Batshits, figures… Yeah these guys are definitely ready in a lesson in humility. Why is
the board still flashing? Because the Sparrow just unloaded on you! I do hope some
survive, it’s much easier to teach someone when they aren’t missing most of the brain.
Very nice set. Reminds me of the one my wife and I had. I think Cissy is in wonder
of them too. She’s going to feel a bit overwhelmed if they don’t slow down a bit.
She hasn’t had time to get used to everything that’s happened to her so far.
That sword looks a lot like the middle sword the Samurai carried into combat. The
long one was for first strike, middle was to defend (if there was time) and the
third was to regain honor if the battle was lost. Hauri-kauri knife if I recall. (forgive
the spelling, it’s been decades) I had training with a katana, but I was better
with the Bo (staff) I still twirl a broom or a mop just to keep up the skill, heh. Besides
I always did love the whooshing sound it makes 😉
I wish, it does run hot if I’m gaming or using my CAD. I know I need to
update.upgrade I just can’t afford it. I’m tempted to overclock but after
I spent almost $1800 buying it, I’d rather not risk a burnout.
I have a mid-range WiFi card, my hands are too unsteady these days to
risk it. I’ll have to take it over to my oldest, he lives about 80 miles away
so visiting them is an all day thing. I may be paranoid but I’d like this
system to outlast me heh… I’m hoping my wife will be able to travel soon,
we both miss the grand kids. She can but it leaves her in a lot of pain so
we limit it.
I thought about flipping the fan but this old modular house is dusty and
I have to change the trimmed filters often, the back of the oversized
tower is vented the only exhaust fan is on the radiator.
The vid card isn’t liquid-cooled I wish it was. I bought this system hmmm…
about 4 years ago so it’s past due for upgrades. It came with 16 gig ram
and it’s starting to lag on some of the FPS games. I was shocked to see a
50mm fan on the chipset as it was! someone was thinking right when they
built it! The GPU was a stock one built on the MOBO, the 1080ti was installed
afterwards, I have to be sure to use it’s ports, not the one on the port strip
on the back of the MOBO. I splurged and bought a custom gaming system, I
was tired of the “not compatible” message popping up. The 3 front fans, the
chipset fan, and the cooling system was all installed by the vendor.
This thing came with a SSD 225gig for the main drive,
I’m shopping for a new one but most out there seem
to be for laptops or PS5. I did see a 1 tb drive for $160
WD black, is that the type you use? I’m behind on a lot
of the tech these days.
Here ya go: https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/sandisk-ssd-plus-sata-iii-ssd#SDSSDA-2T00-G26
2TB SSD for $100.00. I have three.
I prefer dealing with the manufacturer where I can, and Western Digital’s
Customer Service is about the best in the business. If you don’t get a
coupon offer for being a first-time customer, contact their CS and ask.
WD for hard drives and SSDs, Arctic for cooling,
Corsair for memory and power supplies, and ASRock for motherboards.
Oh, and whatever I can find in the junkyard for cases.
I hear that, at one point I was thinking about using a mini-fridge as a case,
But our money got very light and I gave up on the idea… for now!
I love that link, thanks I’ll bookmark it, we’re pretty broke right now, I will
buy a new one and a spare or two asap though, I’m running some of my
larger games on a 4tb external right now, I’m sure that’s where some
of my lag issues are coming from. There is a very good fan company out
there called Noctua, it’s used by many 3d printer users for upgrades, they
run on 12 vdc and the printers run on 24vdc so a step-down converter is
needed. They aren’t cheep but put out up to 30% more air flow with less
noise. The company site is https://noctua.at/en/products/fan
Noctua is good, no doubt. But I’ve been really impressed with the
cooling products from a company called Arctic. They’re much less
expensive. They’ve become my go-to for cooling.
I’m such a freak about cooling, I’m working on a water cooling rig for
my internet computer. It’s a Lenovo mini, about the size of a hard
cover book. The radiator is a dual 50mm fan unit, and I have to
machine the CPU water block out of copper bar stock. Fun times.
I was too for a while, I took an old compaq system I had, installed 3 80’s
and a heat sink that took an 80 in a bowl-shaped heat sink, helped quite
a bit. That is until I gave it to my oldest son and he ignored cleaning, his
PSU looked like a mouse exploded inside! The CPU heat sink was completely
plugged, I was pissed! I managed to get it working again but it lost about
15% processing speed. That bowl-shaped heat sink was toast, so I put the
old one back on and told him to limit his run times. He was lucky I had a spare
300w PSU.
