Re: FTL: ON TOPIC ADDED

Excerpts from FT: 15-Sep-97 FTL: ON TOPIC ADDED by "Chris
McCurry"@vastar.c 
> I would have to agree whole heartedly.  In a strategic games different
> methods of space travel could have a very large impact on who gets
where
> first and in what condition ...

And this could also have an effect on the battle.  In GDW's first
release of _Fire, Fusion & Steel_ they mention the Stutterwarp engine,
developed for 2300AD, which doesn't travel FTL if you're deep in-system
(drops off as gravity  goes past 0.0001 g) but it still goes *very*
fast, much faster than reaction drives.  (Though it's pseudovelocity, so
relativity doesn't matter.)  So for each movement phase, I think
reaction drive ships got to move 1 hex (say) and stutterwarp ships got
3000 hexes, or something like that... mind you, they couldn't *fire* any
faster, but they could be anywhere they wanted to wrt 'normal' ships. 
Kinda amusing. ^_^

		    Aaron Teske
		    Mithramuse+@cmu.edu