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Offline Viridia

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #870 on: June 12, 2015, 11:01:47 AM »
When relations go bad they realy go bad... :-X

I have been engaging an enemy some 7 jumps away, main fleet is there and kicking ass... ::)

But now my "friend" has gone from +1700 to -500 in relations over night, I think, didnt pay atention to whats happening home...

This link will hopefully work... havnt learned how to take pictures of my screen...

http://gyazo.com/b4df57c2e0461a729ae175a580401136   :o

Thank god they arn,t above Earth all of them.... :)

I have some 40 frigates with 1 laser a hundred fighters with 4 launchers each and 3 PDC with 500 launchers each so I feel I will win... :-\

I hope you have a lot of missiles for those fighters and PDC's. I hope the missiles are very big for their launchers. I hope to hell you've got hundreds of tons worth of armour on those frigates. That's goddamn terrifying.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #871 on: June 12, 2015, 11:46:26 AM »
Should have around 3000 size 5 ASM and 1000 size 30....

Missed that I have  4 AMM bases with 100 launchers each, with 25 firecontrols, 4500 AMMs waiting for his missiles ;D Hmmm should probobly go down to 1vs1 intercept...

See if I have time tomorrow, before my youngest takes my computer to Dreamhack in Jönköping...
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #872 on: June 13, 2015, 06:27:44 AM »
April 2116

Two fleets from the Diboll Imperium have entered Sol system.  Appear to be geological and gravitational survey (with escorts).  Diplomatic rating +211.  It is an odd feeling having foreign ships scouting my system.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #873 on: June 13, 2015, 03:13:33 PM »
When relations go bad they realy go bad... :-X

I have been engaging an enemy some 7 jumps away, main fleet is there and kicking ass... ::)

But now my "friend" has gone from +1700 to -500 in relations over night, I think, didnt pay atention to whats happening home...

This link will hopefully work... havnt learned how to take pictures of my screen...

http://gyazo.com/b4df57c2e0461a729ae175a580401136   :o

Thank god they arn,t above Earth all of them.... :)

I have some 40 frigates with 1 laser a hundred fighters with 4 launchers each and 3 PDC with 500 launchers each so I feel I will win... :-\

Christ almighty this is gonna be a slog ...
I wouldn't be so confident in your place - those salvos will be massive and every hit you sustain will reduce your defensive effectivness..

Hope you have some massive industry to replace those losses.

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #874 on: June 13, 2015, 03:30:19 PM »
9 June 2116

  I return from mowing the weeds err lawn, to find hostile transits from the Wolf 437 system.  Diplomatic ties -386.  1-Pinz Eugen and 1-Schnellboote (4799 Km/s) class ships have entered the Sol system, missiles from a gate mine were destroyed by point defenses.  Earth defense fleet has responded (5100 Km/s):

1-EW
1-AMM
1-ASM (forgot magazines on the design  :-[ )
6-Final defense 12cm railguns
4-Area defense (12cm visible and near UV)

11 June 2116

  Enemy missiles inbound (size 4, size 7 WH, 30401 Km/s), volley size 3, 20 seconds apart.  AMM missiles (26600 Km/s) were ineffective.  Final defense destroyers were extremely effective.  Of 60 inbound missiles, 57 were shot down, 3 hitting the EW ship for 21 points of armor damage, and a few points of shock damage.

Both fleets continue to approach.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #875 on: June 13, 2015, 08:20:48 PM »
Round 2

60 of 60 anti-ship missiles from the Pinz Eugen were destroyed by fleet point defenses.  It is going to end up a gun battle.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #876 on: June 13, 2015, 08:24:18 PM »
11 June 2116

16:27  The Schnellboote 001 was destroyed by fleet laser fire, it had no weapons.
18:20  The Prinz Eugen 001 was destroyed by fleet laster fire, it also had no weapons.

