I suppose player elimination isn’t as bad in a forum game like this - all right, I’m only running one game at a time so eliminated players can’t play Triplanetary here until this game is over, but they can still go and do other things. In the context of a game at an actual tabletop, while there’s some pleasure to be had in watching a game continue, it’s much less fun than actually playing; so I prefer that bit to be over quickly. (It’s why I prefer The Resistance to Werewolf/Mafia.)
z1 thrust B
z2 Thrust F
z3 mine
z4 coast
z5 coast
z6 coast
Z7,z8 Thrust D
z9 Thrust C
zA Thrust F to counter balance gravity and ‘tread water’ in place.
Do I assume d1 will surrender if I match velocity, or do I need to fire on it?
If the answer is no surrender, I’ll fire.
d4 d5 will counterattack if fired upon. They won’t, even after being fired upon, fire during their own turn, to minimise the total opportunities to become disabled. Exception; they’ll fire on a disabled ship with no ships in formation with it that could counterattack. I think I would be stretching the term “concede” wildly to suggest any maneuver.
I think that at -2 the ds’ best chance is to combine both ships into a counterattack on just one of mine; that gives a single 2:1 attack (1/3 chance of a disable) rather than a pair of 1:1s (each has 1/6 chance of a disable, 11/36 chance of getting at least one disable).
Turn 64
z1 thrust D, collect minings
z2 Thrust A - I believe it will be taking the E and D direction gravity hexes from Luna.
z3 mine
z4 Thrust E. It will not take the D direction gravity hex from luna next turn.
z5 coast
z6 Thrust D, fire on t1.
z7,z8 coast
z9 coast
zA Thrust F to tread water. At my turn, d1 recovers to D1, so I’ll attack it once more. I don’t think our vectors match, so I can’t loot/capture. Next turn, I will thrust B, which, with gravity, should put me on the same hex, speed, and heading as d1.
At the start of the turn, z2 is NE of Luna and moving A+F, i.e. two rows straight up the map. It’s not going to enter any gravity hexes this turn. Is that your plan?
(I know the space round Luna is a bit hard to read. Need to write a vector trimmer.)
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