Escort Agility (was Re: Beam Weapons)

One way that my group has gone about encouraging the use of B- and
C-class
beam weapons (and to give the ESCORT range ships a break) is the
following:

Escort Agility:  Any ship in the ESCORT-range with an effective Thrust
of 6+
is considered to have Screen-1 vs. A-Batteries.  If the ship is already
screened then add 1 level to it's effective total.

This rule reflects that it is harder to bring heavy anti-ship batteries
to
bear on small, agile ships.  Now CAPTIALs will need to take some
B-batt's to
keep the little guys from picking them apart. C-batt's still prove
useful by
providing supplemental PDAF functions.

Comments?

Morgul, aka Morgan Keyes
Sine Pari
Airborne All The Way!