Nation War

ORE of UIT brought out their Trident Type-M today, complete with four gunners. The battle ended with a showdown between the UIT Trident and four members of the Grey Team. The Grey Team prevailed, and split the 10M prize three ways (one of them was destroyed in the blast when the Trident exploded earlier than anticipated).

Grey
Footballprophet
Landoria (survived)
Maalik, &c. (survived)
Pirren (survived)
Rin Ganborro
tristen1229

Itani
>:3
ARF_01
Ipslet
Plozi
Tonemaster

Serco
agarn
Dizkonnekted

UIT
BitMoose
Conflict Diamond
Ermete Pisolazzi
oldbird
Ostan Basha
Pills Buryman
Taal Tarang

Wins
Itani 85
Serco 41
UIT 85
Grey 40
Rainbow 1

Basic Rules
Only those who are on-time are allowed to participate.
Participants must be on their nation's team unless they can make a claim to be unaligned in which case they may choose to fight for Grey.
Valkyries may not be used this week.
You may not start fighting until the host signals the start of the battle - this includes the 15 minute period prior to the planned starting time.
You may not return to the battle sector after you have left except to observe from a healthy distance in a bus.
No running from the asteroid field.
The last team standing wins.

Nice to see the trident flying very noticeably under human control. Too bad you can't put AI controlled capgauss on it.

What was fun was quietly prepping the ship and assembling the crew, sneaking thru the Latos/Sedina WH while LNH and Pirren were busy in Latos H2, and hiding out until the 2 minute warning...

Sadly, shock & awe was short lived...

I had armed a teller-Ulam mine, so all I could do in the battle was face my turrets toward enemies. The damage update bug (I exploded with 50% hull showing on my health bar) robbed me of my last planned moves: to launch gunners as fighters and repair, to deploy the nuke, and failing all else, to /explode...

Kudos to Maalik for the killshot.

It was more a bother to lose 4x N3 turrets, meek as they are, than the ship. To be even remotely combat effective, there needs to be better turret weaponry (such as the cap gauss turrets) and more normal ports (say 2 lg + 2 sm to try it out? at least then I can mine as well as my rag setup ;)

Anyway, I knew it was a one-way trip. Glad to give the NW gang something new. I had a blast!

Too bad you can't put AI controlled capgauss on it.

+1

What was fun was quietly prepping the ship and assembling the crew, sneaking thru the Latos/Sedina WH while LNH and Pirren were busy in Latos H2, and hiding out until the 2 minute warning...

Yes, I was surprised to see you on NW, but when I saw Nation War participants, I understood it's the best chance for THC and CHRN to destroy your trident and we made the job done. Thanks for fun, I hope you will be rewarded for your brave heart.

It was more a bother to lose 4x N3 turrets, meek as they are, than the ship. To be even remotely combat effective, there needs to be better turret weaponry

I was piloting Corvus Marauder Mercenary with light setup, maybe that's because N3 turrets wasn't able to hit me even once and I dodged all the shots while staying under heavy fire. Maybe capital gauss could be more effective.. We need more fighting tests. I hope devs will give us a chance.

Anyway, I knew it was a one-way trip. Glad to give the NW gang something new.

yarr!!

If it wasn't for that bug UIT would probably have won this one. A TU mine will 1-shot kill most anything with less armor than a valk or WTD.

That assumes you actually hit anybody with it. The splash radius is 550m. Anybody further than that would be safe. I was within range at the time she died, but I don't know if anybody else was. I certainly intended to get farther back after she deployed the four gunners and to continue the fight from a distance from then on, to avoid the splash if she self destructed. So if she followed the sequence she outlined, the TU probably wouldn't have gotten me. The fighters might have though, as I was down to around 7% health or so.

I had a blast!

Hehe. Blast. :p

Wish I could've come.

Anyone within energy weapons range of hitting the trident would have been caught in the TU blast. That combined with the explosion of the trident itself and the 4 gunners undocking and entering the fight with full health and ammo could have made a big difference.

It's easy enough to test, ARF, if CD is game. How much do you want to bet that I couldn't hit the trident without getting killed by the mine?

Wish I could've come.

Come this week.

I hope devs will fix insurance for CDs cappy and he will be able to take his trident this NW.

Anyone within energy weapons range of hitting the trident would have been caught in the TU blast

I don't know who is "anyone", because my energy weapons were bombing CD out of tella ulam range.

How much do you want to bet that I couldn't hit the trident without getting killed by the mine?

Maalik, I think ARF's jealous you did final blow without his help.

Energy range (besides plasma) = 500-700m depending on your velocity and the velocity of the weapon in question. TU mine range is 550m.