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Try playing FSE against someone that maintains speed and dodges often and
you
will understand, especially if they keep small ships tucked in close
to their big guys.
Definitely seen the power of
a missile fleet and what you need to do to develop a counter missile
doctrine.
But even if the FSE just jumps in salvos missiles
and runs for it, they get to attrit the enemy ships for no loss.
If the two fleets close and the FSE manage to
wrong foot their opponents they will be able to get behind them and make
better use of their beam armament. Even in vector a low thrust battleship does
not have enough turns to turn to thrust, thrust and then turn back to fire
with their frontal armament. So either they keep trying to dodge the missiles
and keep taking beam hits or they try and fight and get hit with multiple
SMs.
In one of our campaigns one of the players built
a fleet around missile technology and was very effective. You jump in force
the enemy to engage, salvo your missiles and then run for it. If the missiles
do the job you can mop up with secondary weapons.
Nice battle maps.
Why do thrust 6 ships never seem to make more
than a turn at half move? You could make 3 turns 1 at the start and 2 in the
middle.
Assuming this was even points this looks like a
major win for the FSE. The NAC seem to be getting away with one heavy unit and
the FSE lost a battlecruiser. That
included as you noted bad guessing on the strength and placement of the SM
salvos.