Fleet Battles Round 1 Battle 2 Silenceo vs Beniboybling

[LadyKulvax]

Sorry about the wait, for some weird reason i couldnt post here is the conslusion:

 

I thought about this for a long long time and I have reached a more neutral scenario.

 

 

The Lusankya and her escort drop off waiting for a resupply ship to re-fill her severely depleted compliments, but a band of unidentified ships drop out of hyperspace, six Keldabes immediately open fire on the Imperial II-class escort ships hoping to make fast work of the Lusankya's flanking ships, the Imperials act faster than the Consortium anticipates unleashing a swarm of fighters, the Consortium launches it's own compliments of StarVipers and Skiprays hoping to stem the tide, the Keldabes begin to focus fire on the foremost Star Destroyer hoping combined firepower can take down one of the dagger-shaped vessels early.

 

The Imperials make their own gambit launching all of their bombers and focusing them on the enemy frigates, escorted by Black Squadron and Punishing One, their focused fire begins to take a heavy toll on the Consortium's frigates, hoping they can save their own escorts the IG-2000 appears quickly taking down squadrons of bombers itself, the Black Squadron and Pandering One focuses it's efforts on the IG-2000 vessel.

 

It quickly becomes a mad scramble but seizing the opportunity the Consortium allows the bombers deep into their own lines before using corvettes to heavily damage the bomber wings with point-defence lasers and then sends the Virago leading 60 StarVipers right at the bombers, the bombers with little to defend them manage to take down three Vengeance-class frigates before they are forced to pull out and head back to the Star Destroyers after heavy losses but the IG-2000 is focused down and destroyed by Black Squadron and the Pandering One, whom quickly take a run at more of the Consortium's frigates, the Imperials know that removing the frigates makes the Keldabes vulnerable to a swarm attack.

 

However the Keldabes have managed to severely damage one of the Star Destroyers which attempts to turn away the fighter battle however is beginning to swing towards the Consortium's way, Black Squadron turns from the escorts and joins the battle with greater experience the Black Squadron causes strong damage, allowing the rest of the Imperial fighters to fight a more even battle.

 

The Keldabes however begin to advance and the Lusankya prepares however the Consortium's trap kicks in, the Merciless drops it's cloaking device right above the Bridge Tower of the Lusankya, with power mainly focused at the front deflector screens awaiting the oncoming Keldabes, the power of the Bridge's deflector screens is not at maximum, the Merciless breaks through the Bridge Deflectors and cripples the Bridge Tower of the Lusankya

 

With the forward Star Destroyer taking heavy fire the Imperials attempt to take control of the battle, without the support of the Virago and her escort Fighter Wing, the fighter battle, with heavy casualties on both sides begins to become a rout with the Imperials using their greater numbers to force the enemy gunboats and vipers to go on the defensive using their own corvettes as support, the Virago and her Fighter Wing begin to dismantle Black Squadron through their superior numbers and faced with a large screen of Fighter cover the Virago follows in.

The Crusader-class Corvettes start to make runs at the Fighter skirmish tipping the favour to the Consortium, the Imperials recognise the need to win this dog fight and launch their own Strike-class cruisers and Vigil-class corvettes into the fray but the Strike-class Cruisers maintain control.

 

During the fight the Merciless managed to maintain heavy firepower on the Lusankya taking it's toll, eventually however separate parts of the gargantuan ship regain control and the Lusankya opens full fire on the Merciless, the Merciless attempts to create re-cloak but blanket fire across the area damage the Stygium Cloaking Device and the ship is destroyed but the Consortium focus fire down a third Star Destroyer whilst the Lusankya and her Strike-class escorts go on a full offensive.

 

The Consortium manages to eventually win the fighter battle though, the Virago and her Fighter Wing destroy Black Squadron and the fighter battle over-all becomes a Consortium victory, with the monstrous Lusankya heading straight for them the Consortium does it's best to destroy the Strike-class cruisers, with their combined power they manage to destroy all but two of the Strike-class cruisers still flanking the Lusankya.

