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Re: Salvo Missles vs. MT missiles

From: "Flak Magnet (Tim)" <flakmagnet@c...>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:46:23 -0400
Subject: Re: Salvo Missles vs. MT missiles

On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:30 pm, Indy wrote:
> Third, salvos do more than *damage* an opponent. Unless you want to
> run straight through them, and risk taking it on the chin, you will
> very likely maneuver your ships so that the salvos launched are
"wasted";
> i.e., don't hit *any*thing. But what if that is what your opponent
wants?
> He has just taken the initiative away from you, forcing you to move
where
> he wants you to, maybe not necessarily where you wanted to (this can
be
> used to break up fleets into two or more smaller parts, allowing one
to
> be defeated in detail while the other attempts to come about to
engage).
> So in *this* capacity, salvos can be used as terrain to force an
opponent
> to maneuver elsewhere from where they might have originally intended.

Hang on.  Perhaps we've been doing the turn sequence wrong, but aren't
move 
orders written before salvos are put out there?  

-- 
--Flak Magnet
"If you don't think life is interesting
you're not paying attention."  Me, around 1988

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