DITL Battle #8 Comments Thread

[Mark]

Shouldn't be too hard to get a new Captain.

[stitch626]

[Lt. Staplic]

Sounds like a Plan

[Lt. Staplic]

Mark, Sonic, any names for your ships?

[Sionnach Glic]

Speaking of.......Rochey..................you gonna pick up the Paladin fight with Deep replacing Teaos?

Not for a short while, I'm afraid. The workload is increasing for the next few weeks for me.

[Captain Seafort]

Regarding the Borg idea that Stitch flagged up earlier, do we have any rules that can be applied to their specific abilities? I'm think specifically of their tractor beam shield-depletion trick and, depending on when the battle's set, their vulnerability to varying weapons frequencies. The latter might be dealt with by setting it during the later Voyager era, when it seems that the Borg had sufficient experience of Fed weapons that only brute force (Voyager increasing power to its phasers in Unimatrix Zero, Reed doubling the yield of the phase pistols) or a step change in weapons (transphasic torps) would have any effect.

[Deepcrush]

In First Contact we saw that UFP weapons (ship based) were able to harm the Borg. Phasers and PTs and QTs all caused damage to the Borg Cube.

[Captain Seafort]

True, but that cube had been in action for an unknown period of time from the Typhon boarder all the way to Earth. I consider the fact that it had lost shields and was suffering hull damage, even before Picard ordered concentrated fire, to be an example of brute force overwhelming its defences.

[Deepcrush]

Fair enough, point conceded.

[Captain Seafort]

I don't see a concession as being necessary - your example is an excellent demonstration of my point, so we're in complete agreement. Someone fetch the gaffer tape, quick!

[Deepcrush]

This is getting depressing... We've been agreeing to much lately.

[Captain Seafort]

The ISD is obviously a destroyer and not a cruiser. The Excelsior is a piece of shit. Happy?

[Deepcrush]

The ISD is obviously a destroyer and not a cruiser. The Excelsior is a piece of s**t. Happy?

England lost the Seven Years War and and the Colonials won every battle in the Revolutionary War with ease!

[Deepcrush]

Oh and by the way... they did it -

FOR THE EMPEROR!

[Captain Seafort]

England lost the Seven Years War

Really? The British Empire lost the war that established it as the foremost of the great powers?

the Colonials won every battle in the Revolutionary War with ease!

Including the ones where they ran away or sat by doing nothing while the French did the legwork?

C'mon Deep, you can do better than that. You could at least choose examples, as I did, where there's at least some evidence to support your opinion.

Oh and by the way... they did it -

FOR THE EMPEROR!

For the King-Emperor to be precise, although the title is a touch anachronistic for the period in question.