Blowing up a star

[PvK]

Just as a BTW, I have seen star destuction used as a decisive strategy in a PBW game. It was in a limited-resources game, where loss of an entire system and the victim's main fleet really tipped the scales.

PvK

[Baron Munchausen]

Wow... and if this Star Destroyer had been intercepted and destroyed it would have been a major loss of resources for the player who built it, which might also have been decisive. That sounds like a high-stakes gamble. But then that's what 'war gaming' is about... risk and excitement!

[Lord Kodos]

Ahem the nation of Vector has, many times..found it best...for universal security to remove offensive stars.

EVERYTHING in the system is destroyed. And i usually use the Black Hole generators so thats whats left behind.

[rextorres]

My favorite use of a star destroyer is as a stop gap measure. Just park it at a system as a Last resort. You can use it ambush an opponent with an overwhelming fleet. It severe tactics, but it saved me in a game once.

[oleg]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Arkcon, sounds like you are pretty much seeing the same thing I am. That the sizes can change, but don't automatically get bigger. Seems to be a bit random actually. I suppose if it's random it's possible that you would get three huge asteroid fields. Usually I see the planet get smaller and one of the asteroids get bigger. I alwyas kind of figured it balanced out or something. Oleg seemed to be saying you always got three huge asteroid fields. I guess maybe when he did it once he got three huge and thought that was how it always worked or something.

Geoschmo

Yeh, it may be just a fluke. Will try again.