Re: Still Lousy After All These Years

bolton.ac.uk!owner-ftgzg-l wrote:
>	Well, I'm bummed.  Last night I had proven my own tactical 
> incpmpetence regarding FT.  It is FT night at my local game store, and

> since it had been a month since I played a game I decided to go.  I
got 
> there at 7PM and stayed till about 10:30PM, and in that time frame, I 
> found out just how bad I am at this game.

[MUNCH]

>	In the end both my destroyers got dusted and my CA and BC died
an 
> undignified death.  I had to leave early in order to get to bed at a 
> reasonable hour.  I only killed a couple of dinky ships that were 
> swarming me.	Other than that, I barely scored a point of damage. 
Maybe 
> the problem isn't with me, but the people I game with.  These people
take 
> 4000 points and make monster ships that can total my largest ship 
> (usually a SDN) in a single beam salvo.  (Don't ask me what our
Kra'Vak 
> player fields!  10 "3" railguns and 15 scatterpacks!)

I don't think you should feel so bad.  Stock ships against those 
munchkin monsters!?  (TWELVE A-bats?  Dear God!)  Plus the shock of the
rule change, plus everything else; man, the Universe was stacked
against you.

I wonder if in the supership range, point scales should become 
exponential.  That'll keep things away from the MASS 2000 Death Stars 
that destroy entire solar systems in one gigantic blow.  I know
any system is open to abuse, but I've heard too many stories about the
mega-death dealing dreadnaught.  (As it stands now, unless you've got a 
BIG table, tin cans will get slaughtered vs. line ships.)

Just some random babble.

J.
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