Re: Tactics Question

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:
> 
> >Greetings:
> >  I am in a campaign game using Full Thrust (and More Thrust but not
fleet
> >book)
> >and have come up on a certain situation.  One of the other players
has
> >decided
> >to build all his ships (including the big ones) at thrust 8 (eight).
> >  What is a good response to this condition?
> >  Should I also start to build my ships at thrust - 8?
> >	  I do not like this idea due to the cost.
> >  Should I continue to build stuff as always (esscots thrust 8,
cruiser
> >thrust 5
> >big ship thrust 3 or 4)?
> 
> I would suggest a hedgehog type defense. Lower thrust ships with lots
of
> multi-arc weapons. As he buzzes about you with higher thrust ships,
let
> yours sit in a cluster and beat him silly with superior firepower.
There's
> no way he can slug it out with you if he has that much MASS devoted to
> engines.

	Ahhh... but he said he wasn't playing with the FB.  MASS isn't a
factor
for engines in the old construction system, only points.  With the old
rules he could very well have 100 MASS ships with thrust 8 drives... I
think you've all heard about my gripes about certain FT players to know
were I'm going with this.  (I bet you he has level 3 screen, yes?)
	But Schoon, Jim and Indy are right.  The hedgehog tactic works
in this
situation.   It also will help to throw some some screen busters into
your armory as well (needles, p-torps, sub packs).  Sooner or later, his
exercise in munchkinism will cost you the game.  Histroy is a great
teacher of this example:  Nazi Germany may have been able to build
quality arms and vehicles, but the Allies could build more of what it
needed to defeat them.	Keep this in mind the next time you go up
against him. 
-- 
Later,
Mark A. Siefert

	"[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' 
they mean 'lets get hold of the political machinery so that
we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is 
invariably you."
					--Frank Chodorov

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