John Stiff:

No plan, however well crafted, survives contact with the enemy.

By Michael Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 12:55 am: Edit

Soeren,

The best tactic is to get everyone else to kill each other leaving you to extract crystals in peace...

By Sören Klein (Ogdrklein) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 01:47 am: Edit

Yeah, thought about that, too.

Maybe if I ask them nicely? :-)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 05:59 am: Edit

SPP posted: "No plan, however well crafted, survives contact with the enemy."

Response: the trick, is to ensure that NO ENEMY shall survive. The Kzinti advantage here is decisive. Attack, attack, attack. plans just get in the way.

By Michael Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 06:07 am: Edit

keine Sorgen...

By John Wyszynski (Starsabre) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 07:30 am: Edit

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. (Mike Tyson)

By Eddie Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 09:07 am: Edit

If you get punched in the mouth bite off the ear

By John Stiff (Tarkin22180) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 10:46 am: Edit

But those other three races are not my enemy

I do not suppose that playing poker for all of the crystals would work?

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 03:34 pm: Edit

John Stiff:

At just 15 turns until the asteroid immolates, by the time you dealt the first hand, there would be no crystals to collect.

And if you tried to allow someone to "hold" the crystals until the game decided ownership (I am certain any of the other three would be willing to undertake that onerous task), what is to keep them from just absconding with them?

By Eddie Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 03:39 pm: Edit

Hey make interconnected maps, I will be glad to hold all the crystals

By Eddie Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 03:52 pm: Edit

We used to play an interesting variant. WE would use 2 maps top to bottom, each map was divided into 6 sections, 12 all together and each had an asteroid with crystals, a warp entry point and a warp departure point. You moved from sector to sector by rolling a 12 sided die when you entered a departure point. When you entered a new sector there was a 3 hex safe zone you could not fire or be fired at while in those hexes. When a player had 8 crystals from 8 different points one of the points became a exit point from the game. You got 8 and left 1st person was the winner. You could shoot direct fire weapons across zones, but seeking weapons had to move through warp points.

By John Stiff (Tarkin22180) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 08:16 pm: Edit

Ah, not a problem. Merely one hand would be played aboard my Jindarian Rock. Besides, all parties would agree not to abscond with the crystals before there was a winner. It would be 3 against 1 if they tried. And naturally we would all be speed zero and within transporter range of each other with shields down.

I will submit my strategy anyway as there may not be takers. SMILE

By Eddie Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Friday, December 13, 2019 - 10:05 pm: Edit

Vudar tactics sent

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 03:50 pm: Edit

I would guess that the Dilithium Cyrstal Asteroid is in hex 2215. (squadrons are 12-16 hexes away, two hexes within their starting hex, 2201, 0815, 2229, 3615).

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandor) on Saturday, December 14, 2019 - 05:30 pm: Edit

Romulan tactics sent. My wife proof read for me so I hope it is in proper english writing now. It took her about 15 min to fix.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 12:10 pm: Edit

To All:

Sigh. Yes, the asteroid is in hex 2215. Should have listed, and thought I had. What little is left of my ability to remember anything is fading fast.

By Jeffrey George Anderson (Jeff) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 12:15 pm: Edit

SPP, you DID say the asteroid is in hex 2215 when you presented the scenario to us. We've all just been too lazy* to go through the Archives to dig it up.

(*I'm 100% guilty of this as well; if it's perceived as a dig on anyone, it's a dig on me as well!)

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 02:54 pm: Edit

Thank you for the Dilithium Crystal Asteroid starting hex (and this is the first time it has been noted).

By Eddie Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 03:24 pm: Edit

It is in the original scenario setup. In CL2

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 06:03 pm: Edit

True, I do not think I have the CL number 2.

All good

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 08:53 pm: Edit

Gorn Tactics submitted.

By Kurt Byanski (Kurtski) on Monday, December 16, 2019 - 09:51 pm: Edit

CL2 is available for PDF download for a nominal charge. (found it a couple of days ago)

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 06:28 pm: Edit

Gorn Tactics, some corrections sent.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Saturday, December 21, 2019 - 01:14 pm: Edit

To all intents and purposes, a single asteroid is pretty much not a terrain feature. You can land on it, yes (normally, prohibited for ships to land on it in this scenario), and beam down troops to engage in ground combat (again, normally, but prohibited in this scenario). But compared to a 10,000 kilometer hex it is barely a "Mote in God's eye." It is a single rock, not a "hex of asteroids," so seeking weapons (or direct fire weapons) are not impacted by entering the hex (and direct fire weapons are not blocked nor do they incur any EW penalty).

There is a "variant" of the basic scenario where all of the action takes place in an asteroid field, but that is not what is happening here. There is just the one rock, and other than that you can pick up dilithium from it, it may as well not even be there for all game purposes.

By A. David Merritt (Adm) on Saturday, December 21, 2019 - 08:51 pm: Edit

LDR article away.

Suggestion for future articles, please have the scenario available for those that may not have them. I have a hard copy of CL2, but everyone else may not, or be willing to buy and download them from a third party source like SJGames.