Strike Boats...

Hi Guys,

Fought a 4,000 point battle last night.  I had to mass 180 tenders and
36 mass 10 gunboats.  I used two types of guns, based on the same mass
10 hull and cost 37 points each (including weapons).  No FTL, Thrust of
4, 1 hull, 1 armor, 1 FC, and 1 PDAF (wasted, he had no fighters).  Torp
varrient had one single arc pulse trop.  The other had two needle
beams.	DO NOT USE NEEDLE BEAMS.  I had never tried them before and
don't recommend them...  I depoloyed the boats in flotillas of 6, I had
4 flotillas of torp and 2 of needles.

I like the torp varient, it is a little pain in the neck that will kill
you in large numbers...  I don't think that a SBM version would be a
good idea.  Although it would have the same arc, and massive damage
within 6", you have to get to within 6".  My StrikeBoats never ended
their movement that close.

I ended up losing the battle (my co-commander had a force of 4 NAC BB's,
opposition had 4 ESU SDN's, 3 ESU CA's (the SMR CA), and 3 ESU DD's...)
Are force came went at the ESU gunline in two waves...	Strike Boats and
Tenders in the first, BB's in the second (I wanted it to be one wave,
but my co-commander refused).

1 SDN was crippled, 1 SDN damage, 1 SDN lost 2 FC, and the other
suffered no damage despite having 12 needle beems shooting at it's fire
controls.  Losses were 10 strike boats and 1 tender destroyed
(Reacter...), and 1 tender damage, and the ESU expend all his SM's.  The
4 NAC BB's went in and were all crippled and only achieved crippling one
DD, and crippling the damaged SDN.

The game was called at this point, the NAC BB's surrendered.  My forces
probably wouldn't have been enough to kill the ESU at this point.  I
would have reloaded my Strike Boats, and jumped out.

IAS