RE: FT - Question Regarding FTL use

Treating Cloaking Device as a low speed FTL drive is great, up to the
point where someone drops a FTL missile into the field.  BOOM!!, and no
warhead needed for the resultant vaporisation of your starship.  (I
can't remember the name of the book, but they used FTL as a form of
combat maneuver drive, hence the FTL style missiles).

'Neath Southern Skies
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Eugene.M.George@kp.ORG [SMTP:Eugene.M.George@kp.ORG]
>Sent:	Friday, June 27, 1997 9:00 AM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	RE: FT - Question Regarding FTL use
>
>>
>>> It's a house rule.	In the campaign at our club you must remain on
the
>>>board a certain number of turns before you can leave - too many
people were
>>>using the open ended FTL rule as scouting, and it created a headache
for
>>>the
>>>GM.	This way ya pays to look!
>>
>>KR <
>
>Hmmm, makes me wonder what other limiting factors could be placed on
FTL
>stuff. Like say 'Tau-Shimmer' from RenLeg. So go ahead pop in and out
of
>Realspace, but don't spend more than X amount of hours/days/weeks in or
>*kapow*. Hey ! maybe there's a great rationalization for cloaking
>devices. They're just 'low-speed' FTL drives. Zip-into
>realspace--Zip-out, I suddenly feel much better about cloaks.....
>
>Gene