Yesterday, playing Battlefleet Gothic, I witnessed possibly the most monumentally vicious round of shooting I have yet seen. And, alas, it was targetted at my fleet.
It began with not one, but two nova cannon hits to one of my heavy cruisers, which failed to brace for impact and exploded. Violently. So violently in fact, that it crippled the other heavy cruiser that was next to it, and slightly damaged another cruiser. This was bad enough. But then things really got nasty.
A large squadron of swords then opened fire on the crippled heavy cruiser, causing that one to explode, too. Taking out the damaged cruiser in the process. And damaging another.
One shooting phase and more than half of my fleet is down. The sane thing to do would have been to cut my losses and disengage the survivors. But that would have left my ork allies facing down a fleet twice their size, and anyway, what does sanity have to do with it? So I kept the survivors in the fight, and as a result, every single ship in my fleet not only suffered catastrophic damage, but was utterly destroyed.
Considering that I had taken every ship I had remaining in my fleet into the battle, this means that I don’t even have a fleet any more. If I spend all my repair points for this turn, I will still have only one cruiser and one escort left. The last three games, I have been fairly comprehensively owned. It’s just as well that the campaign ended this week, because it’s over for me either way.
This has nothing to do with an MP3 player, has it?
No, it has nothing to do with an MP3 player. I’ve edited the post to make that clearer.