by ParticleMan
Philip Thomas wrote:
Including extra technologies means less chance of Plasma Missiles appearing in the first place!
Rare techs are drawn in addition to the normal techs, they don't replace normal tech draws. In terms of tech draws, adding the RotA additional base techs makes Plasma Missiles slightly more likely to come up, but makes Neutron Bombs less likely to come up. So even though those effects could be discussed it seems like a wash.
Philip Thomas wrote:
Tractor Beam is also anti-missile (stops ships retreating)
Very true, I forgot that one. I'll add it to the original list.
LazyJ wrote:
Jim I noted that you left out the Holiday Rockets from your list. Do you think those are an effective "counter" to missiles?
I read them before but I don't even remember what they do and quite frankly I don't feel like even bothering to look, since I see them just as holiday sillyness (like the Santa race) rather than something to be factored into legitimate strategy for Eclipse. If you use them and want to talk about them that's perfectly fine, I just don't have any interest.