Re: [GZG] Re: Full Thrust Playtest? Plama bolts

[Eric Foley <stiltman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxxx>

>Eric Foley wrote:
>>I've played with lots of custom designs with plasma bolts, and I only 
>>really ever came up with one good use for PBL-1's, which was to use them 
>>on low-maneuverability superships as area defense against salvo missiles
>>[...]
>>Other than that, I never saw the point in spreading plasma around.

>There's not that much point in spreading the plasma itself around when 
>shooting at enemy ships, but there are very good reasons indeed to force 
>the *enemy* to spread their *PDS fire* around. Level-1 bolts are far more 
>likely to suffer PDS overkills than larger bolts are.

>(IIRC you once mentioned allowing PDS overkills to carry over to the next 
>PDS target, so this might not have been an issue for you. Under the PBL 
>rule-as-written it gives the PBL-1s a distinct advantage over the larger 
>types, however.)

This is true, we rolled everything over in PDS and fighter fire against other fighters, missiles, and plasma, if I recall correctly.  It just made too much sense for streamlining the bookkeeping with the scale of battles we played with all the fighters, missiles, and plasma we always had flying around all over the place.  We had a lot of furballs with upwards of 20-30 fighter groups per side and plasma strikes that would vaporize a small moon, and we happened to like finishing our battles inside a week.  :P

But yeah, if you don't streamline it like that and get anal about devoting a number of PDS and scatterguns to particular plasma bolts, then PBL-1s might potentially have a bit of an advantage in wasting PDS on it.  Eh.  One of many reasons I liked the way I played it, this just seems a little bit too much like min-maxing to me anyway.

E
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