Re: Two AARs--John Atkinson vs Laserlight

G'day John,

>> Takes practice but is possible - try flanking moves (another thing
that
>> takes prcatice but works very well against the KV).
>
>Nonsense.  They fly merrily along in whatever direction they want, and
>will always be facing you unless you are facing an inexperienced player
>who's too stupid to guess which general direction you will be in.  

OK I'm going to prefice my statements here with the fact we used 'old'
vector in the games we had vs KV and under that hiuman ships of decent
speed are just as manuverable as the new KV so it is quite possible to
wrong foot the KV (even if its only by a hair's breadth out of arc is
out
of arc). Under 'new' vector it will be a LOT harder, but even under that
pincer attacks work well, they can't all be facing in both directions at
once and as soon as you've split their fire and turned their noses
you've
got your foot in the door.

>Even
>then, logic would suggest to face your KV slightly off each other's arc
>in order to catch a wider spread.  I run a lot of ships with Pulse
>Torps, and very rarely am I out of arc, much less if my facing and
>thrust were utterly independant.

After the baptism by fire that I got vs Nik's FOR I've gotten very good
at
not being where you expect me to be, but like I said we are still using
'old' vector.

>New.  Where a K5 does 10 points of damage 84% of the time....
>Yup.  That's balanced.

I can assure you Oerjan and half a dozen others spent countless weekends
making sure they were, I still get nightmarish flashbacks to pages of
copious stats ;)

>Scatterpacks are trivial--but I'd like to see you "keep them at range"
>with a consistently lower thrust (ie, every fleet in the FB, and most
of
>the designs I've seen on the net) and less maneuverability.  I'll not
>even mention the difficulties which arise when you have scenario
>objectives more defined than "kill the bug-eyed monsters."

Guess my only defense here is that I was giving my experience based on
'old' vector. Yes it'll take a bit of learning with 'new' vector but
given
how steep the learning curve was originally for KV in vector I seriously
doubt that the KV are unbeatable and need recosting for vector.

Cheers

Beth - how dreads to think what John's going to ahve to say about the
Phalons and Savasku.... ;)

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