RE: Game 1324 over

["Brendan Robertson" <southernskies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's an interesting outcome.  The alpha test had clark's forces hammered
badly by the energy mines.  It's a hard scenario to balance as any advantage
accumulates too quickly to compensate.

I will look at adding another station module to help the victory conditions.

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernskies/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noam Izenberg [mailto:noam.izenberg@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, 21 September 2007 10:20 AM
> To: ftjava-test@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Game 1324 over
> 
> 
> This was a Shattered Dreams scenario. Clark's forces ended up  
> destroying B5, one of the Omegas, crippling the other Omega, and  
> killing all defending fighters. Loyalist losses were one one Heavily  
> damaged Omega, One moderate Omega, one Struck cruiser 
> (critical hit),  
> and one lightly damaged cruiser. About 4.5 of the original 12 
> survived.
> 
> This version was played with Cinematic, Vector may have upped damage  
> on both sides.
> This scenario suffered a fighter bug that put 80% of all fighters 2  
> turns away from the ship combat. This had less effect than 
> I'd expected.
> 
> An issue with this scenario is that it is too easy for the Clark  
> loyalists to blow through the B5 defense and attack the station.  
> Perhaps slower starting speeds, or a longer distance is 
> necessary. It  
> is also too easy to destroy the station. It might be nice to split  
> the station into two modules - one that has the combat power, the  
> other that houses the civilian population. Make a rule that if the  
> combat power is destroyed, and a loyalist is within 6 MU and under  
> speed 6, then the station *must* strike colors. Plus, if the 
> civilian  
> population suffers over 50% causalties, both sides lose.
> 
> I liked the scenario though - the ship designs were nicely different  
> and really did have a B5-ish feel to them.
> 
> -N
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