This is an ISN Headline News Report
On the evening of October 30, 1998, one Indy met in reallife with one Noam
Izenberg to engage in a couple of FT battles. The first was a
NAC/ESU battle (see also http://scivax.stsci.edu/~kochte/s2.html) and
second one a NAC/NSL engagement (see also http://scivax.stsci.edu/
~kochte/s5.html). And while the NAC ended up losing both encounters
(the first one due to losing half the ships from reroll damage, the second
from not being able to hit all that often with beam weapons
early on), the NAC/Indy DID make history - and Noam Izenberg was there
to witness this event - as over the course of both games Indy, he who
cannot hit the broad side of a barn from the distance of 2 feet with a
baseball bat, hit with *7* out of **9** pulse torps!! Doing a total of 31 pts
damage!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Indy actually hit with nearly 80% of his
p-torps, and was squeezing an average of 4.5 pts damage out of them
per hit. The p-torp die were kind to Indy that night. This is not the
second consecutive engagement Indy has had in RL where he hit with torps (the
first one being a month or so ago against J Atkinson & bro, but not nearly
that many torps were fired, and when they were, didn't do any real appreciable
damage)
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Mk
Oh, spake thusly upon matters weighty:
Damn. That means the Malefic Probabilistic Skew Demon has been excorcised to
once again seek a new victim upon whom to visit its psychic Heisenberg Unluck
effect and on whom to feed..... I had hoped you would keep the Demon for now
he may seek out other innocents far more easily demoralized by the unusually
dismal luck this creature brings...
.. Beware the Demon stalks..... where will it strike next.....
(grin).
> This is an ISN Headline News Report
Tom,
Who said that it left Indy? Look carefully at his AAR and you'll see that it's
assumed a different form altogether.
I quote:
> > And while the NAC ended up losing both encounters
Indy will now want to design ships with lots of p-torps and armor
and avoid beam weapons. His opponents will now have excessive rerolls. (Can
you say Yahtzee with sixes?)
Jon
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
and
> > second one a NAC/NSL engagement (see also http://scivax.stsci.edu/
> Tom,
Sort of. My opinion is that both Indy and I are haunted by PSDs (Probability
Skew Demon).
My dice-gaiming history is a nasty array of 1's when I needed 6's and
vice versa. When Indy and I met on the battle field, our respective demons
cancelled each other out.
Demons can be deceiving. Part of my decision _not_ to be the NAC was to
make sure that Indy had the
p-torps. I thought the'd be as useless to him as ADFC in a fighterless
missile-less game. I think
the only reason I won the second game despite major P-torp damage was
that I was playing well
armored, stronger hulled NSL ships - best defense against P-torps.
> I quote:
And how. I had _at_least_ 4 multiple 6 (that is 3 6's or more) rerolls.
I think 5. Each one crippled or wasted one of Indy's ships. He had at least 2,
but one 7 pointer was on a limping BC with 2 hull and no systems left. There
were no survivors. I've never been a big fan of the reroll rule, since it
invariably worked against me. But now...
The questions remain: Were the demons exocrized? Were they simply distracted?
Where they procreaing? Time will tell.
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
Mmmmaybe. If Indy's demon and mine got along, well, mayber there'll be even
more of them to go
around, so _everyone_ can have one.
These games with Indy were my first face-to-face games of FT - all the
others have been and are
electronic. I must say the feel of the in-person game is quite
different, and I like it alot.Indy told me we'd ba able to finish the first
game in an hour. We finished the second one in two. That's 2 full games in the
time it used to thake 1.5 turns in S*B. I will never even look at that game
again.
> At 05:21 AM 11/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
Oh, I've already done *that*. <grin>
Mark, how many did I get that one battle? I think it was 4 or 5 sixes, two or
three times, not to mention a lot of just plain sixes on the first roll... it
was pretty obscene, and Mark did die in a blaze of ship bits. (I think that
was the one where you were naming your ships after list
memebers, no? ^_^ )
***(I think that was the one where you were naming your ships after list
memebers, no? ^_^ )
> ***(I think that was the one where you were naming your ships after
Wouldn't you like to know... (hehehehehe...)
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, How old am I? Compared to a peach, I have years beyond
counting. Compared to a mountain, I have not yet begun to age... wrote:
> Wouldn't you like to know... (hehehehehe...)
I'm hoping that if there was one named after me that is was a torpedo ship
that did well before it died.:)
> At 06:35 PM 11/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
Well, this *is* Indy we're talking about... until that last battle, him
&
pulsetorp launchers did *not* get along. He did manage to hit me three
times (out of, say, 12 or so, usually at 3+ or 4+ shots) for maybe 7
points of damage IIRC.
As for ship names, the only ones that come to mind immediately were the
> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, How old am I? Compared to a peach, I have years
I'm curious as to what ship will bear my name, given that Indy's P-torp
breakthrough was against me.
Hopefully something with alot of _armor_.
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Noam R. Izenberg wrote:
wrote:
> >> Wouldn't you like to know... (hehehehehe...)
i doubt i'm in there, but i should probably be a weasel boat - makes far
too much emissions given its size.
Tom
Thomas spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Noam R. Izenberg wrote:
wrote:
> > >> Wouldn't you like to know... (hehehehehe...)
Now that the listfuhrer is resigning, and his designate heir apparent has yet
to take the mantle, I will boldly dare my OT contribution to this thread... I
should be a fleet auxilliary from the ministry of
propaganda (infospeak division) - puts out lots of glossies of the
efforts of our heroic fleet, and rarely makes an effective contribution....
(grin)
Tom.
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