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Old October 16th, 2002, 07:09 PM

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Re: use of Repulser Beams and Crowded conditons
Mabe when using them:
Us a formaiton where the leader is fairly protected and "Don't Break Formation"
This should keep your ships out of the way and allow for full fields of fire.
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Old October 16th, 2002, 07:14 PM
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Not quite...

The problem is thus:
Take one enemy ship, the Target.
Place three enemy ships, the Wingmen directly behind, and diagonally behind on either side, to form a "T" shape.

Your ship fires a Heavy-Mount repulsor beam at the Target, for 15 "push" damage.
The enemy Target moves one square backwards, and runs into one of the Wingmen. The remaining 14 push points are lost.

The prblem is the enemy formation, not your own.
The fleet in this situation would have benefited greatly by having wormhole beams instead of repulsors.

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Old October 16th, 2002, 07:52 PM

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I'll have to check the specs at home.
Would it make a differance if they Priortys were set for
Farthest?
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Old October 16th, 2002, 10:03 PM
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Well, that would drastically reduce the effect of your primary weapons (lost accuracy, some types lose damage at range).

Plus, by knocking back the farthest ships first, you leave the close ones to rip your ships to shreds. I imagine your ships would also turn and fly into the enemy fleet in order to attack the farthest ship away from you, and getting themselves killed.
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For editing Speech files, I make a copy of one of the existing files and edit that.

Since the file is so long, I only edit a few of the entries at one sitting, and put in some kind of marker (e.g. "-->") that I can search for to find where I left off.
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I'll have to start a Full Tech game an try some things. Maybe a combonation of
Multitplex Tracking
Repulser Beams > Put in the design first > Push farthest ships away
Main Weapons have only closer ships to fire at?

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