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The nearest and fastest (still undamaged) Prix Cruiser has closed to less than 2 m-km from the Rocks... but a 40-missile salvo will be arriving within seconds, and might completely spoil his day.
:rofl:
Don't worry Count... we're sending forty missiles over to smash the lock off your cell door!
Aha, it seems my time on this plane of existence is over. I will gladly go swiftly into that good night knowing that the rest of the fleet seems to be in good condition to survive our grusome foe's fiendish ambush.
Twenty-six hits on the Prix cruiser nearest to the Rocks... unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have slowed it much. A second salvo of twenty has already been launched, and is on-the-way. This is getting tense!
We'll find out soon whether it's possible to successfully bail out from an exploding ENEMY warship...
We'll find out soon whether it's possible to successfully bail out from an exploding ENEMY warship...
Wow, I have no idea what's going on (skipped 200 pages of posts) and it's still really exciting!
:rofl: The past forty or fifty pages (representing only TWO HOURS in-game) have been a friggin' MAD-HOUSE! You've skipped the best part!
Our follow-up 20-missile half-salvo on Genghis 001 (launched several minutes earlier) finally arrives on target... and he shoots down four of them with Point Defense! WTF? Sixteen get through, scoring twelve hits and his thermal signature disappears from our passive sensors. We still have a hard lock on him with active sensors, though, so he's not dead yet. The other half of the salvo is closing in on Temujin 001, and a third half-salvo is following minutes behind, aimed at Temujin 002, who is the most immediate threat to the Rocks.
It's a bit perplexing that their PD is working now, and not before. Still, we should get the kills, it'll just make our magazines that little bit emptier.
The second half-salvo smashes into Temujin 001, and every missile hits, blowing the Prix Cruiser to atoms. Six down.
Despite his mysterious sudden use of Point Defense, Genghis 001 has been crippled, and with his speed reduced to 1747 kps he is no longer a threat to our Rocks unless they themselves end up crippled by Temujin 002.
The major concern now is Temujin 002, who has closed to within 1.7 m-km of the Decoy Force. If he is armed with Meson Cannons (which ignore armor) this could get really ugly. A half-salvo is already en-route to shoot him off the tails of Commanders Forgiven and Reilnur, but will it arrive before he reaches firing range? Will it be enough to kill him?
Despite his mysterious sudden use of Point Defense, Genghis 001 has been crippled, and with his speed reduced to 1747 kps he is no longer a threat to our Rocks unless they themselves end up crippled by Temujin 002.
The major concern now is Temujin 002, who has closed to within 1.7 m-km of the Decoy Force. If he is armed with Meson Cannons (which ignore armor) this could get really ugly. A half-salvo is already en-route to shoot him off the tails of Commanders Forgiven and Reilnur, but will it arrive before he reaches firing range? Will it be enough to kill him?
Temujin 002 has closed within 1.6 m-km of the Rocks, piloted by Commanders Forgiven and Reilnur. Whatever Beam weapons it carries must be nearly within range... and if they are Meson Cannons, the 16-layer thick armor of the Rocks will be worthless as protection. With the range-to-target from the Combined Fleet finally dropping below 9 m-km, Captain Billy-Bob orders a full 6-tube spread fired at the pursuing Prix Cruiser... and Lt-Commander Alice Bryant jumps into her Fighter and takes off, intending to shoot the intruder off their tails.
How fantastic would it be to have her spread be the missiles that crippled the pursuing ship? A real Earthican hero!
Curious. I wonder if the AI figured after being hit with missiles that he should jury rig his anti-ship beam weapons for PD role. For example, if the Prix were heavy on railguns in your game they might not have proper point defense beams at all.
Does your tech data screen on Prix shed any light on what weapons they used?
No, the "weapon and sensor data" field is blank.
Do you think you might be able to escape from your cell and sabotage their engines or something? It would really help... I'm pretty sure this is the ship that picked you up.
I've already finished gnawing through my handcuffs and snapped the three guards' necks. I'm on my way to the engine room right after I rescue the princess from the other prison block.:rofl:
Captain Billy-Bob fires a six-missile salvo at the pursuing Prix Cruiser. Five seconds later, Alice Bryant fires her own three-missile salvo at the same target.
The Destroyers are preparing to fire a twelve-missile spread at the other remaining opponent, the badly-damaged Genghis 001.
The Destroyers are preparing to fire a twelve-missile spread at the other remaining opponent, the badly-damaged Genghis 001.
Polaris, Procyon and Sirius link their fire control computers together, and fire a twelve-missile spread toward the badly-damaged Genghis 001. Meanwhile, Temujin 002 has closed within 1.5 m-km of the fleeing Decoy Vessels, and is clearly preparing to open fire. Help is on the way, in the form of a twenty-missile half-salvo, only seventy-five seconds away from impact. With luck, that will damage either their Beam weapons, their power supply, or their engines... buying enough time for the follow-up salvos from Captain Billy-Bob and Alice Bryant to arrive.
As the Prix Cruiser Temujin 002 closes to only 981 k-km from the Decoy Force, the half-salvo of twenty missiles finally reaches it, scoring eleven hits and dropping their Thermal signature by half... that should mean engine damage! Will this buy the Rocks enough time for Captain Billy-Bob's salvo of six missiles and Alice Bryant's salvo of three missiles to arrive?
Nail-biter till the very end.
Although now the question is not whether we'll win, but how many losses we will take in winning.
Although now the question is not whether we'll win, but how many losses we will take in winning.