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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A good battle, thanks for the write up.</span></span><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 18 April 2021, 05:26:30 pm AEST, David via SFBdrama <sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Frax are RTA<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Brent and I ran an excellent battle tonight. It went back and forth and<br></div><div dir="ltr">could have gone either way.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Frax Convoy Raid 312: CW, CWS, DW vs DWL, DWS, DWF, Large Q-ship<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Turn 1 Frax raiding team approached rapidly from behind while the convoy and<br></div><div dir="ltr">escort destroyers accelerated steadily. Once within battle range (about 20)<br></div><div dir="ltr">the DDs peeled off and turned back to face us. Three scatterpacks filled the<br></div><div dir="ltr">drone control channels. Near the end of the turn we tapped the DWS with 4 of<br></div><div dir="ltr">7 disruptors (R15). <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Turn 2 was critical. Hydran fighters entered the board to help wipe out our<br></div><div dir="ltr">drone wave. We saluted them with disruptors - and missed with a 3 bolt<br></div><div dir="ltr">narrow salvo then damaged but did not destroy two others. Once more I was to<br></div><div dir="ltr">be taught Hydran fighters hurt out to range 10. Fleet fire including<br></div><div dir="ltr">Hellbore knocked down a shield on the CW and put 6 in. A Tbomb got the last<br></div><div dir="ltr">of the drones but placement forced the Hydran fleet to turn up to force<br></div><div dir="ltr">drone manuvering. The CW had turned away to avoid additional damage and<br></div><div dir="ltr">ended the turn a few hexes from the rest of the Frax fleet. Six in, a down<br></div><div dir="ltr">shield and hellbore on the board, it looked like the Frax were out of luck.<br></div><div dir="ltr">We had built special anti-fighter drones that hadn't even been used because<br></div><div dir="ltr">the ships were just in front enough to shoot them down before they would be<br></div><div dir="ltr">effective.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Turn 3 I did what everyone in SFB knows you never ever do: I split the<br></div><div dir="ltr">fleet. The CW went one way (at very high speed) and the CWS/DW went the<br></div><div dir="ltr">other way toward the freighters. The Hydran choice was chase one, the other<br></div><div dir="ltr">or split themselves. They chose to chase the CW with everything but ~5<br></div><div dir="ltr">fighters that simply couldn't keep up. My idea was that if they chased the<br></div><div dir="ltr">CWS/DW we would get an uninterrupted high speed phaser pass on freighters<br></div><div dir="ltr">then catch up with the CW within two turns with DWs hot on our heels. If<br></div><div dir="ltr">they chased the CW it could lead them off and stay at range until the<br></div><div dir="ltr">mission was accomplished. The Hydrans chased the CW - and almost caught it<br></div><div dir="ltr">close enough to do enough damage to prevent disengagement. The 5 fighters<br></div><div dir="ltr">found a t-bomb. The CWS/DW came in, tractored four freighters and began<br></div><div dir="ltr">dragging them away, shooting up a fifth. The Q-ship never had a chance to<br></div><div dir="ltr">launch fighters, but phasers and those special drones would have made it<br></div><div dir="ltr">very hard for them. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">End result - Hydrans did more battle damage but the Frax got most of the<br></div><div dir="ltr">freighters for the technical win.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">____________________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Dramatic SFB campaign chatter list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://sfbdrama.mattnet.org" target="_blank">http://sfbdrama.mattnet.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:SFBdrama@lists.mattnet.org" href="mailto:SFBdrama@lists.mattnet.org">SFBdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://lists.mattnet.org/listinfo.cgi/sfbdrama-mattnet.org" target="_blank">http://lists.mattnet.org/listinfo.cgi/sfbdrama-mattnet.org</a><br></div></div>
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