Hehe. Yeah. I've just researched shield tech high enough to open the area.
Thing was, my plan called for the ES&DS to strip an
unarmed Drednaught of shields, then take out the SDD & crew. Didn't work out quite that way
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I didn't actually lose any ships, the ones that spun off burning all had 92% damage and were ignored by the DN in favour of the livelier ships. Something like 50 hitpoints remaining on 4 LCs.
Quite a display as the ships struggled to get home on 1 movement. The Jreanar sent in 1000 kT carriers, and the Phong had 7-stacked DNs, The Jreanar countered with 9-stack DN & wreckage was everywhere
I just layed down mines as I went and hoped that they would be able to disable any ships that decided to attack me. Nobody did, but man was there ever a lot of fighting going on
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BTW, after that battle, I took a detour on the way home and capped me a Gas giant colonizer with some sweet engine tech
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[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 25 April 2001).]