Savar's Thursday Night Slugfest

[FLTCAPT Savar]

I have spoken to many of you and Thursday evening at around 7:00 to 7:30 PM EST seems to be a good time to get everyone together and run some play test challenge matches.

All are welcome to attend. If you signed up in the loadout/ BO post please do your best to be there.

I have posted this event to the fleet calendar on a weekly basis... We will forgo next week in observance of Thanksgiving, but we will hopefully pick back up the next week.

Let pm me with any comments or concerns.

[Mac D. Ardell]

RGR that Sir, ARBITER acknowledges.

[VADM pRett]

The USS Ecliptic and her captain, Syrann, acknowledges.

[AUGERSON U.S.M.C. (Ret)]

Outstanding sir, will be there!!!!!!

[FLTCAPT Savar]

Shameless bump

[Marcus Korr]

Wasnt this on Saturday? Being as this is Turkey Day. I might be on it depends. But I will try![/img]

[FLTCAPT Savar]

Come on little Anders... read the post ;p

It starts next week

[Captain Talbot]

I will be there sir.

[Marcus Korr]

AHH! Makes since why no one was there on Thursday. Haha well Sure I will be there!

[FLTCAPT Savar]

For this first Slugfest I would like to try a couple of battles where we assign people certain roles, be ready to do the job you signed up for.

I will make a post later detailing this...

[William Anders]

I will be there!

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[Deven Scott]

Going to bump this topic, this event is taking place tonight everyone that wants to come please make sure you got everything ready to go. This looks to be a lot of fun I wish you all the best , enjoy yourselves gentlemen.

[AUGERSON U.S.M.C. (Ret)]

Thank you Mr Scott.. USS MarDet Standingby

[William Anders]

Gahhh I won't be able to make it!

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[FLTCAPT Savar]

The first Thursday Night Slugfest was a success. Although we got off to a slow start, we had quite a few people attend, and from what I have heard a good time was had by all.

In short, what were the lessons learned:
- Always, Always stay together. In the first fight the blue team started off fighting as a unit, however by the time one or two kills had been scored, they seemed to loose cohesion and broke apart. After this they were much easier to isolate and destroy.

- I still believe that the fire at will tactic to be sound, however it will take a little more testing on a smaller scale (with numerically equal teams), to form a more organized group. I also believe it will take a full group of cruisers to be effective. During each fight there were only 2 to 3 cruisers using is tactic out of about 5 to 6 ships. This caused a huge gap in DPS, as all the beam fire was spread out over numerous targets. Although this did cause the opposition to spread out healing it was most times not enough to bring down their vessels (props to Mr Augurson on his first "healing" gig).

The second large scale engagement also showed the advantage of proper spacing. I had believed that the proper spacing between ships in this case should have been 4 to 5 km apart, and this was proved to be correct. At the beginning of combat red team had spaced themselves out at only 1 km between vessels (a line only about 5 km long). This turned out to be a terrible mistake as all the AoE science skill were able to hit all of us at once. Scramble sensor was particularly nasty as it caused all the fire at wills to hit our own ships (showing another flaw in the strategy). This is a flaw that I believe can be over come with spacing and a few science teams.

After the larger engagement was ended a few of us decided to play around abit with what I have dubbed the David and Goliath fight. Fun was had by all.

Thank you to all who participated, and please place your feedback here. I would like to know what can be done to ensure the continued interest and large turnout we enjoyed yesterday evening.

I promise to be better organized next week, so that the start time really is the go time.

Thanks again for the fun.