So, got in another Attack Wing game... Ran:
Negh'Var (Martok, Negh'Var Photon Torpedo)
Koraga (Worf, Concussive Blasts, Advanced Weapon System)
Somraw (Koloth)
So, all fairly high Captain skills and Martok makes for a very vicious and aggressive force giving out free actions and generally attacking first with the most firepower. did learn to my dismay that not all ships HAVE a rear firing arc, specifically the Negh'Var :-)... Would have cloaked rather than target locking the enemy Cruiser at one point when I overran his position and lined up for a great rear arc shot thinking apparently I was in a K'Tinga or K'Vort class ship... Oops. Plus side, he only had a Dorsal Array to fire at me so 3 dice, and I had shields until his Battleship also fired :-) Wound up not taking too much damage to learn that valuable lesson... The Somraw was almost completely useless. It did dodge the Dominion's Energy Damper or whatever they tried to use, but the less subtle approach of "Just shoot it with the damn Battleship" worked just fine. So, the lighter, obsolete "escort" type ships really need to be more to the outside flanks of the battle. And while I have heard some call the Cloaking device something of a "Crutch" for players, I see it as being something the Klingons really do need, at least at my low level of the game. Thinking the K'Tinga class "Kronos One" replaces the Somraw and it more or less becomes the third point on a triangle there to be the rear guard and probably snipe away in the "3" range bracket. Yes, management of a "fleet" is somewhat difficult, but I do think I can... Just getting all the toys I want on the 3 ships is going to be impossible at 100 points :-)... I do think that 3 ships is the sweet spot for me the way I play, 2 ships I would find limiting and have to load on so many extra things that I would just be concerned about the "oops I lose" sort of bad luck where with more ships I think I can at leas mitigate that a bit. Beyond 3 I see it getting too crowded, not many heavy hitters in there, so the swarm of man, but equally bad ships I think loses in the longer run to a well balanced approach as the edge ships can be taken apart one at a time and maneuver becomes crowded to the point of killing actions that are needed to survive... May end up with 2 unnamed ships and likely the Koraga as my fleet... Seems to be VERY much my style of ship, the K'Vort class...
So, all in all I am extremely happy with the Star Trek Attack Wing game... Is close enough to Starfleet Battles that it is interesting and engaging for me without bogging down in the minutia that seemed to define SFB in the ancient times when we played it... Though that might just have been the old group I played with :-) Including several Accountants, actual Lawyers (as opposed to Rules Lawyers), Scientists and a few of us Engineer types... Well, it was pretty complex... :-) Leave it at that...
Got in a Kill Team match as well... Quick. Felt kind of bad as I felt that I really inadvertently tailored my force to just with the Scenario and max out my points for the League... Didn't, had no clue what the missions were really, just my Crimson Fists have always been pretty "Scout" heavy to satisfy the minimum Troop requirements in 5th edition, and as the Sniper Scouts are "OK" these days, never bothered to make any Tactical Squads... The mission being "Rush the Camp" or some such, I got a point for every model of mine that left the field by his table edge, he got one point for every three of mine he killed... Well, the 5 Scouts loaded up in a Land Speeder Storm meant that going first and despite not being able to Turbo Boost, well... It was pretty much a forgone conclusion against a Tau force that set up spread out, but concentrated on the opposite Flank as my main force... So, FAR less engaging than STAW for me, and frankly I felt like I was pretty much just going through the motions. 500 point "Apocalypse" Kill Team game next week... Guess we'll see... Annoying that the STAW group has an event on that Sunday I'd rather I think go to, but one night/week being the upper limit for gaming with the reality of Family life and my amazing wife ho puts up with my annoying gaming and "just a few" models and such in the basement of doom :-)...
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