Re: [FT] FB2 Balancing Corrections Proposed

Brian Bell wrote:

>Oerjan,
> 
>The Phalon play test that I would like to see is:
> 
>4 Tacoma FH, 5 Ehrenhold FF, 5 Ibiza FF, or 4 Novgorod FFs
>16 Tyaph protectors 

Assuming you mean "AND 4 Novgorod FFs" above, this is 1256 pts of
humans vs 1344 pts of Phalons, which would seem to favour the Phalons
somewhat (the humans could get at least one more ship). If you really
do mean "or", it seems to be either ~300 pts or ~950 pts of humans vs
1344 pts of Phalons; I'm afraid neither 1:4 odds nor 3:4 odds give
particularly meaningful playtests.

>(Configure the 6-arc pulser Long, the 1-arc pulser Close) 

<g> The very mixed Pulser tunings which Alan says has no problems :-) 
I'm still waiting for the outcry when someone sets all his Pulsers to
"L" and uses sniper tactics... *that* is scary, particularly in smaller
battles where a human force usually doesn't have many
B3s/fighters/missiles to catch the Phalons with.

>Vector movement.
>96x60tu table (fixed or floating edge should not matter as long as the

>Phalon forces do not split up too much).

Fixed or floating edges determines what tactics the thrust-4 human
ships must use to get into range of the thrust-6 Phalon ships, but I
don't think it'll matter much for the overall outcome.
 
The mixed human force above will most likely have problems to get into
range. A pure or almost-pure Tacoma squadron vs the C/L-configured
Tyaphs (say 16 Tacomas and an Arapaho vs 16 Tyaphs) should be fairly
even though; Tacomas both have the speed to close the range and strong
enough hulls that they're actually able to do something after closing.
All bets are off if the Phalons reconfigure their C pulsers to some
other setting though :-/

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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