[jim]

Thank you!

I want to relate a quick, er, "close encounter" I just had with your Colonials. High Diff, Low Bonus, non-Gold TDM.

They started in an adjacent system, and soon declared war on me. I saw a fleet coming at me, and went to meet it. It was still fairly early, about Turn 30 - 35.

My fleet was a mix of Frigates and Destroyers. No shields, but PDIII and PDIV. My ships were all mixes of CSMs + PDs, in various combos. A ruin had yielded CSM III, so I thought I'd get an easy win. I had a slight #s advantage, but I saw that the Colonial fleet included one or two light carriers.

Stunned by the result, I went to replay the battle.

The CV had launched fighters in Groups of 15 and also a couple CSM Is. The other ships launched CSM Is and closed with DUCs.

They all had the same time on target!

My guys toasted a bunch of fighters, killed a couple ships, and damaged a couple more, but got slaughtered to the Last ship!

I must have watched that replay - in awe and disbelief - at least 5 times!

Well done! And thanx for the experience!