Battle of Charmath

[nosyone]

I just started playing a SWR game to see how many big battles I can have before I oliterate IMP-22's command ship not too long ago, and one of my first battles was at Charmath. Now, that's obviously not the story.

 

In that battle, I had three task forces of Nebulon-B Frigates plus a corellian gunship, 2 X-Wing Squadrons and 2 A-Wing squadrons.

 

They had a small task force of Vicstars, a task force of imstars and Dreadnaughts, and one of carracks and more vicstars/impstars and an interdictor. They also had hordes of TIE Defenders, Fighters, Interceptors(sp?) and Bombers. Their fleet was undoubtedly more powerful than mine, but I decided to go out in a blaze of glory.

 

I started off well, and took out all but their defender and interceptor squadrons, losing my four in the process. As the Capital ships neared, I paused and reassigned, deciding if I'm gonna let some get away after my fleet is destroyed they might as well be fighters. I decided to take them one ship at a time, assigning all task forces to one. Then I got an Idea. I first would take them down so that they're just pieces of junk, but not gone. So I took several Impstars and Vicstars, destroying a carrack and Dreadnaught in the process. I had the interdictor down to no weapons when the remaining Impstars turned around, the TIEs returned to hangars and the Defenders rushed to the edge of the battle. The Interdictor was still partly functional, and slowly made its way to the edge of the map as well, under heavy turbolaser fire as it fled. Before I knew it, the remaining impstars and Vicstars exploded.

 

"The Imperial fleet is withdrawing-We've won!"

 

So that's my new strategy for taking on fleets more powerful than mine. I had 4/5 of my fleet operational and undamagedat the end, they had just one ship over half, and less than half of their fighters. What do you think of my strategy?

[Lord_La_forge]

So I took several Impstars and Vicstars, destroying a carrack and Dreadnaught in the process.

 

Huh? How did you manage to destroy STD's with nebulons? Even 1 STD and 1 VSD must have destroyed your 3 Nebs..

[nosyone]

3 Neb taskforces, not just Neb-Bs. They were large taskforces, mind you. roughly 7-11 ships each. But still, had I used a normal strategy I wouldn't have won, given there were about 5-9 much more powerful ships in each of their task forces.

 

And I didn't destroy the SDs, just fired on them until their stats were all down to 0, I didn't try to destroy them because it takes about 30 seconds after that to destroy them, time for the remaining 20 SDs to destroy more of my 30 Neb-Bs, which I need because this force is defending one of the most important sectors I have.

[Lord_La_forge]

Oh, I see. I usually attack one ship too, but still: if they are stronger, normaly they win the battle. The computer uses similar strategies too. They attack the strongest ships first. Perhaps you won the battle, because some ships were slower, so the opposite fleet scattered a bit, and you could deal with them one-by-one with your nebs. I used to do this sometimes.

[nosyone]

That, too. But this person seemed to keep from fleeing too much, so it was doubly surprising when he withdrew, especially since I was firing on the interdictor when he fled. I had no intention to withdraw, but he's pretty good at noticing those things. So it was very surprising.

[Lord_La_forge]

Random based human reaction No clue. The AI does things like this rarely (or never).

[nosyone]

Just used this at Coruscant against the real IMP-22 (What I call the AI so I can say 'he' not those 4-letter they-based words). I won, but I forgot to load my fleet with the tons of liberator cruisers, X-wings, B-wings, Y-wings and A-wings I had ready in another fleet. He started with 7 ISDs, an interdictor, 7 VSDIIs, tens of fighter squadrons, a carrack and a dreadnaught. I started with 8 Assault frigates, 4 gunships, 4 corvettes, and 2 Mon Cals. He escaped with an escort carrier. I finished with everything, but all my Mon Cals lost all their value. I didn't save after, so I'm going back and doing things a little differently. First, I'm sabotaging those gencores he built in four days with his fancy advanced construction yards. Then, I'm adding my liberators and fighters to the fleet. Then, I'm running recon with a gunship and moving in if I see fit.

[XeqtR]

yeah but when u select your task force to attack capital ships using the "missions" button they will automatically target the most powerfull enemy capital ship and attack it at once ...

[nosyone]

But I just wanted them to attack a capital ship. The same one. Not the most powerful or anything. Besides, a lot of them were equally powerful, and at the beginning I did that and they all targeted different ones, so I did it manually. When I select 'target this capital ship", they target it and attack it at once, too, WITHOUT me having to reassign the rest of the task forces from the ship they self-targeted to the one the first one did.

 

 

The point of this strategy, I'm not sure if I made it clear enough, was not to destroy the most powerful ships. It is to reduce their ships, not to the point of destruction, but to the point where there is no gun power, no hyperdrive, no shield recharge, no shield, no tractor and no sublight. The order to withdraw automatically destroys the ships with these ratings.