Brad firing on my Epicurus. Again. |
Brad ended up taking a heavy air Japanese force with 2 Sky Fortresses and a skyship of some variety (like a battleship equivalent). He also had some small flyers which ended up actually taking my seriously damaged Epicurus as a prize!
He also had two groups of frigates, which we discovered are amazing in his army! They pump out a lot of dice. His cruisers are somewhat lack-lustre though and we ended up taking care of them fairly easily. He also had a battleship lurking in the back which surprised us at how decent it was. To round out the rest of his list he had a squadron of 2 bombers (which took some early fire but managed to seriously hurt my Pericles carrier before it teleported behind 'Monkey Island') and a squid to round out the list.
Frigates lining up the shot. |
I took my Aristotle battleship, which did quite well when it surfaced in front of the squid to open up with a particle accelerator. With 4 turrets in decent rangebands I can see why folks feel it's an essential part of a CoA fleet, especially if you give it 3 Galen escorts!
I also had a Pericles lurking in the back supporting with drones, put Brad managed to push my left flank early on with his mac-truck Frigates supported by bombers, so I teleported it out with the Callimachus Orb I took.
The Pericles taking refuge behind 'Monkey Island' after being teleported there by the Orb. |
I also had the obligatory Plato cruisers which are tough and great in close rangebands although I do wonder at their point cost as with Inventive Scientists they are the same points as Icarus which seem far better! I had 2 of them too but would like to round them out to 3.
A picture of the right flank into the middle board. Lots of airships as you can see. |
All in all I think Brad had it, though we could only play 2 rounds. Everything of mine was pretty damaged and my drones were starting to lose their power due to damage on the carriers. With the Epicurus prized he had double VP on that ship, though I could have tried to take it back with the Icari I think I would have had a hard time doing so.
Great game! We're definitely looking forward to playing more!
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