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Old 02-16-2019, 05:39 PM   #2
rlbeaver
 
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Default Re: Triplanetary - Landing and Takeoff

After trying the game for the first time, resulting in several heated discussions on rule interpretation, I can't see any other way than to spend two fuel to get off the planet.

Turn 1 - You leave atmosphere, the gravity of the planet halts your forward momentum.

Option 1:
Turn 2 - you have no movement as you haven't spent any fuel, so you spend your one point to move outward from the planet, however, you have to account for the gravity, so you would cancel your momentum, or alternately you can spend the one point to move left or right. You now have a momentum of 1, and will continue to circle the planet.
Turn 3 - you plan your movment and spend a point of fuel which will give you a momentum of 2 and you will move out of the planet's orbit.

Option 2:
Turn 2 - You have not movement as haven't spent any fuel, so you spend two points (overburn is it?) and you burn away from the planet, however because of the gravity, you only have a momentum of 1


We ran into a number of situations where we could not agree on how to do the movement and then decided to just give up. If at some point someone has more videos or other examples of movement, we'll dust off the game and try again.
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