I was expected they would advance another ship for the prince to board. Would be interesting if they actually do something about him being around commoners. Im hoping the prince doesn’t make it tho 🙂 Breaking formation will show just how important those transports are 🙂
Show of force, morale, allows his best trained and equipped body guards to get in on the action, making the boarding quicker, and much more. There are ways to explain the risk. Just like that we can wonder why the fleet didn’t get in real close range with the dreadstorm with the starcaster. I would argue that the closer they are, the easier they can board the dreadstorm and get back. They could have been gone already. The angles for starcasting are also larger, making it more difficult to instantly destroy several ships. They could protect their prize better, with… Read more »
Most likely they expected the traitor to prevent the ship from putting up resistance ( which worked ) and didnt expect the distress call to go out that fast or federation to be able to respond that quick. Or their intelligence was a bit faulty and the federation dreadstorm where closer then expected.
A bit like the midway battle, the Japanese fleet didnt know their screening subs where delayed so in their mind the US carrier where still in pearl harbour. So no reason to not just do a 2nd strike on midway.
The Drang’Laex expressed some surprise about the traitor’s bomb, and didn’t seem to have any idea how or why it happened.
I don’t think the traitor was with them- I think he was either acting alone (some mistreated soldier mad at his government) or he was part of some third party that we haven’t seen yet.
I’m pretty sure they can guess why, just not the specifics. I don’t think the Dranglaex not knowing about the bomb means anything other than the spy not telling them about that, and that’s more likely an indication that they didn’t have too much communication back-and-forth. (Presumably just a one-way message like ‘Poorly guarded Starcaster over here.’) The traitor also wouldn’t have much reason to tell them about it, as they wouldn’t know if they would be able to pull off the bombing. (After all, they wouldn’t know when if and when the Dranglaex ambush might happen, and whether they… Read more »
Because imagine if one of his fellow soldiers decided to put it on themselves? I get a feeling their species is the type to be rather… Backstabby.
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Darkhorse
3 months ago
The evoc cruisers are the small green-brownish ones. They seem to focus on taking them down, leaving them with only the capital ships. Deliberate tactical decision, so they don’t have the smaller and presumably faster/more manoeuvrable ships? Targets of opportunity, killing the weakest easily? Or are the capital ships just so strong they aren’t lost yet?
could be the lancaster square principle (2 tanks are 4x stronger than 1 as it is both double the armour and weapons 3 tanks are 9x 1tank etc.) obviously thats thrown out of whack by bigger ships mean more armour+weapons but its provbably easier to reduce the incoming firepower by removing small targets first then hitting the big ones when firepower is overwhelmingly in your favour.
Matt N.
3 months ago
If I squint a lot the battle starts to look like Voltron 😂
James Rye
3 months ago
Bro, having an entire fleet cover one cruiser, the Feds gonna pounce on that opening for sure once their formation is broken. This seems like a really costly gained starcaster but if so then that must mean the starcaster is that much worth it.
One starcaster means “OK you obliterated one of our planets, but you’re SOL for 24-48 hours until the bearer recovers”. Two starcasters means “Man, you obliterated one of our planets and you got a 2nd loaded up to destroy any interception fleet” which is a totally different game.
Which brings back to the core issue: such a gamechanger weapon should be locked behind 3 layers of protection and only taken out in the most dire of circumstances, not be considered as equally important as Cort’s old pistol. This thing can kill millions in 30 seconds.
Unfortunately in a shipbased starcaster vs starcaster fight, the new game is rocket tag where the first one to fire instantly gives away their precise position in an escorting fleet due to the plasma streaming from their hand
Unless starcaster wearers have the unique ability to tank raw plasma return fire in high enough intensity to potentially take out a capital ship it’s a dangerous weapon to wield
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I was expected they would advance another ship for the prince to board. Would be interesting if they actually do something about him being around commoners. Im hoping the prince doesn’t make it tho 🙂 Breaking formation will show just how important those transports are 🙂
Yeah that’s the tricky part, protecting a small transport without giving hints that it’s important.
