Sector Briefing

Sector Briefing is the classic sea battle, re-imagined as a 1990s military sci-fi briefing terminal. The top of the screen is a flickering CRT video link with Admiral Korr, a gruff fleet commander who reacts to everything you do: he cheers your hits, grumbles at your misses, yells when the enemy sinks a vessel and gets steadily angrier if you tap his screen. The enemy commander cuts into the channel with his own taunts. The bottom of the screen is a 10x10 tactical grid: find and destroy the enemy fleet before it finds yours. TACTICS, NOT JUST LUCK • Energy builds up with every hit and streak. Spend it on a PROBE that scans a cross of five cells, or on an ASTEROID FIELD that blocks one enemy salvo. • Three enemy commanders: EASY fires at random, NORMAL hunts in a pattern, HARD uses a probability map and its own abilities. • Sunk ships reveal their surroundings, so every kill tightens the…