gs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Gordon Strong) (09/17/84)
Dealing with weather is easy, as long as you are clever.
Do not update your sectors when bad weather is present.
Damage will only occur when your sectors are updated.
A "weather" command will not update your sectors. If you
do a "weather #0" you can see if there is a hurricane present.
If it is, say "bye" and hang out until it passes. You
can't get hurt if you don't update. Sure, you might
miss some production or trade route updates, but that is little
to pay compared to hurricane damage. A fun thing to do is
to move ships up to an enemy's coast in bad weather and
radar his sectors. Radar will update sectors. Your ship
gets damaged (use a pt boat), but his coastal emplacements
will get battered. Then you can wait for the weather to
pass and invade the low-efficiency sectors. In the four
or five campaigns I have played, weather really has caused
no problems.
Re: sources
I think I tried the "war canoe" hack. I know I made "radar
buoys". The problem with these is that only the deity could
make them. Didn't seem to useful. I like to play minimal
deity intervention games.
Gordon Strong
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