Re: Re: [GZG] Revised Salvo Missiles Update

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lMy recommendation
to you is, if you don't like the mechanic, don't use Salvo
Missiles.
If you want a direct fire weapon use one of the direct fire mechanics
and
call it a missile.
The reason SMs use the mechanic they do is because they are extremely
powerful.
If you can hit with them every time you can win every time.  What's the
fun
in that.
Personally I don't need an ECM race, the fighter/PDS race is bad enough.

I also like the fact that you have to severely outguess your opponent to
make them
work.  It's a challange.

Roger

On 6/25/06, Eric Foley <stiltman@teleport.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allan Goodall" <agoodall@hyperbear.com>
> > For every PSB there is a counter-PSB: Couldn't you say ships have a
> > laser-absorbing coating that absorbs the energy from a targeting
laser
> > and stores the energy in batteries? Beams, etc. might cook away this
> > coating, but the coating is good enough to make targeting lasers a
> > thing of the past.
> >
> > Or, if that PSB isn't to your liking: if screens can make it harder
to
> > hit with beams, presumably screens also make targeting lasers less
> > useful.
>
> I just don't buy either of these.  For heavy missiles, maybe.  For
salvo
> missiles?  When the range on them is roughly half that of contemporary
> beam
> weapons, I just don't buy that.  Pick your methods, whether it's by
laser
> guidance from the mothership or by beaming a guidance signature from
the
> mother ship by transmitting to the missile instead of painting the
target
> with a beam, or whatever... it just doesn't make sense.  By all means,
> throw
> ECM in there to make it more interesting to try to figure out which
target
> is which or screens that make it harder to paint the target with a
laser
> guidance system or whatever, but SOMETHING ought to still work better
than
> "put it in a general area and hope it's the way they go."
>
> E
>
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