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Fleet Captain
Joined: 24 Jul 2008
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:48 am
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Krellex wrote:
The lesson I learned the hard way was that against the Gorn, you BETTER stay outside of carronade range while cloaked.
I did get carronaded under cloak, but it wasn't that effective, I took 4 damage I think from 2 F tubes (small ships don't have the power to fill up the tube on the fly).
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Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:05 am
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I played in the online tourney
Me vulture, king eagle
Opponent playing his third game
Had federation bcf and ddl
Turn one the fed Bcf launched 2 drones
This fight was won by the romulans bolting at range nine then cloaking end of turn two with four phaser 1 targetting ddl with 3 bolted r and 2 bolted f
The two drones each were targted 3 p1 and one P3
Both drones were destroyed and the ddl took 2 R's and one bolted f and 10 points damage from the 4 p1's
The ddl could not make speed 24 after the damage was applied
In turn 3 the fed hit the cloaked king eagle with his 4 full over loads from the bcf and all his p1 and 2 carronades and did not drop a shield, thats when he conceded
we played under the current cloaking rules but If we had played under the proposed cloak rules the 6 p1 targeted at the drones would have targeted the ddl .
The effect of the proposed rules would have been freeing up weapons to fight rather than deal with a minor drone threat.
I hope to play other games under the proposed cloak rules.
I hope the proposed cloak changes take effect in the near future.
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Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:34 am
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I played in online tourney
Romulan vs gorn using Mike West's proposed cloak rules
Romulan won in turn 5 with Gorn hdd destroyed. And gorn hbc with about 90 to 100 damage. Romulan king eagle had
About 15 boxes left vulture undamaged with only 2 shields checked off
The threat of cloaking greatly affects the gorn not the actual cloak it makes the gorn get closer.
The hdd got devistated in turn 3 when the vulture hit with 2
Bolted r a bolted f and 6 p1. After turn 3 the hdd had 6 boxes left.
Only a total of 5 cloaking puses were used including the fads
In turn one the ke cloaked and emergency decellerated to drop the 60 point of plasm s comming then immediatly decloaked. As full cloak occurred in impulse 8 the KE could just have out run the s on turn 2 under the current rules. The vulture faded to reduce an s that had been reduced to 15 str by phaser fire. Thenthe vulture fade back in. This action was the same under both sets of rules.
I like the proposed rules vs drones but is harsh vs gorn plasma.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:40 am
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Just to be clear, are you saying the proposed rules were too harsh against the Gorn, or simply that the Gorn wasn't fully prepared to deal with what the cloak can do?
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Lieutenant Commander
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:24 am
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I kind of thought that they were harsh vs the gorn . They made him close because if he launched at any kind of range it gave a chance to cloak with emergency deceleration. Then plasma have no chance to hit.
He however did not think they were that harsh. Initially he was not prepared to deal with it but he adapted.
However this keeps the romulan speed down because they needed to maintain a reserve of power necessary to cloak.
i played the romulan.
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Lieutenant Commander
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:34 am
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Overall I like the new proposed rules. They slow the romulans down so I never had movement priority. becaused he launched 3 plasma S the first turn and I did not launch, I became the aggressor stalking him for most of the rest of the game.
He only carronaded his Fs on the last 2 turn when we closed.
The romulan ships I played have a very hard time going speed 24 and being able to fight effictively.
I think the new proposed rules are very necessary vs drone swarms, or cloak is useless and expensive.
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Fleet Captain
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:12 pm
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I didn't think the new rules were that harsh vs Gorns. The first time you play against such Roms then you may get caught out by the fact that your plasma is spoofed by the Romulans, potetntially at quite a short range. However, as you noted that means energy for cloaks, if you are also going fast to keep your options open then you get rather tight on energy. The Gorns do have carronades, and coming out of cloak against a plasma thrower is not all that easy either.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:33 pm
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I played a good game the other week using romulans against Feds, and used cloaks quite a bit. Knowing that the Fed drones would not be that useful the Fed didn't launch them from long range, nor against cloaking out ships. So whilst cloaks didn't actually spoof any drones, they had an impact on how the game was played, especially in providing the freedom to allow the romulans to actually use their claoking device.
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Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 23 Aug 2007
Posts: 231
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:22 pm
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I played the Gorn in the matchup.
