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- From: ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: Ramblings about X-WING...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.001622.41509@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 00:16:22 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1gam3jINNrfj@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee) wri
- tes:
- >In article <1992Dec9.155136.23614@almserv.uucp>, s5umws@fnma.COM (Michael Staln
- aker) writes:
- >>Think of the trench situation another way..
- >>
- >>For a high-altitude, dive bombing attack, your ship is going to be vulnerable
- >>to just about every AAA unit within a *very* large area, albiet the area gets
- >>smaller as you descend in your dive, as more and more emplacements become unus
- eable
- >>due to having line-of-sight blocked...
- >>
- >>On the other hand, if you're down in the trench, you've only got to deal with
- >>fighters, and whatever AAA emplacments are directly on your flight path, not w
- ith
- >>every bloody cannon on the surface. I'd take my chances with a Nape of the Dea
- th-Star
- >>run, rather than a high altitude dive, thank you. :)
- >>
- >>--Mike
- >
- >good point but wouldnt you have to do one of these death defying(sp) dives
- >to get to the trench in the first place?
-
- Let's settle this once and for all! Anybody got George Lucas' email address? :)
- BTW, whatever happened to the Young Indiana Jones chronicles? I guess it's not
- doing so well. I wonder if this would affect the next Indy game.
- --
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