Re: FT-Tugs and swarm tactics

Heh heh yeppers, With missles and fighters, initiative
is effectively a moot point.

As for the fire control limits, normally would agree,
if you are using the 'canned' ships out of the book. 
Heh heh heh but (as I mentioned a while ago when I was
seeking advice on fighting Sa'vasku monoliths) my
group usually custom builds our ships.	Heh heh heh
when we play a 2000pt battle, one of my friends builds
one giant 2000pt ship.	He makes sure to put many many
many FireCons on it. Heh heh heh heh always lots of
fun.

This is how I became accutely aware of the initiative
issue.

--- Bif Smith <bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shawn M Mininger <smininger@yahoo.com>
> To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:02 PM
> Subject: Re: FT-Tugs and swarm tactics
> 
> 
> > The only issue I can see with the swarm tactic is
> how
> > you set initiative.
> >
> > In the book version of initiative, both sides
> roll,
> > the winner goes first using one of his ships. 
> Then
> > the other player goes using one of his ships, and
> back
> > and forth.
> >
> > Small ships vs. one giant ship effectively
> dicounts
> > initiative.  You may win initiative, but you only
> fire
> > with a small ship, maybe 10% of your firepower,
> while
> > your opponent (with one giant ship) goes next and
> can
> > use 100% of his firepower.
> >
> > If your opponent is smart, he will target ships
> that
> > haven't fired yet.
> >
> > So, say you fire with your first small ship (using
> 10%
> > of your total fleet's firepower) your opponent
> fires
> > with his big ship (using 100% of his fleets
> firepower)
> > and effectively starts whittling down your combat
> > power before your other ships get a chance to be
> > useful.
> >
> > One way to make sure this doesn't happen is to
> base
> > initiative on thrust.  I like this idea the best
> as
> > usually the smaller ships have more thrust,
> meaning
> > that the smaller, more manueverable ships get a
> > chance.
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > Shawn M Mininger
> >
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> Correct, but missile fire/sml marker placement
> occurs before enegry weapon
> fire, and it doesn`t matter if you or your opponent
> has initative. Also, the
> limit would be the targets firecons, not the
> initiative anyway (a CH usually
> has 2 f.cons, Vs a swarm of 4 LACs for the same
> mass/cost).
> 
> BIF
>  "yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,
>  strong in arms, thick in head"
> 
> 
> 

=====
Thank You,

Shawn M Mininger

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