Re: Full Thrust 3 rules

Phillip E. Pournelle wrote:
> 
> At 01:50 PM 6/23/1998 -0500, Thomas Barclay  wrote:
> >Of course, my sense of humanity is offended by the lack of morale in
> >this situation. Something tells me when the big wave of SMLs
> >appeared, many of your light ship captains would beat feet (or
> >thrusters) to avoid certain death - if they didn't refuse this
> >suicidal order in the firstplace. But then I just love morale rules!
> 
>	  Frigates today already have the order to take the torpedo hit
for a
> capital ship... 

Of course, but this is expected to be a last ditch effort after 
everything has failed, not a matter of first course.  The only thing
that makes 'light ship soaking off' a viable combat tactic in FT is 
when you fight battles as one-off, who cares what happens afterwards
type affairs.

As a combat commander, if I saw a fleet with that type of 'soak-off' 
thing coming at me, I would fire every last SML I had, and then retreat,
rearm from my tenders, and then go at them again.  Small ships are 
cheap compared to large ships, but SML reloads are the cheapest of 
them all.

Another house rule way that might be interesting; SMLs will attack EVERY
ship within the detonation radius.  Roll to see the number of missiles
that actually find targets, and then 'allocate' the missiles to targets
in the area, either randomly, equally, by size, or by however you feel
like doing it.

Random thoughts.
J.

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