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Offline AL

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1260 on: February 10, 2016, 04:26:28 PM »
Assembling the fleet for a crusade through systems unknown to find and neutralise the source of the alien threat to Sol.
Fleet consists of carriers, a collier and laser pd escorts. Still need a bit of last-minute recon fighter manufacturing and some further fleet organisation before I'm ready to proceed though.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1261 on: February 13, 2016, 08:45:12 AM »
I learned that leaving two taskgroups both with commands to join each other is not a good thing.

lost 1 Battleship, 10 cruisers, and 12 frigates to that move. 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1262 on: February 13, 2016, 11:17:31 AM »
I learned that leaving two taskgroups both with commands to join each other is not a good thing.

lost 1 Battleship, 10 cruisers, and 12 frigates to that move. 

 :-X :-X

It think that (along with docking a loaded carrier) is one of that situations where you can break out the SM for self-interested purposes and still go to wargamer heaven.



I started a 7.10 game and with how things worked out, never got around to designing Trans-Newtonian ground units beyond Construction Battalions. It's actually turned out surprisingly not-exactly-dysfunctional. Large and slow transports, sure, but with a high-enough base Ground Unit Strength, most of my existing military was just barely able to occupy a non-TN NPC in a very long campaign. I started building PDCs well before the fighting actually got past 1.5-1 odds.
 
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1263 on: February 14, 2016, 02:24:04 AM »


The Sarasota Imperium REALLY liked fighters.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1264 on: February 14, 2016, 09:44:22 AM »
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The Sarasota Imperium REALLY liked fighters.

Jesus that had to be a slog.....

Meanwhile in my game :
My most prime tourist attraction and its visitors -


And lesson for today - Remember kids, never bring 1st gen experimental missiles ( that were designed to combat low tech human ships and PDC's ) to a real gunfight ( in that case - avenging destroyed exploration ship )... God bless those secondary explosions because i emptied 69 % of my magazines and frakker still did not lose atmo - 6 missiles per ships salvo with 14 ships firing and ~29 % chance to hit.



EDIT: Yep, my ships are inadequate AF - on my way home i got jumped by an unknown ( i suspect 1 ) comrade of Belial launching salvos from well beyond my detection range. USS North Carolina and HMS Victorious got destroyed, USS Lexington had to be abandoned becasue it lost 9 out of 10 engines.
FRN Bordeaux, HMS Longsword and ORP Blyskawica are heavily damaged and limping to the Sol JP ( Longsword lost it CO ) and USS Idaho and Alabama are damaged by they manage to keep speed with the rest of the retreating Maritime Group 3.
Only thing that had saved my skin is using those experimental missiles in the defensive mode - they had attrocious hit rate but they thinned the herd a little.

I hope that unseen enemy wont reload and come around for seconds because i have no ammo left and im more than 12 days from the JP and rescue..
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1265 on: February 14, 2016, 03:10:26 PM »
Jumped into npr enemy home system filled with 1000+ ships. And I have good sensor tech. Each turn takes forever. Each enemy missile salvo is 900+ missiles going at 23+k. Worst of all, those missiles have sensors that for some unknown reason forces the game into 5 sec tics. End result: Last 40 minutes in game has taken all of sunday.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1266 on: February 14, 2016, 03:18:23 PM »
Quote from: jem link=topic=3808.  msg86506#msg86506 date=1455484226
Jumped into npr enemy home system filled with 1000+ ships.   And I have good sensor tech.   Each turn takes forever.   Each enemy missile salvo is 900+ missiles going at 23+k.   Worst of all, those missiles have sensors that for some unknown reason forces the game into 5 sec tics.   End result: Last 40 minutes in game has taken all of sunday. 

Can always enable Spacemaster and go space/time bubble until the fight is over.  That will at least quicken up the calculations.
 

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« Reply #1267 on: February 14, 2016, 05:08:56 PM »
Can always enable Spacemaster and go space/time bubble until the fight is over.  That will at least quicken up the calculations.

Very much so. STB will limit the calculations down to only one system. Sadly that system contains 1000+ ships............................................ That time above? That is with STB ON.........................
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1268 on: February 14, 2016, 10:29:01 PM »
Wow that was close....

  Had a wormhole spawn in Sirius, decided it might be worth the risk to try and deploy 5 deep space tracking stations.  Stations were deployed and civilian shipping just managed to escape the system as badness spawned.  Can see wormhole and all JPs.   8)
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1269 on: February 15, 2016, 07:49:43 AM »
The Sarasota Imperium REALLY liked fighters.
I feel for you man.
Not seen; the nearby systems with almost as many wrecks as this one.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1270 on: February 15, 2016, 10:45:13 AM »
Wow that was close....

  Had a wormhole spawn in Sirius, decided it might be worth the risk to try and deploy 5 deep space tracking stations.  Stations were deployed and civilian shipping just managed to escape the system as badness spawned.  Can see wormhole and all JPs.   8)

Good job!
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1271 on: February 15, 2016, 10:48:27 AM »
Well.  I had my very first contact with the big, bad spoilers.  My Navy was dominant against the "lesser" spoils and NPRs, so I was fairly confident. . .

Now two strike groups are floating wreckage. . . 20 ships destroyed.

Time to get to R&D once more. . .
 

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« Reply #1272 on: February 15, 2016, 11:55:23 AM »
Well.  I had my very first contact with the big, bad spoilers.  My Navy was dominant against the "lesser" spoils and NPRs, so I was fairly confident. . .

Now two strike groups are floating wreckage. . . 20 ships destroyed.

Time to get to R&D once more. . .

Link to Spoiler sub-forum for response.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8346.0
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1273 on: February 15, 2016, 01:38:59 PM »
So i was playing Aurora while listening some music from YT playlist...

Discovered THREE alien races on one planet, each of them equal or more powerfull than me going by the EM/TH signatures of the population ...
Two of them turned hostile and destroyed ~75-80 % of Maritime Group 3 sent on a peaceful envoy ( 14 ships out of 18 ship group )...
HMAS Sydney
HMS Wellington
JDFS Kissaki
KMS Bismarck
USS North Carolina ( again )
HMS Victorious ( again )
USS Lexington ( again )
USS Idaho
ORP Blyskawica
USS Alabama
USS Tacoma
FRN Bordeaux
HMS Longsword
ORP Grom


Circa 1000 souls perish in the atomic fire ..
I am completely outclassed and outgunned...

And then this smeg starts playing ..

COME GET SOME YOU frakkING ROACHES !!!! SEMPER HUMANIS MOTHERfrakkER !!
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #1274 on: February 15, 2016, 04:27:07 PM »
Welp.    .    .    .    seems like one of my supposed "friendly neighbours" has some plans.    .    .    I wonder if they're nice.    .    .    since they're just one jump out from one of my main colonies.   



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