You’re right, I’ve already seen several examples of computer-controlled Chmmr blunders. Like Quasi already mentioned, the Avatar is relatively maneuverable for its size, but you wouldn’t know it by how sheepishly the AI flies it. Of all the ships, this is one that should be making a bee-line for its target, but the Avatar in an AI’s hands seemed rather reluctant at times to force an engagement. Peculiar. It is also greatly affected by the planet’s gravity well, but instead of using this to their advantage, the cyborg Avatar reacts strangely whenever it approaches a planet; it rotates weirdly and would sometimes remain in far orbit, steering itself in large circles around it, reacting to the diminished gravitational pull, but completely ignoring the enemy while it attempts to keep its bearings. Again, rather puzzling. Some of these observations I discovered in our next match-up, which I omitted from my overall analysis to avoid redundancy.Draxas wrote:You are seriously underestimating the AI's capacity for messing up if you even think this is a possibility.
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“I still have nightmares about those spiders, taking me prisoner -- using me as one of their sick sacrifices to Dogar and Kazon, their twin gods of destruction and torment. Those guys were almost as scary as the Androsynth to those of us in deep-space patrol. Their Avenger ships could appear out of nowhere and melt a Cruiser down to slag in seconds. Luckily for us, the bulk of the Ilwrath fleet was thrown against the Chenjesu and the Mmrnmhrm.” - Commander Hayes
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14 Ilwrath Avengers (14 x 10 = 140 pts.)
Approximate battle time: 4 minutes
ANALYSIS: The Avatar vessel has a decisive advantage over the weaker Avenger ships, but it can still expect to take some damage from the flamethrower during each encounter, but they ignored the danger and it payed off as they sliced away at the Avengers with impunity. Without anything to directly target, the Avatar’s Tractor Beam is virtually useless, but that didn’t stop the Chmmr from activating it each and every time a new Avenger would enter the field, and then it was the same routine throughout the rest of this short-lived battle.
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