Suicidal Ships?

[Phoenix-D]

Grrr. So I'm moving a small fleet to attack the Sergetti homeworld in a PBW game. I don't expect to win, but my ships can't escape and the idiots glassed the real target instead of capturing it.

However, one sector from the homeworld they are intercepted by number of fighter Groups. Not a lot of anti-fighter weapons in this fleet, so they get badly hurt. Good so far, I remove the cripples and task the others to move the one remaining square onto the HW. The fleet had 5 movement points and the ships remaining in it were undamaged.

What do they do? They sit in that sector and let the fighters pick them apart!

Proportions 2.4. More relevently, Gold 1.67.

Phoenix-D

[dumbluck]

Can you even ram planets? I've never tried.

[Phoenix-D]

I was trying to INVADE, not ram They weren't even in the same sector as the target yet.

Phoenix-D

[PvK]

Simultaneous movement or turn-based?

You say you left ships behind, so I suppose the turn ended with your ships one sector away from the homeworld, ordered the speed-5 fleet to move to the homeworld, and the result was another combat in the intercept sector?

If it was simultaneous mode, it may simply be that the simultaneous event resolver decided there should be another combat round before your speed-5 ships were able to move to the homeworld.

PvK

[Phoenix-D]

They sat there and took it for *7 combats*. getting picked off one-by-one. Simultanious game, and I gave them a move order, not attack.

Phoenix-D

[PvK]

Is it possible one of them took a hit in the first combat of the new turn that slowed the whole fleet down to a crawl (bridge, life support, or crew quarters)?

PvK