Talk:Battle of Randall Prime

Lokar:

• I'll play variable number of Imperial battlesheeps.

Mal:

• Whatever lets me use Fleet Command

Holle:

• Jardin battlesheep! Variable number. (I figure 4-6 depending on how many people join up on Jardin side, might also be some of the destroyers if nobody takes the poor tincans

100thlurker:
Feedback
Recommend drop AA scores as a passive defense entirely. Anti-missile defense as reaction fire from your weapons definitely works and works well and is tactically interesting. I think it is preferable to a static defense (perhaps AA can be dropped for ECM?)

• Perhaps certain weapons such as Anti-matter Guns have a lower TN to defend against missiles.

Battle seems to reflect my concerns that the formation rules strongly favor attacks in column and punish firing lines severely. Fixes:

• If line-of-fire passes through *any* friendly ships in formation, rather than every 2 friendly ships, TN is raised.
• Arbitrary formations instead of based purely on map reading.

Frigate ECM buffs are definitely effective, though recommending 5/6 may have had unintended consequences. High ECM Frigates as spotting for + Capital/Heavy Laser armed capitals and cruisers definitely appears like it will work as intended.
Increases in direct fire ranges without proportional increases in Speeds is potentially a mistake. With low Speed ships the effect of PC skills are massive, see the end-turn where an entire Jardin formation dashing into Anti-matter Gun range.

• Either shrink direct fire brackets back to their original form or extend ship movement.
• Such a heavy AMG armament feels inappropriate - in the rescheming of battleships they should probably have an increased Capital/Heavy Laser armament with only 2-3 points of AMGs as secondaries.

Full offensive leads to eggshell combat with battleships casually foundering in 2-3 turns, which while probably working as intended with NPC combat, may be difficult now that PvP is a likely possibility.

• +Half(round up) weapon pool instead of double?
• Perhaps double weapons Full Offensive should be a limited Special Order requiring command checks or the use of a resource?
• Defensive doubles ECM as well as shields?
• In line with the previous suggestions, perhaps "normal" stances have a +half effect while attempting a command check can have double effect. Defensive normally only adds +half shields, Offense normally adds only +half weapons, pass a command check to Double them.
• Consider Disengage/Retreat Stance