Re: [?] Tournament Fleet Composition

You wrote: 

>	The idea of all this was to get people to build balanced fleets 
without >have to spell out too many points ratios or limits. "Swarm" 
fleets are >totally acceptable.

Out of curiosity, what is the general feeling of the FT community 
towards lunatics like myself who like swarm-style fleets?  At a recent 
game I put 36 4-ton ships with one missle each as their only armament.	
And that costs a mere 912 points, heh.	Out of a 6,000 point fleet[1].	
All the other players whined a lot, but that's just because I waxed 2 
capital ships, a cruiser and a frigate with no losses to myself--which 
put them a bit at a disadvantage.  The discussion which ensued did 
point out that modern wet-navies do operate on this basis.  See: PLAN, 
et al.	8 Styx-class missles and then turn around and run to rearm.  
And what would be an acceptable counter-response?  I can't think off 
the top of my head what would be a good counter to this strategy.

John M. Atkinson

[1]Actually 5 people showed up, each with 2K points.  I pulled another 
2K and teamed up with my brother to take on the other three players.