armageddon point split - intentional "glitch" or n

[tneva82]

Just something I noticed while designing list for 3 point armageddon battle we are planning. Basicly it comes to splitting armageddon point to war and second war to else. You have following 2 options:

war, battle, 2 raid
war, 3 raid

This basicly leads to raid level ship being able to promoted to battle level for free. So for me I was able to swap 2 white stars into 2 WSC-2 for no cost! With better dodge, improved pulsars and missile rack this is braindead choise.

I would call this bug which leads to fleet design being more of mathematical excerise but maybe this is intentional to promote bigger ships in bigger priority levels?

 

[Burger]

That was how it was designed. You can also look at it as getting a free Battle ship...

2 Armageddon points could be split into 2 War points and 3 Battle points. Or, each can be split into 1 War and 2 Battle, total = 2 War and 4 Battle.

 

[tneva82]

2 Armageddon points could be split into 2 War points and 3 Battle points. Or, each can be split into 1 War and 2 Battle, total = 2 War and 4 Battle.

Didn't notice that one but yep, idea is same.

So this was intentional from the part of designers? Interesting...Well. Atleast one thing is sure. This system has some distinct differences to point value system. Values of ships are very much fluid!

 

[Wulf Corbett]

So this was intentional from the part of designers? Interesting...Well. Atleast one thing is sure. This system has some distinct differences to point value system. Values of ships are very much fluid!

The idea was to encourage more small ships at any given scenario PL.

You could get one HELL of a lot of Sunhawks for 3 Armageddon points...

Wulf

 

[Burger]

So this was intentional from the part of designers? Interesting...Well. Atleast one thing is sure. This system has some distinct differences to point value system. Values of ships are very much fluid!

The idea was to encourage more small ships at any given scenario PL.

You could get one HELL of a lot of Sunhawks for 3 Armageddon points...

72 :lol:

 

[Wulf Corbett]

You could get one HELL of a lot of Sunhawks for 3 Armageddon points...

72 :lol:

Thanks. I couldn't be bothered

Even I don't have that many... Have to substitute half of them with Warbirds...

Wulf

 

[Burger]

I'd go for 33 Strikehawks and 6 Eyehawks, though

 

[H]

are sunhawks patrol level?
therefore i could have 72 Sho'kos torpedo cutters. 72 precise Ion torps is enough to ruin anyones day!

 

[Wulf Corbett]

I'd go for 33 Strikehawks and 6 Eyehawks, though

I'd have some Guardhawks myself, but I'm sorely tempted to try an all-Sunhawk fleet some day...

Wulf

 

[Greg Smith]

The new system is much more flexible. You are no longer forced into taking all raid or all battle or all skirmish for each point.

 

[Locutus9956]

Well I should point out that you can only subdivide ONE point per level.

So if you split an Armageddon point to 2 War you can only further split ONE of those War points to 2 Battle.

Hoever if you were playing initially with 2 pts Armageddon for example you could subdivide from EACH of those points to get 2 War and 4 Battle.

Personally I rather like the new system as in encourages variety in fleets if you play low point number but high priority games and tends to force fleets away from 'oh were playing 5 pt battle are we? So thatll be 10 Raid choices then!' style fleet selections