Re: Vector Rules

Status: RO

Does the Space Shuttle use its main engines to rotate???

No!  It uses lots of small little manuevering thrusters to do so.  There
is no reason why a billion ton supper-battleship couldn't rotate, stop
rotating, and then fire its main engines in one turn.  Remember
micro-gravity.	It doesn't take that much thrust to rotate and stop
rotating a billion to supper-battleship.  

Rotating should cost ZERO thrust.  The little guys will still be able to
out manuever the big guys because they have more (often much more)
thrust.  For game play I would limit rotating to once per turn, either
before or after main engine fire. 

A more time consuming method would be that each ship has one free
rotation and can purchase more rotations for one thrust each.  This
would allow a thrust 8 destroyer to rotate (free) thrust for 2, rotate
(1), thrust for 4, and rotate (1).  The thrust cost for each extra
rotations is for the main engines NOT thrusting while the ship is
rotating.  In other words, this is the loss of thrust the main engines
could have generated while the ship is rotating.

IAS