| Response to Misza in Stars! Creche Game Forum |
Mon, 05 April 2010 14:30  |
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 vonKreedon |
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Registered: March 2003
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Note to self (and a rant too): Never ever again join a game where chaff-sweeping is allowed. Sure, classic use of chaff is annoying, but manageable. Chaff sweeping should totally be banned as nonsense - you can openly laugh at enemy defenses - why bother trying to sneak a sweeper ahead of your fleet if you can just crash your 100s of fleets into it, making the list of fleets a mess in the process? This tactic makes minefields practically useless.
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While I understand your frustration I disagree with your assessment in several ways:
1 - "why bother trying to sneak a sweeper ahead of your fleet if you can just crash your 100s of fleets into it": A couple of reasons here. One is that chaff while very cheap are not free and at say 5 resources per chaff that still equals actual money when you have to burn 300 (300x5=1,500/year) of them each over several years, so there is a resource penalty. Also, to avoid triggering the battleboard overload bug, you have to run the chaff past the target planet, meaning that you potentially have less chaff available for absorbing missile fire in the battle. Finally, you want to sweep down the minefields because it is easy to run into the 512 fleet limit when you want to chaff sweep a large/overlapping set of fields.
2 - It doesn't make minefields useless as a practical matter as they still absorb enemy resources, both money and ships, and force your enemy to gather up enough chaff to do the sweeping, which is a good clue for you about where they intend to attack.
3 - The use of chaff to crash sweep is exactly like the Iranian (and others at other times) use of human waves to overcome the extensive Iraqi minefields during the Iran-Iraq war, and so passes the reality check, which is important to me when evaluating these exploitable bugs.
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