<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg5227071#msg5227071">Quote from: Christopher28 on 19-09-2011, 01:02:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>What is the battlecruiser's distance from the Kobras Aquiarre, please?  And what direction is it in, compared to the Everest?<br/><br/>When this all started, Sarah did a flyby, and identified three Jericho Class Pilgrim ships, a Falcon class Frigate (the Centopath Driller), and a Loki Class Q ship...  But no Shrike class raider.  That would have stood out!<br/>Then apparently a Shrike class raider was added to the party.  Where did it come from?  If it had been in the fleet list when this battle started, I would have probably had different tactics.  It's got a radically superior maneuverability compared to the rest.  I had thought that the only fast ship in the Crusader's fleet was the Frigate...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The Battlecruiser's distance from the Kobras Aquairre is 43 VU, but Chaos battlecruisers have an average maximum firing range of 20 VU, and an average maximum speed of 14 VU, meaning it will take 2 rounds for the battlecruiser to threaten Kobras Aquairre.  If the rest of the fleet engages the Battlecruiser, they should be able to keep it from disabling your stricken capital ship, though the frontal armor of the<em>Everest</em>will likely be important.<br/><br/>As for the Shirke class raider, that's a continuity error where I didn't remember what classes of ships I had in the fleet, and couldn't find the post (due to not putting it down in my notes) so I assumed that I'd just indicated an unidentified radier class ship and put in a shirke class raider.  I don't really have an explanation for that one, except that a Meritech ship was more appropriate for the scenario I designed.<br/><br/><br/>Now, as for your actions...  I'm really not sure that the crew of a cruiser would deliver a full broadside against a ship whose crew were begging for their lives.  It seems like something that the commander would need to make a command check to convince the crew to do, because you're basically murdering hundreds of innocent people.  Not something that an Imperial individual<em>wouldn't</em>do, but not something that can be done easily.