Dramatic SFB: ISC player

Fri Jul 19 12:55:33 PDT 2019

I've set CA-sab ICS Infinite as destroyed and saved my orders. I'm sorry I
missed the discussion, I haven't played ISC in a very long time, so a lot
of the rules about campaign fleet compositions and such I've just
completely forgotten unfortunately.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:35 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:

> looks like I accidentally lost part of my message. If the attacker rolls
> WS 0 or 1 the defender can generally get to speed before any plasmas are
> armed. otherwise, you are going speed 0-10 dodging speed 32/40 plasma's
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 10:13 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There was at least a weeks worth of discussion about your fleet which I
>> guess you missed somehow. The result was your fleet had the DN and one of
>> the other CA's not present to not violate the ISC PPD rules and DN escort
>> rules I am not sure how you missed it. I mentioned many times I was
>> pressing the fight hell I was thinking of pressing it a bit just to cripple
>> a ship if possible. It's not often you fight against stationary targets.  I
>> didn't have your direct e-mail so I tried to reach out via sfbdramatic
>> list.
>>
>> 90% of the scenario's its a given if a ship wanted to leave there is
>> nothing other players can do to stop them. Technically you could play it
>> out in every battle but its very hard to stop ships escaping via
>> acceleration. There are a few where the retreat is strictly not allowed at
>> all till the objective has been destroyed and all of those should be fought
>> although there is nothing stopping the attacker from leaving.
>>
>> in order to determine how many of your ships is docked is
>> FRD has 36 docking points each CA takes 10 dock points.
>> leaving 16 for any additional ships you would have brought which means
>> both ships start docked to the FRD at the beginning of the scenario
>> ** thiis is correct??? **
>>
>> FRD scenario is pretty brutal for the defender at least 1 or more of
>> their ships they brought is docked to the FRD and the rest are going at a
>> very slow speed. It is nearly impossible to stop the attackers from
>> pressing for a fight. *FRD:* The defender cannot disengage unless the
>> FRD has been destroyed.
>>
>> Which is why rolling weapon status for the attacker is absolutely
>> required as a roll of WS 1 or 0.
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> IF you want to retreat my offer is to mark one of your  CA's as destroyed
>> (likely the docked ship) and the other can escape with no damage. We don't
>> have to fight the scenario then.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:36 AM Nicholas Steere via SFBdrama <
>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I was not aware of that rule actually. Thank you for telling me this, I
>>> changed my orders in the campaign client so that my fleet will be
>>> retreating from that scenario, giving it to Don.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:46 AM Wayne Power <wdpower at yahoo.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There has been other emails on this scenario #4002, I think the best
>>>> way to resolve the scenario is to give the win to the Gorn, and the ISC
>>>> fleet just disengages (even though the scenario says you cannot disengage
>>>> until the FRD is destroyed. Remember that the ISC fleet is illegal by
>>>> (E11.17), and if the ISC was reduced to a legal fleet, it would be only one
>>>> CAm with INTs, and it would be docked to the FRD.
>>>> On Friday, 19 July 2019, 12:58:12 pm AEST, Nicholas Steere <
>>>> steerenicholas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm confused, what do you mean by no auto-retreat option? I know
>>>> overwhelming force means you can still fight out the scenario if you want
>>>> no problem, but I was under the impression that you were retreating? I sent
>>>> an RTA email to everyone when the game first advance to this turn a while
>>>> ago, saying that unless Don wanted to fight out #4002 with overwhelming
>>>> force against him he could, but otherwise I was RTA. I don't believe I ever
>>>> got an email from him after that of him informing me that he wanted to
>>>> fight out the scenario.
>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:51 AM Wayne Power via SFBdrama <
>>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Players are welcome to meet at SFBOL on the weekend for a multi
>>>> scenario battle, or a Circus Maximus in the death bole cruiser challenge.
>>>> On Thursday, 18 July 2019, 10:45:24 am AEST, Charles Carroll via
>>>> SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:26 PM Michael Helbig via SFBdrama <
>>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So another weekend without pow pow.  Depressing:-(
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 7:42 PM Matt via SFBdrama <
>>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I still haven't heard anything from the ISC player and I would like
>>>> to
>>>> > move on.
>>>> > There is no auto-retreat option in "Fleet Repair Dock #4002" and I
>>>> > have had no communications from the player.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have sent a warning to the player. If I don't hear from him before
>>>> the
>>>> end of the weekend, I will drop him and advance the turn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Matt
>>>>
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