The United Terran Federation

[Spartan6]

Okay .. 'FUNk is gonna be on here tomorrow talking about how the Rach whooped the Terrans tonight. Well he did. I just wanted to post first and steal some of his thunder.

 

I fielded two Ronin, an Archer and a Katana in one platoon. 4 Wolves in another. A flight of Harpies and two heavy mortar teams.

 

'FUNk fielded a '70 Dictator, a Conqueror and 2 Despots in one platoon and 2 Tyrants and 2 Dominators(?) in another. He also had two Kharls.

 

I lost. I got outgunned by the frikkin' 70 Dictator using overdrive. My Harpies got shot down before they did much and my mortars didn't do as well as I would have liked even though they fired pretty accurately.

 

The battlefield was pretty wide open with lots of long shots available.

 

I blame the Mitso-Ta crap I was running. I seldom use the Mitso-Ta stuff and tonight I figured I would. I think my inexperience with it contributed to my loss. The Ronin, while a decent heavy CAV, just isn't the heavy hitter the Starhawk VI is. 'FUNk just had too much indirect of his own for me to sit back and pound him from range. I tried to get up in his grill early and pound it out but his indirect fire was just too accurate and the 70 Dictator on overdrive put paid to a couple CAV's.

 

I can blamestorm all I want really but the bottom line was I got whooped. I did take out a couple of his CAV's and damage a lot of other stuff pretty well but the Mitso-Ta CAV's just can't deliver a knockout punch like the 'Hawk VI can.

 

Lessons Learned:

1. M-T CAV's are best used in support of an attack spearheaded by SyRam CAV's.

2. Heavy mortar teams rock. AOE/3 and FRS..oh yeah baby.

3. Wolf tanks really need Naginatas along to supplement their ability to R-n-G.

4. I split my fire too much. I forgot one of my own rules about concentrating fire. Too much one on one fighting or two on one. Platoons exist for a reason, four on one is the way to go.

 

Thoughts:

M-T CAV's are jack-of-all-trades CAV's and they suffer for it. A CAV with either a lot of DF capability or IF capability is the way to go.

 

Okay, all you M-T fans can start hurling rotten fruit now. LOL I won't stop running them I'll just be more careful how I organize next time. 'FUNk had a good hard target killer platoon and a good IF platoon and it paid off.

 

Well played Rach.

[Crazy8]

Well played yourself! Even in tactical defeat Legionnaires are able to pull out the strategic PR victory!

 

I think your observation of the M-T CAV's is spot on. I've tried to use a 'Hawk 6 / Ronin tandem and that really showed how "undergunned" the Ronin was compared to the 'Hawk 6. Especially when you throw in the 6's Run n Gun ability. THAT'S when the Ronin short comings become painfully obvious. I'm sure there is a good way to field an all M-T platoon, I haven't quite figured it out yet either. (But I do know that you should never use them like you'd use a SyRaM CAV!!!)

 

How did the Katana work out for you?

 

Ditto the Wolves?

 

Whenever I want to field traditional armor platoons I always mull over the Wolf's Run n Gun compared to the Naginata's Linked. So far I've always gone for the Linked. (Same reason why I routinely choose the Katana as my jack of all trades CAV) Hell, I'm still waiting on a scenario/game where I can properly field my pair of Falcons in the role they were MEANT to play. (That's what I get for falling in love with the model of a "support" CAV. Same thing happened to me in BT with the Catapult. )

 

By the way, are there even enough die hard M-T fans running around here to even be worried about the fruit throwing??

[Spartan6]

The Katana wasn't especially noteworthy. He got off a couple shots but more or less acted as a bullet catcher.

 

I've had great success in the past with the Wolf but I just asked them to do too much tonight. Two Naginata matched with two Wolves in a platoon works pretty well usually. The Wolves were just on the top of the box tonight, you know? The R-n-G capability of the Wolf should never be overlooked. It's more of an attack tank and the Naginata is more of a defensive tank.

 

Not having a T-bird along to lob those two IF shots every turn kind of hurt too.

 

The Terran Ministry of War should definitely put priority on Thunderbird and Starhawk VI production.

 

I've never been able to use a Falcon properly either but I think that has to do with my style. I'm much more Patton than Montgomery. My idea of a defense is an attack conducted in proximity to an objective that must be held.

