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Originally posted by spl_cadet:
**1. So **ing what if they were led by larger ships? Guess what, sensors can detect ships in close escort. Recheck Escape Velocity if you aren't sure.
2. The blatant cheating is the fact that you gave me absolutely no choice about anything in the very first post and pretty much killed my entire fleet with that post. If I am forced to do something that is cheating in my book.
3. More cheating is assuming that pirates are the dumbest creatures ever. As I said earlier, just why do you think that I wouldn't have fighters at the very least inspect that group of 4 gunships? Don't you think that would look a bit suspicious, a small group coming in with no support?
1. While based on EV, this isn't quite the same. EV isn't 3D, this is. Ev operates with a lot fewer ships in system. Pardon me for trying to do something realistic.
2. With the first post, I destroyed 4 Halberds and a group of fighters. That's not even close to half your fleet, let alone the entire thing. Recheck your facts. As for being forced, well, let me draw an analogy to chess: tactics can contain forcing moves.
3. I am not assuming you're stupid. Supposing your fighters go out to inspect them:
- The lead ships are 4 Hammerheads (along with Destroyer M8s right behind them), equipped with 6 HALO tubes each. Any interference - even a hint of attrention - directed at them by a Ghost CAP, and the Ghosts would vanish immediately.
- If a more major force followed, the escort included 36 Stingrays, 24 Skates, and 3 Destroyer M7s in the rear. Any group of fighters you could field attempting to tangle with that would be toast.
- If a Drake or two that might have been close enough to intercept in time had shown up, the 3 M8s, the M7s, and after they had dropped the 4 Hammerheads would certainly have held them off long enough for the Devil Rays to land their bombs.
Frankly, I don't see anything else you could try. Perhaps saying 4 Gunboats wasn't strictly accurate, you might have caught a hint of a couple Destroyers too. Meanwhile, most of your fleet was getting pummeled by the main lines of my fleet.
Now, spl, you are actually guilty of one of the things you're charging me with: assuming the enemy is a moron. For example, when the defense fleet came up, do you think there's any chance, when I have fighters swarming all over which outnumber yours by a huge margin, that I'm not going to send a group of them off to hit the Peregrines? Gimme a break, we know what kind of power those mount. Even if you send the Starscreamers in behind, like I did, I'm certainly going to escort my heavy fighters, so Stingrays would be on the scene to deal with them anyway. Some of the otehr things you did in your initial retaliation were equally ludicrous, though not necessarily in the way of assuming stupidity on my part.
I'm inclined to dismiss most of your attack out of hand, seen as how I can offer a detailed explanation of why everything you've suggested wouldn't work, and all I hear from you are vague accusations. Now, let's forget this and move on to business. If you want to argue about my moderation with Asriel's fleet, I'm all ears for that, so long as you do it in a less confrontational manner.
Now, back to business:
The Dreden situation:
I've finished up my redo of the stats. RC, I admit, there's no way I can make this totally fair for you, and I really hate that. However,, luckily for you, Jimbob set up a lot of matches favorable to you. So, the final stats from the Verdica battle, as of Skyblade's last post there:
Saint+:
1 Carrier
1 Battlecruiser
2 Cruisers
1 Destroyer
RC:
1 Battlecruiser
1 Heavy Cruiser
2 Cruisers
1 Destroyer
Jim:
2 Athena
2 Odysseus
3 Hawk
Verdica Defense Fleet:
6 Thunderclap
Skyblade:
1 Liberty
23 Thunderclap
17 Hawk
22 Lynx
26 Cricket
Ace:
3 Titan Battlecruisers
4 Athena Battlegunships
7 Odysseus Cruisers
15 Thunderclap Destroyers
8 Hawk Gunships
19 Lynx Heavy Fighters
33 Slicer Medium Fighters
38 Cricket Interceptors
(I'd explain how I arrived at all this, but that would take up more space than my first topic post. Anyone who wants more details, email me.)
(edit) Rak, my email box is showing up decidedly empty... could you have forgotten to send it? oh, and I got my, um, thing working again... 
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