I'm not going to go through the X-wing series and look up page numbers for you, neverminding the fact that they're 4000km from me. The entire series has starfighters shooting missiles at capital ships.
Yes, Jan, you can quote the EGWT all you like. My point is there are other canon sources that contradict what it says. And canon "primary sources", as it were - the EG is very much a "secondary source" compared to the novels themselves.
With regards to partical shields themselves, my point was to compare the "always-on" partical shields to "combat shields" - that is, the high powered shields designed to protect a ship from laser fire. Always-on partical shields are, like I said, not designed to stop high explosive warheads. Combat shields, arguably, are.
I am not going to discuss the Surveyor. Suffice to say, it is capable of detecting your fighters. I would much rather play the game than argue the technical possibilities of whether one made up ship can detect another made up ship.
Posted. Both shortened, and I have refraned from engaging the surface weaponry or launching any sort of strike... yet.
However...
The Empire woudl have never, ever left standing usable planetary defenses on a planet they abandoned. The weapons would have been destroyed either by bombardment by fleeing ships or making the reactor go critical.
Why, do you ask? Because they're the Empire. They wouldn't leave them, they'd help their enemys. At least by destroying them they force their enemys to buy new ones, an enormous cost, to say the least.
I still protest the fact that you managed to destroy "several Corvettes and Light Cruisers" in one post (well actually like 3 lines really). And that despite that in Corise's first post, he RPed the fleet firing ONE long-ranged volley and retreating, coming into contact with Kraken's fleet, where he launches only 1 other volley and then retreats, yet somehow you describe him as trading volleys for "several minutes" (or that is my understanding). And that you cleared the minefield without saying how you did it and with apparently no losses. Somewherein there you had to suffer some damage. Somehow. Or at least provide some detail on how you did your damage.
Without his fancy KIBC to home him in, it would take several miniutes to calculate a jump. I have five Astruses, and a multitude of smaller ships. Each astrus carries 6 STLs, each as powerful as a planetary defense turbolaser. FIred into the bulk of an enemy fleet, even wildly, woudl do quite a bit of damage to smaller capital ships which woudl be vaporized by a single strike. Even if he just fired and fled, the random firings woudl hit something.
As for the mines, I will go and edit my post now to give me some damage. And to put a group of minesweepers sweeping gaps through it now in case I must retreat. I dont' want to have a "Teth" pulled on me, do I?
While Kach's post is very vauge about exactly what happened between the two fleets...
DOES IT MATTER?
This is not old TRF. This is not "oh, you blew up one of my imaginary ships, you must have cheated, let's spend 40 pages bickering about it!" TRF.
This is a TRF that is built on storywriting. Kach's fleet is several times the size of Corise's and, as stated, has some very powerful weapons contained therein.
Granted, Corise was not given proper time to respond... but you're effectively arguing that a much more powerful fleet is incapable of destroying a handful of light, imaginary ships? I would expect a Astrus could reduce a Blockade Runner to a gutted hulk in a single volley from her STLs!
It's not like Kach has just overrun the entire planet, doubled its defences, and had time to zip across the galaxy to appear live on "Heros of the Empire Exposed". He's destroyed some corvettes.
Excuse me if I don't feel any sympathy: the GC has argued pretty much EVERY action the Empire has made. Can I blow my nose without someone crying foul?
As I said, a microjump does not happen instantaniously.
Corise: "Let's microjump to the other side of the system and then fire a few missiles at them."
Captain: "Very good sir. Would you like another cup of tea? By the way, the jump is already under way."
No. Nyet. Nada.
You must sit there and calculate it just like any other old hyperspace jump. They could not have calculated it before I arrived, because my ships change the grav-spacetime-whateverthehell propertys of the space around metalorn, and so while they calculated the jump I shot at them. Plain and simple. If they want to fire a SINGLE long range volly while I pummel them, his problem. Maybe he was reinforcing his shields in the face of my supiror firepower, hmm? Knew he couldn't stand up to me, so he transferred weapons energy to shields and just held on while the navicomputers calculated it?
Again I say: Most effort in taking out a food convoy ever.
Honestly, I keep seeing the thing about 'writing a good story thrown around' and blah blah blah. But it turned out with both sides pulling low blows that are unbefitting of TRF. Honestly, bad on both sides.
Corise, you should've tried to play through with your original food convoy, if you wanted to give it some escort then all well and good. But to say 'Oh, and you draw another fleet to'. A point you bring up about having sensors detecting incoming ships is likely true for theirs to, so this is just a matter of fact of wanting to win.
The same goes for TNO, if you did know 'By intelligence reports and blah blah blah the convoy and it's contents', why would you have THREE FLEETS to take it out? Again, it's a point that TNO is wanting to win.
The very fact this thread has gone on this long, with more and more bickering and evidence thrown back and forth shows it all the more.
Stop worrying about the win, start worrying about a well written story with characters and all that jazz.
