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[GreatWyrmGold]

I'm not even in this game and I can tell you that it wasn't your ship that was destroyed.  It was the Thunderbird.

That's...not what I said. At all.

[Squeegy]

Cpt. darkpaladin109 boards the S.S. Juke. His escape pod crashes into the left hull, and he stumbles out, gravely wounded, into the critically damaged area, and promptly dies.

Turn 32: S.S. Emperor's Fire

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Spoiler: S.S. Dark Drake (ship 1) (click to show/hide)

Captain: WhitiusOpus
Health: 3
Redshirts: 1
Location: Bridge

Commander: TopHat
Health: 3
Redshirts: 0
Location: S.S. Emperor's Fire's right strut

Lieutenant-Commander: mastahcheese
Health: Dead

Lieutenant: Deathsword
Health: Dead

Intruder alert!
Commander: 10ebbor10
Health: 3
Redshirts: 4
Location: Right strut

Spoiler: S.S. Emperor's Fire (ship 2) (click to show/hide)

Lieutenant-Commander: RoaryStar
Health: Dead

Intruder alert!
Commander: TopHat
Health: 3
Redshirts: 0
Location: Right strut

Spoiler: S.S. Juke (ship 3) (click to show/hide)

Captain: darkpaladin109
Health: Dead

Commander: 10ebbor10
Health: 3
Redshirts: 4
Location: S.S. Dark Drake's right strut

Spoiler: Thunderbird (ship 4) (click to show/hide)

The Thunderbird is mere debris.

[WhitiusOpus]

And thus, the great star captain WhitiusOpus commented on the death of such a fine enemy.

"Lol" - Captain WhitiusOpus, June 11, 40556.

[10ebbor10]

Bugger.

[GreatWyrmGold]

The game seems to be just about over. We just need to wait for Whitius to kill ebbor (or the other way around, I guess) and then for TopHat to make his way to the bridge and destroy the Dark Drake (not likely to be the inverse).

[RoaryStar]

... Wow. That was...
Quick.

We were the most stable team until three turn ago, and now we just all died.

Me from being trolled,
DP from being trolled.

[Squeegy]

Fortunately, the Ramming speed! card has been removed from the version of the game I'll be running next, so there won't be any way to instantly destroy a ship like that, although I have to applaud their plan.

[10ebbor10]

The game seems to be just about over. We just need to wait for Whitius to kill ebbor (or the other way around, I guess) and then for TopHat to make his way to the bridge and destroy the Dark Drake (not likely to be the inverse).

The front hull is destroyed, and lasers are mostly gone. So it's quite unlikely that he'll blow up before I get at least a chance to teleport.

Edit: I found an error in the game. The ship's shields were still up. This means that it should have received 4 damage less, which would have allowed it to survive.

The exact same effect was seen in turn 2, after GWG rammed the other ship.

[EnigmaticHat]

I'm not even in this game and I can tell you that it wasn't your ship that was destroyed.  It was the Thunderbird.

That's...not what I said. At all.

Oh.  When you said "ship" twice I assumed you meant the same ship   I forgot that you like reincarnated or whatever.

[TopHat]

Edit: -snip-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Should have probably pointed that out earlier, I doubt we could go back 30 turns. Also, as all of the sections were damaged, not just the hull, it wouldn't necessarily have survived. Especially as the two ramming speeds dealt four damage to each section, most of which were already damaged.

Action:
Teleport back to the Dark Drake via the Fire's teleport chamber. Play Redshirt, Move to the teleport chamber, Fire Brigade the left hull, Plasma Grenade the right hull, Move to Engineering, Phaser the Teleport Chamber. With WhitiusOpus phasering the front hull, that should destroy the ship.
EDIT - Proviso - Just in case I land in the Right Pod, just play redshirt and hit Ebbor with all of my offensive cards and a phaser shot. Plasma grenade first.

[10ebbor10]

There was no error earlier. I merely pointed out that shields are shown to absorb damage from ramming attacks, and considering that the Thunderbird was at full health and full shields, it should have survived the incident.

[TopHat]

Ah. Still, the damage reduction would probably have been split between the 15 sections of the ship, each of which recieved 4 points of damage - enough to destroy them even if a point of damage had been removed. The only way it could have survived would be if a single hull section recieved 2 or more points of damage reduction. Unlikely with all 15 sections being hit.
EDIT - if I just calculated that correctly, and the chances of each section receiving the reduction is the same, that's a 2.43% chance that any given section will get 2 or more points of damage reduction. Roughly, that's a 9.7% chance that this would happen to any one of the hull sections, saving the ship. Not good odds.

[10ebbor10]

Somehow, I had the notion that each section had 4 Hp, not 3.

[Squeegy]

Welp, WhitiusOpus hasn't actually posted in the thread, but whatevs.

Cmdr. TopHat moves back to the teleport chamber and teleports to the Dark Drake. He arrives in the bridge and takes 1 damage for entering a critically damaged area. He then moves to the front hull, plays a Redshirt, and phasers the teleport chamber. He is out of movement for this turn.
Cpt. WhitiusOpus-- actually, I'm not even sure I can tell what WhitiusOpus wanted to do. Well, he plays Weapons Calibration, Overcharge, and Jamming pod on the S.S. Emperor's Fire. He also plays Heal on himself, to no effect. One shot hits the Fire's teleport chamber. He discards Evasive maneuvers. To avoid damaging his teammates, he does not phaser the front hull.

Turn 33: S.S. Juke

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Spoiler: S.S. Dark Drake (ship 1) (click to show/hide)

Captain: WhitiusOpus
Health: 3
Redshirts: 1
Location: Bridge

Commander: TopHat
Health: 2
Redshirts: 1
Location: Front hull

Lieutenant-Commander: mastahcheese
Health: Dead

Lieutenant: Deathsword
Health: Dead

Intruder alert!
Commander: 10ebbor10
Health: 3
Redshirts: 4
Location: Right strut

Spoiler: S.S. Emperor's Fire (ship 2) (click to show/hide)

RoaryStar's gently floating corpse is the only thing left in this wrecked ship.

Spoiler: S.S. Juke (ship 3) (click to show/hide)

Captain: darkpaladin109
Health: Dead

Commander: 10ebbor10
Health: 3
Redshirts: 4
Location: S.S. Dark Drake's right strut

Spoiler: Thunderbird (ship 4) (click to show/hide)

The Thunderbird is mere debris.

[10ebbor10]

I will move into the critically damaged left strut, place a forcefield over the right hull, play another redshirt and discard a plasma grenade.