Re: Fast speeds

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Robin Paul wrote:
> 
> > each other with no apparent thought for tactics, and apparently
flown by
> > captains who can't count! :-)
> 
> Or captains who are not allowed to pre-measure distances.
> 
> IMHO, this seems like a crucial point, let's take a quick poll:
> 
> Do you allow pre-measurement of movement and/or weapon ranges?

Yes. "No pre-measurement" is fine for historical (ancient/napoleonic/
whatever) battles where there were no reliable way to measure distances.
For high-tech battles, however... well, if I can see you on my radar, I
know how far away you are, right? And I can keep track of the range all
the time, too. I strongly suspect the same would apply for other types
of 
high-tech sensors or scanners too.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson

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 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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