Re: Battlepod Swarm from Hell...

Robin Paul wrote:
> 
> >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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You know, although the battle pod idea would work extremely well in a 
game, what self respecting FT gamer would use them?  And what SANE FT 
gamer would PLAY someone who was using them???	:)

Adam