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ManicLurch wrote on Sat, 30 June 2012 18:55

Special Rules: No torps of any kind allowed on any ship or starbase.


Usually I don't mingle into the rules of games I won't play in. But after having played in 3 sas games, won 2, I feel quite attached to the sas-series. Since I was playing in the last sas-game (on the receiving side of the min dam bug), I know how difficult this is for sas.

Nevertheless I would strongly advice NOT to ban torps.
The reason: it unbalances Stars.
The best thing about Stars is that there is not THE game style nor THE warship-design. There is a counter for everything.

This is destroyed when banning torps. Most of you are experienced players, so I guess it is not really a strat-spoiler when I say what will happen with banend torps in a sas-environment: frigates with yakis will rule. There is no counter to it except range-3-frigates much later on.

This sounds a bit boring, doesn't it?

Compare this with our last sas-game: the complexity of battles due to the min dam bug, the greater importance of speed and armour, new ways to use chaff, a multitude of ship designs to make use of the min dam bug, to circumvent it, to chaff it, decent warship designs etc. Agreed, the min dam bug is a pain in the ass but better than forcing everybody to use one overwhelmingly strong design, I think.


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