Boss Rush: Delta Team

Iron Ham · Post by **Iron Ham** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:00 am

with 16 points left, cram as many weapons on as possible to distract PD... along with a few heavier hitters.

Say:
1x Dusk (mounted on center Aegis)
15x missile mounted all over the place

(replace missiles with Gatpulses if you run out of segments before you run out of points)

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:13 am

Missiles sound good - would you think they or the Scorpions would be more effective? The latter put out a lot of projectiles for the cost.

DoubleThink · Post by **DoubleThink** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:56 am

Ok, people, I"m on the team now. I'm not really sure what to build, as I have no tourney experience, but give me an objective and I'll find a way.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:46 pm

Well, most of us are new to tournaments as well - there's a few archetypes to cover, including point defense overwhelming, distraction, brute force "tank", etc.

Your best bet is to look over some of the other threads - Alpha and Beta have more experienced tourny players.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:05 pm

Okay, I covered it with Scorpion Rockets and, put another HP boost on the unshielded 22's.

It puts out an insane volume of fire, and doesn't suffer too much in return.

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... leship.shp

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:25 pm

Venator wrote:

I count only 16 sections, you need 18 sections for 3 Aegis shields. Also one of your sections has default health.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:00 pm

The section HP is fine, I uploaded the old version by accident.

Thanks for the tip on the sections, I'll fix that.

New version:
http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... leship.shp

ct4900 · Post by **ct4900** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:28 am

my first ship... I know i suckes but who cares you could make it better!

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... arrior.shp

DoubleThink · Post by **DoubleThink** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:34 am

ct4900 wrote:my first ship... I know i suckes but who cares you could make it better! http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... arrior.shp

Screen, please.

I've got a flanker right now, i'm tweaking armaments, but it looks like assault tachyons, and 2 flak guns. I'm thinking either gats or demeters.

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:52 am

DoubleThink wrote:
ct4900 wrote:my first ship... I know i suckes but who cares you could make it better! http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... arrior.shp
Screen, please.

Here:

ct4900, does that ship actually use the tournament rules?

Either way, it's got horrible coverage for the Aegis, too little space between the shields, too much health, and not enough weapons.

Also, we can't fix it for you if you don't include a .sb3. Not to mention that it's... well... your job.

DoubleThink · Post by **DoubleThink** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:42 am

I think it falls under the rules, but is completely worthless. We're not aiming for aesthetic here. If you're section doesn't do either A. host a weapon or B. serve as an ablative or general armor., you're doing it wrong. Also, Aegis is not a toy. Don't mess around with it, it's a tool, and a waste of points if you're messing around.

Jafo · Post by **Jafo** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:08 pm

DoubleThink wrote:I think it falls under the rules,

No it doesn't. 10 degree arc between Aegis sections as measured from the core has not been followed, nor has not covering the blue circle of the core rule been followed either. Two sections have HP=1050 which can't happen (base=200+increments of 250), so the two closest HP values would be either 950 or 1200.

Iron Ham · Post by **Iron Ham** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:15 pm

Point-for-point, Dusk is the best weapon (IMHO, of course)

I tried a Light Railcannon varient of the Harkonnen, and it managed to defeat the Leviathan pretty quickly... but it sustained a decent amount of damage in the process (all sections besides the aegis'd ones were yellow, one section down. No modules lost)

Whereas the normal Dusk version beat the Leviathan faster and with almost no damage sustained...

Venator · Post by **Venator** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:35 pm

I'm certainly impressed by the per-shot damage output of the Dusk. I'm curious as to why it's set to 98 - perhaps it's specifically the weapon for one of the bosses, or something?

At any rate, if you'd like to be our designated Dusk-gunner, that gives us one finalized element.

Also, since the team isn't full yet and two or three members have done nothing, do you think you could maybe work on a second ship should we need it?

Iron Ham · Post by **Iron Ham** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:35 am

Working on a Pulsar spammer...

Went to test it, and got this:

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: Game Start
for object GUI_MainTitle:

Error defining an external function.

I reinstalled, and I'm still getting it.

(I'll get a D/L up in a second, so you guys can test it, once I finish some tweaks.)