 

The Lusankya soon gets in range however and opens it's full massive firepower, the remaining Consortium ships, heavily damaged take massive losses, three Keldabes and the remaining Vengeance-class frigates are destroyed, however the Strike-class ships are destroyed by overwhelming firepower and the Lusankya finds itself in the midst of the enemy ships still damaged, then the Star Destroyer which retreated earlier in the battle, flanked by Vigil escorts attacks the Keldabe vessels hoping to win the battle.

 

The Lusankya finds itself in danger, the StarVipers and the Gunboats run rampant with no fighter cover left for the Star Dreadnought, which begins to take heavy damage across the ship, however the Star Destroyer which was previously thought to be crippled is sufficiently repaired that it rejoins the engagement trying to provide cover for the Lusankya, the Star Destroyer however is destroyed, the massive fighter superiority is an enormous advantage and the ship lasts little longer than before, the Crusader-class vessels focus down the remaining Star Destroyer, but not without consequence.

 

The Crusader ships are quickly targeted by the Lusankya and destroyed, but the Consortium does something drastic, one of the Keldabes redirects all power from weapons and life support to engines sending it crashing into the Lusankya which is already heavily damaged, a massive hole appears in the front section of the ship, the remaining Keldabes and fighters try to hatch the killing blow, the Lusankya though directs much of it's power to the point defence emplacements which destroy the remaining Consortium squadrons.

The Lusankya faced with two remaining Keldabes simply digs in, directs all power from engines and point defence weapons to the heavy turbolaser batteries, the Keldabes cause more damage however one Keldabe falls but the Lusankya begins to list, the damage causes the front part of the ship to buckle, the Imperials do their best to redirect all power to the shields and cut off life support to the front of the ship.

 

However the Punishing One presumably wreckage in the midst of a fighter graveyard opens fire on the damaged Keldabe battleship and knocks out the mass driver weapon, the Keldabe however uses it's shield leeching capabilities to drain the Super Star Destroyer and the vessel opens fire on the Punishing One, but it isn't quick enough, the ion cannon does what it has to and the leecher is also damaged, one more proton torpedo smashes through the Keldabe's engines, causing an explosion which destroys the last Keldabe battleship.

 

The Galactic Empire wins the day(with a little help from a now rich bounty hunter).

 

Edited October 8, 2013 by LadyKulvax

[Beniboybling]

Again

 

"I know we don't use game mechanics"

 

"Take from that what you will"

 

Gotta look at the disclaimers dude

*cough* like the scenario disclaimers in the Kaggath *cough*

 

Which I am currently attempting to post!

[Silenceo]

Well, we do have to include some game mechanics, since that is the only source of information that we can use for the Consortium, but i agree medium seems most accurate if we were to choose one difficulty. Easy is meant to learn the ropes and have enemies that are not up to par. Medium is about average so they would be not stronger nor weaker than they should be. Hard, enemy ships have the advantages in firepower and toughness.

[Selenial]

What scenario?

 

Anyway, stop distracting me!

 

The one where I decided to help you out a bit, and capitalised on the Executors slow engines....

 

You even replied to the first part complaining about how were all against you....

[Aurbere]

Again

 

"I know we don't use game mechanics"

 

"Take from that what you will"

 

Gotta look at the disclaimers dude

 

I was referring to this:

 

I.e. on certain difficulty levels the Merciless is capable of breaking through the an SSD shields with a single ion shot, with the following plasma shot gauging a massive whole in the vessels hull.

 

And until by theory is disproven, I'm going to stick with that.

[Selenial]

Sorry about the wait, for some weird reason i couldnt post here is the conslusion:

 

I thought about this for a long long time and I have reached a more neutral scenario.

 

 

The Lusankya and her escort drop off waiting for a resupply ship to re-fill her severely depleted compliments, but a band of unidentified ships drop out of hyperspace, six Keldabes immediately open fire on the Imperial II-class escort ships hoping to make fast work of the Lusankya's flanking ships, the Imperials act faster than the Consortium anticipates unleashing a swarm of fighters, the Consortium launches it's own compliments of StarVipers and Skiprays hoping to stem the tide, the Keldabes begin to focus fire on the foremost Star Destroyer hoping combined firepower can take down one of the dagger-shaped vessels early.

