re: Chit-based FT? Re: Fleet Escorts

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:41:18 -0600
> From: devans@uneb.edu
> Subject: Chit-based FT? Re: Fleet Escorts
> 
> > In the combat phase, ships alternate fire as normal within its
thrust
> > group. In other words, all MD8 ships alternate fire, then all MD6,
> > etc.
> 
> This brings to mind a question I had some time ago.
> 
> In fairly large battles, does anyone ever find difficulty remembering
which
> ships have fired?
> 
> I first thought of simple markers that would be placed next to fired
ships.
> Then, what the heck, you could allocate your firing order if the chits
were
> marked with a number, and you could place them reversed if you didn't
want
> your opponent to know your order of fire, and allocate his
accordingly.
> 
> This seemed pretty simple as the ships would have completed there
movement,
> and the chits wouldn't have to follow ships, then I thought, you could
> incorporate an idea I had, and we may have discussed, about mid-point
> shots, at which point my head was hurting severely, and I decided to
see if
> anyone else had tried any of this.
> 
> The_Beast

this is similar to what we do.	since we use initiative cards for fire
order, the card gets placed next to the ship when done -- or mark the
ship
roster if you wanna clutter-free table.