Howdy Gang,
A few people may have been surprised, (I sure was) when I didn't pick up the
gauntlet to play Trillion Credit Squadron. Sorry, I don't have the time now,
but I'd sure like to try it sometime against all of you!
I was sort of pleased to see that you chose High Guard over MegaTrav.
Otherwise I was seeing all sorts of problems for you.
I once got started in a TCS campaign with MegaTrav and it never got very far.
(sigh)
Announcing Kellogg's Law!
The larger the design system, the easier it is to find NASTY loopholes in it.
The MEgaTrav design system is pretty Large!
The trillion cred Squadron I was gonna build was gonna revolve around the
Indianapolis Fighter and the Wolf II fighter carrier. (TL 11)
The Indianapolis fighter (for those of you who don't remember it) is an
incredibly cheap (Under 10 MCR if memory serves) COACC designed fighter
using a Fusion Rocket. It's acceleration was around 12G's with a full
armament load. She carried 60 anti-ship missiles which would be fired in
two battery rounds. Thus she had the equivalent of a factor 7 missile battery.
At the speeds these things go, they could streak into range, fire the first
salvo, then fly along with the missiles and fire the second salvo. Then
streak out of range before the enemy had much time to fire on them.
(also with agitlity 6 and a model 5 computer and the +2 size DM they were hard
to hit!)
THus the enemy had not one round of missiles coming in, but 2 rounds which
would come in on the same round and swamp the defending batteries.
The fighters could then fly back to the carriers (Which were WELL out of range)
and reload.
The cheapness of these fighters was one of their biggest advantages. with
a few thousand of them in the air, they could dish out damage in a HURRY.
It's true, against nuclear dampers and heavy armor, they mightn't fare as well,
but remember that a non penetration hit still registers as hull damage.
(YEah! Those silly numbers we NEVER use!) And think, a thousand fighters
fire 60 thousand missiles... I don't care if you've got armor 200H! It's
still gonna hurt ya!
Now, I hear the gentlemen in the back row making noise...
But Hey! It's allowed under MegaTrav Rules!
So... be GLAD you've got High Guard to save you from me and my big mouth!
But someday when I'm not taking quantum physics, I'd like to see what some of
you can turn out in a MegaTrav or High Guard Fleet, just to test out what I
can turn out! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!
Scott
"You fat bloated sack of protoplasm!" -- Commander Hork