Re: Dirtside II points

Date sent:  19-JUL-1996 08:42:32 

>Here's another thing I suggest for dealing with artillery:  Aircraft.	
>Particularly, VTOLs.  A VTOL armed with an HEL or GMS/H can sit in
"high" 
>mode outside of 36" of defending Area Defense Systems and pick-off 
>on-board artillery all day long.  Maybe it's cheesey, but then your 
>opponent starts arming himself with anti-VTOL VTOL's, which are a lot 
>less expensive (because it takes a smaller gun to take out a poorly 
>armored VTOL), and then you start arming yourself with anti-anti-VTOL 
>VTOL's and you get this big aircraft battle in the middle of the ground

>action where everyone's trying to establish air superiority and the 
>artillery's trying to get rid of all its ordnance before one side or
the 
>other wins air superiority and it's pretty cool.

May I suggest you pick up SG-II. It has a pretty damn good system for
establishing air superiority and tracking incoming off board artilary.
I think it would work well in DS-II. Perhaps 'High' mode could count as
the loiter box and would make VTOLs at high mode subject to attack by
off
table AA assets (Air superiority fighters, Long range missiles etc)?

>Off-board artillery is an entirely different matter, however.

Why not send your VTOLs down the opponents off table track to attack his
off table units? 8-)

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