Re: Escort class vessels in line of battle

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jaime Tiampo wrote:

> Beth Fulton wrote:
> 
> > We get spheres, but we also get "lines of battle", pyramids,
> > crosses.....complete and utter messes when I try to do something
fancy, get
> > my starboard and port screwed and fly into a planet.... ;)
> 
> What's the strategy with lines? We had a few early on in our playing
but
> they dissapeared once the concentration fire that a glob of ships has
> prevailed. 
> 
> You should talk to Brian Burger then. He's Captain Crunch of our group
> :)

Hey, I object to that remark... or I would, if it weren't true that I
seem
to regularly stress-test ships against asteroids. One of these days the
asteroid is sure to loose!

But I've never, ever run a ship in to a planet! I'll leave that up to
Beth!

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -

> > Nope we play exclusively vector, though I'll admit getting this
stuff to
> > work can take a bit of a learning curve....it can also be risky, but
its a
> > lot of fun ;)
> 
> hmm.. how much terrain do you use? I've tried using escorts as a
> sweeping wing but find that it just splits your forces and having them
> arrive at the same time as your capital ships doesn't change much from
> having a glob.
> 
> Jaime