Re: The ships of LoGH

Michael Renjie Tom (renjie@uclink2.berkeley.edu)
Wed, 6 Nov 1996 11:43:09 -0800 (PST) 

There are mineclearing and repair ships?  Don't remember seeing those.
Cute variations me thinks.  Reminds me of Stratego with your bombs, your
spies, your mole miners, your generals, and your flag.  Really cool game
until you realize that its like checkers with only a few variations that
can come of it.  ah well...  
Spartinian carriers are only cool to look at me thinks.  I think they're
important enough that the Imperials concentrate all their fire on them so
in a sense, those behemoths are like deathtraps or osmething ya know?
Like brown VF1A Valkyries or destroyed destroids.  MIght be better if
youre a pilot and could take off when the enemy attacks but it would suck
to be a maintenance worker or the chef.  Its like your days are numbered.  
Like that wizard on Warcraft II.  whatever, I'm babbling again.
mike

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Wayne H. Yin wrote:

> hi david,
> 
>     i've noticed that the empire seems to have all sorts of dedicated
> special-purpose ships like mine-clearning, engineering, berthing/repair,
> deep-space scouts (with a big "eye" in the front, like the one dispatched
> to westerland), and even those "blitzkrieg" boxes with arrays of "pom-pom"
> or pulse-guns and rockets... not to mention every variety of tender and
> auxiliary vessel!
> 
>     ironically, it's the alliance that has those neat-looking carriers for
> the spartanians.  in the empire, every ship seems to carry their own air
> wing of valkyries.  when the alliance invaded the empire, they didn't seem
> to have any of the above special-mission vessels (except for freighters).
> and it wasn't until the second series that we even see the black
> "enforce-type scout" variant of the spartanian fighter.
> 
> > Speaking about technology, isn't it strange that they do not seem to
> > have extraordinary weapons of any kind? I mean, they "still" use nukes,
> > guns (even if laser), I won't speak about the axes (!!!).
> >
>     i can't speak for any of my friends who worked on SDI, but personally i
> think that the "Thor's Hammer" was pretty impressive! :-)  so impressive,
> that it deserved its own cool music.  once in a while, i'll have the anime
> playing in the background and hear the "Thor's Hammer music" and think,
> "uh-oh!  they're about to fire the Thor's Hammer!"
> 
>     and what was that other BFG on geiersberg?  the "vulture's claw" or
> something like that?  hmmn... sounds like the name of a special martial
> arts move from a hong kong foo-flick.
> 
> --
>   Wayne H. Yin
>   why@mail.utexas.edu
> 
> 
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