Knowing your primary weapon system can be nullified by an ED and four impulses worth of cloak energy is a little challenging to plan for and wrap new tactics around. To say the proposal doesn't hurt the Gorn would be a little disingenuous, it certainly doesn't help their situation but that shouldn't be the only deciding factor in moving forward.
The balance is to fire just enough plasma to force him into cloak while leaving enough to deal with him coming out while using Carronades to try and force him out. Is that ratio 50/50, hope not/not sure? Getting Carronaded under cloak is no big deal with the damage reduction because you don't have good control of the impacted shield on ingress. If you're going to give up some plasma to force the opponent into cloak then use the rest when he comes out, is it no different than taking your chances bolting reducing the yield by 50%?
My concern is in any change that would turn Gorn V Rom matchups into pure Boltfests. The sample size of trials doesnt support that yet but I could see it heading that way. I would recommend anyone testing this try both sides and give a full analysis. It was a fun challenge.
When it's all said and done I'm not sure how necessary the speed graduations are. It may be simpler to remember and to the point to just require a full stop to drop all seekers. It's likely that an ED will be necessary anyway.
On a side note, playing this setup with EPT's would be fascinating. EPT's for both sides of course. If Rom uses an R as EPT he's probably going to be going very slow tocloak. Can the Gorn use fewer tubes to force the Rom into cloak while utilizing the EPT? Can he soften up enough shields to make carronading the cloaker from any angle viable even with the damage reduction.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:03 am
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Monty wrote:
To say the proposal doesn't hurt the Gorn would be a little disingenuous, it certainly doesn't help their situation but that shouldn't be the only deciding factor in moving forward.
I'm not saying that it doesn't hurt them, The new proposals 'hurt' anyone with seekers to some extent or the other. The question is whether it is too harsh.
Ignoring this tourney where you are playing with points adjustments that favored the romulan at 0.92 to your 0.96, adjustments that probably don't reflect the proposed cloak rules either. Point for point the Gorns as a gross generalisation have a bit more plasma than the Roms, and slightly heftier ships - though not as much as they could due to the quite significant mispointing of the BC hulls. They also have similar or better phasers and carronades.
In an existing a fight under existing cloak rules I wouldn't really expect the romulans to have a good record. The new cloak rules I believe really just evens things out. We did play a couple of gorn vs rom games, and yes my opponent was caught out the first time by the decel and cloak. But once you are used to that, and work through in your head the key ranges you should still have enough of those listed advantages to handle the situation in a much tighter and more interesting game.
It may be that you will be in for a long game, then again plasma vs plasma tends to be anyway.
Size of battle is possibly important. Whilst 1 or 2 ships may seem to struggle wearing down a cloaked romulan, 3 Gorn ships carronading and phasering from range 0 through a cloaked ship can punch through a shield and aim at power. Power hits are going to hurt the romulan who needs to cloak or go fast.
Equally the romulan who cloaks and EDs with 1 ship has the dilemma of what to do with the other ships, does he end up splitting his force and having the uncloaked ones outnumbered, or does he cloak and ED them as well, effectively removing them from the battle.
A stopped ship struggles to turn, which makes positioning the Gorn ships a lot easier. Indeed if the romulan is without enough power for a HET it can safely ED itself behind the cloaked ship. Even if it has enough power it may still be fairly safe, as it will eat any remaining plasma as soon as it fades in (or fails the cloaked HET roll) and before it can launch its own.
If anything were to change I'd first re-look at the question I asked several posts ago - when does the ED cause a seeker to drop? At the moment it was said to kick in as soon as you ED, if you change it to dropping seekers during the cloak phase then ED with plasma/drones close is less useful, as it will get the 3 or 4 hexes movement whilst you are stopped and impact before it would drop, that is a fair increase in threat range. That can force him into a cloak or run decision before you make a launch decision.
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Lieutenant Commander
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:28 pm
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Are you and Nicole going to play the new cloak rule in your next tourney match? More plasma v plasma testing would be good.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:02 pm
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To be honest I'd not even thought about the question.
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Lieutenant Commander
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Posts: 228
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:10 pm
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Played in the online tourney vulture , ke vs orion dw,dw,br . All armed in option mounts with plasma f and wing phaser1. The new proposed cloak rule had minimal impact but could have potentially had large impact.
