NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/games/netrek/11975

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From: [e-mail] (Herbert Enderton)
Subject: Re: Escorting Tips Wanted
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Barnett) writes:
>I got sneered at on bronco yesterday, and I'm wondering how I might
>have done better.  We were Roms, and had quickly pushed the Klis back
...
>A Rom named Turkey-something (Red Shirt in disguise?  his login was
>he-something) had zeroed Sco and dashed over to Lyr to pick up.  I
>reached Sco as he picked up and headed back.  An ogger was after him,
>while ryche and someone else came in at Kli and started charging
>toward Sco.  I was in a CA, the carrier was in a SC, and the ogger was
>in a DD, I think.

Yeah, I play turkey (which is not to say that turkey = Red Shirt; their
playing styles and attitudes are different, e.g. turkey kills his own
base whenever possible).  I don't remember that play.  Was that the
game I quit out of after deciding that it was effectively 15 on 1,
since my team comprised me and 7 traitors who never went anywhere near
the few remaining Klingon planets and "helpfully" killed oggers at
places like Andromeda every time I was going in to drop on Pollux?

From your description it sounds like you were thinking about the right
issues and making a reasonably smart play, especially if you thought
you'd be able to pull it off.  Another good idea might have been to
cloak and head for Kli or Pol as a decoy (with options to bomb or og).

  -- turkey