Dramatic SFB: Age of PFs: convoy #2252

[Gregory Flusche]

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On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:42 PM Gregory Flusche <shagrat1960 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Better than i had hoped
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 4:38 PM Matt via SFBdrama <
> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm presuming the Romulans are disengaging as soon as the freighters are
>> destroyed. Please let me know otherwise and I'll re-run.
>>
>>
>> A very-modern Romulan group of a Skyhawk, SparrowHawk, and a Skyhawk
>> scout hunted down an ISC convoy, guarded by an escort carrier group and
>> a scout. The Romulans approached at speed and then dropped their
>> Centurians. The escort carrier began cycling out her fighters while the
>> escort destroyer heeled around with her interceptors separating.
>>
>> Once the plasma from the ISC began flying, the Centurians returned fire
>> against the interceptors while the Romulan ships ran forward under
>> cloak. A bloody fight ensued between the PFs and INTs, with a helping
>> from a few fighters. The Romulan ships went straight for the freighters.
>>
>> The Skyhawk was flash-cubed by a mine and then was donated every phaser
>> the ISC could bear, plus several bolted plasma. The frigate was crippled
>> and proceeded to uncloak. She launched her plasma at a single freighter
>> from overload range and then proceeded to limp off the map.
>>
>> With many of the ISC weapons emptied and the resulting power issues that
>> entails, the Sparrowhawk uncloaked. The remaining fighters went for her,
>> but she was able to pickle off all of her sabots and phasers at
>> freighters before the fighters' weapons would hit her. Across a
>> turn-break, the Sparrowhawk popped a weasel and cloaked again.
>>
>> As the ISC are largely emptied of weapons (including the fighters), the
>> Romulans manage to get away. The Romulan plasma were too much for the
>> freighters, who were running hard to get space between them and the
>> aggressors.
>>
>>
>> Result: Crippled Skyhawk. Dead freighters.
>>
>>
>> --Matt
>>
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