Reason for miniminal impact was roms only cloaked 5 impulses in turn 1 total. Roms at range 12 going speed 8 is too far for plasm f to be dangerous under current rules. Would have hit for 18 points with with 6 reinfocement for net 12 at best Under current rules. Carronade brought down shield hit using proposed rules on ke.
Where this could have made a difference is at close range where under the proposed rules if you are at a range that will take the seeking weapons more than 2 impulses to impact (with the target moving away) the seeking weapons can be dropped by a ship cloaking immediatly then when becoming fully cloaked and emergeny decelerating.
What the proposed cloak rules allow the romulan to do is fight at a closer range when seeking weapons are present.
The game was won by romulans making 2 rolled hets in a row.
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Fleet Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:29 am
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Certainly it didn't make any difference to me playing against you in that game. You cloaked at a range I was not going to launch at anyway, and when you came out of cloak I had no seekers to worry about.
Our test games also showed what you said above as well, it means the Roms can afford to engage at a closer range with a 'get out' vs seekers. It also means they can engage slower against seekers, as they are not quite as dependent on speed as their defense, though that can be a bit more risky.
As noted in the tourney thread, I'd be interested in a replay if you have another sunday free soon.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:36 am
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A possible solution for the problem with plasmas targeted on the cloaking ship being to easy to shake off by cloaking is to increase the range at which they lose targeting. In SFB plasmas have counter jamming built in (and imo should not be affected by Orion stealth coating). Or bring back pseudo plasma!
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Longtime Christian radio leader and Spirit FM co-founder Barry Armstrong has been called out of retirement to lead Liberty University's Victory Radio Network as General Manager.Posted on July 24, 2014
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson, President & CEO of NRB, had some choice words for Planned Parenthood and others working to radically undermine religious liberty in the Senate this week.Posted on July 18, 2014
Congressman James Lankford (R-OK) put the FCC on notice that he was displeased with the Commission's enforcement against indecency on the broadcast airwaves.Posted on July 18, 2014
Top leaders on the House panel with oversight of the FCC issued a sharp rebuke of the FCC Chairman's leadership. House Communications and Technology Subcommittee...Posted on July 18, 2014
A bill NRB has supported for several years has been approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. The Near East and South Central Asia Religious Freedom Act (S.653), introduced by Senators Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Carl Levin (D-MI),Posted on July 18, 2014
A select group of iNRB student members recently concluded a two-week study abroad trip to Oxford, England, where they engaged in "one on one" tutorials with a distinguished scholar at Jesus College in the heart of Oxford University.Posted on July 17, 2014
From among its membership, NRB is building up a select group of strategic partners who wish to bolster the work of the association through additional commitments of time, support, and financial resources.Posted on July 17, 2014
The National Religious Broadcasters, the world's preeminent association of Christian communicators, is looking for an individual to assist the Director of Communications in implementing NRB's social media strategy and in communicating NRB's work to the association's constituents and to the public.Posted on July 17, 2014
Reach Beyond (formerly HCJB Global) is distributing grants to help fund the local and/or global "reach beyond" initiatives of several radio stations throughout the U.S.Posted on July 17, 2014
NRB is currently accepting nominations for the 2015 Annual Media Awards and will be doing so until August 4, 2014. A long-standing hallmark of NRB, the awards program remains one of our most valued traditions.Posted on July 10, 2014
NRB and many of its members were among those who lauded the United States Supreme Court's ruling last week that upheld religious freedom for Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties in their "David-and-Goliath" struggle for freedom against the Executive Branch.Posted on July 10, 2014
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship President Alec Hill has called for A Day of Prayer on Monday, July 14, to focus on campus access challenges that limit the freedom of InterVarsity and other campus ministries to proclaim the Gospel.Posted on July 10, 2014
Working with local churches and partner organizations, Open Doors has been supporting hundreds of Iraqi Christian refugees with humanitarian aid since they were forced out of their homes last month following the occupation of the Iraqi city of Mosul by violent extremist Muslims of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).Posted on July 10, 2014
Bott Radio Network (BRN) recently expanded its coverage in Oklahoma and Texas through some major power increases and the launch of a new FM radio station.Posted on July 10, 2014
Author, speaker, and syndicated radio host Austin Hill is hosting a new morning show on Faith Radio, the network of six radio stations owned by the University of Northwestern – St. Paul that serve the upper Midwest U.S.Posted on July 10, 2014
A new program established by NRB earlier this year is presenting members of the association with the opportunity to save as much as $1,000 – $3,000 per employee per year.Posted on July 10, 2014


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Classic British tin motors on the All-British Vancouver-to-Whistler run.
