Re: "Custom" fleets
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:35:30 -0400
Subject: Re: "Custom" fleets
Stiltman scribed:
>I'd written out a nice elaborate argument explaining why, on
the fixed-edge
>table that the Full Thrust rules so obviously assume as the
norm, the
>keepaway beam-6 BC's wouldn't be as broadly sound as the
dreadplanet, before
>a pretty stupid and simple mod occurred to me: Reflex field.
That's a genre weapon, not a standard one. If you take that,
then Noam'll take a Wave Gun or Nova Cannon and kill your
fighters with it.
>Incidentally, we play cinematic on a fixed edge... which makes
this tactic
>pretty unsound right there. I honestly don't understand why
anyone would
>_want_ to play on a floating-edge table... it's basically
_asking_ for people
>to bore you to death with keepaway.
Your star system has edges?