Hi all, I have gotten allot of questions regarding how to play STFC, how to beat STFC, and make many command decisions. Here is a true battle which I fought tonight and won on the STFC advanced level of play. This is provided here as a reference and might help you become a more advanced player.
Battle Story As STFC began in the advanced level of game play I instantly set into checking the status of all of my ships and stations such as location, and which starsystem I would be in range of attacking first. As it happens three of my starships Enterprise, Seleya, and Sovereign were all in sectors C1 through C3. Practically, on the Klingon boarder. Therefore I decided that is where I would strike first. As I looked over all of my starships I had to figure out which would take the lead on this mission. Sovereign was the closest to Klingon space plus was in sector C2 which was more ore less at the center of the Federation/Klingon boarder. I then decided to set it up as my lead ship, set Sovereign to warp 3, and then commanded all of my other starships to autopilot to Sovereign at maximum warp. Several moves passed as my other starships gained on Sovereign and Sovereign crossed from Fed space in to Klingon space. Immediately one Klingon starship, Qu'vaht, attacked Sovereign. I opened up on the Klingon heavily damaging his torpedoes and disruptor's, but failed to destroy him. He retreated and Drovna decloaked adding damage to Sovereign. However, it was at this time Seleya and Enterprise made it to the battle. Seleya opened up, not making Sovereign's mistake, and blew Drovna away. Meanwhile I put Sovereign on a withdraw to restore shields and phasers. However, at this point in time Tohkaht opened up on Deep Space 9, and was quickly dispatched. Setting more stats as 0 losses, two kills, and one confirmed destroyed Klingon. Feeling a bit left out the Cardassians decided to join in the action. One Cardassian went for Enterprise while one went for Earth Station McKinley. Let us just say both Cardassians were quickly destroyed. At this point I decided Enterprise, Seleya, and Sovereign needed to withdraw and restock at DS9 which was the closest station to the boarder which I was currently defending. Fortunately, for the task force Monarchy had just joined up with the fleet, and Defiant was 16 light years behind. As Monarchy joined the task force the Romulans decided to join in the engagement. Goraxus decloaked and attacked Monarchy as she stayed behind as a rear guard. There was a brief firefight and Commander Sela's flagship was vaporised. Right about that time the Vornak, another Klingon, attacked DS9. DS9 had no trouble in dispatching the Vornak bringing the score to three destroyed Klingons, one damaged Klingon, two Cardassian kills, and one Romulan kill. Not bad, and I hadn't taken any serious losses yet. Although, my fleet was running on low energy and a handful of torpedoes between them all. The Bortas, another Klingon, decloaked right in front of my withdrawing fleet and pounded away on Sovereign knocking her power off line. This might have been fatal except Enterprise, Monarchy, and Seleya had about 75 quantums each as well as low phaser power. I tossed all I had in to Bortas and he exploded in a cloud of dust, and fortunately was no more. Defiant had yet to see action. Although, I was ready to really ready to punish the Klingons. Not to mention I wanted to hunt down and kill the Qu'vaht who had escaped earlier. I cloaked Defiant and sent it on a direct heading for the nearest Klingon base figuring that is where I would find Qu'vaht. In this I wasn't wrong. However, this battle almost became the turning point of the war. Defiant carried on to the Klingon base while all my other ships docked with DS9 refueled, restocked weapons, and prepared for another engagement. Once they were ready I sent Seleya, Sovereign, and Enterprise out to backup Defiant. Monarchy was left behind either as a rear guard or to intercept any invaders in to Fed space. Although the Klingons weren't my worry. There wer four nasty Romulans out there which had yet to make contact with my forces. Defiant decloaked at Qo'nos 1 and hammered the station hard. Unfortunately, I managed to knok power off line, but was unable to make the kill with Defiant's weapons alone. Not only that but Terix happened to decloak and hit Defiant causing critical damage. I cloaked and beat a hasty retreat hoping to buy time for my allies to show up and start butt kicking the Romulans. A few moves passed and all at once I had three allied ships there, and Defiant's phasers were charged. I decloaked and waited for my enemies to show there face. What follows next is difficult to remember, but it went something like this. Terix and Qu'vaht decloaked firing on Seleya and Sovereign. While both ships took damage my four starships blasted the Klingon starbase, terix, and the Qu'vaht leaving nothing left of them. I also had weapons left over which was good. I had started to retreat when Deranas decloaked and hammered Sovereign. This turned out to be faytal and Sovereign exploded. I was not happy, but I at once again pulled all my resources and pounded Deranas until he exploded, and beat a retreat out of there. Around this time a Cardassian, Reklar, thought he'd take a crack at McKinley while my fleet was otherwise engaging the Romulans. Monarchy was to far away to do much good, and the Cardassians first attack knocked out my sensors. I basically, had to restock my shields while Reklar pounded me round after round with torpedoes and disruptors, and I awaited my sensors to come back up. Unfortunately, when sensors did come up my torpedo launchers were damaged. I unleashed a phaser attack damaging the Reklar and he beat a hasty retreat away from the station. Meanwhile Defiant, Enterprise, and Seleya joined up with Monarchy at DS9 and restocked, and prepared the Romulan invasion. I sent all four starships directly for Romulan space. When my fleet arived the battle turned out to be a bloody four on three fight. As I nared Romulan space the Romulans decloaked and destroyed Enterprise right off reducing my number to three. Not so good. As it happens only one of the attackers was in weapons range of the rest of the fleet, and of course we pounded him, and destroyed him immediately. now we are are at two to three odds in favor. Defiant took the lead and I formed Monarchy and Seleya up on Defiant. unfortunately the Romulans both moved in attacked Defiant destroying Defiant in the process. Fortunately, Monarchy and Seleya were ready and both scored kills whiping out the last two Romulans. At this point Monarchy and Seleya were sent directly to Earth Station McKinley. It was nearest the Cardassian border, and I was expecting at least one Cardassian to show up there. I was right. Before my fleet came in to range of McKinley the Cardassian cruiser, Reklar, decided to pick a rematch with the station. To bad for him, but he lost that fight. McKinley had no trouble blowing him away. Monarchy and Seleya predictably docked with McKinley, took on needed restocks,a end set out for the end of this adventure. They headed directly for the last two remaining Cardassians. As I crossed the Cardassian border the Kraxon and Ravinok opened up on Monarchy destroying one of my last two remaining starships. I was ticked off, and Seleya was forced to battle it out with both Cardassians. I opened up on Kraxon first blowing him away with a phaser blast all of my photons, and half of my quantums. Ravinok attacked Seleya greatly damaging my starship. No way was I facing retreat. I would win or lose this next few turns. I would stick in and fight until he or I met the end. I recharged phasers and armed all my remaining quantums and hit him with all I had. As expected it did not destroy him, but interestingly enough I knocked out his warp engines and torpedo launchers. I now had speed, and we were even as neither of us had torpedoes but just energy weapons to fight with, and my shields were slightly better. I then chose to put all my power in to the phasers, and set up a firing solution where it fired 5 rounds of phasers at 20 percent. The tactic worked. Each time the phasers fired he was heavily damaged, and he eventually lost shields. With my last 20 percentage of power he exploded, and died. I had defeated the enemy and had one starship beaten and bloody, but alive. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
