Prev: Re: Underwater questions [ot] Next: OT: Pics from Salute '99?

Re: [FT]Scenario Question

From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 14:18:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [FT]Scenario Question

Roger Books wrote:

> On  3-Nov-99 at 03:15, Donald Hosford (hosford.donald@acd.net) wrote:
> > My friend has desided to try a game of FT.	On that thought, we came
up
> > with a few ideas for a scenario:
> >
> > Problem 2: Freighter capture -- How does the pirate capture the
> > freighters?  Is it reasonable to allow the pirates to have tractor
> > beams?  Or does he use some kind of "aimed shots"?
>
> Needle beams are the standard way of dealing with this.  First take
> out the manuever drives, then the FTL.  There are also boarding
> parties.
>
> Want to try a "nasty"?  A CVE (mine is 250NPV with two groups of
> fighters) is really nasty against small ships.  Big boys swat the
> fighters down, but destroyers and smaller tend to have little in
> the way of defenses.
>
> Roger

I'll pass the CVE idea on...gulp!
What makes this harder, is my friend has my copy of the FB...

Donald Hosford

Prev: Re: Underwater questions [ot] Next: OT: Pics from Salute '99?