Fight Dirty?

[Xaren Hypr]

Hmmm.....
How many mines does an escort suck up when running through? How many does a fighter suck up?

*ponders evil, evil designs*

Depends on how much damage the mines deal out and how much damage your ships can soak (i.e. a ship with a lot of heavy armor can take out more mines than, let's say, a lightly armored escort). Not too sure how mine damage applies to units though...

I have seen a couple of times where the damage seems to "stack" a bit (the total mine damage added up and the total fleet damage resistance added up, and whomever has more has stuff left in the end), and i'll lose a portion of my fleet to an unknown minefield, but i'll have a surviving ship that has less damage done to it than a normal mine would have...but then again, I simply might have miscalculated the ship's damage.

Just a thought, or two...

[Wardad]

It is possible to use 1 fighter to expend 1 mine, provided you send 1 fighter at a time.
Just try that in PBW (simultaneous mode).

[Pooka]

Originally posted by Wardad:
It is possible to use 1 fighter to expend 1 mine, provided you send 1 fighter at a time.
Just try that in PBW (simultaneous mode).

If fighters are cheaper than mines I'll do it. =^.^=

Seriously though, I think a set of 10 destroyers with 5 MinesweeperIIs should be sufficient. The maximum minefield size is 100 mines, yes?

[ May 07, 2003, 18:15: Message edited by: Pooka ]

[Wardad]

Yes the max is 100 mines.
Unless your playing an older Version and know the exploit

Light Cruisers (LC) should be cheaper than destroyers.
You should research LCs because the Large Weapon Mount makes them more effective.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Wardad:
It is possible to use 1 fighter to expend 1 mine, provided you send 1 fighter at a time.
Just try that in PBW (simultaneous mode).

I believe the mines troubling our new friend are on the other side of a warp point, anyway. Fighters can't go through warp points, I don't believe.

[Aloofi]

Fighters can warp. You just need to select the fighter group (make sure it have less than 100 fighters) then press ctrl, alt and delete before giving the warp order.

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[ May 07, 2003, 19:48: Message edited by: Aloofi ]

[Loser]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Fighters can warp. You just need to select the fighter group (make sure it have less than 100 fighters) then press ctrl, alt and delete before giving the warp order.

Cute. I'm tempted to suggest that you've been reading http://www.bash.org

[Aloofi]

Come on, but I did make you laugh, didn't I?

And I was reading something else.......
Do you like Tatu?



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[ May 07, 2003, 20:32: Message edited by: Aloofi ]

[Gwaihir]

what, like this one? (bash.org, sorry didn't notice the new post, two Posts down)

#33677 +(-4)- [X]

Warman89: It's the best game evr.
Meamperson: Which one?
Warman89: Warcraft u idiot!
Meamperson: For the end world spell, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice.

Funny, i've tried so many times, it never seems to work . . .

edit:
There was a brief cosmic irony surge just now, seeing as 30 seconds after I read that, my roommate asks me to help him fix a little problem . . . he got one of those "find this system file, it is a virus, delete it and empty the recycle bin" things, and FOLLOWED IT. Fortunately the next email said it was a hoax, so he told me and I was able to replace it with the same file from my HD. actually it was just the Java debug manager, so it wasn't too terribly crucial, but still. Very ironic.

[ May 07, 2003, 20:42: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

[Erax]

Originally posted by Gwaihir:
There was a brief cosmic irony surge just now, seeing as 30 seconds after I read that, my roommate asks me to help him fix a little problem . . . he got one of those "find this system file, it is a virus, delete it and empty the recycle bin" things, and FOLLOWED IT.

My boss did that too, then wrote the name of the file down and went around checking the other computers for it (they all had it, of course).

Telling him "That's a hoax" was one of those priceless moments.