Re: 3-row hull costs

Glen Bailey wrote:

> >How can they be "the exact same design" if the hull configuration is 
> different?
> >
> >Steve's 3-row ships are NEW designs. While they're *similar* to his
old
> >4-row designs, they are NOT "the exact same".
>
>Same configuration except for hull.  Close enough to be the same to me.

Same configuration except for hull, but when that "except for hull"
makes 
them behave quite differently from one another on the gaming table I
can't 
consider them to be "the same". If they *behave* differently, then in my

eyes at least they *are* different.

> >Then you haven't played around enough with designing 4-row ships - or
at
> >least you haven't looked closely enough at the 4-row ships you have 
> designed.
>
>Excuse me.

Statement of fact. If you had played around enough with 4-row ships
and/or 
looked closely at the options the 4-row hulls already give you, then you

would have noticed that your suggested hull costs were making the 3x18
ship 
more expensive than the more powerful 4x18 ship before Dean and I
pointed 
it out to you.

> >>I've tried the [...]; and all for nought.
> >
> >Sorry for asking this, but could one of the reasons for your repeated
> >defeats be that Steve is a more skilled *tactician* than you are (in
> >addition to having better luck with his dice than you do)?
>
>Thanks for the insult.

As several others have already commented this was intended as a
question, 
not as an insult.

>I run rings around Steve when it comes to movement. But movement
doesn't 
>out do firepower.

Running rings around the enemy is not the same thing as "better tactics"

when the ring-running results in your own force getting defeated
piecemeal 
(which seems to be what happened in this battle), nor when it lands you 
outside your own weapons' range but inside the enemy's. Movement is only

*part* of "tactics", not *all* of it.

>Sometimes I make a mistake in movement orders, sometimes Steve does. 
It 
>it just more costly for me to make a movement mistake since Steve's
ships 
>have better arcs.

And your house rules allowing unrestricted A-arc fire don't help you any

either...

>Also, pulse torpedo and rail guns have a maximum range of 30 while
class-3 
>beams and
>long-range pulsers have a maximum range of 36.  It's amazing how often
I'm 
>in the 30-36 range band so I'm getting hits, [...] Steve's superior 
>"tactics" in this case is in ship design, not movement.

Er... Glen, how exactly do you end up at range 30-36 if not through a 
combination of your movement and Steve's movement?

> >OTOH, Steve's weapons were all screen-degradable whereas Glen's were
> >screen-skipping ones, and neither of them had any screens... so the
points
> > Glen spent on screen-skipping ability for his weapons were wasted.
>
>Steve used to have single screens on his capital ships.  But with my
continued
>use of rail guns and pulse torpedoes has caused him to remove the
screen.
>His designs were new to me.

And his lack of screens contributed to your defeat by increasing his
armament.

>Do you know that the proposed cost for 6-row hulls make soap bubble
>carriers even cheaper?

Yep; all the way up to about .8333... pts cheaper per fighter group for
a 
TMF 60+ soapbubble carrier (since you need at least 6 hull boxes to use
a 
6-row hull). The "classic" TMF 12 single-bay soapbubble OTOH gets one
point 
*more* expensive, since it must pay 3 pts for its single hull box rather

than just 2.

> >>I didn't fire the class-1 rail guns at Steve's  BB as it was wasting
> >>shots.  The class-6s would pretty much ignore his ship's massive
armor belt
> >
> >Um... according to your previous posts, that "massive armour belt"
started
> >the battle consisting of 6 armour boxes, and had already lost some
boxes
> >prior to the salvo we're discussing here. [...]
>
>I messed up the design I gave (the numbers are correct, the systems are

>wrong).
>His capital ships have a lot more armor than 6.

OK.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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