Re: {FT} Off center firing arcs was Re: [FT-AAR] NAC/NI

>Laserlight wrote:
>...snip...JTL
>> Then we roll our ships to bring the batteries to bear.  The only
problem
I
>> see with the off center arc is when you expect to plunge in and have
targets
>> all round, but you have the same problem with FS/F/FP as you would
with
>> AP/FP/F--actually more, because if all your batteries face forward
then
he
>> knows he's safe in your aft arcs.  With an Alarishi ship, I can
always
roll,
>> so only my A arc is uncovered.  And I usually use small ships with
only
one
>> or two firecons anyway.  This design wouldn't work as well for, say,
the
NSL
>> because it presumes you have at least two thruster points
available--one
to
>> roll, one to change facing--but we don't buy Swabby ships.
>
>     Illumination comes with the surfacing of another unspoken
>house rule. and I am glade you dont use NSL, I think they would
>look silly mounted upside down.

Um, John, it's not a house rule.  See FB p5 paragraph 1.  NSL ships look
silly anyway, albeit not as silly as NAC ships.