Re: Tugs & Firing Arcs

>The miniature and figure scales are disparate that even if the tug is
>towing a kilometre long string of barges (unlikely, but let it pass)
one
>small miniature is still perfect to represent it.

Terrestial trains can be miles long, why couldn't tugs tow
kilometer-long
strings of barges?

>As to firing arcs, a pod might block the tugs rear arc but otherwise
>don't really worry about it.

Only if you restrict yourself to thinking in 2 dimensions. While FT
abstracts
down to 2-D, whose to say that the target is exactly on the same plane
as
the firing ship? Could still be in your rear arc, but at a large Z+ or
Z-.
(always have had difficulty with the rear-arc restrictions in firing
'cause
space is a 3-D place, though I know this is an artifact or feature of
abstracting into 2-D)

Just some random responses for a monday...

Oh, wait, it's thursday!  :-}

Mk
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