Geoschmo vs Alneyan, turn 2407.8
The war draws near to a close as things go very badly for the Arcadian League. The Astralis fleet entered the Arcadian home system and utterly destroyed over 60 warships defending the warp point, suffering only minor damage to several ships and the loss of a single minesweeper. The loss of the minesweeper will delay the final assault on the Arcadian homeworld for a couple months. The Imperium has received preliminary communications about a possible surrender, so the delayed assault may in the end be uneccesary. Time will tell.
Even if the Acardian government is unaware of the futility of continued struggle, their ships crews appear to have lost all hope of victory. Analysis of the massive battle at the Juprup warp node this month showed that despite a superiority in numbers of ships, and weapons damage potential, and despite having the advantage of a defensive posture on the warp node, the Arcadian ships were almost uniformly inaccurate in their fire. Interrogations of the few surviving captured crewmen indicates that the League has had to resort to mass conscription to fill their crew billets and have been forced to send ships to battle undermanned and almost completely untrained. Add to this the complete lack of any electronic warfare components and it is no suprise the disparity in damage inflicted between the two forces.
The Arcadians do show a great level of courage and signs of clever strategy. The Imperium believes they were fortunate to have met the League in a state of unpreparedness, or the results would have been far different.
EDIT: Oh, hey!
I guess I spent too long typing that.
Thanks. Good game to you too. Was in doubt for quite a while there.
[ September 24, 2003, 14:26: Message edited by: geoschmo ]