Re: FT tactics vs slow ships, tiny ships are toast

In a message dated 01/22/2000 6:43:29 AM Central Standard Time, 
GBailey@aol.com writes:

> Tell me a tactic that works against this.  Cinematic movement.  I know
your
>  first response: SMs.  Give me a sample fleet of this and then try one

> without
>  overdoing the SMs (I try to stay in a Star Trek flavor since I use
those
>  miniatures most of the time).

Hiya Glenn, 

Well, that does depend on your flavor of ST.  Do you mean Star Fleet
Battles? 
 Or something more true to the series?	If the latter, you are stuck
with 
outbeaming him.  There is a possibility too that the designs of the Star
Trek 
universe are not well-suited to play against these BBs.  Would you mind 
showing us some of your designs?  What is your fleet composition?  It
appears 
that your opponent's two BBs compose around 80% of his points.	How many

vessels are you fighting against?  Are you playing on a floating map or 
static map?  One thing you might be able to do to defeat his fleet is to

introduce a fleet-composition house rule.  We had such a rule in Brian
Bell's 
Cygnus fleet game (URL:  
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/rlyehable/ft/pbem/cygnus/rules.html) that 
worked quite well I think.

Have you considered the Klingons?  ;-)	Their designs are beam-heavy. 
And 
they look cool ta boot!  Hmm, I think I'll stop by Armageddon Outfitter
(URL: 
 http://www.primenet.com/~reynol/gaming/war/ao/fbsd/) and whip up a
Klingon 
BB in a bit just to see what it looks like. . .

You COULD design ships with 3-arc C2s on one broadside that could roll
as 
necessary.  The design would be lopsided and odd.  For cinematic
movement 
though, it allows you to circle him at the range of your choice.  I have
not 
attempted this, and it would be much more difficult on a static map. 
And it 
might be considered cheese, but sometimes we fight fire with fire.  :-)

Bill Shatswell