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Re: Stone Age Slaughter 7 Mon, 02 July 2012 12:37 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
ManicLurch is currently offline ManicLurch

 
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Yes, Altruist is correct in his assessment of what will likely happen. The main reason for the no torp rule is the min damage bug and any rules that try to prevent the min damage bug are hard to police. The no torp rule is easy to police.

The best two solutions I have heard to solve this issue for this game series where most games are won with low tech weapons are to either ban torps, or allow exploiting the min damage bug.

The issue with allowing the min damage bug is any ship, even those with good armor can be taken down by the bug. This does open up new strategies to counter this if everyone is aware of it. IS gets the best counter option with their minigun. WM is the next best PRT to counter this with their improved battle speed.

I don't suppose if someone relied solely on a Yak FF stack that it could be countered with range zero weapons? If not, FF yaks would rule until someone got sapper tech. Then a combination of sappers plus higher initiative beamers to the yak FFs would take down the yaks easy enough. But that would take quite a few years to get from Yak FF tech to sapper tech in these settings.

If the players have an opinion one way or the other I would like to hear it.

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