Re: DragonFlight 2000

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Beth Fulton wrote:

> G'day Brian
> 
> Great to hear you had fun!

It was a great con - seemed a bit quieter than last year, but still lots
of interesting games & people. Good to meet some more listmembers, as
well.

>  >I always play vector, and the
>  >larger burst radius of cinematic PBLs caught me. (I prefer vector,
it's
>  >more interesting & challenging...)
> 
> The what??? Would've caught me by surprise too! Was this a house-rule
you 
> adopted for cinematic or have I misunderstood here?

See my other post - it's not really a house rule.
 
> One question though, why do you think cinematic is less challenging
(not 
> arguing with you just curious)?

Vector is so much more flexible - you can be scooting along in one
direction and firing in another direction entirely. It 'feels' more like
space combat to me - FT with cinematic felt much like the ACW naval game
I'd played earlier in the convention, not really like a space game...
personal thing, I know, but I do prefer vector.

For 'challenging' - try getting a ship or squadron thru an asteroid
field
using vector! We've even done some vector orbital stuff, and that's
enough
fun to make the combat nearly superflous. Watching a big SDN spiral up
out
of low orbit is pretty cool.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
- http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -


> Cheers
> 
> Beth
> 
> 
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