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Article #35417Re: Craft Range
From: Donan
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:22
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:22
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O.k. Thanks. Donan "Dr Ratt" <spam@aol.com> wrote in message news:3f7db0ba$0$10966$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk... > > "Donan" <donevyn@comcast.net> wrote in message > news:7Qffb.487563$cF.171296@rwcrnsc53... > > Greetings. I can't find either in the manual, OSG or USG > > the ranges of craft. (this perhaps is telling me I need to know > > something that most have figured out somehow:) The reason > > I ask, I have my Skyranger doing patrolliing to extend my > > radar coverage till my second base is built up, but if it > > see's aircraft, my interceptor's can't get to it (most Japan > > and South Africa). So before I go to the effort of building > > Firestorm's, would like to know if they indeed have the > > range to be effective for me at this point in time. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Donan > > > > > > > firestorms are your fast interceptors which can be built quickly & cheaply > while your still researching the avenger. you shouldn't have any bother > getting to the other side of the globe for anything except terror ships & > battleships, which are too fast - the thing to watch is fuel, as they only > carry 20 Es, iirc - so get there & kill em quick, don't wait & try to get em > over one country rather than another --- alternatively, if you have enough > decent soldiers that you can have some in the patrolling skyranger as well > as some at home base, then chase the ufo with that instead - you get more > equipment & more points assaulting a landing rather than a crash. > the only times you might want to shoot down a ufo are infiltration and > terror missions over the rich [and therefore big funding] countries. > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!text1.nnrp.aus1!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!wn14feed!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Donan" <donevyn@comcast.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com References: <7Qffb.487563$cF.171296@rwcrnsc53> <3f7db0ba$0$10966$fa0fcedb@lovejoy.zen.co.uk> Subject: Re: Craft Range Lines: 42 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <J3yfb.403732$2x.136424@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.208.138.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1065266537 12.208.138.8 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:22:17 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:22:17 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:22:17 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit