Re: Gravitics was Re: Suggestions and Advice Solicited!

G'day,

 >How did you use slavo missiles at speed 36???
 >I tried it once and got thrashed.
 >I could never seem to get my missiles
 >in range without going head to head.

It takes practice ;)
I'd be the first to admit I regularly got my head handed to me for the 
first few games, but now I stand a pretty good chance of hitting the
target 
I was after (though fighting the SV can be a bit hair raising... talk
about 
try to psych each other out... is he going to scoot this turn...is she 
going to shoot). Basically I get my fighters up and going asap so it
cuts 
down closing time (the longer the FSE spend outside 36" the more ragged 
they're going to be once they can actually do any hurt back) and then
when 
SMs and fighters can both hit on the same turn I drop as many SMs as 
possible from across the fleet. Fighters go in and harass the main ADFC 
ships, missiles are stacked (few salvos per stack so you end up with a 
number of small piles dotted about, nice compromise between nets and 
overkill) hopefully aimed at the big guys. I still cope the odd scout 
hiding under an SDN, but I do OK most of the time. I often take a number
of 
SC-FFs too, to make a first fast flyby (highest speed so far was about
75, 
but that was probably a bit ridiculous) to whittle down the number of 
Banzai (spelling?) Jammers that an opponent may have lying around. Its
not 
always pretty, but it works for me ;)

 >I also missed a planet's atmosphere by 1/8 of an inch...

Wow, now that's really flying by the seat of your pants ;)

Cheers

Beth

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