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The only way that warp strafing works is if phasers were FTL. They are not so unless the ships in combat decided to blows themselves up, the only it'll work if it is fired from behind, as the ship is moving away, otherwise, the moment the phaser is fired, it'll strike the ship that fired it.

I wonder who he'll play as.

And yet the DF will get blown to pieces by TL by flying a predictable straight line towards the exhaust port. The DS' TL guns may be slow but they'll have no trouble taking down a single ship flying in a straight line.

He just hates SW and everything it entails.

Considering that the GE controls a huge chunk of the galaxy, wouldn't it make sense that they'd have millions of warships? Not all of them would be the most recent top of the line warships like the ISD I & IIs. And when I say warships I don't mean all of them are capital ships. There would be many frigates, destroyers and assault carriers too. Then add in support ships like armed troop transports, tenders and so forth and well maybe millions upon millions of warships may be stretching it but the GE must have a large ship count to keep the sectors in line. I'll look around for a source. EDIT: Ok, I looked around and wookieepedia states that the Imperial Navy at its peak had millions of warships, fighters and transports and trillions of fleet crew. The source they used was the Republic Era Campaign Guide..

Well...... they could but it would be to the Feds detriment. The Empire has millions of warships, so in a sense bringing 70,000 to 80,000 (assuming that the Federation has a fleet of 20,000 to 30,000 starships) isn't that much for the Empire.

Except you are forgetting that the 'Nids will be traveling through the Warp and therefore bypass the Galactic Barrier. They might not have shields but I can pretty sure believe that they'll coat themselves with some sort of slime to protect them from the heat if they passed it in real space, if they don't have thermal protection as it is.

You are speaking in gibberish. Come back when you can type in English.

Except if you use the tricobalt devices to purposely cause subspace ruptures, you are making it a subspace weapon and therefore is banned. Then again with subspace being fragile as it is (remember the ep where Picard was told that warp travel was destroying subspace?), would you really want to destroy or severely damage your only method of FTL? The Dominion War caused more trouble for the Feds than the Borg and yet they still were losing. Yeah using the Betazoids to scan a Tyranid Hive mind is a quick way to have them yank out their eyeballs. You really want to tap into a collective mind of billions, all wanting to devour you in oh so many ways?

Registry numbers mean diddly squat in regards to ship numbers. Prometheus was a newer ship yet it had a registry number smaller than Voyager's. We already know that ships have changed their registry numbers before. Remember Defiant's replacement? Even if we are to assume that Starfleet has around 30,000 ships, we do not know if that include lesser support ships or not.

But subspace weapons are banned under the Khitomer Accords, so no dice. This scenario talks about UFP vs. the Tyranids with the 'Nids attacking a Federation colony. OP doesn't state that this is a Tyranid vs. Alpha Quadrant. I've also mentioned the reasons why the Federation are very reluctant to use WMDs in the face of annihilation. On their own the Feds are unlikely to compromise on their principles. It would have to take an organization like Section 31 to even think of using WMDs.

I know where I'd put my wand...... *casts "Doggus Stylus"* lol

Yet it happened.

No because the Empire would not wait around decades for the Feds to get their crap together. Once the Empire comes into play, the war will be short lived.

And where will the Feds get a 40K style warp drive? The example you mentioned only caused the Hive Fleet to be sucked into the Warp along with the Emperor Class Battleship the Dominus Astra detonating its warp drives. What they basically did was create a warp portal and sucked in the hive fleet. How are the Feds to do that when they don't even know what the 40K warp is, let alone create a similar strategy? Nevertheless, posrep since you are putting thought into this unlike Jason, who doesn't even know what thought is.

Most if not all of those examples are the result of the Queen's direct involvement. Normal modus operandi does not necessarily apply. When the Borg attack without the Queen's direct involvement (other than pointing the way), they are in default mode. They stick to standard methods of assimilation. If you watched both parts of Scorpion, you'll noticed both the default mode and when the Queen got involved. In default mode, they acted pretty much like zombies and the drones kept trying to assimilate the bioship even though they constantly failed. With the Queen's involvement, you'll notice that after making the agreement with Voyager, the Borg acted in a unorthodox manner, i.e. sacrificing a Cube to save Voyager, or being duplicitous by using 7o'9 and her drones to take over Voyager after having their bacon saved. Since the Queen is not directly involved in this scenario (OP doesn't mention her), the Borg are stuck on their default mode. Borg still lose.

