ARG, the board just deleted my reports. I should have pasted them in notepad first...
Thanks shift + backspace, I love you too.
Anyway... here they are, play-by-play, the interesting ones...
Default settings due to the fact that long range = endless waltz, ships started on opposite sides of the initial screen.
Aegean vs Deathcloud
After the first few opening barrage, the slow Deathcloud took several volleys of weasel fire to its 'leaf' sections while the Aegean simply stayed on step ahead of the plasma death zone.
I feel it only fair to mention that in only two of the tests I've run have the Aegean decided it was a bad idea to dodge and concluded to charge instead. It resulted in the loss of several of its front rail guns and its rear section. However, most of the time it chose to dodge, thankfully.
The slow Deathcloud could do nothing but sit there and take hit after hit and soon it was in shambles.
And that was how it unfolded in most of the tests. Though granted, it is a slow artillery ship while the Aegean is a annoying flanker designed to be able to take punishment for an indefinite period of time.
Winner: Aegean
The Eternal Phoenix II vs Aegean
The Phoenix immediately spewed out a massive barrage of shotgun gattling blaster to show who was boss: 8)
*my wireless connection is wonky so I'll upload picture later*
After a trading a few volleys with the Aegean the Phoenix found its lateral sections damaged due to its initial shoddy deflector placement and the Aegean's generous complement of weasel guns.
However, the Phoenix was also wearing the Aegean's front left armor plate down with its wide cone of blaster fire. While the weasels were random and unpredictable the gattling blasters were random in a good way. They always created a large cone of fire that the Aegean could just never get out of despite its high flanking speed.
It was like clockwork and remain stalemated for quite some time with each ship scoring some good hits but never doing enough damage to over come each other's nano-matrices and deflectors.
Until the Aegean got in a lucky string of weasel shots and tore off the left section of plating on the Phoenix.
And then the Phoenix returned the favor by finally finishing off that crucial piece of the Aegean's front armor.
And then its secondary layer of armor...
And then the whole other side...
And that was about it. The Phoenix destroying the fragile Aegean's front armor decided the fight. It was a tough fight with two well built ships.
Winner: The Eternal Phoenix II
Aegean vs The Harbringer of Doom
The Aegean and the Harbringer shrugged off each otehr's first few opening volleys:
The Harbringer had enough PD to destroy the majority of the weasels while the Aegean had enough speed and PD to destroy most of the missiles:
However, the Harbringer, being so big couldn't adequately fend off both the railguns and weasels with just its PD. Without self repair, it couldn't repair sectiosn beyond yellow. Though its defenses allowed though very little fire, it only took a few lucky shots and back deflector placement thanks to the piercing railgun fire before it started losing sections.
It was a slow war of attrition but the Aegean slowly ground the Harbringer down to the point where its interceptable weapons couldn't bypass the PD on the Aegean.
Eventually, the Aegean blew off the pylon connecting the shield and body but due to excellent deflector placement, it was a hard nut to crack but it did fall.
Winner: Harbringer
The Eternal Phoenix III vs Aegean
This battle was the same as The Eternal Phoenix II vs Aegean except for the fact that the AI range on Phoenix III seemed to be shorter, forcing it to follow. This made all the difference as you will see later:
The battle started with the Phoenix III in pursuit of Aegean and pretty much continued that way for most of the match.
Unlike both the Harbringer, the Phoenix III is a fast missile ship. This meant, instead of the Aegean, staying at range and defeating missiles, missiles would impact regularly. Unfortunately, most of the missiles were defeated by the PD guns unlike the hail storm of blaster shots from Phoenix's little brother and reduced DPS.
Being fast, while reducing the range between the ships also caused the weasel shots from Aegean to hit farther back. Instead of slamming into the thow big front plates, they would slam into the two lateral pieces.
Since, the front of the Phoenix was getting raked by the railguns, and the rear was taking weasel hits, the deflectors became confused and would often set themselves to the pylons that supported the front plates instead of the vulnerable lateral sections. Other times, they would get confused and set themselves to the rears section while the other deflectors protected on set of pylon and plating leaving the other plate completely down.
Ontop of this the Aegean was handily dodging or absorbing the token amount of damage that reached it. Unlike its fight against Phoenix II, there was not 'shotgun' effect every few seconds to catch a section when the deflectors were down.
After several devastating volleys, the Phoenix III lost one and then both of its lateral sections while displaying some truely confused deflector settings. The weasels then slowly destroyed the side mounted deflectors and the railguns sniped off the Phoenix's weapons and then it was game.
Winner: Aegean
These weren't the only games I ran, I ran alot against all the ships but I didn't feel like recording every single one.