[Crazy8]

Anytime I field a Falcon it always gets gunned at first. Granted I normally play the same person over and over so he knows the capabilities of the Falcon but even while I was teaching my little bro' over the holidays he was always sure to fire at "the thing with the big guns on its shoulders" first. One day I'll field a full platoon of Falcons just to prove it can be done!!

 

Your comment about the T-bird reminded me that another good tandem (staying in the spirit of mixing SyRaM and M-T units) is the Regent / T-bird duo. There is a lot of long range death that can be dealt out from those two and the Regent normally makes people think twice about trying to match long range shot for long range shot against the T-bird when the threat of Counter-battery is there.

 

A tactic that has worked reasonably well for me in the past is the Katana supporting a Hawk 6. R n G'ing a target with the 6 and backing that attack up with the Katana's Linked DA's is normally good for inflicting quite a few damage points. The 6 also tends to draw fire which helps the Katana stay around long enough to pull it's weight and then some.

[Crazy8]

I'm secure in my Terranhood.

 

Hear! Hear!

[Outkast Samurai]

It sounds like you could have really used the Regent insead of one of the Ronins to keep the counterbattery fire going. The extra points saved would have allowed you to upgrade two of the wolves to naginatas and still had some points then for a strike or two. Obviously this is strickly from a stats pov. Since you were going for a M - T heavy force why didn't you take a tsuiseki and kikyu instead of the two harpies? If you had changed the regent for one ronin, changed two wolves for naginatas you would have had the points to field those two. I was looking at M - T when looking at fielding Terran.

[Spartan6]

Since you were going for a M - T heavy force why didn't you take a tsuiseki and kikyu instead of the two harpies?

 

Because 'FUNk showed up just as I was starting to cook dinner and I'd made him wait long enough so I threw together a force in a couple minutes instead of really tweaking it.

 

Your comment about the T-bird reminded me that another good tandem (staying in the spirit of mixing SyRaM and M-T units) is the Regent / T-bird duo. There is a lot of long range death that can be dealt out from those two and the Regent normally makes people think twice about trying to match long range shot for long range shot against the T-bird when the threat of Counter-battery is there.

 

A tactic that has worked reasonably well for me in the past is the Katana supporting a Hawk 6. R n G'ing a target with the 6 and backing that attack up with the Katana's Linked DA's is normally good for inflicting quite a few damage points. The 6 also tends to draw fire which helps the Katana stay around long enough to pull it's weight and then some.

 

 

I like those... I'm stealing those ideas.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

I blame the Mitso-Ta crap I was running.

Tsk tsk tsk, blaming the tools Spartan?

 

Well played yourself! Even in tactical defeat Legionnaires are able to pull out the strategic PR victory!

Strategic PR victory??? He accepted defeat with a stiff upper lip, but the bottom line is, he got whooped by the Rach.

[Spartan6]

Tsk tsk tsk, blaming the tools Spartan?

 

 

If you read on you'll see I accept a lot of the blame.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

Oh I know, I was just givin' ya a hard time

[Spartan6]

Oh I know, I was just givin' ya a hard time

 

 

I expect nothing less. I'd be disapointed if you didn't.

[ReaperShaun]

Okay .. 'FUNk is gonna be on here tomorrow talking about how the Rach whooped the Terrans tonight. Well he did. I just wanted to post first and steal some of his thunder.

 

I fielded two Ronin, an Archer and a Katana in one platoon. 4 Wolves in another. A flight of Harpies and two heavy mortar teams.

 

'FUNk fielded a '70 Dictator, a Conqueror and 2 Despots in one platoon and 2 Tyrants and 2 Dominators(?) in another. He also had two Kharls.

 

I lost. I got outgunned by the frikkin' 70 Dictator using overdrive. My Harpies got shot down before they did much and my mortars didn't do as well as I would have liked even though they fired pretty accurately.

 

The battlefield was pretty wide open with lots of long shots available.

 

I blame the Mitso-Ta crap I was running. I seldom use the Mitso-Ta stuff and tonight I figured I would. I think my inexperience with it contributed to my loss. The Ronin, while a decent heavy CAV, just isn't the heavy hitter the Starhawk VI is. 'FUNk just had too much indirect of his own for me to sit back and pound him from range. I tried to get up in his grill early and pound it out but his indirect fire was just too accurate and the 70 Dictator on overdrive put paid to a couple CAV's.

