[RP/MM] Turn 41 - CSR vs. CW : Tamar (2514) Invasion? *CONTESTED*

[Parmenion]

[Star Admiral Chester Dwelley, Sleipner]

"You can give orders until the heavens fall, Khan Lynn.  But the Horses for one, will never act on any Mandrill rant!"

[Dave Baughman]

(OOC: for the record, the enemy's force had only 1.75 FP total. After their nukes were spent, they were easily taken down by overwhelming Clan aerospace superiority. A few tried to ram smaller WarShips, but none succeeded.)

For the record, simple res roll for the enemy:

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 3, 6, total 9[/blockquote]

Don't bother with warship survival rolls as I don't believe you have anything here with a low enough FP to be threatened by such a small force.

[Dave Baughman]

Crit check
[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 5, 4, total 9[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

Crit

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 5, 3, total 8[/blockquote]

[Dave Baughman]

8 Encircle and capture 10% of opponent, add that FU to salvage.

Well, this is what I get for writing fluff before rolling everything out. Ignore the fluff in reply #31.




The attacking force, having spent their nuclear weapons, strafes a couple of the smaller WarShips then leads a large portion of the combined fleet's fighter force on a merry chase through the Tamar system's asteroid belt. In the end, the enemy force is hunted down and destroyed, but several Clan aerospace carriers are struck by asteroids and have to be abandoned in face of catastrophic hull breaches.

Technician Caste reports that these ships are salvageable but will take time to patch up and get back online.


The attackers inflict 0.75 FP of damage, plus 10% of the Clan force is abandoned in the asteroid field.
(OOC: since the attackers were destroyed they do not actually capture anything. The 10% FP is basically out of action and can be recovered by whoever has control of the system at the end of the current scenario)

[Fatebringer]

Thosten: In this situation, our navy has essentially completed it's mission and of all of the Khans that seem to have an objection to the Camels taking charge of the trials, only the Ghost Bears have forces bid into them, and a relatively small continent at that. After the Ravens, the Camel Clan has brought the most forces here. If the assembled Khans can not agree to allow Amy Lynn command, I will hold onto ground command until this is over. The wolves await.

[Iron Mongoose]

Amy Lynn: "Years ago, the Wolves were our closest friends.  It was they who alowed us to settle in the Inner Sphere, to help estabilish the independance from the other Kindraa that would over the years lead to the formation of the Camels.  We had pledged to support one another, with out condition.

"The Wolves betrayed that trust.  On two occasions, they have made an attempt to take our most important worlds from us.  They have allied with our enemies, they have made a pact with our Terran enemies, they have provided weapons that have struck with out honor, killing many of our allies.  We owe it to them, and to our selves, to ensure that justice is done.

"Many of us have had quarels in the past.  I must acknolage, the down side in being the most tenured Khan is that I had been around long enough to have made my share of mistakes.  I know of the Horses displeasre with our actions years ago in the war, and if you are willing to speak with me on this matter, I am prepaired to try and make amends.  As for the Bears, if you bare some greviance against me, I would address that as well.

"There is little that still needs doing here.  By our assent, the Khan of the Ravens set out the task before us.  What we need is a single voice to offer our answer to the Wolves, a voice that can speak with athority, with conviction.  As a Khan, I carry that athority, and as the Khan of a Clan that has brought each and every front line warrior it has to this battle, I hope to show my conviction."

[Iron Mongoose]

OOC:

1) Dave, the Camels have bondsmen from the FRR and warriors of Lyran birth in their ranks, and one imagines the Bears have sizeable contingents of FRR natives, to say nothing of the other Clans with ties to the IS, so presuming the launguage spoken by the attackers could reasonable be assumed to be understood by a person from one of the represented nations, I would request a translation.

2) Is the 10% taken from just the force on Naval engagment, just the force directly attacked (the escorts of the fallen warships and survivers, which are doubtless substantial in power), just the blockading force, from all forces irrespective of their orders, or from some other group?

[DisGruntled]

Shouldn't it be 10% of what ever force would be committed against the attackers?  I don't think 1000+ FP would have been committed against less then 10.  30+ is much more realistic (and I'll take it for the team out of the CASFs if that's how people want to handle it).

[NVA]

Realism vs Rules don't always match up as expected.  The player community already decided rules trump, one example being Leskovic.

Shouldn't it be 10% of what ever force would be committed against the attackers?  I don't think 1000+ FP would have been committed against less then 10.  30+ is much more realistic (and I'll take it for the team out of the CASFs if that's how people want to handle it).

[Iron Mongoose]

Well, the qustion isn't "Is it reasonable that a tiny enemy force, numbing about .2% if its enemy, should be expected to be able to capture any amount of the enemy."  We all agree that the rules are the rules.

The qustion is, what is that forces enemy?

I would argue that the force in qustion "attacked" only the flotillas that it did attack, the seven named, so that force would be the force the 10% is assessed against.  There should be several hundred FP in these flotillas, more than enough to chace down some bandit scum.  And since we're almost sure to win the space battle, we'll get back what we lose, so its really a small matter.  I just want to be sure to establish it for any battles to come, and for RP.

I also think we should roll for our own defence, and crits, since some might have RP consiquences.

[Fatebringer]

OOC: We have querried the realism of this event in the past, either way, we don't need to argue this ruling here and now. The 10% affects the listed naval forces just as a Hunting mission would and does not affect the ground. I will take all of the temporarily missing forces out of the Raven's massive Aerospace compliment here along the GM's "Lost in the Asteroids" line of thinking.

RPwise you can decide for yourself if someone in your touman can speakie the language. Don't need a GM for that.

As for rolls and crit, your right. If the GM's rolled for this, so should we. Who knows, perhaps we crit ourselves and they captured the Leviathan while they're at it?

Simres

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 6, 4, total 10[/blockquote]

[Fatebringer]

Crit Check

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 4, 5, total 9[/blockquote]

Crit Roll (If Applicable)

[blockquote]Rolled 2d6 : 3, 1, total 4[/blockquote]

[Fatebringer]

Gain +1 on further rolls this combat (CO gains experience)

[Daemonknight]

OOC: Who is the senior Naval officer present at this point? Are there any Star Admirals alive currently, or is it down to Star Commodores/Captains? Curious for RP