Tractor Rules

I have tried to come up with easy to use tractor rules, and would
appreciate any comments.

Thanks,
Bobby
<ninjacowboy@worldnet.att.net>

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TRACTORING 

After the firing section of the turn, any ship equipped with a tractor
beam
may attempt to "latch onto" another ship or base.  Ships attached by
tractor beams to other ships or bases must be moved in accordance with
special rules. The ship with the largest TMF is the only ship allowed to
use its normal space drive. All tractored ships will move with the ship
with the largest TMF.  Those tractored ships will retain there relative
position the ship with the largest TMF. At the end of the movement
phase,
all tractored ships will move one inch closer the the ship that has them
tractored.

One tractor beam may only attach to one target at a time.  During any
Tractor Beam Phase, each tractor beam may only attempt to link onto a
target once.  Ships may carry more than one tractor beam system, and if
so,
these systems are completely independent. A Shearing plane will negate
the
effects of any number of tractor beams. A tractor will automatically
attach
to any ship within six inches, unless that ship has a shearing plane.

TMF = original points cost of normal space drive. The TMF is halved is
the
normal space drive is damaged in combat.  The TMF is 0 if the normal
space
drive is destroyed in combat. For example, the TMF of the super heavy
cruiser, on page 31 of FULL THRUST, is 72 at the start of a battle.  If
the
super heavy cruiser's normal space drive were hit in combat, the TMF
would
be reduced to 36.

Tractors cost 3 points, and take 1 mass for installation.  Shearing
Planes
cost 5 points and take 1 mass for installation.

(note:If a small ship with a tractor latches onto a larger ship without
a
tractor, you must compute a pseudo-TMF for the larger ship, to determine
which ship controls the movement of the two ship that are tractored
together).