Do you have to specify the exact weapon when firing at a weapon type with
needle beams? For example, this "behemoth" we are
plotting to kill has 2 or 3 class-5 beams with different arcs. Do
you have to specify which class-5 by its arcs or can you say
"any class-5 beam" and the target's player gets to choose?
Or can both be used (if I specify the arcs it has to be that weapon or if I
give a class he can choose any one of them)?
Btw, it's a 1000 mass Aquarian (sp?). The best we've done so far is needle
beam'd its drives so it FTL'd away. We want to actually destroy it; which
means we need to needle beam its FTL drive, also.
Glen
> Do you have to specify the exact weapon when firing at a weapon
I'd say that you ought to be able to specify exactly which one, right down to
the arcs of fire that the one in particular that you want fires through.
Needle beams are pretty exacting weapons, they're designed to be able to hit a
pinpoint spot on a system to knock it out... I'd find it rather incredible
that you'd hit a system and not know which one you were pointing it at.
> Btw, it's a 1000 mass Aquarian (sp?).
*drool* Is there a URL where I could look at this puppy somewhere? It's not on
the registry, so...:)
> The best we've done so far
Yeah, on a large ship (particularly large battleships) drives are usually one
of the better things to needle out, in my experience. Screens are another good
choice. I _would_ say that you could also aim at firecons, but if
you've got few enough deployable needle beams that just landing three hits is
a problem (i.e. two sublight and the FTL drives) then aiming at firecons on a
ship that size probably is kind of pointless.
> On 31-May-00 at 17:53, GBailey@aol.com (GBailey@aol.com) wrote:
What are you going to do if it uses many class 1s? You take out its drive so
now it has unlimited arcs with all those 1s.
> Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net> wrote:
> What are you going to do if it uses many class 1s? You take out
But if the drives are taken out, your not able to rotate either. At least
that's how I understand it.
BTW, I never did like the rule in cinematic movement that said if your speed
is zero then you can rotate to any heading in one turn. It just made a special
case out of "zero speed" that doesn't really exist.
Enjoy,
> On 31-May-00 at 20:04, Tom Granvold (Thomas.Granvold@eng.sun.com) wrote:
Doesn't matter if you have a significant number of 1s, they are 360.