Re: *BOOM!!*

We desire your secret targeting computers that you used against that
dreadnought.  Well done!

Rufus
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wikan <MWikan@mailhost.accolade.com>
To: 'FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk' <FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk>
Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 12:14 PM
Subject: *BOOM!!*

>The mighty Kra'Vak have fallen!! At least in one instance... We had a
>game with myself, John Fox, John Leary and a couple others from the
>South Bay gamers. We had a 3:2 ratio force of Human to Kra'vak force
>that through OUTRAGEOUS fortune went through the Kra'vak like poop
>through a goose. My initial spearhead of six light cruisers (paired
>Battle Rider/Tug engine Combos) fired nine pulse torpedoes in the
second
>range band (4+ to hit) at a Kra'Vak SDN. ALL NINE hit for THIRTY EIGHT
>points of damage!!! Considering my general inability to hit a GAS GIANT
>with a pulse torpedo, I was stunned beyond the capacity for rational
>thought. The follow up beam fire finished their flagship and the rest
of
>the fleet massed fire on the rest of the Kra'Vak. The rest of the game
>was a big running circle as the Kra'Vak wheeled round and round
bringing
>their fwd guns to bear while the rest of our forces hammered them with
>beam and missile fire.
>VERY interesting game!
>
>Michael Wikan, Game Designer
>Accolade, Inc.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Geoffrey Stewart [SMTP:Geoffrey_Stewart@uow.edu.au]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 1998 8:45 PM
>> To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>> Subject: RE: ConQuest'98 FT results (was RE: Kra'vak Railgun)
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> It is impossible to comment on your tournement without knowing what
>> weapons and
>> rules you were allowing, as a general comment we have found the
>> KRa'vak so
>> powerfull even doubling the points leaves them with an edge,  we
>> simply banned
>> them in the end. I have found a good ship design to be a mass 80 hull
>> with 2
>> pulse torpedoes in each arc and level three screens, it just waddles
>> up to
>> people's heavily armoured / screened ships and wallops them.
>>
>> Peace and Love
>> Geoffrey
>