There were no survivors.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #877 on: July 07, 2015, 04:01:49 PM »
Kind of Aurora: I watched the 2010 movie "Space Battleship Yamato" today, which seemed much like an Aurora movie. Earth radiated in a way that extinction can be predicted at some point; War with a powerful NPR; Fighters and huge beam cannons, but missiles only for the aliens it seems; then they discover jump drive technology, though it works everywhere.
Japanese people as always haven't really figured out the whole acting thing still, and the development in the writing is as quirky and forced as even a intentional parody could fabricate it.("damn, we need the captain to pass the position. I know, just let him have deadly cramps out of nothing right after some completely unrelated exposition.") It's like they tried to stuff in every trope that they could find in US acting books, as if some formula that 'has it all' would practically guarantee a good movie.
Kind of baffling how there can be people with undeniable professional skill involved (effects, cgi, props), and yet the main cast and writers never got beyond highschool dropout understanding of 'things in general'. How do they not claw on each other at the set all the time? Some people here actually work or have ambition, you know?

Still, this movie was great, exactly for all the effects and action. They should just make it without actors. Oh, wait! Is this why they have more anime than movies there? :D
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #878 on: July 07, 2015, 06:12:13 PM »
We'll it was a live action remake of the battleship Yamamoto anime so.... Btw that movie is what inspired me to return to my conventional Cold War game.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #879 on: July 07, 2015, 06:57:29 PM »
Oh, there was an anime? *checked* Kind of old, but I guess the newer anime movie and the remake series will work,  thanks!

I also want to do a multi nation post cold war disaster game at some point. A game like which Alfapiomega started with military capital only on Ceres, earth infested with mutant hordes, super-low tech, and then some asteroid+comet station game would be great stuff. Sad he never played this great setting out.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #880 on: July 08, 2015, 12:06:22 AM »
I'm so bogged down with research right now, at some point I need to stop reading about cold war intrigue and alien conspiracies and just spam a couple of increments.
" Why is this godforsaken hellhole worth dying for? "
". . .  We know nothing about them, their language, their history or what they look like.  But we can assume this.  They stand for everything we don't stand for.  Also they told me you guys look like dorks. "
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #881 on: July 08, 2015, 09:25:15 AM »
Oh, there was an anime? *checked* Kind of old, but I guess the newer anime movie and the remake series will work,  thanks!

I also want to do a multi nation post cold war disaster game at some point. A game like which Alfapiomega started with military capital only on Ceres, earth infested with mutant hordes, super-low tech, and then some asteroid+comet station game would be great stuff. Sad he never played this great setting out.

I was never interested in the show until everyone else at Wolfs Shipyard started going crazy over it. Suffice to say I'm now a fan of the recent anime.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #882 on: July 19, 2015, 01:38:54 PM »
In another test game, I built a huge ship basically capable of every role to slight degree. For the first time I am playing with buoys on this capital ship instead of making a specialized ship for this, but this brings me to an issue: How can I launch those buoys or mines on a location without launching all the other missile tubes of this very divergent equipped ship?
The manual missile launch button in the task force window will just eject all loaded tubes, which is humongous waste of ammunition. On the other hand, there is also not even an "unload ammunition" button in the weapon assignment, so tubes cannot even return to a neutral unloaded status, which would have allowed to use the above command very manually at least.

Am I missing something, because I have seen people with designs that had mixed buoy launcher and missiles? If I could target launchers individually at inanimate objects, or if the "launch missiles at" command was more specific to fire controls, that would have made it all easy. Right now I see only the option to make a specialized mine layer again.
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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #883 on: July 19, 2015, 01:59:46 PM »
Am I missing something, because I have seen people with designs that had mixed buoy launcher and missiles? If I could target launchers individually at inanimate objects, or if the "launch missiles at" command was more specific to fire controls, that would have made it all easy. Right now I see only the option to make a specialized mine layer again.

You don't have to have launch tubes assigned to fire control. In order to launch only specific missiles, you clear fire control of all assigned weapons (using the 'clear' button) after which you assign to this fire control only the missile tubes you want fired, leaving the rest unassigned. This allows you to fire only the missiles/buoys you want fired. The method is somewhat clunky as you can't unassigned specific weapon (you have to clear the entire fire control and assign weapons all over again) but it works.
 

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Re: What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?
« Reply #884 on: July 19, 2015, 02:09:59 PM »
...But.. that leaves me with having to re-assign 560 tubes to 8 different controls every time I jump to new systems. :(  It is right though, I guess I blocked that solution out after all the effort. Seems like I will be making a minelayer still.
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