Mini-GZG-ECC 2.5

A gathering of gamers from New York, Missouri (formerly) and Maryland
gathered this past Monday night at Noam Izenberg's house to partake of
some
explosive decompression action.  The game featured Mark "I've discovered
fighters are easier to use than pulse torpedoes" Kotche and Noam playing
the NAC and NSL, respectively and Nick "if there aren't any FT gamers in
Missouri I'll move to Virginia" Caldwell and Jon Davis playing the ESU
and
FSE, respectively.

We were too tired to play a real scenario (Jon and I having braved two
hours of Interstate 495 / I95 traffic just to get there), so we all took
600 points or so of ships from the fleet book, set them at two edges of
the
"board" (Noam's floor) and went at it.

>From the ESU/FSE side, there were two points of note in the ensuing
slaughter.  One was that my pair of Voroshilokov (spelling, but you know
what I mean) battlecruisers managed to hold off two attack fighter
squadrons and two heavy fighter squadrons for nearly the entire game,
including one noteworthy kill by a class one battery which well and
truly
vaporized the last fighter of one squadron.

The other moment of glory came when Jon managed to land three missile
salvoes dead onto a previously damaged NSL battlecruiser.  The exchange
went something like this:

Noam:	"Just tell me if the damage is greater than. . ."
Jon:	"15. . .20. .  .28. . ."
Noam:	"Never mind"

Despite this, the ESU went down to defeat, losing the entire squadron. 
The
FSE fared slightly better, with one mission-killed ship ending the game
drifting off the board without fire control, weapons, jump engines and
engines but with two battlecruisers relatively undamaged.  I believe the
NSL lost only one battlecruiser, leaving another with armor stripped off
but with little damage and the NAC still had its carrier with only minor
damage.  All in all, a fairly decisive victory for the NAC/NSL.  It
certainly showed that space superiority is a wonderful thing.

Thanks to Noam for hosting us.	Next time, Indy goes down in flames --
Jon
and I are working on an all pulse torpedo fleet for him to use!

Nick Caldwell
clcaldwell@kreative.net