RE: Sa'Vasku

How about this for a simple way to stop the 
Sa'Vasku from sniping, simply limit their 
Stingers to 36 inches. This would also 
advantage the other races as they would be 
more effective at shorter ranges against
the Sa'Vasku. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bell [mailto:bkb@beol.net]
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:06 AM
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: RE: Sa'Vasku

Thanks for the feedback!
As I said, I had not heard any feedback. Now we know that it does not
work.

At 10:27 2000-08-21 +1000, you wrote:
>G'day guys,
>
> >I have not heard back any playtests, but I like the idea of making
the
> >stingers equivilent to Beams based on power. Power to equivlent Beam
is
> >2^(x-1) where x is the Beam Class number.
>
>The problem is that the SV aren't built with that many stingers on
board 
>(compared with human designs of about the same mass), so when they get
to 
>close range they lose over half the dice compared to any other beam
armed 
>race. Add to that the fact that depending on amount of energy given to
the 
>A pool and range etc etc its actually better to buy to 2 class 4 and 1 
>class 3 rather than 4 class 3 at range y. So if the SV weren't
screaming 
>at their lack of punch close in then everyone else is when the SV have 
>just spent half an hour determining exactly what the classes are the
SDN 
>is going to fire to get maximum bite for its paltry punch. I'm not
trying 
>to sound harsh, I initially like the sound of the idea too it just
doesn't 
>work at the coal face unfortunately.
>
>Cheers
>
>Beth
>
>
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