Re: PT boats

In a message dated 6/25/99 1:13:47 PM EST, oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
writes:

<< 
 It doesn't work very well in FB if you pay for the tug (which you have
 to do in a campaign), because even the cheapest, slowest, and therefore
 most vulnerable tug you can build will cost you more than putting FTL
 drives into your combat ships would. In short, you get less bang for
 your bucks with a tug/sub-light attack boat combination than you would
 with normal ships, provided you want tug capacity for all your
 sub-light boats. If you have less tug capacity than you have sub-light
 boats you can get more bang for your bucks than standard ships, but you
 will be seriously hampered if you want to attack.
 
  >>

In Star Fleet Battles the Warp Drive is much more important to the game
than 
the FTL drive is in FT, Because the Warp Drives provide raw power for
the 
ship to power systems (weapons, movement, repair, shields, ECM and ECCM)

There is not enough "impulse" power to provide power to all these
systems and 
a warp drive means you CAN fight instead of merely providing a "skeet"
for 
the warships to blow to flinders.