Postby 5thHorseman » Sun Mar 10, 2013 6:10 am
I had 2 shields and went up against a Zoltan in an asteroid field. I chuckled as the battle started. Would his shield still be up by the time my weapons charged?
A few seconds into the battle, I noticed that not ONE asteroid even APPROACHED his ship. Meanwhile, 3 asteroids in quick succession hit mine. 2 took down the shields, and one actually HIT my shields, knocking them down to 1. The Zoltan then fires, knocking down my recharged single remaining shield, and another asteroid hits my shield room AGAIN, causing a hull breach.
I'm flabbergasted. My shields are down and my weapons haven't even charged. His Zoltan shield is at maximum and he still has yet to even see an asteroid. Sure enough, a few more come in and hit my weapons, engine, and Medbay. The Medbay is the least of my worries, and I'm quickly abandoning the idea of WINNING this fight and instead concentrate on SURVIVING it. I send my Engi into the engine room, which gets hit by ANOTHER ASTEROID before he can even get started. They're totally down, now, so I've got 0 dodge and 0 shields, and apparently a huge electro-magnet attracting asteroids at my ship.
I finally fire my weapons. This is somewhere around 15 seconds into the battle. I don't remember for sure but I think it was 4 laser bolts. They hit his shield and take it down a bit, but it's still up. They fire again, and hit several rooms including my weapons again. Now I've only got one weapon, my hull is shaking, and alarms are going off everywhere.
And then more asteroids hit. Half of my systems were red, the rest were in danger of the same. I couldn't fight. I couldn't flee.
I died.
Not once in the entire battle did the Zoltan ship even DODGE an asteroid. His shield was still up when the hull of my ship broke apart.
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