 

The Imperials make their own gambit launching all of their bombers and focusing them on the enemy frigates, escorted by Black Squadron and Punishing One, their focused fire begins to take a heavy toll on the Consortium's frigates, hoping they can save their own escorts the IG-2000 appears quickly taking down squadrons of bombers itself, the Black Squadron and Pandering One focuses it's efforts on the IG-2000 vessel.

 

It quickly becomes a mad scramble but seizing the opportunity the Consortium allows the bombers deep into their own lines before using corvettes to heavily damage the bomber wings with point-defence lasers and then sends the Virago leading 60 StarVipers right at the bombers, the bombers with little to defend them manage to take down three Vengeance-class frigates before they are forced to pull out and head back to the Star Destroyers after heavy losses but the IG-2000 is focused down and destroyed by Black Squadron and the Pandering One, whom quickly take a run at more of the Consortium's frigates, the Imperials know that removing the frigates makes the Keldabes vulnerable to a swarm attack.

 

However the Keldabes have managed to severely damage one of the Star Destroyers which attempts to turn away the fighter battle however is beginning to swing towards the Consortium's way, Black Squadron turns from the escorts and joins the battle with greater experience the Black Squadron causes strong damage, allowing the rest of the Imperial fighters to fight a more even battle.

 

The Keldabes however begin to advance and the Lusankya prepares however the Consortium's trap kicks in, the Merciless drops it's cloaking device right above the Bridge Tower of the Lusankya, with power mainly focused at the front deflector screens awaiting the oncoming Keldabes, the power of the Bridge's deflector screens is not at maximum power, the Merciless breaks through the Bridge Deflectors and cripples the Bridge Tower of the Lusankya

 

With the forward Star Destroyer taking heavy fire the Imperials attempt to take control of the battle, without the support of the Virago and her escort Fighter Wing, the fighter battle, with heavy casualties on both sides begins to become a rout with the Imperials using their greater numbers to force the enemy gunboats and vipers to go on the defensive using their own corvettes as support, the Virago and her Fighter Wing begin to dismantle Black Squadron through their superior numbers and faced with a large screen of Fighter cover the Virago follows in.

The Crusader-class Corvettes start to make runs at the Fighter skirmish tipping the favour to the Consortium, the Imperials recognise the need to win this dog fight and launch their own Strike-class cruisers and Vigil-class corvettes into the fray but the Strike-class Cruisers maintain control.

 

During the fight the Merciless managed to maintain heavy firepower on the Lusankya taking it's toll, eventually however separate parts of the gargantuan ship regain control and the Lusankya opens full fire on the Merciless, the Merciless attempts to create re-cloak but blanket fire across the area damage the Stygium Cloaking Device and the ship is destroyed but the Consortium focus fire down a third Star Destroyer whilst the Lusankya and her Strike-class escorts go on a full offensive.

 

The Consortium manages to eventually win the fighter battle though, the Virago and her Fighter Wingdestroy Black Squadron and the fighter battle over-all becomes a Consortium victory, with the monstrous Lusankya heading straight for them the Consortium does it's best to destroy the Strike-class cruisers, with their combined power they manage to destroy all but two of the Strike-class cruisers still flanking the Lusankya.

 

The Lusankya soon gets in range however and opens it's full massive firepower, the remaining Consortium ships, heavily damaged take massive losses, three Keldabes and the remaining Vengeance-class frigates are destroyed, however the Strike-class ships are destroyed by overwhelming firepower and the Lusankya finds itself in the midst of the enemy ships still damaged, then the Star Destroyer which retreated earlier in the battle, flanked by Vigil escorts attacks the Keldabe vessels hoping to win the battle.

 

The Lusankya finds itself in danger, the StarVipers and the Gunboats run rampant with no fighter cover left for the Star Dreadnought, which begins to take heavy damage across the ship, however the Star Destroyer which was previously thought to be crippled is sufficiently repaired that it rejoins the engagement trying to provide cover for the Lusankya, the Star Destroyer however is destroyed, the massive fighter superiority is an enormous advantage and the ship lasts little longer than before, the Crusader-class vessels focus down the remaining Star Destroyer, but not without consequence.

