Re: Quick subject switch to SGII (was: Re: Vector Movement)

One innovation my group has developed is the banded dowel rod.	I have
not as 
yet done one up for FT yet (I'm new, hi y'all!) but the concept applies 
easily.  I'm fairly sure the ones we use are three feet long, and the
hobby 
store has many diameters from which to shoose.	Just paint or otherwise
mark 
a ring around the significant range boundaries.  I'd think every 6 MU
would 
be perfect.

Bill Shatswell

In a message dated 08/20/1999 1:23:26 PM Central Daylight Time, 
thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk writes:

> exactly; you get out your tape measure, set it to 24 or whatever, put
the
>  held end over your battlegroup and sweep the ruler over the table:
you get
>  to see what's in range and and what isn't in less than a second (with
>  practice). if it's borderline, you can adjust your hand slightly a
few
>  times to measure for individual ships, but this is rare. you can then
>  re-sweep for other ranges if necessary. if you have ships spread out,
>  adjust your hand further. it's still quite quick. the trick is not to
go
>  for an accurate measurement every time: only do that if the distance
is
>  borderline and you absolutely need to know.