Re: FT tactics vs slow ships, tiny ships are toast

In a message dated 01/20/2000 6:05:22 PM Central Standard Time,
jon@gzg.com 
writes:

> 
>  Sorry Guys, but as no-one else has dared comment on this yet I just
HAVE to
>  say something..... anyone else got a mental picture of a (probably
>  japanese) starship surrounded by hordes of missile decoys shaped like
>  little ornamental trees......?
>  
>  Jon (GZG), who is up FAR too late for this sort of thing....
>  

I have a picture of that anime series, Tenchi Muyo, in my head.  ;-)  

Meanwhile back at the topic. . .
I think everyone else has already said it, but I have a couple pennies
lying 
around here.  My favorite two answers to this type of mildly-mobile
bases are 
the SMs/fighters approach or the out-beaming approach.	Oerjan laid it
all 
out, you can buy more dice with more restricted arcs and use your
maneuvering 
thrust to keep him in arc.  Concentrate fire.  Stay out of range of his
C1s 
while keeping him in range of your C2s.  Overwhelm him from a distance. 
Of 
course, in a campaign setting, your fast fleet would dodge right by his
hulks 
and attack the real target.

Bill Shatswell