Re: Galaxy

From: desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 01:00:29 +0000

John Sloan <js138@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>Why is it hard to defend?  Because if I have a fleet (which I do have
>in one game I'm playing in) capable of moving 20 or so in one move, I
>can send 4/5 scouts out to the planets I can reach in one hop, and see
>which has the least defenses.  I can then hit that particular planet,
>or the second least defended planet with my fleet before the opponent
>has a chance to build any new defense ships.

Your probes are destroyed before construction,
so you don't get to see what your adversary might have built last turn.

> He is left with either moving a defense fleet to one of the planets he
> thinks I will attack (and that fleet costs the same to build as my
> attack fleet) with a 20% or so chance of being right.

Because his planets are closer together than yours, he doesn't have to
spend quite as much on drives as you do.  He doesn't need as much
mobility to defend as you do to attack.

> Static defenses are cheaper to build than the equivalent attack fleet,
> but suffer from being static - you can go round them.  And to defend 5
> planets you need to build 5 times as many of them, which outweighs the
> saving in having no engines on them.

So what?  You have to do it anyway, even though it does cost five times
as much.  Your enemy has to do it too, because otherwise you will just
bomb all of his planets while he is off attacking you.  So the cost of
it slows him down as much as it hurts you.

David desJardins

References

Re: Galaxy
jcho@nmsu.EDU (CHO)
Mon, 01 Mar 1993 23:18:03 +0000
Re: Galaxy
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Wed, 03 Mar 1993 10:35:33 +0000
Galaxy
js138@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Sloan)
Mon, 01 Mar 1993 11:52:02 +0000