[FT] AAR -- Cygnus Fleet Proving Exercise (long-ish)

Shoot, I knew I could have chewed you (Noam) up if I could have gotten into
range. I'll tell you I got pretty demoralized after the first salvo fell. What
did I learn from Cyngus...
- Enhanced / Superior Sensors [MT] would have been a valuable asset in
this type of game. If only to perhaps glimpse an opponents SSD.
- MT missiles are ok, but against moderate PDS they don't fare well,
ought to arrive on target with fighters or additional missiles.
- MD < 4 is pretty tough to maneuver.
- Vector is lots different than Cinematic, heck that was my first go at
it, anxious to try some more.
- Nova Cannon . . . shudder . . .
- PBEM games take a long time to resolve, we started this 8/30/99.  It's
hard to keep a consistent strategy from week to week.
- Drones / Boggies are very useful to throw your oppent off balance and
get them to respond elsewhere

Unfortunatly not each of the 5 fleets were activly engaged in the game. One
went down in a blaze of "Nova Fire",by turn 7 or so. Anotherr flew off the
board (VP loss) after spending most of the game crossing the table. I think
the game would have been far more intresting if we could have all mixed it up
together (maybe a smaller arena would have solved this). Rather, we had a lot
of long range manuver coupled with brief engagement periods.

Here's the fleet I ran, I'm anxious to try it on a physical table rather than
in the realms of cyber space. My general design philosophy was I wanted to be
fairly maneuverable while maintaining a high damage threshold (ie multiple
engagements with multiple opponents). Though I already see areas for redesign.

Archamedies Mass: 145 Cost: 518 (590) Clas: Escort Carrier (CVE) Hull: Weak
FTL: Std.
MD:   2
Armr: 9
Damg: 29;  8/7/7/7
Systems
  1 x Screen
  2 x FCS
  1 x ADFC
  6 x PDS
  Class-3 beam (AP,FP,F)
  Class-3 beam (F,FS,AS)
  Class-2 beam (FP,F,FS)
  Class-1 beam (All)
3 x MT Missile MT Missile (EMP) 4 x Fighter Bay

York Mass: 120 Cost: 395 Clas: Battlecruiser (BC) Hull: Strong Strm: None FTL:
Std.
MD:   4
Armr: 6;
Damg: 48;  12/12/12/12
Systems
  3 x FCS
  1 x ADFC
  4 x PDS
Pulse Torpedo (A,AP,FP) Pulse Torpedo (FP,F,FS) Pulse Torpedo (F,FS,AS)
  Class-2 beam (All)

Bogata Mass: 148 Cost: 514 Clas: Battleship (BB) Hull: Average FTL: Std.
MD:   3
Damg: 44;  11/11/11/11
Crew: 8 Sens: Std. Systems
  2 x Screen
  3 x FCS
  3 x PDS
  Class-4 beam (F)
  2 x Class-3 beam (AP,FP,F)
  2 x Class-3 beam (F,FS,AS)
  3 x Class-2 beam (All)
  5 x Class-1 beam (All)

TVC 15, LBJ 88, JFK 09, & BDR 13 President class Heavy Destroyer Mass: 40
Cost: 129 Clas: Heavy Destroyer (DH) Hull: Average FTL: Std.
MD:   6
Armr: 4
Damg: 12;  3/3/3/3
Systems
  1 x FCS
  PDS
Pulse Torpedo (F)

AD 237 & BC 531 Epoc class Escort Cruiser Mass: 70 Cost: 237 Clas: Escort
Cruiser (CE) Hull: Average FTL: Std.
MD:   4
Armr: 6
Damg: 21;  6/5/5/5
Systems
  3 x FCS
  1 x ADFC
  3 x PDS
  Class-3 beam (F)
  Class-2 beam (AP,FP,F)
  Class-2 beam (F,FS,AS)
  Class-1 beam (All)
  MT Missile
MT Missile (EMP)