Anglophiles fill BC's Sea-to-Sky highway with classic British steel and the smell of unburnt fuel.
By May 23, 2013 / Photos by Brendan McAleer
There is no such thing as a single British accent. Far from it: in this sprawling mall parking lot, the staging area for the 21st annual Vancouver-to-Whistler all-British run, you can hear the clipped Cockney of an East-Ender taking the mickey out of a drawling Midlander while a Yorkshireman hoots merrily in the background. Just as varied as the accents are the cars on display here, a licorice all-sorts arrangement of defenders of a gone-but-not-forgotten motoring Empire. The winding coastal roads of Western Canada await, lets go put the British back in British Columbia.


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mikemoranDHG: RT @Runnersphere: Stanford student Alicia Follmer tripped and was trampled during a race, she got up to finish in third place. http://t.co/(link)¦
GazetteUMass: @BobMcGovernJr Iona is a good mid-major. Del State is a mediocre rec league team
GazetteUMass: Wake Forest lost to Delaware State today. I'm not joking
GazetteUMass: Based on (link) UMass will either open the 2015 season with a bye or at Bowling Green on Sept. 3 or 5.
mikemoranDHG: Here is a second @AP_Sports photo of ARHS/UMass alum James Ihedigbo @JamesIhedigbo from Thanksgiving vs. the Bears (link)
mikemoranDHG: Here is an @AP_Sports photo of ARHS/UMass alum James Ihedigbo @JamesIhedigbo from Thanksgiving vs. the Bears (link)
GazetteUMass: @Winslow05 no idea
GazetteUMass: @Winslow05 why would it be? He's been healthy and an after thought for Whipple
GazetteUMass: UMass has four straight losing seasons for the first time since 1956-59. Whipple was born in 1957
GazetteUMass: Who starts at RB for UMass in 2015? Shadrach Abrokwah or Jamal Wilson?
GazetteUMass: Asked what coaching staff's next task was. Whipple said R.E.C.R.U.I.T. We don't have nearly enough talent
GazetteUMass: UMass finished season 3-9
GazetteUMass: Final: Buffalo 41, UMass 21
GazetteUMass: Tajae Sharpe TD for UMass makes it Buffalo 41, UMass 21
GazetteUMass: Woodley hurt for UMass
GazetteUMass: Touchdown Buffalo. It's 41-14 with 3:19 left
GazetteUMass: Alex Kenney just makes a senior day catch
GazetteUMass: PAT is good. Buffalo 34, UMass 14 10:50 left in the game
GazetteUMass: Austin Whipple 7 yard TD pass to Tajae Sharpe. PAT pending.
GazetteUMass: Could we get Stanley Andre a goal line carry here?
GazetteUMass: After 11 games and 3 quarters. UMass trails Buffalo 34-7
mangiaratti: .@smithcollege geosciences prof. Sara Pruss to be featured on National Geographic Channel's "Big Cat Week" Sunday - (link)


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Someone's lack of clearness or honesty in a relationship, with the purposeful orientation of confusing the partner and prompting stronger affection as well as emotional dependence in him/her.
She was into head games when she did not call me for the whole week.
от Marcelo25Rio 04 юли 2006
Psychological manipulation used to confuse and deceive people. This is a famous, generations old definition for this term, as opposed to all these silly sexual definitions that have been added.
"I spent four hours at the police station, putting up with all their head games (interrogation) until they finally let me go."
"I don't like talking to (manipulative person), he's so full of head games."
"I don't like talking to (manipulative person), he's so full of head games."
от JeffreyC4 28 февруари 2012
The way a girl gives head or a dude eats her out
My girlfriend said my head game was crazy
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of musicians who play the tuba, sousaphone and euphonium will be filling the Kennedy Center in Washington for the annual "Merry TubaChristmas" show.
Thursday's free, one-hour show begins at 6 p.m. on the Millennium Stage. Participants in the show will begin rehearsing at 3 p.m. About 250 tubs players are expected.
This is the 22nd year the Kennedy Center has put on the show.
Other TubaChristmas events are also held around the country. The first concert was conceived by tuba player Harvey Phillips and held in New York in 1974. The concert was a tribute to William J. Bell, a tuba player and teacher.
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