PS isn’t stock either, it’s 1000 w, and the case is a massive 13.4 inches wide, 26 inches
tall, and 32 inches deep with glass on the left side and front. Deep black with only a
logo of a hexagram with a lightening bolt through the middle.
A case that size should have spaces to mount more fans,
which it sounds like you need. As I said, I have a box of
extra fans. Take a look and tell me what you can use, I’ll
check if i have any.
Right now you’re getting hot air trapped in the top of your
case, you really should flip that fan. That’s what the top
opening is for. My new case has room for two 140mm fans
there, that’s where my CPU radiator sits.
Mounting your radiator on the rear is fine when the computer
is new, but with time air will get into it. My old computer has
a radiator for the GPU in the rear. It was made in 2016 and I recently
noticed that it was running hotter. The idiot that replaced my
motherboard had mounted the radiator with the inlets on top, I rotated
it to put them on the bottom and temperatures went back down, as the
pump was no longer sucking air.
I use a free program called Speccy to keep track of temps, it works
well. If you use it and your motherboard gets near 40deg C, you
need more case fans. My 2016 stays at 32 C, but it has a LOT of fans.
I suspect it’s for looks, every fan is a lit one and I have an app
to change or rotate the colors. Both the left panel and the front
is tinted glass. I was wrong the front ones are 120s. I suppose
you’re right, there is a lot of heat dumping out the back. I’ll have
to run the app that lists the temps of the CPU,GPU, and chipset,
as well as fan speeds… I’ve been lazy of late with everything
going on of late. Speaking of which, I’ve got to make dinner…
The Japanese swords were Wakizashi, Katana and Tachi,
if Wikipedia is correct. Tachi are the big ones, but
they mostly fell out of use after about 1600.
The Katana was the longer sword worn in the belt.
Those became mainstream mid 1300s to mid 1500s.
I have a 1938 made factory katana with the metal scabbard.
It was a WWII bringback. I’ve never tested the blade.
Never used a bo, but I did have enough practice with
nunchaku while in college to learn why they’re also
known as numb chucks. Hit myself a few times where I
didn’t want to be hit. Them suckers HURT!
My Sensei told me that many years ago, I had forgotten how to pronounce them much less
spell the names heh… I figured that name was more recognizable that the proper one.
He was Korean not Japanese, kept talking about the different styles. The only reason
I took training with the Bo was there was too many people with bat and pipes out
there and blocking those hurt like hell. Try walking around with a 5 foot sword in
the 70s lol. I didn’t want to hurt anyone, just teach them to not start anything with
me or mine. I hated nunchaku’s, yes they are good to giving headaches or numb limbs!
I could use them kinda, but the practice routine was crap and just to show off. You
held them in both hands or tucked under an arm to fire off a fast strike. I loved the
Bo, there was so many different ways to use it and I got pretty good at balancing on it.
jus sayin.. ? 5 foot sword.!!? in Any age would be a pain in ass.!
just about all ‘carried’ (worn on hip) swords are about 3 feet.
and at that size a ‘Claymore or Nodachi’ would have been a
very hard find in the 70’s.. o.0
I was joking, even the 3ft would of gotten me arrested. The practice one I used
had a dulled blade and weighed a ton, I think he just wanted to show us that
while fancy to look at, it took many years to master that blade.
My son has always loved swords, he actually bought a real Katana, I stressed to
him to mount on the wall and enjoy it that way. If he HAD to play with it to go
out into a resting pasture and hack at a dead tree or some target, I highly doubt
he could swing it with any skill and would be a huge risk to anything living
until he did… He’s got it hanging on the wall (for now).
I should add while I could show him a few things, my trick shoulder
is too easy to pop out of joint. Besides, I’d rather he didn’t try, it takes
a lot of training just so the user doesn’t accidentally hack at a poorly
placed leg. He never did learn to watch his stance, even when I set
him up with Tia qua do classes.
You’ll note that I gave attribution to Wikipedia. Katana I can spell. Wakizashi
I can say, but I would have butchered the spelling. The other I’d never heard of.
The blade up aspect is actually quite practical. While walking around, the sharp
blade is never banging into the Saya (the scabbard – thank you Wikipedia again).
Heh, don’t feel bad, with my mild studder it took a month to learn to
speak the names of the various “tools” so to speak, and I still needed
couching.
