need for speed (was Re: Battle report - scratch one more NSL task force)

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Books <books@mail.state.fl.us>
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999 6:36 PM
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

I know that it is used during the training stage in mechwarrior2;
mercenaries
but I would imagine that it predates that...

later
Chris pratt