Re: FTIII: A Plea to End "Me Too" Firing.

On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

>   You're right, it doesn't work too well.  But then that's why I play
> SFB for duels.  

Yechh.

> FT works better with larger fleets, and the bigger
> your fleet gets the less the initiative advantage gets.  

And the bigger the "Divine Coordination" oddness gets. *That's* my main 
beef with the vanilla system.

> There is
> still the coordinated fire oddness but I think that's a small price to
> pay for the ability to run through twenty ships in a few minutes.

But I haven't found simultaneous fire any slower -- actually it plays
out
FASTER, because:

- No need to roll thresholds for destroyed ships
- Everyone can make their threshold rolls at the same time
- No time wasted in "gamey" calculations which ship to shoot first
- No arguments
- No "Divine Coordination"
- No "gamey" tactics (e.g. from BTech: "I 'move' this unit that's too
far 
from the action and crippled anyway -- it stays put. Your move.")

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