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Re: Battle report - scratch one more NSL task force

From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 18:58:45 -0500
Subject: Re: Battle report - scratch one more NSL task force



Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:
> 
> >The NSL, OTOH, basically sat still - the BBs never flew faster than
> >speed 2 and quite often didn't move forward at all (though they did
> >spin in place quite often), and the fastest NSL ships during the
battle
> >were two DDs that re-deployed from one flank of the NSL formation to
> >the other.
> 
> I learned long ago (OK, just this year) that to sit still, even with
low
> thrust ships, is death.

Anyone know where the "Speed is life" quote came from?	I think it
may have been SFB, but I still do my best to remember it when I'm
playing.  Of course, in combat all rules are made to be broken.

Roger


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