Re: FT Thrust question...

On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 pcaron%nhqvax.dnet@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
wrote:

>	Has anyone out there noticed that the small ships in fleet 
> engagements tend to get blown up too easily.	Our group has.	Maybe
it's
> just the tactics we're using but it seems to me that our small ships 
> get blown to bits in the first few turns.
> 
It's pretty much the way things are.  Small ships have fewer hit before 
taking threshold checks and fewer systems.  Plus the inability or
expense 
of putting shield on small craft makes them completely open to mass 
destruction.  You pretty much have to view small ships as very large 
fighters and expect most of them not to return.

	Targeting small ships makes sense since you can completely 
eliminate a ship with a salvo or two, totally removing its weapons 
systems, whereas a large capital ship may take two or three salvoes to 
get to the first threshold check and even then you may only reduce, not 
eliminate its firepower.  The usual tactics for our group are to use 
smaller ships as a "living" shield, full thrust into the enemy
formation, 
do as much damage as possible and absorb some salvoes that may have 
otherwise been targeted at the capitals.  

--Binhan Lin