Suicidal Ships?

Phoenix-D · #1 August 5th, 2002, 04:21 AM

It would have to have taken out all the ship's engines to do that, given that they were only one sector away.possible though.

Oh well. If this wasn't a Proportions game, I think I'd go back in with a bunch of planetary napalm and PDCs..

Phoenix-D

PvK · #2 August 5th, 2002, 05:14 AM

I think if you lose your bridge, speed drops to one, which would mean the fleet would have to Last practically the whole strategic turn before it moved to the homeworld. I think losing life support and crew quarters each halve speed, as well. (Each condition either halves or slows to 1, but I don't remember which does which.) So, that would be my guess.

PvK

Suicide Junkie · #3 August 5th, 2002, 05:53 AM

Losing Bridge:
1/2 movement.

Losing all crew quarters:
1/2 movement.

Losing all lifesupport:
1/4 movement.

Being able to decimate a fleet because you crippled the leader's movement:
Priceless.

Ragnarok · #4 August 5th, 2002, 06:23 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

Being able to decimate a fleet because you crippled the leader's movement:
Priceless.

ROFLOL Oh that's classic SJ. I love it. Someone should make a whole list of stuff like that for the SEIV universe. That'd be great. I'll if I can come up with some myself.

capnq · #5 August 5th, 2002, 08:59 PM

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Simultanious game, and I gave them a move order, not attack.

There's your problem. In a simultaneous game, you have to use the Attack order to enter a sector containing hostiles; ships with the Move order will just stop (or sometimes "dance" back and forth between two adjacent sectors). The only exception I can think of is when you move through a warp point and run into defenders which the moving ships didn't know were there.

geoschmo · #6 August 5th, 2002, 09:23 PM

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Originally posted by capnq:
There's your problem. In a simultaneous game, you have to use the Attack order to enter a sector containing hostiles; ships with the Move order will just stop (or sometimes "dance" back and forth between two adjacent sectors). The only exception I can think of is when you move through a warp point and run into defenders which the moving ships didn't know were there.

No, this can't be right. I use the "move to" order all the time when attacking planets in simultaneous games. More out of habit than any particular reason really. But move to works just fine when attacking stationary targets.

Geo

Phoenix-D · #7 August 5th, 2002, 10:56 PM

"There's your problem. In a simultaneous game, you have to use the Attack order to enter a sector containing hostiles; ships with the Move order will just stop (or sometimes "dance" back and forth between two adjacent sectors). The only exception I can think of is when you move through a warp point and run into defenders which the moving ships didn't know were there."

No.. they only do the dance when you don't SPECIFICALLY tell them to move to that square. If you give a move-to order to a square with enemies, they'll go there.

Phoenix-D