 

I can blamestorm all I want really but the bottom line was I got whooped. I did take out a couple of his CAV's and damage a lot of other stuff pretty well but the Mitso-Ta CAV's just can't deliver a knockout punch like the 'Hawk VI can.

 

Lessons Learned:

1. M-T CAV's are best used in support of an attack spearheaded by SyRam CAV's.

2. Heavy mortar teams rock. AOE/3 and FRS..oh yeah baby.

3. Wolf tanks really need Naginatas along to supplement their ability to R-n-G.

4. I split my fire too much. I forgot one of my own rules about concentrating fire. Too much one on one fighting or two on one. Platoons exist for a reason, four on one is the way to go.

 

Thoughts:

M-T CAV's are jack-of-all-trades CAV's and they suffer for it. A CAV with either a lot of DF capability or IF capability is the way to go.

 

Okay, all you M-T fans can start hurling rotten fruit now. LOL I won't stop running them I'll just be more careful how I organize next time. 'FUNk had a good hard target killer platoon and a good IF platoon and it paid off.

 

Well played Rach.

 

 

 

Rach are born with Thunder. We need not gloat about our victories unlike the puny terrans. In all my battles I've never seen machinery sacrificed in such a manner. Unlike what the terran meatbag would like you to believe our forces never landed a single indirect shot. It was the constant bombardment of direct Missle Attacks that kept the sleek yet ineffective Mitso-Ta equpment at bay. Your armored units have been melted into soda cans and your captured pilots and WSO's were put across our childrens knees and given a spanking by thier equals. The discrased should be arriving in the legion hall shortly.

 

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Four more lessons Spartan should have learned

1. Always field a force with some Missle attacks. The only units that had them were his Harpies.

2. Never get up close and personal with Rach. Keep your distance. He is lucky I didn't engage him in close quarter hand to hand.

3.no matter how badly he looses the terran propoganda machine will always put a positive spin on things.

4. Using the same initiave cards over and over for years makes their backs worn.

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It was a well fought battle. I was quite surprised how quickly he was able to advance. Losses appeared even until around the fourth turn. The turning point of the battle was the 70 Dictator putting three tracks on a Ronin, three tracks on an Archer, and finishing off a wolf tank with one missle volley. Ive never used Overdrive to such a satisfactory degree. Spartan asked if it was worth it to damage my own unit. I told him that Ill trade two points for seven any day (return fire took me to my fourth damage track to my dismay). After that his force had taken so much damage he spent more time repairing that shooting. When he surrendered (Yes Crazy8 he surrendered) he had his infantry platoon, a katana, and a ronin still left. I was left with everything except a Tyrant and a Dominator which had fallen.

 

Good game Spartan6. It is nice to have a worthy foe in the galaxy.

 

All that is left to say is...

 

NOW SERVING NUMBER TWO. NUMBER TWO COME GET SERVED. NUMBER TWO... NUMBER TWO

[Saint of Sinners]

Or someone needs to roadtrip to Topeka to back up his boasts. I'm secure in my Terranhood.

 

I don't know... sounds like PreFunK would be more of challenge

 

Okay .. 'FUNk is gonna...

 

4. I split my fire too much. I forgot one of my own rules about concentrating fire. Too much one on one fighting or two on one. Platoons exist for a reason, four on one is the way to go.

 

 

 

Well played Rach.

 

This seems to be a recurring issue for issue for ya.

[Spartan6]

This seems to be a reacquiring issue for issue for ya.

 

 

You mean "recurring"?

 

 

I got over-confident and got spanked. Happens.

 

These are just the opening salvoes and ratcheting up of tensions. The war hasn't even started yet.

 

Terra lodged an official complaint with the Rach ambassador, not that it will do any good, about the incursion. The 101st Legion is on it's way to "stabilize" the situation.

[ReaperShaun]

 

Terra lodged an official complaint with the Rach ambassador, not that it will do any good, about the incursion. The 101st Legion is on it's way to "stabilize" the situation.

 

 

FYI- our embassador wiped his bum with your request and let it float in the camode.