Re: Fighters

At 07:40 AM 6/24/99 +0200, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>Fred and Evelyn Wolke wrote:
>
>> Has anyone fought a battle involving capital ships on one side and
>> destroyers (or smaller) on the other?
>
>Yes.
>
>> It would seem to me that if the smaller ships can survive to get into
>the
>> larger ship's blind spot, it's history... but the smaller ships are
>> definitely going to die before they get there.
>
>There are some problems with this:
>
>First, it doesn't work very well unless the capital ship is alone. If
>there are two capital ships (or lighter units escorting the capital)
>and the player knows his stuff, one of them will be able to hit the
>small fry.
>
>Second, in the FB at least there is nothing to stop the capitals from
>being as maneuverable as the small ships. This tends to make it
>difficult to stay in the target's blind spot for more than one turn.
>
>Third, in the FB there is no blind spot unless you use your main
>engines, though most ships have arcs with only a few or short-ranged
>weapons (Class-1s and PDS, usually).

I suppose I should have mentioned that I was talking about non-FB Full
Thrust...
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