10-20-2020, 01:40 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Boat Wars
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As Racer points out: There are countermeasures to Torpedoes; but most of them came later, after the flaws in the game became apparent. Also: Certain of those options are not viable in an arena format. I suspect more people might have paid attention if the first attempt to expand upon the flaws was not made by NOVA's leader, whose delivery of arguments was, to put it mildly, Poor. This is part of why I wrote the piece I did -- trying to produce an Argument which was Well-Written as much as Thought-Through. Unfortunately, the only copy I have of the piece is a hard copy; I'll have to find it, and retype it.
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10-20-2020, 03:23 PM | #12 |
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Re: Boat Wars
I think my gaming group used boats once. I'd drawn out the sand & surf arena (Pensacola?) from the Arena Book (or was it L'Outrance?) on a blank map sheet, and we decided to play a boats vs. cars crossover. Don't remember enjoying the event.
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10-20-2020, 03:38 PM | #13 |
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Re: Boat Wars
Read them, designed a few hovers from them, filed them away forever.
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10-20-2020, 04:39 PM | #14 |
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Re: Boat Wars
UPDATE: Found it -- have recopied it in Notepad (with an addition to fix a later-introduced flaw).
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10-21-2020, 08:26 AM | #15 | |
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Re: Boat Wars
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10-21-2020, 04:09 PM | #16 |
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Re: Boat Wars
In one of the rare NOVA boat duels, I avoided a massed torp launch by driving over one of the above-water obstacles. It became even more embarrassing when, after losing lock on me, the torps started locking on to each other.... >:)
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10-21-2020, 04:58 PM | #17 |
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Re: Boat Wars
That is pretty funny to happen to say the least.
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10-22-2020, 08:45 AM | #18 |
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Location: Chicagoland Area, Illinois
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Re: Boat Wars
Uncle Al's 2070: Homing torpedo
Uncle Al's 2071: Anti-Homing torpedo Uncle Al's 2072: Anti-Anti-Homing torpedo Uncle Al's 2073: Anti-Anti-Anti-Homing torpedo ....... |
10-22-2020, 02:33 PM | #19 |
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Re: Boat Wars
Mr. McMullen was *NOT* happy. :)
Esp. as his boat was unarmed after he'd pickled off his torps. And kjamma4's gag isn't *too* far off the mark -- boat duels in NOVA were essentially "launch homing torps at target; target launches counterbattery torp spread (pre-Foxer); wait to see what happens". To quote Jeremy Clarkson: "BORED NOW."
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10-26-2020, 12:22 PM | #20 |
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Re: Boat Wars
Not much else to do beyond that that but FULL SPEED and ram....
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