Had a game with Larry. His 1250 EotBS against my Russians. He has an interesting fleet. Two Kiyohime Assault carriers, with three Kitsune escorts each. A Kaiju Heavy Battleship with Shields and three Kitsune escorts. Three Honshu Cruisers with rockets, a Yuri Terror ship and one squadron of Fujin Corvettes. Some odd choices. However the Kitsunes are pretty good. Especially with the HBB. They have 2/3/4/0 rockets that can link with the two launchers on the Kaiju. I faced this same fleet twice. In my first encounter the Kitsune escorts for one of the Assault Carriers put a crit on a FSA Savannah Sky Fortress. They also served to protect attacking the carriers and HBB. Making difficult the attack with Rockets or boarding.
Lastly they count toward the small percentage for fleet makeup, (but not small squadrons). So I had to kill them first. Interesting tactic. The Yuri never really got into play either time, but it was a royal pain to sink. 1/2 AD all the time. The FSA disruption generator failed all three attempts and the RC just had to deal. That said I plinked it death and stayed away from it. Using air units helps as it can't board obscured units. Both the FSA and the RC took enough air support to offset the 12 carrier SAWs. I took the new FSA bomber, it died and the RC Krichev, it died too. But they were dangerous and became hit magnets. The Krichev is a beast. The absence of more Honshus or any Uwatsus made his fleet too slow. I won both the battles, the second quite decisively. His fleet would have hurt if it have reached me earlier but he didn't have the movement.
