RE: FT3?

On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Adam Delafield wrote:

> Date sent:  30-SEP-1996 09:47:42 
> 
> >On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, JAMES BUTLER wrote:
> 
> >>	     I wondered if it would make sense to pay for two arcs for
batteries
> >> and then declare that to be a 180 degree forward arc?
> 
> >YES! (As well as paying for one arc and declaring it to be a 
> >straight-ahead to 90 degrees to one side arc... which is the only 
> >possible arc available to some of the batteries on my Wraithships...)
> 
> And I could put some batteries facing 22.5 degrees to port and
starboard
> to give a 45 degrees overlap killing zone.

In fact the Wraithships have some batteries in the normal 'forward' arc,

and some in the 'skewed' 90-degree arcs to the front-left and
front-right.

> Suggestion. If you use non standard arcs, it may be worthwhile to make
> up a firearc template (Like the clock face template in the back of the
> rulebook).

Exactly. I draw a circle sector outside the battery circle to mark in 
which directions the battery can fire.

Oerjan Ohlson

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"My shoes are too tight. But it does not matter, because
 I have forgotten how to dance."
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