 

The Crusader ships are quickly targeted by the Lusankya and destroyed, but the Consortium does something drastic, one of the Keldabes redirects all power from weapons and life support to engines sending it crashing into the Lusankya which is already heavily damaged, a massive hole appears in the front section of the ship, the remaining Keldabes and fighters try to hatch the killing blow, the Lusankya though directs much of it's power to the point defence emplacements which destroy the remaining Consortium squadrons.

The Lusankya faced with two remaining Keldabes simply digs in, directs all power from engines and point defence weapons to the heavy turbolaser batteries, the Keldabes cause more damage however one Keldabe falls but the Lusankya begins to list, the damage causes the front part of the ship to buckle, the Imperials do their best to redirect all power to the shields and cut off life support to the front of the ship.

 

However the Punishing One presumably wreckage in the midst of a fighter graveyard opens fire on the damaged Keldabe battleship and knocks out the mass driver weapon, the Keldabe however uses it's shield leeching capabilities to drain the Super Star Destroyer and the vessel opens fire on the Punishing One, but it isn't quick enough, the ion cannon does what it has to and the leecher is also damaged, one more proton torpedo smashes through the Keldabe's engines, causing an explosion which destroys the last Keldabe battleship.

 

The Galactic Empire wins the day(with a little help from a now rich bounty hunter).

 

:(

[Selenial]

I was referring to this:

 

Ahh, apologies....

 

In all fairness, I believe he refers to the calculations he made...

[Silenceo]

Wow....In my mind, that was an EPIC battle LadyKulvax, well done.

 

Beniboybling, good fight man, and I am sorry if i got hostile at times, but game mechanics tend to drive me insane in such debates.

 

Though, from Kulvax's description, and probably because she read the entire thread, did indeed make it a bloody battle.

 

Well fought : )

[Aurbere]

Epic battle. Had no idea who was going to win.

[Silenceo]

Well to be fair Aurbere, both the debating, and the ships themselves, were fairly equal throughout the entire debate, sometimes shifting slightly to one side, but never in large amounts. When reading the battle description I myself didn't know who was going to win in the last paragraph, 2 damaged Keldabes vs a critically wounded Lusankya? whew, good read.

[LadyKulvax]

Thanks I tried to make it as evenly done as possible, meeting everything half way, it managed to be quite the battle, honestly it was hard thinking of a way to actually make a scenario where the Lusankya doesn't steamroll through, but I thought a combination of heavy damage to the bridge and a massive gutting hole in the center of the vessel would do the trick and soon as though those were more than viable options, I went with them.

 

The most difficult thing to figure out though, was how to play the freighters into this and keep them from being sideshows and under-powered, the Punishing One winning the battle was something I thought everyone could relate to, you know the idea of the Millennium Falcon winning major battles and that not everything is decided by the big bad ships.

[Beniboybling]

What happened to the dive bomb!? The fireworks would have been glorious!

 

Ah well, guess that teaches me for choosing a bunch of pirates who don't follow orders.

[Aurbere]

Thanks I tried to make it as evenly done as possible, meeting everything half way, it managed to be quite the battle, honestly it was hard thinking of a way to actually make a scenario where the Lusankya doesn't steamroll through, but I thought a combination of heavy damage to the bridge and a massive gutting hole in the center of the vessel would do the trick and soon as though those were more than viable options, I went with them.

 

The most difficult thing to figure out though, was how to play the freighters into this and keep them from being sideshows and under-powered, the Punishing One winning the battle was something I thought everyone could relate to, you know the idea of the Millennium Falcon winning major battles and that not everything is decided by the big bad ships.

 

That was a good idea and a completely unexpected conclusion (the Punishing One winning it, I mean).

[Beniboybling]

Thanks I tried to make it as evenly done as possible, meeting everything half way, it managed to be quite the battle, honestly it was hard thinking of a way to actually make a scenario where the Lusankya doesn't steamroll through, but I thought a combination of heavy damage to the bridge and a massive gutting hole in the center of the vessel would do the trick and soon as though those were more than viable options, I went with them.

