From: GBailey@a...
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:01:31 EST
Subject: Bailey's Lament, verse 2
please, no violins... I'll spare the details of two previous battles that my side lost tonight. During the third battle, 2300 points each side, I brought in a 240 mass ship and 12 torpedo boats. Things were going good as the enemy heavies concentrated on the boats so we chewed up an enemy heavy. It looks like we're winning. Then Steve, with initiative, rolls 18 beam dice against my double screened ship, previously damaged, and comes up with 6 6s and a couple 5s. After rerolls I'm thresholded on the third line. So 4-6 will damage systems. Matt, the kid of our group, is allowed to do the threshold checks (it was his ship we wrecked and sent drifting away). He takes out the 3 C2s I have, knocks out 2 of the remaining 5 pulse torps (6 total on the ship), and for the coup d'grace, knocks out all 3 FCs. So now I'm drifting off, life support hit, main drive hit once, and no FCs. We end up losing the battle, although our other heavy destroyed Steve's ship before FTLing. My ship was destroyed as it tried to leave (just fixed the FTL drive). *very big sigh* How about a space ship combat game without dice? Cards are popular these days. :) Glen