From: John Tailby <john_tailby@x...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:05:25 +1200
Subject: [GZG] who uses organic tech ships?
Who has players that the organic ships in their gaming groups? If so how do those ships go in games against other types? Or are the organic ships not pupular because the power allocation thing is too complicated? Thanks
From: Jaime Tiampo <fugu@s...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [GZG] who uses organic tech ships?
> Who has players that the organic ships in their gaming groups? Locally I'm the only one that experimented with Sa'vasku. To start we lay vector with a closed table which changes things up for them a bit. They were ok with 12" range, you could get some long range shots in before you got boxed in close. With the 9" range blance, they're not as good. Once you got close they deterorated rapidly. Their biggest weakness is that ever threshold they loose 25% of their power gen which really cripples them in comparison to the other races whome may not loose any combat potential. Basic strategy against them is whack as many as you can down two rows instead of destroying them. It's far more effecient at dropping combat power then taking them out one by one.
From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:39:43 +1000
Subject: RE: [GZG] who uses organic tech ships?
G'day, > Who has players that the organic ships in their gaming groups? When Tassie still had a strong FT group we did (changin life circumstances has seen it tail off here in recent times). > If so how do those ships go in games against other types? At first everyone whinged then they learned and it became as even as for any other fleet. Having said that we used FB2 designs with few if any homebrew designs (which are what chucked up problems for other groups as I understand it). > Or are the organic Power allocation was never really an issue here. We didn't find it complicated, the biggest potential issue was the time spent deciding what to do, but as we already had a "fast game is a fun one" attitude so rules writing wasn't allowed to be painfully slow as people second guessed their decisions endlessly, if they took too long they lost their beer/snacks.... ;)
From: Ken Hall <khall39@y...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: [GZG] who uses organic tech ships?
_______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list Gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote: Power allocation was never really an issue here. We didn't find it complicated, the biggest potential issue was the time spent deciding what to do, but as we already had a "fast game is a fun one" attitude so rules writing wasn't allowed to be painfully slow as people second guessed their decisions endlessly, if they took too long they lost their beer/snacks.... ;) Now that's just plain cold-blooded. :-) Ken
From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:44:05 +1000
Subject: RE: [GZG] who uses organic tech ships?
G'day, > ...if they took too long they lost their beer/snacks.... ;) Being a mother and spouse gives you insight into effective leverage;) Cheers