Re: [?] Tournament Fleet Composition

The only defense against swarm missile fleets that I can think of is
another swarm fleet.  Kinda boring IMHO.  Full Thrust breaks down with
swarm fleets.  That's why our group uses Command Ratings with our
starships to organize our fleets.  We base it off the mass of the ship.
Also added Command and Control "system" that gives the ship a higher com
rating.

Nice and easy.	works for us.  Needed something to control "swarm fleet
syndrome" in our Strategic FT games.  Com Ratings seems to work for us.

Pete

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Peter Caron
pcaron@cris.com

"There is no nation on earth so dangerous as a nation fully armed, and
bankrupt at home."
			Henry Cabot Lodge

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, John Atkinson wrote:

> 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.
> 
>