Re: Battlepod Swarm from Hell...
From: rkp@m... (Robin Paul)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:43:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Battlepod Swarm from Hell...
>The battle pods have such a high thrust value that they could manuever
around
>the "spinal mounts" of the Nova Cannon and the Wave Gun. The Wave Gun
doesn't
>have a reliable rate of fire either! Catching them in your "cones of
fire"
>would be nontrivial.
>
>I think a better method for dealing with these "flies" are light
cruisers with
>triple arc B batteries and extra firecons. Or a munchkin fleet of
corvettes
>with a single triple arc A battery each. Your fleet would manuever to
keep
>the battle pods at 18"+ range and whittle them down to vapor.
What fun, thinking up anti-munchkin munchkins! Here's my idea:
Merchant-hulled, Mass-38 Q-Ships with Thrust-1 and a Nova Cannon and 3
empty
mass points. This horrible lump of iron can be churned out for 182
points,
so that's 8 of them for 1456 points. They would sit stationary, perhaps
in
2 groups to permit a star attack. At least half would be firing and the
rest
realigning, if necessary, each turn. They can be placed in 2 "ranks" so
that the "rear" vessels' warheads pass their "front rank" ships before
igniting.
Rob
Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR Tel. (01865) 512361
rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk
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