grasers overpowered

5 posts ยท Mar 6 2004 to Mar 6 2004

From: <bail9672@b...>

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 02:45:43 -0500

Subject: Re: grasers overpowered

> I'll know for sure when I tell Steve "Mr. Mixed-Tech WW2

Oh he did. Generally he has one pulser per gun, set
to long range.  He then has 2-3 short range pulsers and 2-3
class-2 beams and/or class-1 beams representing the
smaller caliber weapons.  He also has some class-1 K-guns.
All with MD 2 (advanced) drives; his battlecruisers are his only ships with MD
4 and they have a poor record.

But it's his *&^%#&!(& die rolls that kill me. When, and this is seldom, he
actually rolls average he says "so this is what everyone else gets for
results, I don't like it" (I'm paraphrasing). I'd hate for him to roll his
usual results with grasers.

He'll probably be visiting soon when spring break hits (he's a high school
math teacher and his parents live in the area). When he comes to visit we play
about
3-4 times in the week, then not play for months.

I wanted to play FT tonight (Friday), but instead it was Settlers of Catan (3
times) and Union Pacific (once), although I ended up playing the Warlord CCG
all evening (we had a full board gaming group tonight). I prefer Warlord over
the other two, SoC just bores me.

Glen

From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:22:52 +0100

Subject: Re: grasers overpowered

> Glen Bailey wrote:

> >> I'll know for sure when I tell Steve "Mr. Mixed-Tech WW2

Sorry, I should've written "if he didn't switch to Pulsers *only* when FB2
was published" :-/

If Steve uses pulsers *and* class-2 beams *and/or* class-1 beams *and*
class-1 K-guns, then that's a pretty good sign that none of these weapon

types are particularly unbalanced. I don't doubt that he'll want to add some
grasers into the mix as well, but I do doubt that they'll dominate

> But it's his *&^%#&!(& die rolls that kill me.

Same problem as with Aaron Teske, then. I'm afraid we can't write rules
specifically for people who roll abnormally high, though :-/

From: Aaron Teske <ateske@H...>

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 04:44:46 -0800 (PST)

Subject: Re: grasers overpowered

> --- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

Okay, now, let's not get too excited here and give people ideas
like that, please. ^_-

Surprisingly enough, actually, at this last GZG-ECC I discovered
that I'd signed up for all DS/SG/FMAS games... didn't even play
Full Thrust once! Probably had something to do with the 'laundry list' of
"if...then..." I sent to Jon Davis when I registered, not being sure what was
taken and what wasn't.

Still had a blast, though. ^_^

'Til later,

From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 08:01:28 -0500

Subject: Re: grasers overpowered

> Aaron Teske wrote:

Too late, Aaron. You're immortalized (I don't remember how many people got
"The Aaron Teske" award certificate this year, 2 or 3

From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 07:13:29 -0600

Subject: Re: grasers overpowered

> I still remembering offering to roll for you in one DSII game...

We all do; it was put up as a quote! :->=

I thought of it the moment Oerjan mentioned it, but then Aaron put in that he
hadn't play FT. Must be grav sensitive...

The_Beast