Re: [GZG] Re: Full Thrust Playtest? Plama bolts

>From: Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@rixmail.se>

>Eric Foley wrote:
>>I've played with lots of custom designs with plasma bolts, and I only 
>>really ever came up with one good use for PBL-1's, which was to use
them 
>>on low-maneuverability superships as area defense against salvo
missiles
>>[...]
>>Other than that, I never saw the point in spreading plasma around.

>There's not that much point in spreading the plasma itself around when 
>shooting at enemy ships, but there are very good reasons indeed to
force 
>the *enemy* to spread their *PDS fire* around. Level-1 bolts are far
more 
>likely to suffer PDS overkills than larger bolts are.

>(IIRC you once mentioned allowing PDS overkills to carry over to the
next 
>PDS target, so this might not have been an issue for you. Under the PBL

>rule-as-written it gives the PBL-1s a distinct advantage over the
larger 
>types, however.)

This is true, we rolled everything over in PDS and fighter fire against
other fighters, missiles, and plasma, if I recall correctly.  It just
made too much sense for streamlining the bookkeeping with the scale of
battles we played with all the fighters, missiles, and plasma we always
had flying around all over the place.  We had a lot of furballs with
upwards of 20-30 fighter groups per side and plasma strikes that would
vaporize a small moon, and we happened to like finishing our battles
inside a week.	:P

But yeah, if you don't streamline it like that and get anal about
devoting a number of PDS and scatterguns to particular plasma bolts,
then PBL-1s might potentially have a bit of an advantage in wasting PDS
on it.	Eh.  One of many reasons I liked the way I played it, this just
seems a little bit too much like min-maxing to me anyway.

E
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