Battle Tactics day 8

[trust]

Everything hit the Phallactica?

Not really understanding how the combat works, compared to Thorgots grasp on it.

Could we have all our Vipers defend the basestars, and all 4 basestars hit the Phallactica? I'm not very mathematically based, so someone crunch some numbers.

I'd definately list the Phallactica first, then Colonial One, just in case it splits off when Phallactica blows, then defend in the hope that the Pegasus can't finish off a basestar.

[pollodiablo]

I think the way we did it last time was to have everything all out attack. I like your plan, but instead of having them defend at the end, I think we should target whichever ship has the most people left on it, just to try for some extra kills, or try to damage the pegasus as much as possible. If we get a battle tomorrow, we can finish it off.

[trust]

Ok, here's the plan. We all move to one of the Civvy ships tonight. ALL OF US MOVE TO THE OLYMPIC CARRIER.

Tomorrow, we have another fleet battle, and we can destroy any ship we feel like. Then all move so we have one of us on each ship remaining so we can target every remaining player with our normal kills.

[trust]

Sorry for the spamming, but if Blarney was sensible, he'd move everyone to the 2 military ships and put them on defense, then jump them out of the battle at the end of round 2, meaning we'd barely touch them. I'm now not so sure about moving us all to the Olympic now, as then Blarney could just jump all the innocents out on the military ships.

I know you're all in bed right now, but I do need someone to bounce ideas off about this stuff.

[pollodiablo]

I'm around. I think we'll realize if he's going to move everyone on the military ships. At least one of us would catch wind of it. If he runs with the military ships, we can rape anyone left behind.

[trust]

And by the time we've moved to another ship, we'll have moved back before he can plan for it.

[psycholawrence]

I don't think revealing our numbers is a very good idea just yet. Especially as new methods of killing us keep cropping up and martial law is in effect.

Just the basic math says that if Blarney jumps out the military ships on turn 2 we have to deal 500 damage in those 2 turns to take out the Phallactica. The basestars deal 400 total, minus the potential 15% the Pegasus can direct to itself. Our 350 fighters need to get 160 damage through plus whatever any engineers on board add.

200 fighter damage would be the safe bet, given fluctuations and engineers. I'd suggest leaving at least a few fighters defending, since their improved weapons could mean a downed basestar or two.

[psycholawrence]

Hm. If the fleet still gets 200 fighters plus 20 for the two surviving aces, they can block all but 130 damage each turn. Pegasus could take 20 of that on itself. 110 damage always gets through, but +/-10% means we'd probably want all out attack to be sure we get the 500 damage in before they can jump.

Set a research ship for 2nd target to try to stop them from producing any more vig items, an industrial or the other research ship 3rd. Any damage that makes it through hits those or is absorbed by the Pegasus, which is weakened for the next battle.

That sound right?

[pollodiablo]

Sounds good to me. If they're stopping all but 130 damage a turn, would we even be able to knock out the Phallactica today, assuming they jump out after 3 rounds? I guess we'll at least bang it up bad enough that we can finish it tomorrow.

[psychocucumber]

Yeah, all out attack on Phallactica, then a research ship, then an industrial. It would be awfully nice to have a huge body count.

[delroland]

I suggest we put Pegasus in the #3 spot, that way if he attacks with Pegasus and defends with Phallactica, we still get shots at Pegasus on round 2. If he uses that tactic and we don't have Pegasus on the list, we essentially lose out on one round of attacks. What we REALLY REALLY want is for Phallactica to attack; this would almost assure her destruction.

Also, on the off chance one of us becomes admiral for day 10, I suggest we have the Pegasus and Phallactica attack the civilian fleet along with the Basestars, then have them blow the crap out of each other until they both explode.

[trust]

So where shall we all move tonight?

If we're targetting the Phallactica, the Celestra and the Pegasus today, that means tomorrow we target the Phallactica again if needs be, the Rhadamantrys and the Pegasus?

I'm just wondering if I need to move to C1 for the end-game sacrifice against the Admiral and President?

[trust]

Also, if 3 of us move to C1, they hopefully won't have enough kills to get all of us in one night, and we can pick off the president and admiral during tomorrow nights battle?