[GZG] Re: FT Beam5 Question

["Izenberg, Noam" <Noam.Izenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>

>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.

They were all F, correct. B3 ships would catch up to total beam parity in a few turns,
the key would be being able to threshold a couple of them first, and then trying to 
control the crossover.

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