Re: Galaxy-shipping materials

From: weertj@IAEhv.nl (Jacco van Weert)

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Howard the Energizer (bampton@cs.utk.edu) wrote:
: In article <541t98$c75@news.IAEhv.nl> weertj@IAEhv.nl (Jacco van Weert) writes:
: >In general orbital shouldn't be neccesary at all.... I once in my Galaxy
: >life build a orbital fort, and it managed to bring down one single probe :(
[knipperdeknip]
: >strength of those ships are quite low. Most of time your 'outdated' fleets
: >could act as slow defense fleets.
:
: While the flexible defense concept is generally the right way to go
: (particularily in blind games where system sizes vary substantially,
: and homeworld locations are not known at the start, so driveless units
: give away valuable information), it does break down badly in the endgame.
:
: In both Alpha (std galaxy, 200LY), and a certain blind game that is
: still running, I've seen high speed raiders take out scores (60-100)
: of systems in a single turn.
:
: In that same blind game, I had considerable success with normal speed
: (30-40% drive), heavily shielded (50%+) raiders. I think they have
: bombed 50% of my total to date (to 20%  for fighters, and 30% for
: warfleets).
:
: In short, you claim is not overly accurate after turn 30 or 40.
:
You have a point there, in Galaxy Elric and Green it never came that
far because in those games attacks where followed by attacks and so
the DRIVE tech stayed low.

But when the end-game starts with fairly high DRIVE tech then the
strategy must change.... As I found out in a Galaxy which started
with "Para" and ended with "dis" ;-).... I think you know what I mean
and what happened there.
But I still don't believe in orbital defenses.... I rather uses 'slow'
divisions which are _just_ fast enough to reach their zone planets in
one turn and have a fairly good DRIVE / WEAPONS+SHIELD ratio.
Drive 10% a bit like that.

Jacco

References

Re: Galaxy-shipping materials
Stig Hemmer <stig@voldsboks.pvv.ntnu.no>
Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy-shipping materials
Steve Pritchard <Steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy-shipping materials
weertj@IAEhv.nl (Jacco van Weert)
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy-shipping materials
bampton@cs.utk.edu (Howard the Energizer)
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000