[Spaceships] Interesting Piloting Techniques?

Phantasm · 08-31-2015, 02:33 PM

In the X-Wing series of games (and later adapted into one of the X-Wing novels), there was a maneuver called the "Wotan Weave" (officially a "Corkscrew Avoid") which you achieved by putting the starfighter into a spin while spiraling along the long axis while maintaining the same attack heading. (The strategy guides for X-Wing and TIE Fighter explained it as holding down the top button of the joystick while angling it to the forward-right corner, but I found I had to alternate the joystick from forward-right and rear-right to pull off; this was in the days of two-axis/two-button joysticks.)

Technically this could be an "evasive action" maneuver, but it's tough to pull off. What would be an acceptable penalty to have this as a Technique?

08-31-2015, 02:33 PM	#7
Phantasm Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the road again...	Re: [Spaceships] Interesting Piloting Techniques? In the X-Wing series of games (and later adapted into one of the X-Wing novels), there was a maneuver called the "Wotan Weave" (officially a "Corkscrew Avoid") which you achieved by putting the starfighter into a spin while spiraling along the long axis while maintaining the same attack heading. (The strategy guides for X-Wing and TIE Fighter explained it as holding down the top button of the joystick while angling it to the forward-right corner, but I found I had to alternate the joystick from forward-right and rear-right to pull off; this was in the days of two-axis/two-button joysticks.) Technically this could be an "evasive action" maneuver, but it's tough to pull off. What would be an acceptable penalty to have this as a Technique? __________________ "Life ... is an Oreo cookie." - J'onn J'onzz, 1991 "But mom, I don't wanna go back in the dungeon!" The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation. Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting