RE: FB2 Fleets (or "How I Learned to Hate the Savasku")

Preface: I have not had the chance to play Kra'Vak very much yet so
take my opionions with a grain of salt.

KV have 2 big advantages over human fleets:
  1) Maneuverability.
  2) Range for even small guns.

One strategy that seems like it would work would be to use the superior
maneuverability to keep the range at about 25-30tu. At these ranges you
should out-gun your opponents. Granted, I think that this would be
easier in
vector, since you don't have to be moving toward your opponent to use
your
forward facing K-Guns. 

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://members.xoom.com/rlyehalbe/ft/	   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Reindl [SMTP:mreindl@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 1:27 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	FB2 Fleets (or "How I Learned to Hate the Savasku")
> 
> I know there has been some talk going on about FB2, but I haven't
really
> had too much time to follow it due to busy home life, etc., so if any
of
> what I'm going to say has been said already, I apologize in advance
:).
> Up until yesterday, I had only played one game with my burgeoning
> Kra'vak fleet.  I had the chance to play two games with it yesterday,
> once against my old NSL foe, and one against the Sa'vasku.
> 
> The first game against the NSL went pretty well.  At the outset of the
> game, I was outnumbered 3 to 1 (we played a 3200 pt. game, and I was a
> bit heavy on capital ships since I don't yet own too many smaller
> ones). 
> 
>  [snip]
> 
> Although I did win the
> game, the outcome concerned me, because it appeared as though the
> Kra'vak have a hard time standing up to other fleets unless they use
> large amounts of fighters.  Also, the disparity in ship cost seems to
> make it prohibitive for the Kra'vak to even want to close the range,
due
> also in part to their basic fragility when compared to ships of other
> races.
> 
> During the second game, I played against a Sa'vasku fleet.  I had nine
> ships, he had eleven (including six destroyers; it was a somewhat
> smaller game).  [snip]  He began firing with
> his SD at 72" range, chiming in with his other ships as the range
> closed. [snip]  On the last turn of the
> game, my battledreadnought ended up within 6" of his SD.  He had
coasted
> in, and so used all of his power points to fire weapons at me.  40
dice
> later, my BDN had suffered over 30 points of damage, and lost most of
> its weapons.	At that point, I called the game, since my remaining
ships
> couldn't hope to dent what was left of the Sa'vasku.
> 
> In looking at that game, [snip]  I do like the Kra'vak, but in my
> (admittedly limited) experience with them, they seem to be overpriced
> for what they do.
> 
> So, what I'd like to know is:  Have any of you who have more
experience
> with one or both of these alien fleets seen the same thing, or am just
> being whiny?	And second, if I am being whiny, what sort of tactics
can
> you suggest for playing the Kra'vak effectively without having to rely
> too much on fighters, and/or countering the advantages of the
Sa'vasku,
> particularly when playing Kra'vak.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark