There are three battles in this video batrep. Here they are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCfg...ature=youtu.be

I feel his pain regarding the mines. My last round was against a Dominion fleet similar to his first round, but they were loaded with three! mines, and it's just devastating. Kills your actions, kills your formations, kills your shields.

Nice, I was waiting to see your report for this one K-BoP.


Strategy question for you, I got the impression that your strategy was to just destroy you opponent and for the most part ignore the planet (or at least that's what I got out of the vid)......was that intentional from the fleet building point or was that also situational and you thought that was the way to go when you saw your opponents?

Any things you'd change if you played it again? (other then the mines, of course )



I ask because I'm considering taking a D7 swarm (5 ships, I think) with the idea that I could/should have lots of actions for the planet and still be capable in the ship combat aspect.

I chose to ignore the planet because it was my intent to destroy my enemy in space.

I would not take generic captains again. My starships were often destroyed before they could fire.

I don't think that this is a game for swarms. I like swarms and play TIE swarms exclusively in X-Wing, but this game is very different. Damage output far exceeds that of X-Wing and generic ships are too quickly destroyed.

The cloaked mines definitely hurt you a ton. Any damage that can get by without needing to roll defense dice in this game is huge. Since you were cloaked there wasn't any shield to soak up those damages.

The one swarm I played against had five ships, one was Donatra on a D7, Gowron on the IKS Groth, and 3 Generic D7's (And some crew upgrades threw around) it was good at taking the planet as my three ship build couldn't keep up with that. But I did lay out two mines and it basically forced his hand on where he was going to go.

The "generic" captains are good for making your opponent bump into you, but unlike in Star Wars, in Trek they captain can still fire at that ship he/she is touching so the only thing that's really good about bumping in this game is removing the ability for a ship to lose it's action and maybe breaking it's formation.

I went with Romulan this month as they are my favorite ships, and it did not disapoint. I still have one more venue, maybe two to attend for this months ship. I'm not as impressed with the Romulan ship as I was the Ch'Tang, but some of the upgrade cards are really nice.

Good video I might have to decide to do something like that eventually!

For the most part, that's my thinking as well (and certainly is the word going around)............that's why I was looking at this scenario specifically to give it a chance as with the ability to throw 5 actions at the planet early on might be enough to win that quick and might make it a bit more viable overall.

I figured I'd try to run a few different fleets to see how they play.

Seeing as conquering the planet gives you a bonus towards your overall points, I'm surprised the planet wasn't a priority.

In my first game the planet was in contention for a long time - we traded guys - then he got on a hot streak and I got wiped out fast.

In the second game, it was a stalemate on the planet.

In the third, I was able to conquer it with the final action - to get my bonus point.

Cloaked mines will be really nasty against close-formation strategies as they will deal a lot of damage to the whole team.

It should be interesting in Month 4.

I took the planet in each round of our event. It was key to my second-place finish after going 2-1 (my second round opponent straight up outplayed me...still a close game, but he outplayed me).