Re: Troop Capacity

On 23 Jun 98 at 21:28, John Atkinson wrote:

> You wrote: 
> 
> >High concentrations of perhaps detectable armour substance. 
> 
> How detectable is ferrocrete?  (Or other generic SF bunker-building
> material).  Slam all small ferrocrete buildings and you might find
> yourself nailing a lot of odd structures.

I dunno, so it must be up to us to invent ;)

> >Or, send fighters in close to take a closer look at the suspect 
> >sites..
> 
> Whereupon we're back to tangling with those nasty PDSs.  :)

Yup. I think the drone option has benefits. a 'fleet' of 8 thrust 
drones acting like lower thrust starships, which run away at full 
speed as soon as SML's are launched (not that the turn sequence 
allows it) or perhaps sacrifice them, it's better than losing real 
ships, although possibly still a bit costly in points.
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