Re: [FT] Worst Gaffe

Can't remember any real clangers of errors -- don't say they haven't 
happened, just that I can't remember them... <g> -- but I do remember 
one absolutely horrendous example of pure bad luck, and the awful 
killing power of massed plasma bolts...

Bifrost '01, an eight-player game featuring a Kra'Vak strike on an NAC 
repair-resupply ship, with each side receiving "help" from, 
repectively, the Phalons and the other 3 major powers; all sides are 
using small-to-medium ships -- nothing bigger than a BC, from memory. 
The game starts with the Krak on the table, facing an NAC squadron and 
an NSL detachment, all in orbit around a planet; the other sides FTL in 
at various times over the first few turns -- wherein lay the seeds of 
the "tragedy."

I'm playing NAC, my son is ESU with a useful little squadron of 
cruisers and his favourite Warsaws (not, for once, acting as his usual 
Torpedo DD swarm <g>) and he arranges (before the game starts) to FTL 
in away from the visible melee areas -- great, except one Phalon 
squadron picked the same area to arrive the turn before and he ends up 
right in front of them! One PB salvo took out his entire squadron...

What do you say to a 12-year-old who's been looking forward to this 
game for weeks when his fleet is blown out of the sky on its first 
turn? B-(

Phil
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