Steve wrote:Siege wrote:Lord_Of_Change 9 wrote:I don't want to play, particularly insofar as it involves fighting a battle against massively superior ships.
With respect, but one wonders what you were moving toward the K-Zone for then.
All our ships are like that.
To put this in perspective, your heaviest battleship comes in at 300 points, with the next-largest coming in at 100. My
smallest capital warcraft clocks 75 points and is regarded as a glorified picket; my cruiser/destroyer hybrid is 150, and battleship analogs don't start 'till you hit 400. Shady's and Fin's largest supercapitals mass 1,000. I don't want to beat our own collective drum here, but really... For better or worse, in terms of individual warship tonnage the K-Zone is in a league of its own. If you want to play in our sandbox you better bring a
lot of ships, and be prepared to lose a lot of them too.
And I always thought I was going big with $650-rated Command Flagships as my most powerful single unit.
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Yeah, well you're not LoC9. I'm pretty sure that's you-singular, not you-plural he's talking.
I don't disagree with the idea of 300$ battleships; anything designed as the primary heavy combatant and significantly larger than most probable opposition, designed for battle, is a battleship in my book.
Battle. Ship. Battleship.
But if you're not willing to risk engaging big ships with small ones, then yes you
do need to take the size of opposing capital ships into account. LoC9 in particular has no excuse for not doing that because he joined the game after most of us already had published ORBATs; he has no logical reason
not to know what kind of ships you see in the Koprulu Sector.
When I commissioned 400$ dreadnoughts I knew roughly what I was getting into. My fleet doctrine
is perfectly willing to throw them in pairs or larger groups against heavier enemy units, and I named them "dreadnoughts" more in the sense of "they don't dread anything in space" than in the sense of "they can beat anything in space."
I'm not sure LoC9 can say the same, though to be fair he named them "battleships" and not the more ambitious "dreadnoughts." Still, though, if he's afraid to use his "battleships" to give battle against enemy line combatants, including combatants belonging to one of the nations he dispatched them to fight (the Karlacks...) one wonders what he built them for.
For that matter, unless the Karlacks sent along one of their six "World Eater" class flagships (I doubt it), nothing in their fleet will be all that much more dangerous than the Prussians' capital ships one on one.
Also...
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Word from MiniFor was that the Prussians hadn't been taking Umeria seriously lately, and the top brass was trusting Antoni to help make sure they started paying attention again.
Command had been nonspecific as to how.
Man. Chernov did NOT like the Prussians fucking with him
DOES DOCTOR MAXIM CHERNOV LOOK LIKE A BITCH?!
THEN WHY DID YOU FUCK HIM LIKE A BITCH?!
I feel this deep impulse to parody that scene from
Pulp Fiction now. God, Shroom, you do weird things to people.