FolK’s Fleets

Vidar Braut Haarr (FolK)
AmigoSoft Productions

Fleet Ideas / Updates

Fighterball Killer

Tactic:
Cruiser stays in top corner, and launches a gunship-scout.
When the gunship finds a target (on_scan), it will immideatly turn
away, and start launching jammers (like Swarm does). The gunship
will launch jammers constantly, while using spherical tracking to
evade the target, and not make it run into the main cruiser.
Meanwhile, the main-cruiser builds up an attack force that is large
enough to destroy the target.

Why will this work?
Because of fleet commanders bug; the on_jam event doesn't execute.
This will ofcourse work best against single cruiser fleets, it also
assumes that the gunship survives.


Multi Cruiser Fleet - Started 16/10/99

Tactic:
Launch cruisers constantly (like meek). Use some of the tactic
in the fleet mentioned above. When a cruiser scans a target,
if no target already has been found, start launching jammers.
All other available cruisers uses spherical tracking to turn
towards the new target while constantly firing missiles.

Why will this work?
Well, look at meek, it's pretty good! But it doesn't use
maximum firepower all the time, this fleet will!

Project Progress
Fleet works well. A couple of disadvantages:
Launching jammers constantly consumes alot of credits.
Cruisers are often stalled when heading to destination.


Enhancements / Updates

1. Remake Cosmic Zounds.
2. Improve Corner's fighters. - DONE (15/10/99)
3. Improve Gunship Madness' cruiser. - DONE (16/10/99)
4. Speed up Sunday Rovers' target-tracking code. - DONE (17/10/99)
5. Look into AlphaTeam's coding (very out-of-date).
6. Look into FighterBall #4's tactic. - Started (19/10/99)
7. Continue work on other experimental fleets.

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