Bailey's Lament, verse 2

please, no violins...

I'll spare the details of two previous battles that my side lost
tonight.
During the third battle, 2300 points each side, I brought in a 240 mass
ship and 12 torpedo boats.  Things were going good as the enemy
heavies concentrated on the boats so we chewed up an enemy heavy.
It looks like we're winning.  Then Steve, with initiative, rolls 18 beam
dice
against my double screened ship, previously damaged, and comes up
with 6 6s and a couple 5s.  After rerolls I'm thresholded on the third
line.
So 4-6 will damage systems.  Matt, the kid of our group, is allowed to
do the threshold checks (it was his ship we wrecked and sent drifting
away).	He takes out the 3 C2s I have, knocks out 2 of the remaining
5 pulse torps (6 total on the ship), and for the coup d'grace, knocks
out 
all 3 FCs.  So now I'm drifting off, life support hit, main drive hit
once, 
and no FCs.  We end up losing the battle, although our other heavy
destroyed Steve's ship before FTLing.  My ship was destroyed as it
tried to leave (just fixed the FTL drive).

*very big sigh*

How about a space ship combat game without dice?  Cards are
popular these days.  :)

Glen