Re: Bigger not always better--Take 2

Justin Case writes:

@:) I liked the ideas for defensive maneuvers offered earlier. It went
@:) something like this (please accept appoligies for errors of
@:) memory):
@:) 
@:) Defensive Maneuvers
@:) A ship that expends 4 thrust points in "defensive maneuvers". This
@:) does NOT change course or velocity. Any ship targeting such a ship
@:) counts the target ship at x2 range.
@:) 
@:) The problem of giving smaller ships a -1 or -2 to be hit is that
@:) it gives smaller ships the equivilent of buit-in level 1 or 2
@:) screens. This would add the the problem of a small cruiser being
@:) weaker than a large escort and a small capital being weaker than a
@:) large cruiser.

  In SFB (duck) Erratic Manouvers works pretty much as described
above, with the caveat that any ship using it gets exactly the same
penalty to hit its targets as they have to hit it.  This could be
beneficial in FT (as it is in SFB) because it would allow small ships
to get close to big ones.  Now the small ships don't have to worry
about being in range of the large ships while the big ships are out of
their range.  Otherwise it would mostly be useful in running away.

-joachim