this out there ? Cheers Frank 
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From: Paul Meyer via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
Date: June 23, 2018 at 11:42 AM

  First, a PSA: This is the final announcement about the Solaris Arena that will be posted to his email list. All posts, updates, announcements, etc.. concerning the Thursday night Solaris Arena Pickup games, from this point forward, will be made through sfbpickups at lists.mattnet.org  Thank you. 
 Now, to the good stuff...

  The first encounter of the Star League has begun! 

 The Gorn Battle Cruiser: Magrathea (me) faced off against the ISC Medium Cruiser: Enforcer (Frank). They were quickly joined by the Hydran Lord Cardinal Heavy Command Cruiser: Triad (Paul G) and the Romulan Battle Cruiser: Vengeance Reborn (Chuck). We teamed up, the Magrathea and the Triad (red team) against the Enforcer and Vengeance Reborn (blue team).   Starting across the board from each other, the first turn went quickly with little action until late in the turn. Vengeance Reborn and the Enforcer started circling wide from each other in order to flank the red team, while the red team remained close to each other as the turn commenced.   Shots were fired first by the blue team as both the Enforcer and Vengeance Reborn launched plasma torpedoes. Shortly afterwards, the Enforcer fired its PPD on Magrathea successfully locking on and hammering the ship’s shields. Not taking the beating laying down, Magrathea launched its own set of plasma torps against the Enforcer. In addition, phasers were fired, shields were lost, and the Triad started doing damage with its Hellbores.   The first turn ended with plasma torps within striking distance of the Magrathea and the Enforcer while Vengeance Reborn's torps were still rather distant from the Triad.   At one point, the Big Giant Head appeared and declared that the button for the War of Attrition would be pushed after the weekend once he’d had a chance to review the code and correct some bugs. He also mentioned that the button for the Pow Pow Powers campaign was still waiting on four of its members to indicate they were ready for the turn to cycle.   After his PSA (Public Service Announcement) was complete, he stayed to observe for a while until Mrs. Q called him away.   The next turn began with Magrathea trying to outrun the two plasmas that were bearing down on his #3 shield. He was not smart enough to outmaneuver the torps despite increasing his speed to 31 and took some internals from the impact. Luckily, he still had his #3 shield to absorb much of the impact. The Enforcer also took it on the chin from a couple of plasmas. Some would argue that after all was said and done, the Enforcer was worse for the wear than the Magrathea.

 The rest of his turn was spent running around the outer edge of the arena because the captain of the Magrathea also wasn’t smart enough to plan a mid-turn speed change.   Meanwhile, the Enforcer, badly damaged from getting hit by both the Magrathea and the Triad, rotated around the arena in the opposite direction while Vengeance Reborn mostly stayed out of range of the rest of the ships.   Little combat occurred as both teams spent the turn jockeying for position.   The session ended well past the Magrathea crew’s bedtime but they still look forward to finishing the battle, one way or the other, next Thursday Thursday Thursday night! when the Star League meets again and monster ships provide heart throbbing and pulse pounding action! Watch the plasmas fly and the phasers glow as your enemy's ship gets pounded into submission! There will be an escape pod for the first 100 audience members! Don't miss your chance to find out if there's enough left of the Enforcer to enforce a parking ticket! Come see if Vengeance Reborn can find what it's looking for! Find out if the Magrathea can be destroyed by the opposite team before its captain screws up and destroys his own ship! And, most importantly, if a Triad can exist in a square arena!   This battle has been recorded as observed by Mr. Bossk.  

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