I'm no expert in projectiles, but I do know that by design the Dictator is exceptionally heavily shielded for its size. The R&D does not differentiate between ray and particle shields, but I think that declaring a weapon is immune to any shields is iffy, at best.
*shrug*
I can give that the Dictator has suffered damage (hence its present retreat), though.
A single SH-F emplacement is more than twice as powerful as a single Heavy Turbolaser. The Cayman's weapons, fired as one, are supposed to be able to cripple a smaller capital ship in a single firing.
Actually, you put them there:
If you'd rather your ships don't return fire, I can deal with that.
I have Interdictor mines laid across the space you're in, yes. Mines produce a significantly smaller grav shadow than my Interdictor, and with the distance between our fleets (I'm assuming at this point they're at maximum firing range, more or less), my ships aren't quite within the grav shadow.
That's all right. I was just curious about the entire projectile thing, and still am. I under the impression that Cree'ar weapons aren't affected by shields either. If anyone knows how this all works, could they explain that to me? Thanks.
Thanks for the clarification.
Ah, I see what you mean. I interepted that as something else when I was writing it. No problem then.
It's all right, there are probably some greener pilots in the fleet that would do that.
This latest incursion needs a lot of explanation. For example, why would my ships, trying get away from a TNO fleet, jump towards another one? Yes, we would know it is there, because of passive sensors stations set around any system. Moreover, we're not even in system to begin with. There should be no mines, nor would their be any way for the ships to occur there. If this is a matter of sheer chance, and you just happened to stumble across my fleet, that's fine. But then there is another problem.
Gravity-wells take time to power up; literally a minute according to EGVV, and if my fleet was there first, our sensors would detect your ships approaching in hyperspace; we would have time to make a jump and escape. You have also added that your interdictors maneuvered to a new position first before activating their gravity wells. That adds additional time.
From my reading, the new arrivals have not intercepted nor engaged your defence fleet. They have simply arrived and set up camp, ensuring that nothing escapes the system.
If that is the case, I apologize then. I thought they were intercepting my ships outside the system. I have no complaints then.
EDIT: Can I get a rough idea of your fleet size brand, sort of like how you described the Confederation fleet centering around a few Pegasuss with smaller ships?
Oh, and how should we work the posting order for the fight over Metalorn as well because of the three writers?
I told Drayson it would be a little mean if I got involved, but since the planning for you, me, and Beff's thread fell through the floor, this would be the first time I would go up against you.
The way I wrote it, we were arriving at a pre determined destination, which happened to be occupied by your ships, and we were both caught by suprise at each other's presence. I was to be a fall back point for Drayson's fleet and interdict additional reinforcements and any food container ships that slipped past his blockade. Normally, I like to keep fleeting posts at about 5 minutes unless heavily engaged, so in this case, the interdictors would be coming online at about 4-5 minutes.
As for fleet size - a few destroyers, several dreadnoughts, a couple dozen gunships, a few corvettes, a few Guardians, a few Interdictors, and several long range vessels.
But if you object to my fleet location, calling it too, well, coincidental, then I'll happily edit.
It's fine with me; after all I was a little concidental as well during this thread as well. And yeah, since the whole fleeting thing fell through between Beff and us, it will be kind of nice. Hm...I'm not sure how we should go about this (especially since I thought you were bringing in a larger fleet).
Kraken would it be all right with you if some of the MDF jumped out while the grav-wells were powering up and some(an equivalent amount) remain to engage you? If we're going for a direct engagement, I'll probably post more exact numbers (besides, it's not the entire fleet). This resting on the fact that no more ships arrive to take part in that mini-battle from either side. Otherwise, I'll just have the entire fleet jump out to somewhere else while the grav-wells are charging.
Yeah, but it'd have to be a pretty hasty or pre-arranged jump, or in other words, either you were planning previously to jump back in after you launched the hyperspace missiles, or else it would be a panicky jump, in which case the formation would be a little scattered upon reversion.
EDIT: Actually, you may want to hold off on writing your post just yet. I'll be editing in some things to make it a little easier on all parties involved.
