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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:15:23 -0500
- From: Erik Lauer <el0g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: This has gone too far.....
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- >>Perhaps the cloaker is an AS. If you start off around 4000 fuel, and
- >>phaser around 30 points I don't think you will get it down to warp 1.
- >>Of course you probably can get some help, but without any I don't think
- >>your scout will succeed. If you phaser lock a large ship with a SC, and
- >>you have no help available, don't they usually uncloak anyway?
- >
- >But with an AS, I can still close in on you and start doing 60-70 point
- >phaser blasts. And, if I feel inspired, I can fire torps directly on you,
- >where detting does you little good.
- >
- >Do they uncloak? Usually not. Unless they have loads of fuel, it does
- >little good. If they fire, I dodge and they waste fuel. If they don't
- >fire, then I'm back a little farther from the enemy than I hoped, but
- >not far enough that I can't still close in on him.
-
- I suppose you just run up to CA and do the same thing. When they fire,
- you dodge, and they waste their fuel.
-
- My idea was that if you are further away the AS could uncloak and
- pressor, pause, cloak. If you are close use the phaser. I really did
- not mean uncloak to burn the fuel firing torps.
-
- I believe there is a misconception that the AS is poor at close range
- phaser battles. If a CA and AS get in a short range (CA is firing for
- 60 or more points per shot) phaser battle, they will mutual. At the
- range of 82 to 99 points, the AS kills the CA in 3 shots, at which time
- the CA blows up, presumably finishing the AS.
-
- >Brian
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- Erik
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