AAR: Gibraltor Assault

[Peter Thoenen <eol1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just finished up playing the Gibraltor Assault as the Rahni and got my
ass whooped pretty good.  You pretty much have two choices, base dive
or run away and hope he follows.  Needless to say I chose the former
and died :)

Turn 1: Close
Turn 2: Close
Turn 3: Half fleet dive (lower half)
Turn 4: Remaining fleet dive (upper half)
Turn 6: Jump the cripples, repair the FTL on the cripples who drives
were damaged, suicide dive the destroyed FTL ships, and attempt a
second battle pass with whats left (4 ships: CA, DD, FF, FF)
Turn 7-10: Setup battle pass, get picked off
Turn 11: Second battle pass (I misjudged my speed and overshoot by 3mu
not that it really would have matter) so jump survivors as a third pass
wouldn't happen.

Was well played by my opponent BUT also feel had he played badly, I
would have still lost.

NOTES:

1) Rahni really need more FCS systems on their ships (or at least for
this scenario).  On Turn 3 I had ships all around me and really badly
need to fire port, starboard, AND rear.

2) SM packs were nearly useless due to above (needed to project power
forward)

3) ALL ships need screens.  I lost nearly half my fleet just diving in
and makes sense from race context (lack of hull, no armour, big
screens)

4) Not sure why the Rahni start 200 POINTS DOWN but really need to
either be equal or start up.  A full battle pass only destroyed ~44% of
the Gibraltor and I had a whooping 4 space worth ships after that pass.
 A second pass is a suicide dive and won't inflict enough to kill or
cripple the Gibraltor.

5) Really need a starting velocity higher than 10.  For a high speed
race (Rahni description) on a rapid base assualt objective, 10 just
doesn't cut it.  Allows 4 turns of fire on them with little chance to
respond.  A MD rating of 6 on the CA's and 10 on the FF / DD would help
also. My ships weren't really that more manueverable than my opponents.

Comments on above / play mistakes / etc etc :)