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Re: [FT] Ship morale

From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:35:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [FT] Ship morale

On 21-Jul-99 at 18:11, Tom Anderson
(thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk) wrote: > On Mon, 19
Jul 1999,
John Leary wrote:
> 
> > Roger Books wrote:
> >
> > > Roger Books (Who had a destroyer surrender in my last battle
rather
> > >		   than see the crew die.)
> > 
> >	 It ir rather unlikely that a ship that has taken enough damage 
> > to render it unable to continue combat will be able to withdraw.
> 
> i disagree strongly. in the last game of FT i played, my NAC BC and a
pair
> of destroyers jumped out to escape Rob Paul's nefarious scots (who, i
> might add, had fielded some very small heavy cruisers disguised as
> destroyers, the bounders) - i had lost the ability to fight due to
losing
> FC and batteries, but still had jump drive, so i cut my losses and
left.
> 
> > If either thrust or FTL is destroyed the ship cannot leave,
reguardless
> > of the captains desires.
> 
> true, but loss of FTL drive and ability to continue combat are not
> correlated: if i lose all my FCs and weapons, i'm mission dead and
it's
> time to leave.
> 
> tom
> 

FWIW, this is a misattribution, other than the bit about the destroyer
surrendering.

Roger Books


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