[FT] Worst Gaff

9 posts ยท Apr 30 2003 to May 1 2003

From: Roger Books <books@m...>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:28:14 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: [FT] Worst Gaff

I'm curious what everyones worst mistake has been.

Here's mine:

At last years Warfair in Atlanta we played a large game. 3 players on a side,
several thousand points per player. Vector.

I pulled out my FSE SDN,

http://www.jumpspace.net/Wargames/FT/ItaliaSDN.html and a reasonable
escort. I quickly was nominated my sides theatre commander. It consisted of
FSE, ESU, and Phalons(?!). The plan was for me to accelerate,
timing it so my battle-group was astern of our opponents.  This would
leave
them trapped between two groups, FSE behind and ESU/Phalons in front.

I misjudged my speed. The FSE Admiral mooned his opponents as the entire
FSE battle-group ended up 2 MU in front of our opponents with the rear
arc of every FSE ship facing them. The FSE contribution consisted of killing
some fighters that were needlessly thrown away.

From: Michael Brown <mwbrown@s...>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:04:23 -0700

Subject: RE: [FT] Worst Gaff

Driving my KV battlecruiser into an asteroid at V15 (GZG-WCC1).

Michael Brown

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From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:53:59 +1000

Subject: RE: [FT] Worst Gaff

G'day,

> Driving my KV battlecruiser into an asteroid at V15 (GZG-WCC1).

Mine came up one of the few times I've played cinematic.... flew my entire
fleet into a planet... blast I meant the other port!;)

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:51:49 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: [FT] Worst Gaff

My worst screwup came the one and only time I played cinematic FB, and flew
most of my Phalon squadron into their own plasma bolts... That 6" burst radius
vs the 3" vector radius bites!

Of course, when we played FT regularly I was known for plowing ships into
asteroids far too often. I won FT Racing games, though!

From: Don M <dmaddox1@h...>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:03:45 -0700

Subject: Re: [FT] Worst Gaff

Driving my KV battlecruiser into an asteroid at V15 (GZG-WCC1).

Mine came up one of the few times I've played cinematic.... flew my entire
fleet into a planet... blast I meant the other port!;)

Beth

I seem to have a few vetor issues.......No that way!)

From: Mark Sykes <tardis@b...>

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 12:58:45 +1000

Subject: Re: [FT] Worst Gaff

> At 7:03 PM -0700 30/4/03, Don Maddox wrote:

mosquitos on the bridge may have been the distraction!
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Sorry MarkS

From: Don M <dmaddox1@h...>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:04:36 -0700

Subject: Re: [FT] Worst Gaff

> At 7:03 PM -0700 30/4/03, Don Maddox wrote:

mosquitos on the bridge may have been the distraction!
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Yeah especially if on the bridge of your nose while rolling
dice.......)

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:24:46 +0100

Subject: Re: [FT] Worst Gaff

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:51:49PM -0700, Brian Burger wrote:

A recent test game had one player firing a plasma-bolt-like weapon and
taking out the ship that fired it, one allied ship, and the enemy ship he'd
fired it at.

The best moment was when each player independently decided not to try to knock
it down with PDS because it would embarrass the other side so
much... :-)

From: Eric Foley <stiltman@t...>

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 02:31:25 -0700

Subject: Re: [FT] Worst Gaff

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