Re: Just wondering.....

>Do yall only talk about figurines, or is it just me; just wondering.  I

>guess you leave the gameplay to some other website or something, but
I'll ask 
>what are probably old questions;  couldn't find any helpful FT
FAQs.....

People will tend to chat about what they find most interetsing in a mail
group. people like to chat about minnies, they will. If you want advice
I'm
sure there are enough people out there to answer questions about
gameplay.

>Why are the Kra'Vak so damned powerful?  We played a little Two on One
fight 
>with the USes using 1200 points apiece and the THEMs using 2000; we got
our 
>BUTTS kicked!	Do they have ANY weakness????  Speaking of which, how
does 
>Pulse Torpedoes affect Kra'Vak armour in terms of damage sustained?

In our gaming group we adjust the heck out of the Kra'Vak, and we find
them
much better to play against. We changed the scatterpacks to take away
their
effectiveness against both fighters and ships. Six of them do serious
damage
to capital ships for way too little cost.

>Also was wondering when an attacked ship should roll threshold checks; 
>immediately when crossed (ie: attacker is rolling five dice, first dice

>causes defender to cross threshold, attacker continue to rolls AFTER
defender 
>checks thresholds) or after the attack is done.  Can make a big
difference, 
>especially when dealing with shielded ships....

We've always done it after all the fire done. So the screens aren't
taken
out with the first volley, making the following shots easier. 

>Jon, I have a thought for you.  It always seems like whenever humans 
>encounter aliens, they're always bigger, stronger, and more deadlier
than us. 
> How about....
>
>..... "Captain, picking up alien vessel.  It is firing."
>"Brace for impact!"   ::plink!  plink!::
>"Damage, O'Brien?"
>"Sir, we have sustained no damage.  As best as I can tell, their
munitions 
>just shattered off our hull."
>"Reason?"
>"Sir, best I can tell, the projectiles were nothing more than small, 
>snowball-like shots."
>"Very well, open fire."
>:::alien ship vaporizes:::
>"What happened?"
>"Sensors indicate the alien vessel was made of frozen water; they
didn't have 
>a chance, sir."
>
>Anyway, you get the picture....

That's just silly. Of course all aliens are in some way superior....
Anyway according to more thrust the Kra'vak aren't greatly more advanced
then we are....and every battle with unchanged rules is always close
bewtween even human and Kra'vak fleets. ;-)

Just another point on the superior alien point. In Kryomek humans found
numerous aliens, even sentients that were not as advanced as they were.
They
just killed them. It wasn't until the Kryomek turned up that they found
a
challenge.
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