Re: -- Galaxy FAQ --

From: cebra@ids2.idsonline.com (Jonathan Cebra)

Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000

First, I would like to thank Frans for preparing this FAQ  - and for starting
the MADZONE game.

But I have one question about the FAQ:

In article <50n6f8$kav@pandora.cs.utwente.nl> slothoub@cs.utwente.nl (Frans
Slothouber) writes:

>--  Frequently Asked Questions about Galaxy --

>Consider the following situations:

>o Y declares War on X, and sends its ship on Friendly to planet Snoody.
>  The following will happen:
>  (a) Before any ships move a battle takes place on Friendly.
>      Lets suppose Y wins it; planet Friendly is bombed.
>  (b) The ship of Y moves from Friendly to Snoody.
>  (c) Planet Snoody is bombed.

>As you can see it is possible to bomb to planets in one turn.

The rules which I have state that orders are "executed" before the first round
of combat and then the second round of combat occurs after ships move through
hyperspace.

Those of you who read and write code may know the details, but my experience
has been that ships with orders to depart a planet do not participate in
initial battles (or bombing) on that planet.  The initial battles take place
while ships are in hyperspace.

I do not recall incidents of the following, but looking at the rules' sequence
of events it looks likely that ships on cargo routes would participate in
battles both before loading cargo and after arrival (although they could not
bomb two planets since they would have begun the turn on a friendly planet).

I am also not clear what would happen to a ship on intercept orders.  It is
possible that it might still be on the original planet at the time of initial
orders in which case it could bomb two planets on the same turn.

References

-- Galaxy FAQ --
slothoub@cs.utwente.nl (Frans Slothouber)
Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0000