Round 5 - Convergence

[tomcat]

Situation: The Romulan Constitution mock-up is currently engaging an aged and damaged D6 cruiser and the Columbia. I will be rolling initiative for each round and for each NPC ship.

D6 status: Shields at 40% and sensors are offline for 2 more rounds; Weapons and Move maneuvers will be at a -5 penalty with a potential system breakdown on any failure (System Reliabilty test TN 8 failure; TN 12 on Complete Failure; TN 15 on Disastrous Failure)

Starting Ranges: Gr'Toth is medium range to the Romulan; Columbia is long range to the Romulan

Situational Modifiers and Conditional Rules: The CODA system makes no reference to weapon re-charge and so I am going to apply the following rules:

• Phasers may be fired each round [Ready]
• Photon/Disruptor Torpedoes need 1 round to re-charge [Columbia Charging; Gr'Toth Ready]
• Plasma Torpedoes need 2 rounds to re-charge [Ready]

So if you fire your photon torpedoes in round 1, you cannot fire again until round 3 - so be careful when you plan multiweapon fire maneuvers.

Carryover bonuses: None

Note regarding map: I have shown a range display for the combatants; each display shows that allied ship's position relative to the Romulan attacker.

Initiative:
Romulans - Roll(2d6)+6: 6,3,+6 Total:15
Federation - 6
Klingons - Unable to act for 2 more rounds

[GandalfOfBorg]

Tactics - (2+1)+3=6

OOC: We're gonna feel this one.
Just as he sees the mock up fire upon them, Darkan hears, "Brace for impact!"

Darkan knows he's gotten the attention of the much larger and still likely more capable ship.  "Stonn, how's it coming with their shield frequencies?  Let them come to us, Alex, and when you're ready, Grahm, lock on and continue to target their weapon systems."

1) Lock On
2) Target System: Weapons

Tactics - (6+4)+3 = 13

[sdrotar]

Darkan knows he's gotten the attention of the much larger and still likely more capable ship.  "Stonn, how's it coming with their shield frequencies?  Let them come to us, when you're ready, Alex, lock on and continue to target their weapon systems."

OOC: Tomcat, how do I test to find out what the Captain needs to know? Is it a Shields test, a Sensors test, something else?

[tomcat]

[OOC:] Romulan's maneuvers:

Fast Attack TN 15
Tactics +5, Specialty +2, Command man mod +2, ship damage -1 = +8
Roll(2d6)+8: 6,5,+8 Total:19 SUCCESS

Maneuver 1: Close TN 10
Sys Ops (Helm) +8, Specialty +2 = +10
Roll(2d6)+10: 5,1,+10 Total:16 SUCCESS [reduces range 3 increments from Long to Point blank - and then Fast attack increases range to Medium]

Maneuver 2: Multi-weapon at Columbia TN 22
Sys Ops (Tactical) +9, Specialty +2, Tac man mod +3, Range mod +1, No lock -3 = +12
Roll(2d6)+12: 3,3,+12 Total:18 +6 (COURAGE, 1 left) = 24 COMPLETE SUCCESS [The Columbia is hit - shields reduced by 1 down to 50%; threshold overcome by 8 and applied to structure (down to 9 left!); 2 critical hits to Operations (-2 to Command man) and Weapons (No tier 2 man); secondary systems offline: Fire suppression and Replicator network]

Sensors - Romulans again attempt to put up an electronic screen to aid in thier defense (ECM)
Sys Ops (Sensors) +10, Specialty +2 = +12
Roll(2d6)+12: 5,2,+12 Total:19 [bonus to ship's protection will be determined based upon degre of success against Stonn's opposed roll]


With Korvona's order, the Constitution mock-up mirrored the Columbia's prior attack, performing a strafing run with its most deadly of weapons available. At point blank range, the Romulans released a plasma and phaser salvo upon the Federation light cruiser with a devestating effect. Its shields insufficient at protecting against such fire power, the energy overcame the threshold and struck the vessel.

Within the Columbia, small fires and explosions erupted everywhere while lights flickered or failed in some areas. On both the upper and lower sides of the ship, two small hull breaches formed and in an instant six crewmen were lost to the vaccuum of space before the secondary security systems could activate the breach force fields; on all ship levels crewmen were thrown to the deck and more deaths and injuries occurred. In total, the Columbia lost twenty-three of its fine crewman due to the overwhelming attack. What was worse, the ship's fire suppression system was damaged and on deck eight, in a secondary electrical power room, a conflagaration began to burn uncontrollably - the fire finding its way through ducts and man-accesses gobbling up the oxygen as it went.

Townshend climbed back to her seat and began the task of clearing the board to reduce the noise that pervaded the bridge - the injured cried and moaned as the all decks called in their status. The comm officer held her earpiece and then called out over the noise, "Captain all decks reporting in... but still only preliminary reports."

Outside the Columbia, the Romulans raced by and the range between the two ships grew. Korvona smiled at the viewscreen as she watched her plasma torpedo strike the Federation ship and literally knock it from the location of space in which it had previously occupied. The Columbia was now at an angle to its past plane of travel by some 24 degrees and there were two micro-breaches visible - the ship's environment bleeding out.

[tomcat]

Grahm had a ringing in his head that he could not shake, but the orders given him moments earlier rang louder still. He had a terrible anger filling his being for what the Romulans had just done to his ship, his crewmates, and Jess? The tactical officer quickly glanced to her section of the bridge and watched as she crawled back into her chair. Enraged at the scene, Grahm bent his attention back on his console and tapped a few commands hoping the ship would respond...

He smiled, she was hurt but the girl wasn't out of the fight yet! He brought the tactical sensors on target, waited for the reticle lock and then fired the phasers.


[OOC:] Columbia's Maneuvers

I am going to have Grahm attempt a Quickness test TN 10 to be able to react (recover his alertness after the major hit):
Quickness +4
Roll(2d6)+4: 4,4,+4 Total:12 SUCCESS

Maneuver 1: Lock On TN 14
Sys Ops +13, Specialty +2, Tac man mod +2, Range mod +0 = +17
Roll(2d6)+17: 3,4,+17 Total:24 SUCCESS [+3 bonus to all Tac mans until broken]

Maneuver 2: Fire TN 14
Sys Ops +13, Specialty +2, Tac man mod +2, Range mod +0, Lock on +3 = +20
Roll(2d6)+20: 5,4,+20 Total:29 (+3 Courage) = 32 HEROIC SUCCESS [Connie is hit - shields reduced by 4 to 30%; 1 structure damage; critical hit to... rolled double 6's  ALL SYSTEMS! Gotta figure this one out.. be back soon]

[GandalfOfBorg]

Maybe standing wasn't such a good thing, thinks Darkan as he gets to his feet, limping back to the command chair.  "Engineering... this is the bridge.  Juan, how bad is it?"  Seeing Grahm continue to follow his orders and put a hurt on the Romulans, ("That's more like it!") he's not worried yet about weapons.

[sdrotar]

"Engineering... this is the bridge.  Juan, how bad is it?"  Seeing Grahm continue to follow his orders and put a hurt on the Romulans, ("That's more like it!") he's not worried yet about weapons.

"We're finding that out now, Captain, but it's serious. Will advise. Ramos out."
Engineering was bustling, as organized chaos took over during combat. It would take Ramos a few moments to clear the cobwebs in his head and determine what had been damaged... and what would be required to fix it.