TDM vs P&N

[Story Junkie]

2420.3:
A total of seven ships managed to escape through the warppoint to Albireo. Two support escorts, the construction ship, the surviving Hummer, the two somewhat intact Furies and the Phoenix.

Reserve forces have been pulled in from all across the starsystem, leaving the Auriga warppoint woefully unprotected from a known Vaxin-colonized system.
Only a handful of ships couldn't make the rendezvous at the Tyrik warppoint, and so the gathered population is a hefty 41 personnel.
Three fresh Furies are here, along with one damaged and two crippled. We have two hummers, one of which has a lost its sensor jamming armor plate.
The escort fleet from the Auriga warppoint numbers 20, of which only four have direct-fire weapons installed.
The remaining non-combat craft are three supply scouts, the builder, three factories, and six transports.

2420.38:
The fleet has now waited almost a month, and no attack has come.
A hastily constructed probe is being sent through the warppoint, and will hopefully give us some decent intel on the Vaxin before it is destroyed.

2420.4:
The probe has returned to report roughly 20 Vaxin ships scattered across the system.
With a temporary reprieve, and the reinforcement Furies gathered, the escorts have been returned to their post at the Auriga warppoint.

With the support of the warppoint bases, Phoenix has been fully healed in an incredibly short time.
Since our forces are strong again, and the Vaxin scattered, we will be returning to the Tyrik system!

Phoenix shall lead nine furies against the Vaxin warfleets, while another military outpost is prepared for Tyrik VIII.

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PS @ Alpha Kodiak.
> "Yee-haw! Now I can get my pom-poms out again."
Nyah, Nyah. Phoenix just won't stay defeated

[Wardad]

This is General GUTBLUBBER. Hope is not lost. We have a large fleet of UBER ESCORTS headed your way. ETA is... well.. the End of the Game or BEYOND!!!

BTW: We changed tactics slightly. It seems every jack man of us volunteered to board those Vixen ships.


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The Stuper Guiness

[Alpha Kodiak]

Vaxin High Command:

We have them exactly where we want them! They believe that we do not have a focused plan. Soon, they will make their fatal mistake!

[Story Junkie]

2420.5:
Phoenix's fleet intercepted a pair of Vaxin cruisers this month.
As the Furies approached, the Cruisers opened fire with a mysterious new weapon. Phoenix's shields were rapidly failing, and it took the combined fire of the entire fleet to destroy the Vaxin cruisers in time.

This only underscores the precarious nature of our predicament.

Engineers have finally completed the designs for a massive resource converter. The first prototype facility should be operational within three months, and though it will be far from the maximum theoretical efficiencies, it should allow us to resume full production.

[ 13 April 2002: Message edited by: Story Junkie ]

[Wardad]

More please. How does it end?

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Good flute, good sax, and a warm place for fiddlin

[Suicide Junkie]

I do not know how it will end yet, because my game is currently on turn #56.
I have all scores shown, and the Vaxin are pretty darn powerful.
They have high tech, a large economic base and intel on their side.
I have tactical combat, a few allies (minor help economically) and micromanagement on my side.

[Story Junkie]

2420.7:
Tyrik is a busy place. The furies have attacked and defeated a number of solo Vaxin warships as they buzzed around the system.
Amidst the great numbers of wrecked and drifting ships, four Vaxin cruisers have managed to slip past the furies, and are heading for the Albireo warppoint. They are too far ahead for the Furies to catch in time, but military command believes that the current warppoint defenses will be sufficient.

The defense bases at the warppoint will not be completed until year's end, but there are four Canadian warships finishing repairs there, as well as a few of the recently approved BLast-U class remote-detonation Cobalt Warheads. Anything that survives the BLast-Us should be easily handled by the ships.

2420.8:
Surprisingly, the Vaxin ships turned away from the warppoint, and attacked the Furies pursuing them.
The Cruisers were carrying the new weapon seen before, but they were vastly outnumbered. One Fury took serious armor damage, and will take three months to regrow.

Our economic situation has stabilized now, although productivity is still low. Two new projects have been squeezed into the budget:
First, an expedition into Phong territory. One of the planets in an outlying system has aroused suspicion among the locals as being haunted. A number of ships have been dispatched to prevent further contamination of the site, and a scientific colony ship is being prepped for launch.
Second, funding has been approved for the rebuilding of our Tyrik bases. Before any construction in Tyrik commenses, scout ships will be scattering contact mines throughout the system to shield our construction workers.