Stronghold Gamma has been attacked by AW today. Three of their ships, and an allied Spyglass invaded Gamma.
We had myself in a fighter, as well as Lt. Commander Voronov. We were aided by several Corsairs, including a TBH gunboat and some Huntresses and many fighters piloted by Crete's amateur defense force.
Many were lost. The spyglass was crippled, and all that was left of the foe were a gunboat (Denicalus) and my previously encountered foe, Orome.
The gunboat laid waste to many fighters, whilst Orome picked off the amateur defense pilots instead of wasting his time trying to take me out. This was wise. I had trouble hitting his shieldless hull, but he had no problem wiping out our allies. His flying... it was beautiful...
A residual blast from detonations within their Hacker Spyglass fried some of my electrics, and my shields were torn asunder as I tried to repair the damage to my computer. I was forced to crash-land on Crete and regroup with the downed Lt. Voronov. (OOC: My dinner was ready, and already cold. Had to leave at some point. Argh.)
Later on, a large Blood Dragon NovaPG force also entered Gamma with AW Denicalus and a Bushido pilot. This ended in a stalemate (rule breaks from both sides ARGH.), although I did take out a couple of their fighters.
Lessons learnt - Our allies can't be relied upon as being able pilots. They should only be called upon as a last resort, unless of course, they are ranking TBH pilots, as we saw yesterday. Numbers provided by sympathetic pilots may be encouraging, but they are unreliable.
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