In Corner #2:   Weighing 161,000 tons, Representing those anachronisms to happier and bloodier days on Vulcan, Alleycat in the Romulan TKR

In Corner #2: Weighing 135,000 tons, Representing the race whose one defining thought is "Nice galaxy.  We'll take it!",  John Trauger (AKA Vorlon) in the Andomedan TC

Turn 1
Him: a clunky speed 15 
Me: a zippy kinda speed 28 
IMP 2: I'm turning across his bow and going straight Direction-F.  He seems happy enough to let me. 
IMP 13: Hmmm. he launched a shuttle.  How quaint. 
IMP 15: Another shuttle.  How droll. 
IMP 17: A 3rd shuttle?  How odd.  Well, I'm hitting the gas for speed 31 
IMP 18: He turns away and I turn back to A to start to follow. 
IMP 19: He launched the 4th shuttle too. How...unique.  What could this guy be thinking?  Sure fire support is fine and dandy, but at speed 6 are they gonna be anywhere *near* me when I make my flyby run?  Be funny if two were suicide shuttles.  Kinda like same-hex T-bombs.  Not like I'll EVER run over them though... 
IMP 24: Now *he's* turned back to face me.  Guess he realized he was leaving his little friends in the dust. 
IMP 26: A plasma-S <snort-laugh> like that thing's actually real (you might hear that a lot in an LA cocktail party, but that's another story)  I hope it isn't real for your sake Rommie-boy or you're in a heapin' helpin' of Trouble-With-A-Capital-T. 
the morning after I sent of my IMP 26 sitrep, I realized that that Romulan Shuttle Convention was all about.  It had nothing to do with fire support.  It had to do with attempting to limit my movement.  He didn't want me taking off along his right flank.  He WANTED a Shield 1 pass.  He's probably thinking, 

"Muhuhahaha!  I'll give him a heavily-reinforced  shield 1 to chew on, take his range-3 shot and bolt torps and fire phasers at his rear shield at Range 8!  Even if I don't break through his panels, I'll be able to chase him till my phasers recycle and then...POW!"  

IMP 29: Great plan, boss.  Problem is, I usually fire at range 5 for just that sort of reason.  "Reinforced" the shield was, too.  I did 34 and I only get 15 actual damage (one T-R rolled a 6.  Them's the breaks playing the Range 5 game).  That's assuredly 14 reinforcement.  Then I bounce away to 11 hexes (nyah nyah not even worth bolting at me!) and moon him with my rear panels. 

IMP 32: Let's go over his EAF, shall we? 

4 for housekeeping (4), +15 for Movement (19), +4 for holding S-torps (23), +19 reinforcement (42).  Including batteries, he only has 39+5 = 44.  So where'd the other 2 go, hmmm?   I don't think he would have discharged 3 batteries and left 2, y'know?  2 *is* the number of shuttles a (non Andro) player can start the game with.  Y'think maybe two of those shuttles are suicides?  I guess my opponent's thought would be "He'll run right over them saying 'What can they do to me?  16 points of phaser damage?!?  I LAUGH at 16 points!'  Then he'll get hit for 36 PLUS another 6-8 phaser damage!  Muhahaha!" 

Don't think so.  See ya in 33 impulses, bro.  Hope ya got yer runnin' shoes on in the mean time. 

Turn 2 
His speed: 30: Mine: 28.  WHAT!?!  A GALACTIC ship moving faster than an ANDRO?!?  We'll have to fix that... 
IMP 9 ...And we do.  Speeding up to 31. 
IMP 11: Rom turn to C.  Turning to follow me, huh?  Looks like he's got me herded into the corner... 
IMP 13:...or maybe not.  Andro turn to D.  Hey, try THIS in that fixer-upper Klingon of yours!  Big problem when you're going too fast to HET after me, huh?  *I* could HET after me, so nyah... 
IMP 16: A quick speed change to 21 JUST IN TIME to avoid the wall... 
IMP 19: Geeze, that Rom is following me faster than I thought...  A T-bomb outta slow him down. 
IMP 21: And here's the other one, just for fun... 
IMP 23: The Rom tosses off an S and an F plasma... 
IMP 24: BOOM!  Now you have a 5-box shield #1.  And here comes another S and F... 

That Romulan is DEFINITELY getting too close... 

IMP 26: Now the rom cuts loose with his phasers, doing an nice job of charging up my front panels. 36 damage. 
I desperately throw 4 P-2s into one of the Fs and hope the S-torps are pseudoes... 
IMP 28...They're not.  That's it for me.  Just for fun, John Kim ran out the internals.  I think the ship ended up with like 10 warp left.  Most of its power would be devoted to just keeping the panels from dumping killing energy into the ship.  :)