RE: [FT] ECM

I also ran a PBEM game that had decoys. Since it was a standard point
fight,
the opponents knew that some were decoys, but still had to choose which
group go approach.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Davis [SMTP:davisje@nycap.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:46 PM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: [FT] ECM
> 
> Roger Books wrote:
> > 
> > On 29-Mar-01 at 13:27, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker (s_schoon@pacbell.net)
> wrote:
> > > >There is a reason our campaign system uses the ECM rules it
> > > >does.  If you have perfect knowledge of ships at 48" there
> > > >is no point to ECM.
> > >
> > > Two worms for the can:
> > > 1) Very few people ever used the FT2 Sensors/ECM rules.
> > > 2) Virtually all FT battles are "full knowledge" from the get go.
> 
> PBeM games can also benefit from the ECM rules, but it does require
> an additional bit of effort to apply them.  I've run a number of 
> games with active ECM, weasels, decoys, and scanning reports.
> 
> I've never used ECM on the tabletop.
>