That is a common mistake, I did it too. Most “masters” these days use
a hard scabbard, rather than a leather and even then it takes hours to
sharpen any of the swords if you forget.
Katana, Wakizashi, and Tanto set,. sometimes leave the Tanto out..
the ‘Tachi’ is a little bigger. invented over 200 years earlier (900ad)
and used mostly on horseback,..
the Katanas (1192ad) smaller size (and worn blade up) was better
used on foot and in close quarters,.
That is partly why I liked the Bo, it was easier to learn and no one
would scream and run if I was walking down the street with it. I
loved to watch the Bruce Lee movies, he used real moves and I got
a few tips in the process! He used a Bo in one of his movies I tried
to copy; he came under attack from a gang, so he grabbed a convenient
mop, broke off the head, balanced on the staff until they attacked.
He kicked off the Bo, bounced it off one guy while kicking the one on
the other side, landed and spun just in time to catch it when it bounced
off the first guy. All in one shot and no closeups. Eddie Murphy copied
that in “Coming to America” but that was clearly choreographed with
many closeups and camera cuts.
I should mention the Bo (staff) is supposed to be apx. 6 ft, only trainees got
a shorter one so a broom stick or mop was actually not the proper length.
Also most broom/mop sticks are thinner and made of pine and not heavy
enough or strong enough to fight with.
yep, the best way for the group to be effective is when each person does THEIR
job. If someone else is faltering, the boss does something about it, not you.
If you try to help in the middle of a crunch, then that is TWO jobs not being
done properly.
When times are slack, then informal help is okay. Just be sure you are not
propping up someone who needs more training before the next crunch :}
Which give us a clear idea on how inept and poorly trained the Shitbats
really are. Their so-called security forces are just following the core’s
wishes and running around making sure their peons are staying peons.
This was no doubt an attempt to remind the P’tera who their bosses
were… Ooops! Guess what core, they’re not peons anymore…. Or alone!
Parade ground troops are never trained for war. The Shitbats are not competent
to fight a real war especially a lighting fast, super high intensity one like the Empire
wages. It is imperative now that none of the core vessels escape to warn the
homeworld. The longer the core worlds remain ignorant of the Empire and its allies’
capabilities and tactics the better.
That’s basically what I’ve been saying Bill, they are not soldiers nor do
they expect how fast and trained any Imperial ship’s crews are. Not to
mention how heavily armed even the smallest ships are in the Imperial
fleet is. The core may try, they might even win a few battles, but it’s a
done deal, just a matter of time.
The core hasn’t needed anything but parade ground troops in an exceedingly long
time. They don’t fight among themselves and they can easily overwhelm any upstart
fringers. Plus they have had the P’tera and, to a lesser extent, the Dogs to do most
of their actual fighting for them. Dollars to donuts the core worlds’ officer is mostly
aristocratic political appointees. The Shitbat officer on stage now might be
marginally competent but it doesn’t look like the crew is well trained or practiced.
Plus the coreworlders are arrogant and wildly overconfident. “The Mauler” skipper’s
action showed that. They figured 4 to 1 odds was a guaranteed victory. Oops! IMS
The Sparrow carried 2 Tobies so the 4 to 1 fight is now 4 to 3 against the
Shitbats! Ain’t gonna be pretty!
The Sparrow Captain’s plan is working to the T so far, one or both Toby’s
can get behind the remaining ships and take out their engines. Clearly
the Core ships haven’t a clue as to the Imperial ships yet so the
secondary missile launch is a shock to all 3 remaining ships.
Something I just noticed. The Batshits show that they are not really trained
for war. Especially the one that gets distracted by the report from another
station and looks up to make a report and missing a warning.
It’s not conclusive how they are trained overall, but it is an indicator of their
Level of training.
Yeah they are bullies, not trained fighters. They’ve had it easy picking
on the weaker and less developed planets so long they’ve forgotten
how to wage any kind of war. They may be fast learners, but they will
loose the war before they can figure out wth is going on.
Yes, why indeed?
Batshits, figures… Yeah these guys are definitely ready in a lesson in humility. Why is
the board still flashing? Because the Sparrow just unloaded on you! I do hope some
survive, it’s much easier to teach someone when they aren’t missing most of the brain.
Very nice set. Reminds me of the one my wife and I had. I think Cissy is in wonder
of them too. She’s going to feel a bit overwhelmed if they don’t slow down a bit.
