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Mike
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Joined: 07 May 2007
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Location: South Carolina
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 Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | You know, in War, the odds are just not fair sometimes. Ask the Captian [sic] of the USS Hood. |
I think the introduction of Federation Admiral by VBAM will produce a lot of scenarios like this, but it will supposedly have a very quick way to resolve them. Battles that are more even will be fought using FC. FA could even replace the need for specialty scenarios to be submitted/published by ADB anymore (other than porting over the old SFB scenarios).
The Coming of the Meteor is in Briefing #1, not #2. Checking the "Towing" section it says,
| Quote: | | Simultaneous towing attempts would both move the meteor and both ships and could actually move the meteor closer to the planet! |
Two sentences later it says,
| Quote: | | The effect of this movement is solely to move the meteor onto a path parallel with its original path; the meteor still moves one hex in direction C each turn regardless of anything else. |
I don't understand what that first quote means. Surely both ships would not attempt to tow the meteor in the same direction.
The second quote says the meteor can only move 1 hex in direction C each turn. No amount of tractoring by either or both ships can change that.
Simply trying to understand this...
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Lieutenant JG
Joined: 14 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Mike : To answer your original question, I have played it a few times. This was definitely a fun scenario, but nowhere near balanced. IOHO. After we each got clobbered being the Klingon, we just gave the Fed a smaller ship -- (a CL maybe?) to fix it.
Eblack: Just curious -- did you actually win as the Klingon? Or are you simply theorizing. (Nothing wrong with theorizing.  )
Kang: I had the same idea as you as the F5 and (rightly or wrongly) pulled the Asteroid one hex closer to the planet. But on turn 10 I was kicking myself because the Fed had pulled it away, and I just needed 1 more turn to pull it back into position. So I lost because of my turn 1 “bright idea”.  |
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eblack
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Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I played the SFB version a long time ago and won as an F5 (or whatever ship was used in that scenerio). So I am mostly theorizing. |
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