Re: Fleet Escorts

Hello Everyone:
  There are a couple of options that we (the local people in Silicaon
Valley) 
use to take care of the escorts going poof so soon.
  1) Fight battles with only one or two large ships and more
cruisers/escorts. 
This is a better representation of what real battles are all about.  One
of the 
longest running games I ever had was two convoys (one humand one
Kra'Vak) 
meeting eah other.  The largest ships was a destroyer. Also when a
destroyer 
gets behind a larger ship it can start to cause some damage the large
one can 
not (unless it does not use it engines to manuever).
  2) Firing rules.  We have a rule that movement is done slowest thrust
to 
fastest thurst.  Firing is done fastest to slowest. This almost assures
that the 
escorts will get to fire before the big guys. 
  3) Take a fleet of all escorts and go against another normal fleet.  I
took 
out one balanced fleet with a fleet of very fast torpedo destroyers. Of
course I 
lost a lot but ended up winning in the end. Strange but three
battleships got 
torn to pieces by 20 destroyers.
  4) Realize that escorts have a higher rate of desruction that capitals
(this 
is true in real life history).
  
  John W. Fox