[Traveller_TNE] Re: Banners

--- In , "Antony Farrell" <skaran@...> wrote:
>
> Ah yes the Ultimate Victory.
>
> A third battle with this super dreadnought took place in the
Helebore system
> (Helebore/Banners 1835). The Dreadnought being faced by the
outgunned fleets
> of a combined Alston League squadron. The dreadnought still
outmassed and
> outgunned the aliied force. The major defending units were the Cause
Rampant
> (aging AHL class), a Presidio class armoured missile cruiser (from
Delsun) a
> Tamarov class escort destroyer (ex Solomani ED-13 type) and 3 Alston
League
> Faversham class frigates. Oyher vessels were present but these were
the most
> important.
>
> Battle was opened with the allies launching a huge missile strike at the
> Ultimate Victory, the warheads would not touch the interior of the
> superdreadnought but might degrade sensors and fire control. The
barrage was
> not as successful as hoped, the varying equipment, fire directors, tech
> levels of missiles etc playing havoc with the attack. A number of
missile
> did manage to detonate and the x-ray lasers struck the hull of the
Ultimate
> Victory with out any apparent effect.
>
> The battle moves to its next phase the Delsun units led by the
Presidion and
> Tamarov class vessels engage the Ultimate Victory on one flank while the
> Cuase Rampant and the 3 Favershams engage on another. Now in this
fight one
> would still expect the Ultimate Victory to blow the other vessels to
atoms.
> Not so! Energy weapons beging peppering each other causing significant
> damage to the allies, but no actual ships are lost. Ultimate Victory
> concentrates its heaviest firepower on the Cause Rampant. A hit from the
> Superdreadnoughts spinal meson gun punches the meson screen of the Cause
> Rampant and totally destroys the Cause Rampants jump drive.
>
> The virus on the Ultimate Victory is obviously of the opinion that Cause
> Rampant is its greatest threat and largely ignores the Faversham
frigates
> and the Delsun vessels. Of which only the Tamarov with its meson gun
has any
> hope of causing damage to the interior of the superdreadnought. It is at
> that moment that fate interevenes (a botched dice roll) one of the
> Favershams with its popgun of a meson gun manages to get through the
> Superdreadnoughts meson screen. It causes no real damage to the ship but
> does result in the dreadnought having a power plant reset. While this is
> going on the Ultimate Victory's meson screen goes down and Cause Rampant
> lets her have it with hero own meson gun, now being overpowered. The
Cause
> Rampants shot detonates in the power plant of the Ultimate Victory
> effectively destroying it. With no power the Ultimate Victory is
drifting
> helpless and a combined Alston League/Delsun force board the ship to
deal
> with the virus.
>
> Final result no actual ships destroyed but most damaged badly. The Cause
> Rampant is trapped in the Helebore system without a functioning jump
drive
> and neither Alston or Delsun have the resources to repair it. The
Ultimate
> Victory is a powerless hulk, worth a great deal in salvage, but
Helebore is
> some distance from both the Alston League and Delsun Czarate. Its
jump drive
> might be capable of being cannibalised to make the Cause Rampant jump
> capable again, but it is a long project to carry out so fare from
home. The
> Czarate
>
> Forces in the Battle vs ex-Solomani superdreadnought Ultimate Victory
> (Ultimate Victory class)
>
> Task Force 10
> Cause Rampant (Azhanti High Lightning class frontier cruiser)
> FF-05 Faversham (Faversham class frigate)
> FF-07 Manfred (Faversham class frigate)
> FF-09 Clarikson (Faversham class frigate)
>
> Task Force 11
> Czar Nicolai (Presidio class cruiser)
> Myrial class corvette
> Myrial class corvette
> Myrial class corvette
>
> Task Force 12
> Tamarov class escort destroyer
> Crysanthemum class destroyer escort
>
> It was at this point that the campaign went into a rest phase. It
will rise
> again however.
>
> Antony
>
> > -----Original Message-----
From: Richard Perks
Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2007 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Banners was RE: [Traveller_TNE] New poll for
> > Traveller_TNE
> >
> >
> > Antony
> >
> > I enjoyed your banners campaign, but the campaign with that
> > solomani dreadnaught just seemed to stop - what happened?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Richard
>
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