Played against Chris last night in my first official trial of a fleet list for Adepticon. I took:
Hydra = 170 pts
4x Chironex
- Difficult Target = 240 pts
3x Makalu = 180 pts
4x Sulan = 240 pts
4x Frigates = 80 pts
6x Corvettes = 90 pts
As you can see, it's heavy on cruisers and has no SRS.
I don't have Chris' complete list, but I know he had:
1 Apollo Battleship
1x Palisade Battle Station
3x Artemis Destroyers
3x Defense Platforms
4x Pilgrim Frigates
4x Pilgrim Frigates
4x Missionary Frigates
We played the Hold the Waypoints scenario.
Chris created a bunker behind his waypoint with the Palisade, Destroyers, and Defense Platforms towards his left and deployed the rest of his fleet to his right, facing off against my Chironex, Sulan, and Frigate squadrons. My waypoint was about center of my deployment zone and I set up my Battleship and the Makalu directly behind it, with the Makalu broadside facing Chris. My corvettes were placed to zip up on Chris' left to take advantage of a planetoid's grav assist on that side of the table (a move I'd later regret). The only thing held in reserve were Chris' Missionary Frigates, which didn't get to shunt in until Turn 4.
I'll spare you the play by play. In short, the Apollo died by the end of Turn 2 thanks to combined Grav, Beam, and Torp salvoes from all three cruiser squadrons. A lucky crit at the start of Turn 1 which took down the Apollo's PD helped a lot. From there it was a slog of killing Terran Frigates as the Aquans moved in on the Palisade and Destroyers. If this had been an actual tourney, the smart move would have been to pull back and camp on my waypoint since I was out of the Effective range of the surviving Terran forces, but I was in a killin' mood. That gave the Terrans the opportunity to kill a Makalu and reduce both the Sulan and Chironex squadrons to 50%. Running the corvettes up also exposed them to the fighter wings from the defense platforms, which proceeded to kill a Corvette a turn until they were reduced to below 50%.
Definitely some bad luck for Chris losing the Apollo so quickly. His usual dice witchery also failed him while mine was in full effect. A great game overall and Chris made some good suggestions for improving the list.
I believe Chris' impression of the list can be summed up with the following.
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