Re: damn super dreadnoughts

Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:
> 
> Christopher Pratt writes:
> 
> @:) I am kinda of in agreement with the needle missle school of
> @:) thought...  somebody posted a design for a crusier that packed 8
> @:) missles, all needle, and fan them so the dreadnought can't
> @:) possibly avoid them all!!  once you down the sheilds, close in
> @:) with the rest of you line ships and and "try" to down it...
> 
>   I don't know.  The problem, as always, with needle weapons is their
> limited ability to hit.  With the missiles they first have to "hit"
> in the normal way and then they still have only a 50% chance of doing
> anything.  So if you fire one missile, you've got some low chance of
> hitting divided by two.  If you have to fire four missiles to expect
> one to land, now you have to fire eight to have a better than even
> chance of causing damage.
> 
>   That being said, missiles and their carriers are cheap so maybe it
> works out.  I think fighters are a better bet, and after that, PTs in
> large numbers.
> 
> -joachim

on the contrantary, i had the oppertunity to test my theory agianst
allan this weekend at gencon, It worked fairly well, one of alan's
crusiers got in the way and ate two of the missles, teo where clean
misses, and of the four that hit the beast, one was shot down and three
landed.  of the 3 that hit the dreadnought, 2 found there mark and
droped a screen each, and alan lost the third on the resulting threshold
check.	

however, in addition to not having any ships left to press home the
attack on the now defensiveless dreadnought, i have a feeling that it
will turn out to be a gimick attack, and that alan will never let a pair
of missle crusiers that close to his capatial ship agian

oh well, at least my friends have know idea what hit them yet...*evil
grin*

chris "gen con survivor" pratt
valen10@flash.net