Re: Galaxy Variants

From: terkans@euronet.nl (Maarten M Hazewinkel)

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <31BC27B0.7CE1@dial.pipex.com>,
Tim Hughes <t.hughes@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

>My own preference for possible additions to Galaxy would be:
>
>1.  Allowing ships to carry other ships as cargo.  There are lots of
>possibilities.  "Carriers" which move driveless battleships/fortresses to a
>planet.  "Mine Layers" where you drop lots of small ships at a world to disrupt
>enemy movements.  With high CARGO tech you could perhaps build fast carriers
>which deploy slow moving, heavy armed fleets deep in enemy territory.  You'd
>have to playtest this carefully to get the SHIPMASS to CARGOMASS ratio to give a
>proper pay back for the resources invested.

There is a variant called Galactica, which implemented something like
this. Check on the galaxy homepage, it's mentioned there.

Maarten

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References

Re: Galaxy Variants
mike@geophys.hokudai.ac.jp (Mikhail A. Menshov)
Sat, 08 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy Variants
cebra@ids2.idsonline.com (Jonathan Cebra)
Sun, 09 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Galaxy Variants
Tim Hughes <t.hughes@dial.pipex.com>
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000