Re: "Custom" fleets

stiltman@teleport.com wrote:

>>Forget that. Keep all the PDS, replace One or two of the Beam-6's
>>with Novas. Nova until the Reflex Field thresholds away, then
>>Nova+Beam until the planet falls. Wonderful, Laserlight.
> 
>This is cinematic movement, remember.	You're not going to fire the
>nova cannon at me at the same time as you're keeping away from me. 

No, but he is firing it from up to 72mu away, at a target with
thrust-1. It is rather trivial to stay away from the dreadstar :-/

>> As a side note:
>> | Laserlight:
>> | >> On the other hand, I've seen you suggest with a straight face
>> | >>  that "space has an edge".
>> |
>> | Stilt:
>> | > Hey, dude, watch your tone here.  We're all friends here... >>
|>supposedly.
> 
>>| Me:
>>Laser's tone seems pretty identical to that of your barb at Oerjan
and >>me. I took both in the same lighthearted spirit. I hope I did not
err.
> 
>I wasn't barbing at you, I merely observed that you'd both suggested
>various forms of keepaway tactics.  He was suggesting that he has a
>house rule that all his ships get back a full row of hull boxes

I did? Or who did? I must've missed that <shrug>

>>'Course as Oerjan said, the initial excercise (killing the
dreadplanet)
>>could be accomplished by a single Kormarov and other standard FB1
>>ships.
> 
>The Komarov has to point its front end at the dreadplanet to fire
Class >4 beams.

Only if it wants to fire both of them at the same time. If it is
satisfied with one die per turn, it can have the dreadstar almost
straight abeam and still snipe at it... OK, it'll move a few fractions
of an mu closer each turn, but that's it :-/ But, as I said before -
with your fighter house rules, it has to be *extremely* lucky to
survive the fighters. With the MT fighter rules it's merely a very
tough fight, but still one the ESU can win.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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