RE: Measuring things...

Just to add my 2Cents worth....having started in WRG Ancients, I've had
some
REALLY bad experiences with opponents doing this; but the problem was
not
the pre-measuring, it was in the context they did it. Personally what
really
irks is people who measure and then move to NOT quite one of your
effective
ranges but just within an advantageous range to them!I have no problem
with
someone measuring to see which taret is closest etc; as someone has
mentioned; in a Sci-Fi setting your forces will have access to
sophisticated
targetting capabilities. I guess though it still all comes down to what
is
accepted practice in your gaming group. Competitions tend to be all out
"competitive" so human nature will out.

Cheers,

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Jeremey Claridge
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 May 2000 6:56 PM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: Measuring things...
>
>
>
> >  >Can I pre-measure distances to all ships?
> >
> > Yep, if it takes your fancy, though we usually just measure to
> the ones we
> > think we have a chance of being in range of ;)
>
> Funny this because despite the technology involved, myself and
> the people I game with
> normally never pre-measure anything ever. We leave it all to guess
work.
>
> Means we sort of end up using sci-fi battleships like Spanish galleons
:)
>
> Mind you thinking about it you could always make it a game issue.
> How about
> fire controls are the same as DSII where you buy
Basic/Enhanced/Superior
>
> Basic lets you pre-measure one target, Enhanced 2 targets,
> Superior 3 targets.
>
> Or to keep it even more simple how about sacrificing a fire
> control to allow pre-measuring.
>
> >  >Can I measure angles?
> >
> > We've often done that to check you're in arc if its a close one.
> >
>
> I have an fire arc template which I printed onto a tranparent
> film. When any ship wants to fire
> it can be rested on top of the model to see exactly who's in what
> fire arc. I've never had a
> problem over fire arcs.
>
> ---------------------
> Jeremey Claridge
> jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk
>
>
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