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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:37:42 -0500
- From: "Joseph E. Beck" <jb8n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: This has gone too far.....
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec21.072631.26645@athena.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Dec21.072631.26645@athena.mit.edu>
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- wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley) writes:
- > mdm@pun.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
- > >>"Joseph E. Beck" <jb8n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > >>
- > >>Will you fight Warsong? If you beat him I will be convinced...
- > >>
- > >
- > > Sure! I am a bit out of practice but given my recent attitude
- > >I should be able to handle a measly scout, right? ;-)
- >
- > Exsqueeze me? When did I volunteer to go blow up hapless losers who happen
- > to fly DD's too much?
- Your CMU alter ego already volunteered you. Sorry, too late to back
- out now. Besides, didn't you used to be one of those "hapless losers
- who happen to fly DD's too much" a while ago?
-
- > I absolutely refuse to consider facing anyone with the purpose of
- > discouraging
- > all those little creeps who fly DD's all the time. If they got real ships
- > and banded together, they might be dangerous.
- > I want losers to play me in
- > INL games planet-taking in DD's. And especially, I want them to face me in
- > my scout without fear. I *really* *really* want a DD to try to clear me off
- > a planet to drop his 5 armies. And I want a DD to try to run past me with 5
- > armies, repeatedly.
- Piece of cake. The DD outtorps you 5 to 3, and has *much* better
- phasers that more than offset your 10 points of reactive
- shields--oops.
-
- > The problem with the DD is *not* that it is *worse* than a
- > scout.
- I disagree. Except for the ability to carry 5 armies the DD is worse
- than a SC.
-
- > The problem with the DD is that it is not sufficiantly *better* than
- > a scout, to pay for the missing 3 warps.
- I assume you mean the missing *2* warps. Unless you know something we
- don't...
-
- GED:
- > Sounds like you're afraid you might lose, to me.
- No, Tim just doesn't want to embarass you in the competition so is
- withdrawing in this fashion so you don't look bad :-)
-
- joe
- Purple haze
- Lamb, Leg Of
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