Re: DS: Walkers

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, John Atkinson wrote:

> 
> --- Brian Bilderback <greywanderer987@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > And while I felt they favored necha TOO heavily,
> > they
> 
> Players favored mecha too heavily.  Last time I played
> Battletech my opponent conceeded 2 games in a row in
> the deployment phase, and lost the third one badly. 
> BTech vehicles, especially GEVs, are fraggin' nasty if
> designed and used correctly.

When I played Battletech, I did favour mechs over infantry and vehicles,
mostly because I didn't think the game was supposed be "realistic". The
background says mechs are the ultimate fighting machine. Who cares? I
just
want to get in my giant robot and beat the shit out of the other guy's
giant robot.

I've played one game where someone took their gauss rifle VTOL against
my
mech. Every time he'd lose initiative, he'd hide. Everytime he'd win,
he'd
manuever for a back shot with the gauss. Did it make sense for him to
fight that way? You bet. Was it a really boring game? Oh yeah.

I'd rather play stand up fights between mech companies than games of
"add
up the firing modifiers" against VTOLs or min maxing the point system.
YMMV.

Sean Dzafovic