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Re: Kravak weakness

From: Eric Fialkowski <erixlist@m...>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 12:31:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Kravak weakness

At 05:15 PM 7/5/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Just a thought - the Kravak seem to have no anti- missile defenses. The
>scatter guns seem to have only a stat for fighters and normal ships. If
you
>are going to be enough of a rain-coat wearer to use Kravak, you get
stuck
>with the typo's. 
>
Even if you let scatter guns defend against missiles, you usually can
send
enough missiles to force the expendature of all of them.  Which you
follow
up with another attack.  Also notice that armor doesn't reduce the
effects
of EMP missiles.

>I also note that the Kravak don't use missiles themselves and this is
quite
>probably a ' cultural blind spot' to the use of missiles. After all the
>Kravak use 'suicide' ship in the scenarios.
>

That would be a good way of explaining why they have no anti-missile
defenses.
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