She hasn’t had time to get used to everything that’s happened to her so far.
That sword looks a lot like the middle sword the Samurai carried into combat. The
long one was for first strike, middle was to defend (if there was time) and the
third was to regain honor if the battle was lost. Hauri-kauri knife if I recall. (forgive
the spelling, it’s been decades) I had training with a katana, but I was better
with the Bo (staff) I still twirl a broom or a mop just to keep up the skill, heh. Besides
I always did love the whooshing sound it makes 😉
I have a WiFi USB dongle if you want it.
Is your 1080ti water cooled?
I wish, it does run hot if I’m gaming or using my CAD. I know I need to
update.upgrade I just can’t afford it. I’m tempted to overclock but after
I spent almost $1800 buying it, I’d rather not risk a burnout.
I have a mid-range WiFi card, my hands are too unsteady these days to
risk it. I’ll have to take it over to my oldest, he lives about 80 miles away
so visiting them is an all day thing. I may be paranoid but I’d like this
system to outlast me heh… I’m hoping my wife will be able to travel soon,
we both miss the grand kids. She can but it leaves her in a lot of pain so
we limit it.
Oh, and please see my reply to you on TGW-1096 about your fans.
I thought about flipping the fan but this old modular house is dusty and
I have to change the trimmed filters often, the back of the oversized
tower is vented the only exhaust fan is on the radiator.
The vid card isn’t liquid-cooled I wish it was. I bought this system hmmm…
about 4 years ago so it’s past due for upgrades. It came with 16 gig ram
and it’s starting to lag on some of the FPS games. I was shocked to see a
50mm fan on the chipset as it was! someone was thinking right when they
built it! The GPU was a stock one built on the MOBO, the 1080ti was installed
afterwards, I have to be sure to use it’s ports, not the one on the port strip
on the back of the MOBO. I splurged and bought a custom gaming system, I
was tired of the “not compatible” message popping up. The 3 front fans, the
chipset fan, and the cooling system was all installed by the vendor.
4 years isn’t old, my older one is 8 years old and the only
upgrade has been to add an SSD drive. Still works well.
This thing came with a SSD 225gig for the main drive,
I’m shopping for a new one but most out there seem
to be for laptops or PS5. I did see a 1 tb drive for $160
WD black, is that the type you use? I’m behind on a lot
of the tech these days.
Here ya go:
https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/sandisk-ssd-plus-sata-iii-ssd#SDSSDA-2T00-G26
2TB SSD for $100.00. I have three.
I prefer dealing with the manufacturer where I can, and Western Digital’s
Customer Service is about the best in the business. If you don’t get a
coupon offer for being a first-time customer, contact their CS and ask.
WD for hard drives and SSDs, Arctic for cooling,
Corsair for memory and power supplies, and ASRock for motherboards.
Oh, and whatever I can find in the junkyard for cases.
I hear that, at one point I was thinking about using a mini-fridge as a case,
But our money got very light and I gave up on the idea… for now!
I love that link, thanks I’ll bookmark it, we’re pretty broke right now, I will
buy a new one and a spare or two asap though, I’m running some of my
larger games on a 4tb external right now, I’m sure that’s where some
of my lag issues are coming from. There is a very good fan company out
there called Noctua, it’s used by many 3d printer users for upgrades, they
run on 12 vdc and the printers run on 24vdc so a step-down converter is
needed. They aren’t cheep but put out up to 30% more air flow with less
noise. The company site is https://noctua.at/en/products/fan
Noctua is good, no doubt. But I’ve been really impressed with the
cooling products from a company called Arctic. They’re much less
expensive. They’ve become my go-to for cooling.
I’m such a freak about cooling, I’m working on a water cooling rig for
my internet computer. It’s a Lenovo mini, about the size of a hard
cover book. The radiator is a dual 50mm fan unit, and I have to
machine the CPU water block out of copper bar stock. Fun times.
I was too for a while, I took an old compaq system I had, installed 3 80’s
and a heat sink that took an 80 in a bowl-shaped heat sink, helped quite
a bit. That is until I gave it to my oldest son and he ignored cleaning, his
PSU looked like a mouse exploded inside! The CPU heat sink was completely
plugged, I was pissed! I managed to get it working again but it lost about
15% processing speed. That bowl-shaped heat sink was toast, so I put the
old one back on and told him to limit his run times. He was lucky I had a spare
300w PSU.
