OT- Being a Twilight 2000 player has deterrence value

[Panther Al]

Nah:

Two things to bear in mind when I have my back to the wall in interstellar games such as that:

Orion Drives.

Astroid Fields.


Nuff said.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

Two things to bear in mind when I have my back to the wall in interstellar games such as that:

Orion Drives.

Astroid Fields.

Hells yeah. Decent sized asteroids make for fine ortillery strikes.

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by Targan

Hells yeah. Decent sized asteroids make for fine ortillery strikes.

Yep. If you are crafty, you can get it going to the point where it isn't going to be stopped: No Point Defence can halt a rock the size of a small country.

[stg58fal]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

Nah:

Two things to bear in mind when I have my back to the wall in interstellar games such as that:

Orion Drives.

Astroid Fields.


Nuff said.

I like the way you think.

[DigTw0Grav3s]

Which game system is this? Strategic Operations?

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

Nah:

Two things to bear in mind when I have my back to the wall in interstellar games such as that:

Orion Drives.

Astroid Fields.


Nuff said.

Originally Posted by stg58fal

I like the way you think.

Back in the day the group that gamed out of my old FLGS (Yes, I ran it) did a lot of SciFi stratagy games from various systems. It didn't take long for everyone else to learn two things: I always played the long game - hence, don't give me time. And second, always assume that any system you take from me won't give you squat, because I *always* rigged up planet killers on deadman switches in all my systems - scorched earth hell - scorched system!

Always fun to watch the others think to themselves... "Hrm... he isn't that big a threat yet, and yet if I move against him, all I am gonna get out of it is a sharply reduced fleet that will make me dead meat to my neighbours. But... if I let it go too long, I'm dead meat to him! Damnit!"

[HorseSoldier]

Yep. If you are crafty, you can get it going to the point where it isn't going to be stopped: No Point Defence can halt a rock the size of a small country.

And not just as even strategic level ortillery. In a sci-fi setting with FLT drives there's generally some way to work the physics to turn an asteroid into an extinction level event for a habitable planet. Either slam the asteroid into the planet at high fraction C velocities or for "jump" sort of systems, materialize one or more rocks the size of Delaware or larger on fault lines.

The fact that Traveler 2300/2300AD's FTL system seems expressly written to preclude that sort of thing makes me certain someone started talking about it during the Great Game they played to get that setting's backstory done.

[stg58fal]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

And not just as even strategic level ortillery. In a sci-fi setting with FLT drives there's generally some way to work the physics to turn an asteroid into an extinction level event for a habitable planet. Either slam the asteroid into the planet at high fraction C velocities or for "jump" sort of systems, materialize one or more rocks the size of Delaware or larger on fault lines.

The fact that Traveler 2300/2300AD's FTL system seems expressly written to preclude that sort of thing makes me certain someone started talking about it during the Great Game they played to get that setting's backstory done.

This reminds me of the books "Freehold" and "The Weapon" by Michael Z. Williamson. Good books, if you haven't read them I recommend doing so.

Without spoiling too much of it, one of the only free planets humanity has is fighting a war for their very existence against the UN. In addition to special forces infiltrator teams that wreak havoc on Earth, the resisting planet sends some FTL shuttles to the Sol system, gets them in an Earth orbit, and then jumps them into the surface of the planet. Much havoc was wreaked, much hate and discontent spread.