hi,
Very recently, I said:
>I am quite sure, that if I saw the designs and
>quantities of ANY fleet, I could design a specialised fleet to destroy that
>fleet!
I am going to have to make a slight apology here, I realise that the design
of a fleet doesn't give you decent strategy/tactics and that an inferior
fleet could win a battle given some 'luck' (or better command).
What I ment to write, was that I believe that I could design a special fleet
that would win given equally good commanders and no surprises. Now all I hope
is that nobody tries to take me up on my claim ;-)
My method of design would be along the following lines: for each class of ship,
I would attempt to design a class that was: cheaper and capable of taking out
the enemy class at the rate of one for one.
My strategy in a battle would be along the lines of: maintain a defensive
formation and whenever an enemy ship approached, send out its counterpart and
let them destroy each other. I don't know if this is 'best' (it probably isn't)
and it would not be very popular with the crews of the suicide ships. I'm
sure some kind of tailored attack plan could be devised (this area isn't my
strong point, I play strategic games relatively poorly).
Hopefully, I have removed some off the egg off of my face :-)
Pauli
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