Re: [GZG] Initiative is it a game winner?

Laserlight wrote:

>From: "John Tailby"
>>  When you have fleets of ships where the size of one combatants is
>different initiative by ship gives the larger ship a significant
>advantage and favours bigger ship.
>
>You are correct.  There are a couple of ways of dealing with this:
>a) adjust the point value and use Combat Point Value instead of
>standard NPV:
>[...] So instead of pitting four CL against one SDN for 700 points on a
>side, you should really bring more like six CLs.
>
>b) tamper with the initiative system.

Also note that the fire initiative sequence is far from the only FT game

mechanic that favours large ships over smaller ones - only the biggest
of 
several important ones.

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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