Re: [GZG] FT Beam5 Question

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Noam wrote:

> [...] If I remember correctly I was trying to keep
> distance on my main chaser and close (slowly) on my main chasee. My
> chaser's chaser caught him long out of his attack range to me. I
> _think_ I still got a couple shots at him, before shifting to my main
> target, who was mainly angling after _his_ target. No one made a
> determined charge into my fleet, so that part is still unproven, but
> I think a determined charge by a fleet that had better than 2 points
> of thrust on it would be needed to get in fast enough to give as much
> as it took.

What weapon arcs did your ships have? IIRC all your big beams in that 
battle were (F)-arc only (Vector movement rules), so in order to keep a 
chaser under while retrograding you would've had to spend 2 thrust points 
on rotations each turn to accellerate away from them. If you started on 
even slightly converging vectors, that would've allowed B3-armed ships with 
"mere" MD parity to catch up fairly quickly.

> > I wouldn't take Fleet Book-standard ships against *any* custom- built fleet
> > in FB1 or FB2 Vector...
>
> Agreed, though a mob of Furiouses wouldn't be _too_ bad against
> custom vector fleets that didn't load up on the ultra-long range weapons

<g>

/Oerjan
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