Re: Limpets

In a message dated 7/16/99 1:04:07 PM EST, Nick_Dingle@freenet.co.uk
writes:

<< 
 Have to be something in a campaign perhaps, you know some kind of
special
 thingy you could pull on an enemy to disable one of his ships . . .  I
 agree, though, it wouldn't really work in a one-off game  (ie Turn 4:
limpet
 mines engaged, enemy SDNs disabled, game over)
  >>

Limpets are usually applied to another ship or vehicle surreptitiously.
The 
only place you might find them being applied would be by swimmers or
small 
boats in fleet anchorages. Now what's the closest corralary in FT? Ships
in 
orbit (either planetary or deep space LaGrange Point achorages. here the

limpets might be emplaced. In a scenario or campaing as ship s in orbit
try 
to power up and get underway some will find they have been limpet
attacked 
and will take damage as they try to become mobile. My two pfennig's
worth.