Played a Convoy scenario with Dreamshift from the DW forums. The super convoy scenario with shared AA/CC splittable across all attacks in an activation. He took FSA vs French escorting the convoy. Unfortunately he designed his force to be heavy on rockets and, ok on boarding, plus he set up his slower units abreast the tale of the convoy. So despite having amazing luck he was out of contention by the end of turn two.We added larges to the scenario. His attack carrier and Liberty were blocked and jammed up. His Valley was really threatening to take out a hurting La rochelle when i got a Sturginian flare Crit and it ended up alive--barely, (but with rockets, bombs and a full crew) and facing the wrong way- That ended it.
Some highlights
He attacked the La Rochelle with most of his fleet, over two turns. Eventually putting 6 HPs on it, 1 at a time. It was saved by the attack described above by my Cherbourg, scoring only a single HP with 17 AD but I used the Pin Point MAR to change an 11 to a 12 crit effect (recent consensus on forums is that you can do that). The massive attack by three Ecyuer cruisers and a Q-ship at RB1/2 did only 2 HP. Hmph!
On the first FSA attack he sank one merchant with his Guilford Destroyers-not his intent. He gets 1/2 VP for sinking and double for prizing.
Later his damn San Francisco took a RB3 shot at Rouseau and doubles cirted it 4 HP/ 2 Ap lost with Half AD Crit, just before it was going to clobber his wounded Valley.
My squad of three Dieppe's ran into the teeth of his fleet, damaged the Liberty, sank a Lexington and left derelict a wounded merc Minerva- his five AP took out 9 of the fifteen attackers- lots of sixes.
Two Lyons Frigate saved the Dieppes for a turn by driving between and using every weapons on his squad of Scutims killing three , which then broke-
So frustrating game for me as my attacks often under-performed with some timely unsexy successes, and his often went nuts- many, many, many 6s. But I did just enough and his Focussing on the La Rochelle, his positioning (he placed an island that split his forces and gave me cover from his HBB and attack Carrier, meant he could catch the convoy to capture it.
Next game on the 29th- The Black Fire scenario- Oil Rigs and Merchants- updated for Version 2.0 from the old Operational Assets Orbat.
