Gratuitous Federation & Empire

 Bringing the campaign up to date after my non-internet hiatus: The Kzinti Front The high tide mark of the Coalition offensive against the Kzinti has passed. Three of the home system planets were devastated a couple of times and the Klingons did capture the major planet just outside the home hex, so splitting Kzinti territory in two. However, at that point the Klingon High Command decided that attacking the Federation was a good idea. The breathing space enabled the Kzinti to eject the Klingons from the major planet, helped by the fact that many of the Coalition ships were in bad shape (i.e. crippled) after their offensive efforts. The Kzinti just ignored the Lyrans for the time being.  The big cats have now turned their attention to their smaller feline enemies and, after slipping some reinforcements to the Marquis' Fleet, pretty much the rest of the Kzinti navy is attacking towards the closest Lyran staging point. The latter have elected to come out fighting to forestall their op

 My new ship, being the command vessel for a Frigate flotilla, is not considered important enough to need repairing while our logistics facilities are working flat out to get the heavier ships back into action. I fully understand the reasoning; our forces will need all of the decent ships they have for the attack on the Kzinti home systems. This means all I can do is watch the vid screens as they tell the story of our attacks, in conjunction with our Lyran allies. I am curious to watch them in action, because I am not all that familiar with their ships. Although the fleets are given separate targets, footage of the Lyrans in action is also shown, and impressive they are too.  The upshot is that three of the main home planets of the big cats will be devoid of military installations for quite some time to come, although the price we have paid is high. The whole thing culminates in a grand battle at the approaches to the Kzinti home world. The redoubtable Admiral Ulorf leads from his C8 D

 Well, reasonably soon. Moving continents has played havoc with my internet access, but in the meantime I've been playing merrily away. The Coalition has conquered pretty much all of Kzinti space and repeatedly devastated three of the outer planets in their capital system, albeit at the cost of great harm, especially to the Klingons. For reasons unknown to anyone but themselves, they decided it was a good idea to attack the Federation and escalate the entire war. The Lyrans are quietly rebuilding their offensive forces with most of their crippled ships repaired and back on the front lines. It's shaping up to an epic confrontation here between the Red Claw and the majority of the Kzinti navy. The big cats did manage to get some reinforcements through to the Marquis, but even so it might not be enough to save the last Starbase outside their homeworlds. The molasses strategy has been working, although one of the Klingon fleets got a nasty scare when the Federation 3rd Fleet turned