PS isn’t stock either, it’s 1000 w, and the case is a massive 13.4 inches wide, 26 inches
tall, and 32 inches deep with glass on the left side and front. Deep black with only a
logo of a hexagram with a lightening bolt through the middle.
A case that size should have spaces to mount more fans,
which it sounds like you need. As I said, I have a box of
extra fans. Take a look and tell me what you can use, I’ll
check if i have any.
Right now you’re getting hot air trapped in the top of your
case, you really should flip that fan. That’s what the top
opening is for. My new case has room for two 140mm fans
there, that’s where my CPU radiator sits.
Mounting your radiator on the rear is fine when the computer
is new, but with time air will get into it. My old computer has
a radiator for the GPU in the rear. It was made in 2016 and I recently
noticed that it was running hotter. The idiot that replaced my
motherboard had mounted the radiator with the inlets on top, I rotated
it to put them on the bottom and temperatures went back down, as the
pump was no longer sucking air.
I use a free program called Speccy to keep track of temps, it works
well. If you use it and your motherboard gets near 40deg C, you
need more case fans. My 2016 stays at 32 C, but it has a LOT of fans.
I suspect it’s for looks, every fan is a lit one and I have an app
to change or rotate the colors. Both the left panel and the front
is tinted glass. I was wrong the front ones are 120s. I suppose
you’re right, there is a lot of heat dumping out the back. I’ll have
to run the app that lists the temps of the CPU,GPU, and chipset,
as well as fan speeds… I’ve been lazy of late with everything
going on of late. Speaking of which, I’ve got to make dinner…
The Japanese swords were Wakizashi, Katana and Tachi,
if Wikipedia is correct. Tachi are the big ones, but
they mostly fell out of use after about 1600.
The Katana was the longer sword worn in the belt.
Those became mainstream mid 1300s to mid 1500s.
I have a 1938 made factory katana with the metal scabbard.
It was a WWII bringback. I’ve never tested the blade.
Never used a bo, but I did have enough practice with
nunchaku while in college to learn why they’re also
known as numb chucks. Hit myself a few times where I
didn’t want to be hit. Them suckers HURT!
My Sensei told me that many years ago, I had forgotten how to pronounce them much less
spell the names heh… I figured that name was more recognizable that the proper one.
He was Korean not Japanese, kept talking about the different styles. The only reason
I took training with the Bo was there was too many people with bat and pipes out
there and blocking those hurt like hell. Try walking around with a 5 foot sword in
the 70s lol. I didn’t want to hurt anyone, just teach them to not start anything with
me or mine. I hated nunchaku’s, yes they are good to giving headaches or numb limbs!
I could use them kinda, but the practice routine was crap and just to show off. You
held them in both hands or tucked under an arm to fire off a fast strike. I loved the
Bo, there was so many different ways to use it and I got pretty good at balancing on it.
jus sayin.. ? 5 foot sword.!!? in Any age would be a pain in ass.!
just about all ‘carried’ (worn on hip) swords are about 3 feet.
and at that size a ‘Claymore or Nodachi’ would have been a
very hard find in the 70’s.. o.0
I was joking, even the 3ft would of gotten me arrested. The practice one I used
had a dulled blade and weighed a ton, I think he just wanted to show us that
while fancy to look at, it took many years to master that blade.
My son has always loved swords, he actually bought a real Katana, I stressed to
him to mount on the wall and enjoy it that way. If he HAD to play with it to go
out into a resting pasture and hack at a dead tree or some target, I highly doubt
he could swing it with any skill and would be a huge risk to anything living
until he did… He’s got it hanging on the wall (for now).
I should add while I could show him a few things, my trick shoulder
is too easy to pop out of joint. Besides, I’d rather he didn’t try, it takes
a lot of training just so the user doesn’t accidentally hack at a poorly
placed leg. He never did learn to watch his stance, even when I set
him up with Tia qua do classes.
You’ll note that I gave attribution to Wikipedia. Katana I can spell. Wakizashi
I can say, but I would have butchered the spelling. The other I’d never heard of.
The blade up aspect is actually quite practical. While walking around, the sharp
blade is never banging into the Saya (the scabbard – thank you Wikipedia again).
Heh, don’t feel bad, with my mild studder it took a month to learn to
speak the names of the various “tools” so to speak, and I still needed
couching.
That is a common mistake, I did it too. Most “masters” these days use
a hard scabbard, rather than a leather and even then it takes hours to
sharpen any of the swords if you forget.
