Dramatic SFB: Convoy Battles

[Marcel Trahan]

My little bits on Convoy Raid vs Andros

We just fought for fun the Convoy Raid #3919 in Midshipman

A C8B and 3 E5's vs 1 PYT, 2 MAM. 1 EEL, 4 CS and a GUN.

the game went on for 5 turns and i manage to get my ships through the
escorting MAM's and PYT, heading toward the CS's with those ships on my
tail.
The C8 got some internals from a previous pass from the 2 MAM's and PYT
without even being able to punch through the PA of any ships.

For turn 5, all my ships went to speed 30/28 to do an overrun on the CS.
The CS managed to grab the E5's at range 2 (no way i could fight those
tractors with all the bttys on the CS). I even fired 6 T-IV drones at the
CS but none manage to hit their targets.
I manage to get to range 1 of one of the CS, firing 10 Ph-2 and 4 Ph-3
doing 57, and even that did not blow up the CS.

With 3 E5's heading on a FT convoy, i would have at least killes 2 of them
and crippled 1 at range 0 with little chances of them of escaping it. FT's
might be faster then CS, but once you catchup with FT's they are dead. It
is almost impossible to do an overrun on adros.

My personnal view on those CS as they are comparable, if not even better
then FT's.

Can take more damage, can dissipate damage to space.
Can do EW, as long as bttys last
Have better phasers
Can have TB.
Can effectively tractor attacking ships (Which FT's cant do as well)

The final point is, MC for MC. Andro ships are more powerfull then galactic
ships.

Attacking hard to kill CS, defended by ships which have more BPV for an
equivalent MC make the fact that CS cannot go faster then 13 and cannot
disengage by acceleration the only chance for galactic power to maybe win
that scenario.

I would trade anytime 5 FT for 5 CS even more, being escorted by 2 MAM's. 1
PYT and 1 EEL

Marcel



On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 8:25 PM Gregory Flusche via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

> Sounds good.
>
> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 8:18 PM Matt <matt at mattnet.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Wow I go away for the weekend and POW, Matt when can we finish up?
>>
>>
>> This week, probably. Thursday is my next "big" block of time. But we
>> might be able to get an hour or so in on other days, if you don't mind
>> short notice.
>>
>>
>> --Matt
>>
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