Re: Indy hits with Pulse Torps!! A mini game report... (long)

You wrote: 

>John Atkinson, another guy named Jason, and myself. Due to traffic in 

BTW, that's Jason Atkinson, my younger brother.  That's why I can 
insult him like that.  :)

>and while John typically uses the Core System Rules, we opted not do 
(I really >personally don't like them much, think they tend to 
unbalance things; a friend

Note--the unbalancing is generally in favor of the smaller ships, in my 
experience.  They tend not to have so much damage left over when the 
reactor core goes critical.  :)

>speed at the far end of the table was 4. John's was I think 8.

CruRon, thrust 4 for all but the 2 CLs.  8 it was.

>the ships I was facing (just how MANY area defense ships were in 
there, for >example), I opted to be a bit more conservative. Thus also 

Four--I had three medium cruisers, two in escort config, and 1 in 
missle.  Both Jason's mediums were escort.  Unfortunately we broke 
formation and lost two mediums before the fighters attacked.

>John got first shots on my lead destroyers, but failed to take one 
out. Then

One damn point.

>In the end as John and Jason's ships broke off (while I tried to brake 
to '0'; >the super-D had suffered a significant number of threshold 
hits after 2 checks >which left it with no engines so it kinda drifted 
backwards away at a speed of >5), I had lost ~4-5 ships and had a 

Note that my parting salvo of SLMs came within what, 6 points of 
blowing it up.	A few luckier rolls and it would have been too close to 
call win/loss wise.

>I'm not sure what shape their ships were left in by this point. But 
they >conceded that I took the victory )and moving away from me at 

Well, I had three cruisers in dry-dock shape, plus two gone, including 
the flagship.  Since we don't care about our allies, we won.  From the 
alliance standpoint, the alliance lost.  Jason broke off with what, 
half of his ships.

John M. Atkinson