The Trattorians waste no time, not even for an Overwatch picture (*cough*), in eliminating one of the few RIN ships remaining on the board.
The fleeing light carriers are also not spared.
The Trattorian fighters fighters have taken offense at all the complements towards the RIN in their dogfighting ability, and decide to challenge that statement.
While they do kill some RIN, they are not as successful and merely prove their inferiority.
Praetorians
If you’re good at reading where’s waldo, this picture should be no problem. Three Praetorian escape pods abandon ship of the wrecked V.
Meanwhile the flagship Space Oddity fires its large laser turrets at the charging Avalonians. They miss the relatively agile frigates but the smaller point-defense lasers hit.
The cockpit of one Type-C is blown out, however the rest of the ship is still functioning.
The Life on Mars and the frigates cull their fire and blow more Bavarians to the heavens.
Finally, the lone Praetorian fighter moves out and dogfights with an RIN one.
Ultimately the RIN fighter is destroyed.
RIN
All remaining RIN forçes (a destroyer, a gunboat, a space station, and the asteroid bases) barrage the Trattorian flagship hoping to take out the bridge.
The crew brace themselves for...relatively nothing. The RIN definitely needs reinforcements now.
The damaged cruiser (now dubbed the Inspirational) moves a pitiful one inch towards the Praetorians.
The RIN fighters deftly eliminate another whole squadron of Trattorian fighters.
Akkadians
The attack frigates join the Avalonian charge.
The bombers fire torpedoes at the Praetorians.
Marked with an easy-to-identify purple, the torpedoes can’t make it as far as the Praetorians and will continue to move 8” per turn.
Similarly, the marine drop pods are fired in the Praetorian’s direction as well, with 8” movement per turn.
I think the Akkadian fighters and gunboats mop up some more fighters, not entirely sure.
Bavaria
The Bavarians move full speed ahead.
They give the first paint-scratches to the Life on Mars.
Their friénds in the fighters swoop in to deepen those “scratches”.
Ah, that’s more like it for the TA!
The other Bavarian squadron diverts to back up the RIN.
And they also terminate a Praetorian escort frigate.
I just randomly move the asteroid when I come to think of it, so here it is clipping the bridge off the RIN destroyer. Nothing personal.
Avalonians
I think the Avalonians look really badass charging like that, so I gave them a back-view.
Semaj Nagirrac wrote:Have all Avalonian cruisers target the Praetorians main ship again, this time aiming for the bridge. I want that ship destroyed! Hopefully it will go down without a control area.
Admiral Sidnakli: It’s been an honor, men.
And with that, the bridge explodes. The stress caused by the damage also splits the Space Oddity into halves. While not useless and still able to fire, I’d say its resale value has taken quite a hit.
Normally I wouldn’t handle direct “herp derp let’s directly explode the bridge” orders but here I just treated the bridge as a structure with the agility rating of a frigate and everything was fine. The Praetorians are demoralized by the loss of their leader and near-destruction of their flagship and receive a -1 skill penalty next turn.
MASS
The MASS fleet moves up.
Half the escort frigates destroy a good portion of the forward Bavarian fighter squadron.
While the other 6 and the cruisers focus on the Bavarian cruiser. It melts under their gaze.
The Third Alliance is losing, fortune surely smiles upon the AN forçes, until...
Siri Loyalists: Trattorians, you are hereby ordered to stand down and fight for the Third Alliance. Hail our glorious leader Siri!Secret Faction B Unlocked: Siri Loyalists
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SEND IN YOUR ORDERS NOWKill Table:
Trattorians:
Fighters/Bombers: 2
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 0
Destroyers: 3
Cruisers: 1
Battleships: (1/2)
Space Stations: 1
Praetorians:
Fighters/Bombers: 1
Gunboats: 4
Frigates: 0
Destroyers: 2
Cruisers: 2
Battleships: (1/2)
Space Stations: 1
RIN:
Fighters/Bombers: 15
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 1
Destroyers: 1
Cruisers: 0
Battleships: 0
Space Stations: 0
Bavaria:
Fighters/Bombers: 8
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 1
Destroyers: 0
Cruisers: 0
Battleships: 0
Space Stations: 0
Akkadians:
Fighters/Bombers: 6
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 1
Destroyers: 0
Cruisers: 0
Battleships: 0
Space Stations: 0
Scythians: Terminated
Fighters/Bombers: 0
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 0
Destroyers: 0
Cruisers: 0
Battleships: 0
Space Stations: 0
Avalonians:
Fighters/Bombers: 0
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 0
Destroyers: 0
Cruisers: 0
Battleships: 0
Space Stations: 0
MASS:
Fighters/Bombers: 9
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 0
Destroyers: 0
Cruisers: 2
Battleships: 0
Space Stations: 0
Siri Loyalists:
Fighters/Bombers: 0
Gunboats: 0
Frigates: 0
Destroyers: 0
Cruisers: 0
Space Stations: 0
Also, RIN receives reinforcements.