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

In a message dated 1/20/2000 7:25:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
BDShatswell@aol.com writes:

> 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.

There's were you need a nova mine (I saw the rules for this on line some

place) and then have the ship that is laying it move at a high rate of
speed. 
 In a line a breast formation that would be very messy.
-Stephen