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Re: Big Guns, Bigger Guns

From: "Paul Owen" <paul@l...>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:51:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Big Guns, Bigger Guns


Have tried wave guns once or twice favorite option is to put them on 
a cloaked ship right the orders and pray : )
Once managed to get 2 of them alonside a capital ship when they 
decloaked, made a nice mess.  Tend to use the smallest class ship I 
can fit them on, ie there expendable.

> John Bennett wrote:
> > 
> > I have just started writing on the newsgroup. Does anyone ever use
the
> > Nova Cannon. The only use I can find is for wrecking orbitals etc as
a
> > canny player always seems to escape them. Anyone in the SW Lonkon
area
> > interested in a campaign I am starting please reply!
> 
> I happen to like the Nova and Wave Gun, but it takes a relatively big
> fleet to make them worthwhile.  Remember that the Nova doesn't have to
> hit to be useful.  Fire a couple at one flank of his formation and he
> has to move his ships closer together, setting up missles or a 2nd
Nova
> salvo.  Fire at the center of the formation and he has to split,
> allowing your other ships to defeat him in detail.  And there's
nothing
> like a good Wave Gun salvo to take out those pesky fighters that are
> about to close. 8)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
> 
> 


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