Re: FTFB--new fleet design philosophies.

You wrote: 

>One thing that came up in old games of FT - when using a campaign 
background, >a certian phenomena began to appear in our battles.  There 
would be one pass >at high speeds, with an exchange of fire at closest 
approach, and the one who >thought he came away poorly usually turned 
tail and ran.  This was brought up

In certain games this may be enough.  One of the convoy escort games I 
was just playing a while ago, my brother's BB commerce raider was more 
or less colocated with two freighters (had to shift ships out of 
way--mini games can be nuisance sometimes), and had he been pointed up 
the convoy, a single volley would have been enough to gut all four of 
the light freighters (ignoring the heavy and medium freighters), thus 
probably winning the game.

John