Re: FT III alternative rules

>>  Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:42:41 -0500
>>  From: Joachim Heck - SunSoft <jheck@east.sun.com>
>>  To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>>  Subject: Re: FT III alternative rules
...
>>    We did something somewhat similar:
>>  
>>  range ->	   0-12 12-24 24-36  
>>  dice|     C    2	0     0   
>>	V     B    2	1     0   
>>	      A    0	2     1   

I guess I just don't understand the idea of a minimum range when 
the distances measured are in the 100s or 1000s of kilometers to
the inch. 

>>  @:)     I haven't considered whether minimum ranges would be
>>  @:) appropriate for pulse torps ( probably or possibly allow a
>>  @:) backwash of the plasma explosion to hit the firing ship) or rail
>>  @:) guns (probably not as this is a solid slug).
>>  
>>    I would say yes to the torps but make it pretty short, 6" maximum.
>>  You're probably right about the rail guns.

Again, 100s or 1000s of kilometers of back-splash from the weapon? 
That's the size range of a small solar flare!

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