Since seanner's in intensive care right now, i'll post on the loss of his F-CB+ (is that right seanner?) to frogian forces.
It was a F-CS+
"forces" makes them sound dangerous, the real problem was my terrible mistakes - I had blasted a good chunk out of his #6 shield, and was preparing an HET-photon shot at it (he was chasing me at about range 6 since the edge of the map snuck up on me), EXCEPT WHEN I HET'd I DIDN'T TURN FAR ENOUGH AND NEVER GOT THE ANGLE TO SHOOT THE PHOTONS!!! So I took some phasers and plasma for NOTHING!!!
Thanks to Federation resilience, however, that in fact hardly damaged me outside of my confidence which was hovering around zero as it was my first engagement..
At least he was slow for a bit and I opened up the distance again to fully charge overloads at almost top speed the whole way thanks to charging normals, then converting to overloads one at a time, so he had minimal armaments vs my fully armed ship while attempting to chase. Except I'm out of safe HET's... so I tried a emer-decel upon consultation of my helpful teammates, who probably assumed I could HET or let him close a bit more FIRST... what happened is I took a full phaser volley (no plasma cause I weaselled) and he turned away behind me enough to stay out of arc of photons
Then I got to chase him with full overloads as he laid mines everywhere, eventually using T-bombs which left me some free hull shots.
I forget what happened after all this, but one thing I do remember, at no point, regardless of range, could I see his weapon status! They all showed empty so I was trailing him very close and we were both going slow, then I do a H&R at which point he magically has charged phasers and blasts me to all hell....self destruct initiated
Was a great battle and especially great fun. I can't help but find humor in the fact that my two crucial photon passes resulted in me NOT firing any photons! Damn Fed training grads get dumber every year...
EDIT: By the way, kidding about the "forces" comment, a20risky is a dangerous foe!