Posted by: strych90
« on: November 16, 2012, 04:14:55 PM »Ran into some spoilers, or possibly a NPR, I never figured it out, one system over from Sol in one of the first games I played. I threw a frigate squadron at em (before realizing the size), with (decidedly and rather obviously) disastrous results. It was an 80k ton monster with shields. Luckily I had a DesRon stationed in Sol and moved to engage when it decided to pay earth a visit. I intercepted about 750m km out from Terra at my max engagement range, about 70m km. My missiles were very slow, so I shot my DDGs dry on it, hoping to kill it and not worried about overkill as it was only one ship. Not long after my last missiles leave the tubes and my ships turn around i pick up ~15 800ton FACs less than 400k km from my fleet. Panic ensues. I break off my DDEs to engage with amms while my ddgs withdraw , but only manage to take out two of the FACs before they get utterly wrecked. I watch as my salvos approach the enemy mothership, hoping to at least take THAT out, and watch as they start winking off the screen before reaching the ship. I thought they were getting interepted, but there were no explosion indicators. They were burning out before getting within 3m km. I looked at the missile specs. I had miss remembered their range. I watched helplessly as the still intact FACs descended on my ddgs and DDL and wrecked them, then on to earth to extinct-ify the human race. It was part tactical blunder, part aurora's learning curve being an ass to a new player.