 

The most difficult thing to figure out though, was how to play the freighters into this and keep them from being sideshows and under-powered, the Punishing One winning the battle was something I thought everyone could relate to, you know the idea of the Millennium Falcon winning major battles and that not everything is decided by the big bad ships.

Lol, am I the only one would didn't really now what was going on?

[Silenceo]

I felt similar Beni, though to answer what happened to the dive bomb, it was likely destroyed before it could re-angle itself, due to its cumbersome heavy armor. Not surprising seeing how many guns are there *though, seemed like a fast recovery (shrug) *

 

But yeah, the, *Punishing One* punished the pirates >

[LadyKulvax]

What happened to the dive bomb!? The fireworks would have been glorious!

 

Ah well, guess that teaches me for choosing a bunch of pirates who don't follow orders.

 

But they did, one of your Keldabes went and gutted the Lusankya, it very nearly crippled the ship.

[Beniboybling]

But they did, one of your Keldabes went and gutted the Lusankya, it very nearly crippled the ship.

But it not the self-destructing plasma shotting brick of doom!

 

Anyway, you have all incurred my wrath. This is the second time I've lost a debate now.

 

It will not happen again.

 

(As for you Sel, this betrayal will not go unpunished. :jawa_evil:)

[Selenial]

But it not the self-destructing plasma shotting brick of doom!

 

Anyway, you have all incurred my wrath. This is the second time I've lost a debate now.

 

It will not happen again.

 

(As for you Sel, this betrayal will not go unpunished. :jawa_evil:)

 

Apart from Raylas, I came up with the most plausible scenario in the entire thread...

 

And it was SUPPORTING you!!! Naughty Beni! Go back and read it

[Silenceo]

I sense a disturbance in the force...

[Selenial]

Apart from Raylas, I came up with the most plausible scenario in the entire thread...

 

And it was SUPPORTING you!!! Naughty Beni! Go back and read it

 

Post #202, go read it.

[Silenceo]

Now I feel bad for Beni, so time to swing this in another direction, and as much as I hate the consortium fleet, and how people focus on its positives without looking at the gaping negatives... I'll try help him out.

 

The Bling fleet () has numbers, plain and simple. The buzz droids it possess are going to be a turning point in the fighter battle, along with his little corvettes, the fighter battle will barely tip in Benis favour, with barely any remaining.

 

Without fighters and bombers, it's harder to exploit the consortium weaknesses.

 

Benis ships outnumber Silenceos, and if his ships stayed at maximum range I can see him winning.

 

The Lusankya is slow, if beni's in a position where only a few of its guns can reach him, the. He can let the Merciless fire on the gun emplacements that ARE in range, along with a few of the mass drivers from other ships, and as the Lusankya comes closer it loses more and more guns.

 

With that slow process occurring, the rest of Benis fleets can go toe to toe with Silenceos, using his numbers advantage to whittle down the fleet from afar. Once the majority of the capital ships are down, and the Lusankya gets closer with its main battery compliments (too much for the merciless to handle) the fleet can move in and swarm the SSD, they'd make rather short work of it too, with its easy to hit Cityscape by way of Mass Drivers....

 

brought forward for easy reading, this is post 202

[Beniboybling]

Apart from Raylas, I came up with the most plausible scenario in the entire thread...

 

And it was SUPPORTING you!!! Naughty Beni! Go back and read it

"Maybe Vader had died heroically, but ten minutes of contrition did not make up for years of atrocities."

 

―Leia Organa to the spirit of her father

Edited October 8, 2013 by Beniboybling

[Selenial]

"Maybe Vader had died heroically, but ten minutes of contrition did not make up for years of atrocities."

 

―Leia Organa to the spirit of her father

 

Ok...

I said like 3 things about your scenario, then came up with one that NO ONE found flaws in..

 

You silly child, I did more for you than I did for Silenceo....

[Beniboybling]

Ok...

I said like 3 things about your scenario, then came up with one that NO ONE found flaws in..

 

You silly child, I did more for you than I did for Silenceo....

17 - 1

 

Edited October 8, 2013 by Beniboybling

[tunewalker]

17 - 1