[Androgeos Exeunt]

Ah crap. I always think that FSPort's canon. I conveniently forget that the original Shivan Super Laser is still a turret munition with an invisible head.

[FSW]

Maybe the Hades and Colossus were always meant to engage Lucifers in subspace.

[Droid803]

That's kinda stupid then...
If you're going to sacrifice a node every time, why not just use bombers?

[Killer Whale]

Didn't the Collie have over 60 wings or something?

[Enismirdal]

Yeah, it had some stupidly large number in the briefing, though I seem to remember the actual number is lower?  Someone correct me if I'm wrong.  Either way...plenty of bombers.  And engaging Lucifers in subspace seems to be a recipe to quickly be a large number of isolated worlds instead of an alliance.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

They should have escape pods too. I wonder why they didn't use them in Their Finest Hour...

[Commander Zane]

The whole crew said phuk it.

[Kie99]

They should have escape pods too. I wonder why they didn't use them in Their Finest Hour...

The fighterbay was damaged, and the escape pods probably would have been killed in the blast.

[Pred the Penguin]

This one is easy. Command didn't think the Colossus could be destroyed.

[Sololop]

The Sathanas blows up the Collie really, really fast if played on hard or higher iirc, so I doubt the crew would have sufficient time to get to escape pods.

[Enismirdal]

If they had foreknowledge, at least long enough in advance to evacuate, of another incoming Sath, why wouldn't they evacuate all but a skeleton crew?

[eliex]

I would think so, but in the debriefing it mentions the number of crew aboard the Colossus killed were about the same as a fully crewed ship.
That's a good question: Command would surely know that the Sathanas with all 4 frontal beams can easily destroy the Colossus head-on.

[Enismirdal]

Considering that they directly call you to destroy the first Sath's forward beams...I would agree that they know...that doesn't really make sense, then...it would seem like you would want as few casualties as possible in case the worst happened, and with the worst hitting new records daily, it makes sense to prepare.

[eliex]

. . . then again FS2's Command are notorious for making very bad tactical decisions. 

[Enismirdal]

. . . this is a sad but excellent point.  I am forced to admit that's a very probable cause.

[SpardaSon21]

With a Command like the GTVA has, who needs Shivans?

[Enismirdal]

Well I don't think they'd yet implemented the patented every-button-is-self-destruct method of bridge console construction, so you might actually need the Shivans, a little.  Sort of.

[Sololop]

I still don't get their tactics, like in the great hunt. "Yeah lets go roam the nebula with some corvettes and blow up stuff until we find a Shivan base of operations, and from our previous encounters, will be very dangerous."

[General Battuta]

What are you lot on about? Command's tactics are pretty solid all the way through.

I still don't get their tactics, like in the great hunt. "Yeah lets go roam the nebula with some corvettes and blow up stuff until we find a Shivan base of operations, and from our previous encounters, will be very dangerous."

Reconnaissance in force is a well-established military tactic. It was a hunter-killer group utilizing data from recon wings. Tactically ideal.

Don't let hindsight blind you.

[Enismirdal]

Without foresight, that seems really the only practical method for recon in that environment, at least so it seems to me.  I could be wrong, but I admit to a fondness for the direct approach, so...