Re: [FT] Fighters

On 18-Feb-00 at 16:58, JohnDHamill@aol.com (JohnDHamill@aol.com) wrote:

> Anybody who stints defenses in a campaign game deserves to have the
mistake
>  rammed straight down their throat. I used to play Starfire campaigns,
and
> the  first thing you learn to do is to build up your system defenses. 
> Unfortunately, i learned that from very painful experience, as the
first 
> campaign i was in my defenses were arranged on my frontiers, and very
> little  in my core systems. A very powerful player task force,
consisting
> of several  other players fleets ( never brag to the other players :-)
)
> broke thru my  defenses and rolled up my core systems, one by one. A
very
> hard lesson...

It all depends on the situation.  My opponent has an almost linear
world base which is vulnerable to two players (It also has the largest
production base).  In his (reasonable) judgement attempting to provide
defenses for all of his worlds with his available resources would leave
him able to defend none, therefore he defended his important worlds
and left an FTL force to deal with the rest.

Roger