Re: Full Thrust 3 rules
From: John Leary <realjtl@s...>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:06:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Full Thrust 3 rules
Geo-Hex wrote:
> I take it you are NOT rolling to see how many missiles acquire the
> target as specified in the rules? On average only 3 or 4 will
> acquire, and the PDS being better, 1/3 of those will go down before
> exploding. We followed the rules to the letter and found the
> missiles to be very dicey at best.
xxx Actually, we did roll. I was forced to sacrafice a heavy cruiser
to protect my BB. JTL
...SNIP... (reguarding expendables) JTL
> We shot those up before launching.
xxx I can only presume that the rate of closure is increadbly slow
or you are using custom ships with lots of 3/A batteries on them.
(Or possibly you are using the SMLs after the beam fire.)
The limited number of FSE ships that I have seen did not have L3/A
batteries at all, and these were BBs. JTL
> KR, Geo-Hex
Bye for now,
John L.