Combined Fleet Squadron #1 has fired its missiles. They will follow them in, to keep the Prix ship within Fire Control range.
Three missiles shot down by Point Defense, the rest started hitting... and then a size-26 internal explosion ripped the Prix ship apart. Target destroyed. Good job by the Fighters... our warships never came within firing range of the enemy.
Whats the situation on the second?
Congratulations on the victory blue emu!
Actually... by coincidence, the task force that he's closing in on is the one with both of the fast Rock-IIIs in it. 6500 kps instead of the usual 4000. I'm tempted to send them out ahead, and see if he wants to ram them. They've got twenty layers of armor... if he does ram them, his ship will probably fold up like a paper hat.
Another glorious victory Oh Almighty Emu! May all other primary colors tremble in fear of blue!
I assume we'll be collecting the wreck while our fighters are busy with the next ship, correct?
Really? I would have thought a ramming atack at these speeds would kill anything.
A ramming attack by a ship of that size will do about 150 points of damage... which will penetrate twelve layers of armor. The Rocks have sixteen, and the Rock-IIIs have twenty.
Three missiles shot down by Point Defense, the rest started hitting... and then a size-26 internal explosion ripped the Prix ship apart. Target destroyed. Good job by the Fighters... our warships never came within firing range of the enemy.
Well, there's also the fact that this was a single, unarmed ship instead of a Prix fleet that was firing backI'm glad the fighters got some action though.
The Prix in the Gliese 250 system killed that scout... I figured they would. It can't run from a 9615 kps opponent, and it can't fight without any weapons.
was it captained by an npc??
was it captained by an npc??
Yes. Most of our characters have moved up to armed ships of one sort or another.