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- From: taia_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Second Genyosha)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
- Subject: Re: Battletech: Re: 'City Archer'
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 22:24:16 GMT
- Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
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- In article <BzMwE2.Lvw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga) writes:
- >pad@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Paul A Daniels) writes:
- >> I don't think the clans have much of an advantge these days.
- >>Heck anyone crippled by that silly sense of honor that most people play them
-
- >Well, the Clan honor system is not the debilitating thing that it looks
- >like it is at first. If an enemy 'Mech fires on more than one 'Mech, it
- >opens things up into a free-for-all.
- >Axly
-
- Using the Clan Honor system is fine, but the IS must remember that "There's
- a time for every season". Choose the time to break the code of one-on-one
- wisely. I do it when I can strike behind the Clan meks and ensure that at
- least one will die that turn. Strike when it is advantageous to you, though
- it is better when you attack from ambush.
-
- The free-for-all that is mentioned, sometimes isn't so. As many Clan meks
- continue to fight the one-on-one system even when the code is broken, this
- was mentioned in the "Blood of Kerensky" novels by Stackpole. As Clan pilots
- are more accustomed to the IS ways, they may go all out and brawl, but then
- they might be slow learners :) Though the "Jade Phoenix" books mention the
- free-for-all situation, they don't seem very "Clan" to me, so I'll leave
- it up to you to decide.
-
- Finally if you do keep to the rules of the one-on-one of the Honour code,
- then remember when your Clan mek has made it's kill, it stops. They did let
- another Clan pilot finish it's combat without aid. Plus a last point, what
- about "Swarms" they can hit more than one mek at the same time. My Clanners
- tend to ignore such things as "accidental fire", but then they know that I
- have limited numbers of special munitions :(
-
- **Have a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year! and don't drink and drive!**
- This has been... : "I have never listened to anyone who criticized
- Tony Taia :my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas.
- TAIA_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz :When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave
- My ideas are mine only, ok? :leave the room." - Ray Bradbury 1980. Age 60.
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