FT Tactics was: Floating Walls

On 13-Mar-00 at 15:40, JohnDHamill@aol.com (JohnDHamill@aol.com) wrote:

> 5) Never be the pursued in a stern chase, with an opponent who is 
> faster...<GRIN>

I haven't seen a "tactics manual" such as they have for SFB, but I
can contribute one for this.

Basic scissors manuever.  Works for 2 or more ships of thrust 4 or
more.

The two ships start X MU apart facing 30 out from their direction of
travel.  Usually X is fairly close (within 6 MU).

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At this point they have no blind spot.

Both do a two point turn towards their common center, which
means they reverse positions, thus leaving no blind spot.
The speed it works best at is 4x their separation since they
then reverse positions exactly.

I'll leave turning this arrangement as an exercise for the
reader.

One thing to note, this works much better for those of us
in a "high speed" camp.  A 6 MU separation means the manuever
needs a speed of 24 MU/Turn.  Amazingly enough 6 inches is
withing ADFC support range. :)

Roger