Re: [GZG] [OT] Books (Weber/White/Meier)

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Oerjan Ariander <orjan.ariander1@comhem.se> wrote:    
I suspect that that would only prolong the agony. StarFire FTL travel is

restricted to the WP choke points, and because it is StarFire combat is 
extremely attritional. That's the core of the StarFire background, so if

you change that... it is no longer StarFire.

(snip)
  
Given StarFire's attrition-style warfare, once one side - whether the 
Alliance or the Bugs, doesn't really matter - gets the upper hand it
will 
almost inevitably *retain* the upper hand. 
   
  (snip)
  
Later,

Oerjan
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What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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Wayne Hughes argues in Fleet Tactics (and the updated Fleet Tactics and
Coastal Combat--I have the original, but not the updated edition) that
"attack effectively first" is the sine qua non of modern naval combat.
Once the numbers favor a given side, that side will inevitably prevail
assuming it presses its advantage.
   
  Best,
  Ken