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« on: March 12, 2017, 02:57:09 PM »
It was, what I will call, my Second Siege of Coruscant. (first one was a failure, 3 ISDs were lost that day). Long had I been waiting to take the world back from Thrawn using my ancient ass fleet of Venators and Lucrehulks (Era 2 Imp Civil War). The Imperial fleet was massive, seven Imperial IIs, five Imperials, at least twenty Victories, and a shitton of Lancers and Carracks. There was also a leftover Executor from Isard just chilling. My fleet was wimpy as fuck by comparison, with eleven Venators, a Lucrehulk, and an IPV craft at the head (I limit myself to 40 pop fleets out of habit). I use my IPV to do some scouting before a shitload of TIEs start flying at it, forcing the corvette with shit aim to fend off what looked like eight squadrons for another five seconds before the map fully loaded in, and when it did, I nearly pissed myself.
I hyperspaced all my Venators to the top right corner of the map, my Lucrehulk just behind them, and that's when I put my hype playlist on and started going. I sent all my TIE/ln fighters out as the initial wave, Interceptors following just behind, with the V-16 Torrents and A1 or whatever you call them fighters at the rear, zooming past. I sent in the TIE bombers last, focusing them on the Executor "Annihilator" while the other starfighters tore the IR's defensive fighters and most of their current Victories new assholes. After a good three minutes and several waves of bombers, the Executor was gone, with the IR bringing four ISDs and two Victories to cover their losses in the past few minutes. I then said "fuck it" and moved five of my Venators in slowly, taking out the enemy fighters and such as well as a couple more Victories and another ISD. The Lucrehulk was moving in now, the remaining six Venators surrounding it defensively as they all moved to assist the five barely functioning ones I had by now called into retreat. As they did that the relief came in and tore what remained of the Imperial forces apart, ISDs and all, with their laser cannons and turbolasers.
Did I mention the IPV was still alive? I was surprised my pop cap stayed at 40/40 as long as it did. Eventually I won, only losing two of my Venators, which were quickly replaced.
Good fight, good fight.