Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Well, I've officially surrendered to tesco. My fleet expected more ships and/or fewer sats. My missile ships with PDC also didn't target the sats, although they were specifically directed to. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Anyway, a great game by tesco, and I've learned much from it. Next opponent on the bottom, please? Maybe one who's 0-10? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Well, let me give you an update for gandalph vs sparhawk.

We did meet very early in the game, losing ships on both sides.
I had some missiles on my ships that got some ship of gandalph, but very soon gandalph had researched point defence weapons and I lost some ships.
He started very early with spreading mines through some keys point. But I was luckily in time to occupy some strategic warp point. I think that we are now at the point that colony ships/mine layer ship are leaving the ship yards fast to spread throught the galaxy.
Its now turn 4.7 and things are starting to be fixed. Minefields are placed and a concentration point of two fleets are fixed to one system. Gandalph with some planets there and me on a warp point. Hopefully he gives me some time to build-up my forces http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Sparhawk

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

I have never been able to get PDC to fire on sats in strategic games. I think it's a bug. I think the target has to be moving for the PDC to fire on it. You can use PDC against sats in tactical though.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I've seen them fire at mine before. PD's, right?

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

The problem with ordering a PD ship to attack sats is that it must have another weapon that can target the sats that will bring it into PD range. The earlier example was a missile ship, missiles can't target sats so as far as the game was concerned it was just like having a PD ship with no offensive weapons.

Hope this helps! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's probably it.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

Okay, that explains it. Thanks for the help. Not that it was a game-buster or anything; Tesco just out-quicked me (is that a word? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) when it counted.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In my experience, either the target or the atacker must be moving before PDC will fire.

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In my experience, either the target or the atacker must be moving before PDC will fire.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have never had a problem attacking sats with PDC's in a strategic game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

The PDC's were on ships, so the ships (the attackers) would be moving.

As Nodachi has mentioned, I too have another weapon on board so as the ship will move towards the sats and bring it's PDC's to bear.

EDITED to give proper credit to Nodachi.

[ May 10, 2003, 06:30: Message edited by: tbontob ]

Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?
 

I think the problem was that it was a warp point battle--I came through and destroyed the one ship the missiles would target pretty quickly. The missile ships were moving, all right--away from the sats. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Had there been any ships further away, I'm sure they would have moved past the sats and got some shots in. Not enough to make much difference, but some.