Combat ****ups!

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Recently returning to Sins (Trinity) after a long absence, my most recent game "fails"....

I managed with my small & only attack fleet, to destroy the enemies starbase... an almighty explosion that wiped out everything including my own fleet X|  

Making progress.. i decided to spam out a load of frigates to make up a massive attack fleet, sent them into batle only to realise they were all envoy ships.... major fail :-"

All good fun though, have to say i found SC2 rather claustrophobic & much prefer this game.

Anyone else brave enough to add their Fails?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I've got nothing as catastrophic as those failures.  My blunders tend to be very subtle oversights that appear very minor and even insignificant at first, but eventually work out to be full-blown screw-ups.  Mind you, as far as kamikaze starbases go, I once wiped out three players full fleets with a single starbase.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

just today i lost almost half of my fleet by letting them run into a minefield attacking buildings

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I often tend to break out my support vessels (guardians, overseers, subverters) out of my fleet and use ctrl groups. Then after a battle is won I reform them into the fleet to jump. I do this because I hate all that 'reforming fleet' movement during battle which really wrecks subtle positioning.

Anyways, one time I had forgotten my overseers and subverters were split out and jumped the rest of my fleet into a heavily fortified gravity well. I had scouted ahead and managed to jump my fleet (sans overseers and subverters) around the ridiculous mining field choking the lane entrance and then start to engage a large fleet. Once I realized my overseers and subverters were accidentally left behind I blithely ordered them to jump and join my fleet in action.

Sadly I did not reckon that the path they would take would lead them right into the heart of the mine field. And since I was preoccupied with a large fleet battle already it took me a while before I noticed that I had lost more than half my support mini-fleet (something on the order of 15 overseers and an equal number subverters were lost outright). Many of what remained were heavily damaged but at least once I noticed the problem I was able to intervene and extricate them to the best of my ability. While I won the battle, I had lost a bunch of my support fleet. Very silly in hindsight.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

My ups 2 cents....

My team was wining and so was I.... I had 46 kodiaks and damaged sova lvl6 and was chasing his fleet which was decimated and sure to die... I don't need to say that i jumped in where tec suicide sb was (at that time didn't know value of scouting) of course he RB it but what was worse was that his decimated fleet cleared the blast and i lost all ships I had including damaged sova. He went straight on counter and since I had factories on planet 1 jump away he killed those and forced me never to have enough time to recover.

My UPS cost my team sure 100% win..... 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

That big red button... man.   it will get ya.  For me its like. YES! they are retreating! ohhh SHHIII-  RUN AWAY!  I have never lost a cap ship to one, and it as never cost me the game yet... but I have used it to great effect. its so fun watching a capital ship go from lv 1/2 to lv 6/7 instantly.