This is shaping up to be a disaster for the Dranglaex and the longer they stay the worse it’ll get
It was a bold risk for the prince which I understand him making, and it might still pay off a la Starcaster, but it’s cost them
But why did they prince fetch the starcaster himself?
Show of force, morale, allows his best trained and equipped body guards to get in on the action, making the boarding quicker, and much more. There are ways to explain the risk. Just like that we can wonder why the fleet didn’t get in real close range with the dreadstorm with the starcaster. I would argue that the closer they are, the easier they can board the dreadstorm and get back. They could have been gone already. The angles for starcasting are also larger, making it more difficult to instantly destroy several ships. They could protect their prize better, with… Read more »
Most likely they expected the traitor to prevent the ship from putting up resistance ( which worked ) and didnt expect the distress call to go out that fast or federation to be able to respond that quick. Or their intelligence was a bit faulty and the federation dreadstorm where closer then expected.
A bit like the midway battle, the Japanese fleet didnt know their screening subs where delayed so in their mind the US carrier where still in pearl harbour. So no reason to not just do a 2nd strike on midway.
The Drang’Laex expressed some surprise about the traitor’s bomb, and didn’t seem to have any idea how or why it happened.
I don’t think the traitor was with them- I think he was either acting alone (some mistreated soldier mad at his government) or he was part of some third party that we haven’t seen yet.
I’m pretty sure they can guess why, just not the specifics. I don’t think the Dranglaex not knowing about the bomb means anything other than the spy not telling them about that, and that’s more likely an indication that they didn’t have too much communication back-and-forth. (Presumably just a one-way message like ‘Poorly guarded Starcaster over here.’) The traitor also wouldn’t have much reason to tell them about it, as they wouldn’t know if they would be able to pull off the bombing. (After all, they wouldn’t know when if and when the Dranglaex ambush might happen, and whether they… Read more »
Because imagine if one of his fellow soldiers decided to put it on themselves? I get a feeling their species is the type to be rather… Backstabby.
The evoc cruisers are the small green-brownish ones. They seem to focus on taking them down, leaving them with only the capital ships. Deliberate tactical decision, so they don’t have the smaller and presumably faster/more manoeuvrable ships? Targets of opportunity, killing the weakest easily? Or are the capital ships just so strong they aren’t lost yet?
Probably the larger the ship the better the shields / defenses, or something along those lines
Could even be about leaving more optimal targets for the Starcasters to take out.
could be the lancaster square principle (2 tanks are 4x stronger than 1 as it is both double the armour and weapons 3 tanks are 9x 1tank etc.) obviously thats thrown out of whack by bigger ships mean more armour+weapons but its provbably easier to reduce the incoming firepower by removing small targets first then hitting the big ones when firepower is overwhelmingly in your favour.
If I squint a lot the battle starts to look like Voltron 😂
Bro, having an entire fleet cover one cruiser, the Feds gonna pounce on that opening for sure once their formation is broken. This seems like a really costly gained starcaster but if so then that must mean the starcaster is that much worth it.
One starcaster means “OK you obliterated one of our planets, but you’re SOL for 24-48 hours until the bearer recovers”. Two starcasters means “Man, you obliterated one of our planets and you got a 2nd loaded up to destroy any interception fleet” which is a totally different game.
Which brings back to the core issue: such a gamechanger weapon should be locked behind 3 layers of protection and only taken out in the most dire of circumstances, not be considered as equally important as Cort’s old pistol. This thing can kill millions in 30 seconds.
It’s a gamechanger weapon alright
Unfortunately in a shipbased starcaster vs starcaster fight, the new game is rocket tag where the first one to fire instantly gives away their precise position in an escorting fleet due to the plasma streaming from their hand
Unless starcaster wearers have the unique ability to tank raw plasma return fire in high enough intensity to potentially take out a capital ship it’s a dangerous weapon to wield
What does SOL mean?
S**t Out of Luck, sorry im from battle.net 1996 era!
That first panel… [Shudders at the rush of flashbacks to uncountable hours of High-Intensity Conflict Zone combat] 😣
What is it the kids these days would say…? “Tell me you’ve played Elite: Dangerous without telling me you’ve played Elite: Dangerous.”? 😏
o7 CMDR.