Hi Dark, Yes, all of the weapons in Trek 2000 have a maximum range. The Tholian web generators, for example, only are effective under 2 units. that's why they have to move in extremely close before trapping you in a Tholian web. The photon torpedoes have an effective range of about 6. Although, I've hit enemies as far as 9 units away. Once you figure out what are the maximum attack range of each enemy you can pretty much build your tactics around that and shred their forces before they can do much damage to your fleet.
As far as being in an asteroid field or debree field that would definitely present a number of challenges for both sides as long range sensors would be ineffective and short range sensors would be less effective. The various missions into the Bad Lands on Deep Space 9 really illustrated how any kind of space dust or space debree can lower the effectiveness of sensor scans and weapon performance. However, that can be as much a hindrance to the enemy as you. For example, the Romulans primarily base their tactics on stealth technology. The cloaking device can render a ship almost completely invisible but in order to do that they have to lower shields and draw power from the shield generators to maintain the cloak. Apparently the Klingons also have this vonerability in their own cloaking technology. As a result if a ship like that got hit by an asteroid or similar piece of debree it would be seriously damaged if not outright destroyed by the collision. So it would be hazardess for any enemy ship to enter an asteroid or debree field while cloaked. That alone takes away one serious advantage those enemy ships possess in any combat situation. Although, the Romulans do have a wild card that could come into play if we base this on the later seasons of TNG. Beginning in season 6 the Romulans were building a new device that could both phase and cloak a warbird at the same time. That would allow them to pass through asteroids and other space debree uneffected. However, that technology was also apparently unstable as the U.S.S. Pegasus was a shining example of what can and did go wrong when the phase technology wasn't working correctly. After season 6 of TNG I don't remember the phase technology being discussed on TNG, DS 9, or Voyager again. That leads me to believe it was an experimental piece of hardware that was never deployed throughout the Romulan Empire. Otherwise if the Romulans had it they certainly would have used it against the Dominion in the Dominion War. Plus Commander Sela's flagship, the Goraxus, didn't have phase-cloak technology in the season 7 episode where she captured La Forge further reinforcing my opinion that phase-cloak was experimental only. Cheers! On 1/13/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah Tom, i didn't realize the phasers and such had different ranges, but that > does make sense, I'll have to give the game a try and see how it works. > > Even so though, i deffinately would like to see more tactical ship to ship > combat, eg, different targiting stratogies to hit the enemy's power source > or weapons, or to take down their shield to beam a team across. > > We see in the series that different combat tasks take very different tactics > and power (indeed you'll probably know far more about this than I do), and > I'd really appreciate a mission based startrek game that focused on this. > > For instance, finding an enemy in an asteroid field where lots of floating > debris would make torpedos less useful and scanners work only at short > range. > > You could either blow the asteroids away and hope to hit the enemy before > they hit you, attempt a long range scan (but with lowered shields), or hunt > carefully with your phasers. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
