RE: Its Doctrine, Scouting and Tactics not Fighters

I put terrain as a general item, it could just as easily be rapidly laid
mine fields, an exploded comet or asteroid to generate a cloud of gas or
metal particles to throw off sensors.  

The attacker is attacking based on his best recon - i.e. the ecliptic is
empty go in that way.  The defender may have sown it with shielded mines
or set up Beam 4 stations above the ecliptic plane.

The scenario design assumes that the attacker is attacking for a reason
- to destroy the opponent's fleet.  You aren't gaming the scenarios
where one side see's it's overmatched and withdraws.

One fleet may be on patrol in-system or in-transit to station, the
commander decides to stand and fight and will take advantage of any
"terrain" available.  If you don't want too much "terrain" just limit
the number of scenario points to each side, or simply don't allow
terrain and just allow hidden ships and flank attacks.

If a ship has good stealth characteristics, and is not active, you might
not need asteroids to hide with, just sitting out in space "running
silent" might be enough to evade detection until the opponent was too
close to do much about it.  It would definitely make people think twice
about dashing across the board at high speed.  The feel would be like
WW2 submarines against convoys - you'd have an active screening force to
the front and outsides to catch hidden ships before they got to fire.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Atkinson [mailto:johnmatkinson@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:07 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: RE: Its Doctrine, Scouting and Tactics not Fighters
> 
> 
> 
> --- B Lin <lin@rxkinetix.com> wrote:
> 
> > and is given more options in placing terrain. If
> > terrain such as nebula, a star's corona, asteroid
> > fields etc. can be placed by the "defender" you can
> > negate or reduce the capabilites of the attacker. 
> 
> Why would I fight in any of those situations if I'm
> the attacker?
> 
> If the defending squadrons in a star system decide to
> hide in the star's corona, HOORAY!  I can safely
> ignore them.	I'm going to swing into orbit around the
> main world, blast the orbital installations that don't
> surrender quickly, and start landing troops or
> bombarding or doing whatever else comes to mind.  
> 
> If there are asteroid belts thick enough to notice
> (hint:  as far as we know, this only happens on TV,
> not the the real world) then I'll avoid them by coming
> in above the plane of the ecliptic if necessary.
> 
> John
> 
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