AAR KraVak vs Nea Rhomaioi

Well, I got spanked.

Vector movement, a bit more than 2000 points a side. I had a DoSan (with heavy
fighters), a KoVol, TiDak, VoBok and a couple of KaTak. John Atkinson had a
ConstantineI escort cruiser, two St Symeon CH, a
St Theodore-the-Recruit DN, and a St Andrew SDN (stats follow).  The
was a planet in the middle which affect maneuver a bit--we were both
cautious not to commit any high speed docking, but no major effect. Both sides
closed, we kept our noses at each other. My main guns, total all ships,
consisted of 4 K5 and 4 K3. John's ships collective had 20 PTorp, as I found
out. My fighters picked the ADFC ship to attack, which they destroyed at the
cost of 14 of their 24 fighters.

Final result, when the KV jumped out: Theo had taken a couple of thresholds,
ConstantineI was destroyed, and the St Andrew had taken 27
hull--one more and it would have gone over the first threshold....the
KV KoVol, VoBok and a KaTak were gone, the DoSan had take two thresholds and
the other two were untouched.

Lessons:
1.  KV in vector, against a KV-hunter HuMan fleet, aren't
overwhelming. John says "they're still scary". 2. Any parking space in front
of 16 PTorps is a bad place to be (unless you're playing vs Indy, of course).

Any suggestions on how to handle KV vs the following?

St Andrew Mass 250 Hull110 Cost 755 MD4 FTL 5 FCS 9PDS no armor or shields 8
PTorp, 2 B2, 3 B3 (3arc) 1 B1

St Theodore the Recruit Mass 160 Hull 57 Cost 538 MD4 FTL 3 FCS 6PDS no armor
or shields

> St Andrew

er, cost 823 and it's about 3 over mass as given

> MD4

> Laserlight wrote:

> Well, I got spanked.

First, make sure that your opponent's math is correct. The St.Andrew has a
mass of 262 and a cost of 860

> St Theodore the Recruit

This class has a mass of 161 and a cost of 542.

These differences are not that big, the second thing to do is if you know that
your opponent does not put armor on his warships, you should not use
any K-gun larger than a class three.  The K-3 does an average of 4.5
damage per hit, and only has a mass of 5. If your opponent does not use
fighters, neither should you as K-3's are cheaper.  If you are sure that
you can close (which the p-torp heavy opponent will want to do to)
consider replacing some k-guns with the same mass of MKP's.  At a range
of 12 or less, a battery of six mkp's will inflict 16 points of damage with
average die rolls. Consider swapping mkp's for scattergun, because, if your
opponent is neither fielding fighters nor missiles, scatterguns are

> Laserlight wrote:
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> Lessons: