Re: FT Tactics was: Floating Walls

Roger Books wrote:

>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). 
> 
>    --------/
>  
>    --------\
> 
>At this point they have no blind spot.

Yes, they do. If they're facing away from one another, there is an X mu
wide strip (marked XXXX below) which lies in the (A) arc of them both: 

--------------/
XXXXXX	Direction of travel =>
--------------\
 
Not very easy to get into of course, but you know where they will end
up if they want to keep up their scissoring :-/

Regards, 

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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