Re: Starbase assault

j a c <journeyman2000@juno.com> wrote:

> Well, I've never tried a starbase assault in any game system, but I'll
> tell you, I have tried the warp point assault in the old Starfire
system.
>  If you point has no limit on how many ships can come through at once,
> you have your basic open space combat.  Mines make it still somewhat
> dangerous, you'd want a 4 or 5 to 1 superiority to assure a win.  Now,
if
> you have limits on the warp points ability to pass ships, like
Starfire
> did, its a whole new ball of wax.  We tried it once, the defense had a
> mixed fleet of heavies, with a couple of large bases to guard the
point,
> with a minefield around all.	The offense came in with a 10:1
> superiority, almost all very heavies, superdreadnoughts and such, as
well
> as assault carriers.	They still got whacked, badly.	Think Wolf 359. 
> Wreckage everywhere.	And we still didnt take the point.  The limitied
> warp point is probably the deadliest assult of all time.

Easily remedied, sounds like the mass limits need to be upped.	Or you
could do that thing from the other David Webber/(someone else) novels,
you can bring more through, but roll a dxxx (probably 100), on a match
the ships collide and are destroyed.

Roger Books