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Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 9:52 pm Posts: 4598 Location: Suffolk, UK.
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Had a great day today, out in Saxmundham at a mates, for a mammoth session of BFG...
We played my Imperials against his Chaos, Surprise Attack on an 8' by 4' table. Michael was the defender, and his fleet included his Ramillies!! ? - Somewhat scary as those of you who have played against them will know!!
We used fleets of around 3500 pts, and he rolled up an extra 340pts worth of planetry defences, buying 3 fire ships, and some torp and lance platforms too!! The Ramillies was placed in orbit of the planet, in the middle of the table, which was also ringed by planetry defences and loads of ships on standby... Two Slaughters were active, below the planet, closest to my chosen table edge.
I attacked from one end of the table with the Slaughters nearest, hoping to rush them, and then go at the Ramillies, and the two Despoilers docked with it (!), damaging it a bit with nova cannons and then broadsiding it in passing....
Anyway, things did not go quite to plan, as you might imagine! I split my fleet into three distinct chunks- 1). My two battleships, some swords and a Tyrant, 2). Some LCs and cobras, along with several cruisers, and 3). a final section of two cruisers and some swords and cobras....
My third section swept off left, behind an asteroid field to shield them form the Ramillies, the battleships advanced up the centre, supported by a Gothic, and the second lot went to the right, to start a bombardment of the many ships stationed around the planet....
The first turns firing was pretty pitiful, my 3 novas doing alright, but only managing to take a few shields down on the Ramillies, and cause 1pt of damage IIRC.... ?I also managed to destory one Slaughter that was active, and cripple the other.
On Michaels first turn, with an inspired set of dice rolling, he managed to get virtually all his fleet active, bar two cruisers and an escort squadron.... Most of his fleet then advanced towards mine, with some holding position around the planet.
The crippled Slaughter got a few shots off, and managed to destroy a Sword, with the help of a lance platform. I seem to remember the Ramillies also did a bit of firing in this turn, but nothing too spectaculer happened.....
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Right- more tomorow- I'm rather tired right now.........
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