RE: Cheese Fleet

NOTHING is like volley firing twenty P-torps against a Dreadnaught..

Michael Wikan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graeme Bradbury [SMTP:graeme.bradbury@btinternet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 3:40 PM
> To:	'gzg'
> Subject:	Cheese Fleet
> 
> Has anyone come across the all p-torp fleet.
> I play against an opponent that came up with a fleet that was
completely 
> torpedo based. His ships had pds and armour as defense and the rest of
> mass was 
> drives and torps. He tends not to play that fleet unless we ask to
play
> it, so 
> its not so much the fact he wont play another fleet as that we cant
seem
> to 
> come up with a fleet that is capable of being anthing more than a
target
> board. 
> Even at the extreme range of the torps, his sheer numbers means that 
> destroyer's last 1,2 turns tops. And a fleet that out ranges him with
> class 4/5 
> beams tends to be too specialized to stand up to any other style
fleet.
> 
> Just thought i'd ask you space guru's for a tad o' advice on the
matter.
> 
> Well i'm off to revel in my victory over the 400 mass dreadnaught o'
death
> I 
> just played against.
> 
> Cheers
> Graeme