Re: [FT] SMLs and Banzai Jammers (long)

G'day Noam,

>The potentially most devastating FT player is one with the intuition to
>place SM's properly the lion's share of the time. I dread one day
having to
>face him/her across a table, whether or not I have my Sheir/Karakau
jammers
>with me. Such a player would make the SM's look horrendously
unbalanced. I
>think they're barely balanced with players with "merely" reasonable
>intuition.

OK I can't claim to be a mega-placer of SMs, but I think I do reasonably
well so I'll have a crack at this comment ;)
Think Showdown Noam, yeah sure I toasted one of your big ships (and then
listened to Jer at least question whether or not they were too strong),
but
then I had nothing left and had to try and last out the rest of the game
flying at high speed in circles (cos I couldn't just leave the table) in
the hope you'd all hit the walls before I did. Admittedly towards the
end I
did an amazing job of placing myself in the perfect target position, but
even if I hadn't I doubt that with all the beams you had left that the
result would've been much different - the NSL beams won that game not my
SMs.

Cheers

Beth

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