[GZG] IF - NAC AAR

["david" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We recently ran a Full Thrust game with 600 point squadrons. The Islamic Federation took on the NAC and Israeli alliance. The battle featured the use of Heavy Missiles. 

The Islamic Federation squadron consisted of a Sahaabah CP, 2 Saladin DDHs, and an al-Hawar FF (armed with 2 Beam-2s). They faced a Victoria BB escorted by an Israeli Kashat-E Escort Cruiser. 

Picture of my IF squadron is here: http://www.stokesinternet.com/games/IF-Ships.jpg

After a couple of turns of manoeuvre the front-most destroyer ended a hair inside 36''. The Victoria opened fire with its Beam-3s, singeing the armour at long range. In response, at the start of next turn the Islamics launched all their missiles, 8 of 'em. The Islamics then reversed thrust and veered off trying to stay out of the Victoria's mid-range beam envelope until the missiles hit. But it didn't quite work, the lower thrust Sahaabah crossed just within 24'' and drew all the Victoria's fire. But it worked out ok, the round of fire didn't do that much damage, and it put the Sahaabah in range for its beams to return fire. 

Then the missiles closed on the Victoria. The PDS and Beam-1s on the Victoria and the escorting Kashat did their best to stop them. They took out 5, but that left 3 coming in. They did a total of 18 pts of damage, a rather mediocre result. But it was enough to push the Victoria through one threshold check and well on the way to the second. 

The Islamics then turned in on the Victoria from 2 sides. They poured their beam fire into the Victoria, while she split her fire between the cruiser and the lead destroyer. While the Islamics took damage - both targets ended up passing through their second threshold - they lost primarily engines, not weapons, and so they retained most of their combat punch. Meanwhile, the hits piled up on the Victoria. She lost her screens on the second threshold, (which was a major blow since I had been rolling an unusually high number of 4s) and things just got worse. a couple of turns and she was finished. 

The Kashat had lost its FTL, so was stuck. It made a valiant run at the destroyers, but was quickly dispatched. 

We used the rules for Heavy Missiles as given on the Islamic Federation lists. We did not allow the larger calibre ship weapons (Beam-2s, etc) to fire on the missiles. The missiles which got through did inflict significant damage on the Victoria, but it represents a major slice of the IFs offensive capability. More defensive fire would had pretty much neutralised their effect.  

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