| Re: Which option do I choose? |
Tue, 04 February 2003 18:37   |
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| Micha | 
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| freakyboy wrote on Tue, 04 February 2003 16:35 |
Cheers.
The field is actually 150ly+
But i'm hitting an outer world that is 60ly from my fleet and the minefield expands to half way between my fleet and the planet.
And considering each BB is loaded with ONLY big mutha cannons they should be able to sweep just about anything in 1 turn.
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The kind of sweeper doesn't matter here, BlueTurbit is referring to "chaff sweeping" here but now using your BBs, at least I think he is, don't know why he said:
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Determine how many big motha sweepers needed to sweep the field.
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Beam does not matter since it is the _impact_ that will reduce the field, afterall you are right in saying that sweeping happens _after_ movement. You can use any type of ship for that, chaff, your beamers ... (in one of my posts I mentioned a teammate using his SFX design that he was going to scrap anyway).
IOW these fleets NEED to hit the field, so they need to go as fast as they can increasing the chance of hitting a mine.
Take a look at:
http://arthur.lathrop.com/stars/chaffsweep32.exe
This will give you an idea about how many hits you need and how many ships you need for that ...
(I'm sure the Zoid is not going to like this either  )
What you can do is just set some of your motha BBs to go to 1 ly from the planet (5-6 in seperate fleets and different coordinates but still 1 ly, or 1.41ly), some will get through and will sweep the field out of the planets orbit. Then _next_ turn you move in all other fleets without the risk of hitting a mine.
BlueTurbit suggestion could be used too, but I doubt if 50 seperate BB fleets are enough to take out the field by crash sweeping, I don't know how far your fleet is from the planet but I guess you need at least 100 ...
kind regards,
mch
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