That is easy enough for the Borg to do so. All they need to do is say "Adapt lowest frequency encountered to the highest frequency encountered" and Ta-Da!! Multi frequency energy weapon adaptation. Sure they'll expend more energy in the adaptation but they'll live a little bit longer.

Dammit! Did it again. I negged you by accident. I'll happily posrep you several times elsewhere. This is what happens when I try to neg all of Jason's posts. lol You'll have to understand that the Federation will not immediately start using WMDs up front until it is almost way too late and even then it would probably be done by a covert faction. Case in point, the Dominion War. The Federation\Klingon\Romulan Alliance were still being ground up piecemeal and eventually were going to lose until Section 31 injected Odo with a virus and spread it to the rest of the Founders. Only from the threat of extinction did the Founders end the war. Up until then, there was no inclination for the Fed and co. to use WMDs to save themselves. In the case of the red matter, all of it was gone with Old Spock and the Vulcans promised to not make anymore of it once the Federation found out that they were making it. Kiss it goodbye. Even if you could use it, how will you be able to employ the red matter without destroying the colony worlds? The hive fleet is huge. Not all of it would be in one star system. To give you an idea the size of their fleets, here the pic of the history of Tyranid invasions. Tell me you'll be able to defeat them? Next is the use of bio-chemical warfare on them. How long do you think that stop them since they have history in dealing on both sides of bio-chemical warfare? Since this is UFP vs. Tyranids, how will the Romulans help if they are not the ones involved since they'd gladly stay out of the way until the Feds are gone and then maybe step in. Again case in point, the Dominion War. It is a curb stomp through and through. At most the Feds would give the 'Nids a bloody nose. Now, if this was the 31st century UFP, then it is a whole different ballgame.

Of course it is a "stumped" argument because you're stumped to find a decent argument to reply. Yeah, the Federation is soooo advanced that Betazed, a majot Federation world was only defended by antiquated weapons platforms. You do not have any real proof to back you up whatsoever. You are making it all up.

Wrong answer buttnuts. As atom said, Borg do not use photon torpedoes and there is no evidence that they use such tactics. Lack of point defense weaponry will severely hamper the Borg's ability to eliminate any ships carrying boarding parties. The Borg lose hard. Worse than the Federation since at least the Feds are creative and can think of new tactics on the fly. The Borg? They stick to one proven method and keep repeating ad infinitum until the last drone is devoured. You lose again.

We do know. There has been countless TNG and TOS episodes in which the Ent crew beams down to some colony or another. Most seem to fit more in the 19th century than the 24th. The only colony that I know of that could present a minute possibility of a threat is that hive (not Tyranid) colony that Tasha Yar came from. Also, the starships don't have the ability to mass beam hundreds of thousands of torpedoes into the Hive fleet before being destroyed. Stupid too. Pulling every starship that starfleet has to deal with the Tyranids will leave them defenseless for an attack on a different front. Q help them if the Borg decided to attack at that point.

You can't defeat the Tyranids that way. Their ships are friggin' huge! even ISDs are dwarfed by them and they have over a billion ships of various sizes available to them. Plus they will not be all at one place. They'll be attacking multiple planets. Spreading Stafleet's ships that thin will also leave them vulnerable by other powers that could attack at any time. Even piracy would go up exponentially with the lack of starships defending vulnerable colonies. Not only that but the starships do not have enough time to constantly beam over torpedoes before being ripped apart and\or devoured. We know plenty of examples of Federation colonies and pretty much all of them are useless against any space based threat. You're dumber than Pinky and one-tenth as entertaining.

Proof that the UFP have a fleet of 100,000 starships. The Feds were not able to defeat the Dominion on their own and they've admitted it. They were getting their asses handed to them even after the Klingons were helping them against the Dominion. I think Paul wants to know who's your supplier.

People with actual lives.