Katana, Wakizashi, and Tanto set,. sometimes leave the Tanto out..
the ‘Tachi’ is a little bigger. invented over 200 years earlier (900ad)
and used mostly on horseback,..
the Katanas (1192ad) smaller size (and worn blade up) was better
used on foot and in close quarters,.
That is partly why I liked the Bo, it was easier to learn and no one
would scream and run if I was walking down the street with it. I
loved to watch the Bruce Lee movies, he used real moves and I got
a few tips in the process! He used a Bo in one of his movies I tried
to copy; he came under attack from a gang, so he grabbed a convenient
mop, broke off the head, balanced on the staff until they attacked.
He kicked off the Bo, bounced it off one guy while kicking the one on
the other side, landed and spun just in time to catch it when it bounced
off the first guy. All in one shot and no closeups. Eddie Murphy copied
that in “Coming to America” but that was clearly choreographed with
many closeups and camera cuts.
I should mention the Bo (staff) is supposed to be apx. 6 ft, only trainees got
a shorter one so a broom stick or mop was actually not the proper length.
Also most broom/mop sticks are thinner and made of pine and not heavy
enough or strong enough to fight with.
>WATCH YOUR DAMNED BOARD!
yep, the best way for the group to be effective is when each person does THEIR
job. If someone else is faltering, the boss does something about it, not you.
If you try to help in the middle of a crunch, then that is TWO jobs not being
done properly.
When times are slack, then informal help is okay. Just be sure you are not
propping up someone who needs more training before the next crunch :}
Not sure they’re gonna get a next crunch time.
Which give us a clear idea on how inept and poorly trained the Shitbats
really are. Their so-called security forces are just following the core’s
wishes and running around making sure their peons are staying peons.
This was no doubt an attempt to remind the P’tera who their bosses
were… Ooops! Guess what core, they’re not peons anymore…. Or alone!
They are trained for the job.
But the job does not involve a war.
Parade ground troops are never trained for war. The Shitbats are not competent
to fight a real war especially a lighting fast, super high intensity one like the Empire
wages. It is imperative now that none of the core vessels escape to warn the
homeworld. The longer the core worlds remain ignorant of the Empire and its allies’
capabilities and tactics the better.
You have a good understanding of Imperial strategy.
The merchant fleet is prepared for a trade war.
The war fleet is prepared for a hot war.
That’s basically what I’ve been saying Bill, they are not soldiers nor do
they expect how fast and trained any Imperial ship’s crews are. Not to
mention how heavily armed even the smallest ships are in the Imperial
fleet is. The core may try, they might even win a few battles, but it’s a
done deal, just a matter of time.
The core hasn’t needed anything but parade ground troops in an exceedingly long
time. They don’t fight among themselves and they can easily overwhelm any upstart
fringers. Plus they have had the P’tera and, to a lesser extent, the Dogs to do most
of their actual fighting for them. Dollars to donuts the core worlds’ officer is mostly
aristocratic political appointees. The Shitbat officer on stage now might be
marginally competent but it doesn’t look like the crew is well trained or practiced.
Plus the coreworlders are arrogant and wildly overconfident. “The Mauler” skipper’s
action showed that. They figured 4 to 1 odds was a guaranteed victory. Oops! IMS
The Sparrow carried 2 Tobies so the 4 to 1 fight is now 4 to 3 against the
Shitbats! Ain’t gonna be pretty!
and,, the core winning,. the few who know how to win.. or ‘trained’ to win,.
were put some place useless (like the ‘political officer’)..
also.. it’s 4 on 4 .. P’tera, Sparrow, x2 Tobies..
I think Bill was counting them that way except assuming the Mauler was hors de combat.
He said 4 to 3 against the Shitbats.
The Sparrow Captain’s plan is working to the T so far, one or both Toby’s
can get behind the remaining ships and take out their engines. Clearly
the Core ships haven’t a clue as to the Imperial ships yet so the
secondary missile launch is a shock to all 3 remaining ships.
Something I just noticed. The Batshits show that they are not really trained
for war. Especially the one that gets distracted by the report from another
station and looks up to make a report and missing a warning.
It’s not conclusive how they are trained overall, but it is an indicator of their
Level of training.
Yeah they are bullies, not trained fighters. They’ve had it easy picking
on the weaker and less developed planets so long they’ve forgotten
how to wage any kind of war. They may be fast learners, but they will
loose the war before they can figure out wth is going on.