RE: Space Tactics

	A few thoughts: 

	As a ship captain, I would have one serious worry about a
high-speed pass 
attack - collision.  At those kind of velocities, you'd be a nice
glowing 
ball of plasma if you hit anything substantial.  Granted, the chances
are 
low, but still there.  On the political side, If one of my ships going 
Really Fast has a manuvering problem, and smacks into the planet,
somebody 
is going to be very upset.

	As far as midturn fire goes, I don't see a solution that doesn't

compromise playability.  I would be comfortable with a fudge: at high 
(relative) speeds, your ability to attack effectively is limited.  This 
assumes that each fire attempt (excluding missiles) is actually several 
fires over the turn period.  As relative velocity increases, these fires

become less and less effective, until they are nearly ineffective.  This

doesn't work that well against non-manuvering targets, so a special rule

*may* need to be implemented here.  As for manuvering targets, if you
get a 
good close approach shot - i.e., you calc'd it right and at speed 200
you 
are right on top of him during the fire phase, you did it right.got
lucky. 
 Any other result - longer ranges up to out of range - your fire 
effectiveness was decreased by about that amount.  It's kind of a
kludge, 
but it seems to work.  It also requires that damage in FT NEVER be 
directional - I like that, personally.	Bad memories of Star Fleet
Lawyers.

	Has anybody else tried experimenting with really big beam 
batteries/railguns?  I use them to represent Traveller/Leviathan style 
spinal mounts.	One arc only, usually fore or aft.  They seem to be
pretty 
effective.  Long-range harassment with the beam, and massive damage from

the railgun.  They also get expensive real fast.

Noah