run away! run away!

"Again it seems that the FSE ship excels at running away :-)="

Perhaps it's doctrine.	Way back in the age of sail the French
(wishy-washy
buggers that they were) commonly surrendered the "weather gage" to
opponents, meaning that they chose to fight downwind.  The other side
(ie
the RN) held the initiative and could sail down to attack.  French
tactics
called for attempting to cripple the enemy on the approach, fight a bit
and
then use the advantage of being downwind to turn away and sail off when
things got too warm.  Trafalgar was such a crushing victory because
Nelson,
in a rather gutsy move for a one-armed, one-eyed guy, sailed through the
French line and engaged from the downwind side, the wind effectively
held
the French on his guns.

The FSE emphasis on SML armament makes "running away" an obvious choice
for
fleet doctrine.  You go in, spit out your missiles and then run the hell
away because with light guns and no armor the last thing you want is a
drawn out close range slugging match.

			-M