Re: [FT] Scenario for review

To make escort duties more viable, try this rule:

A ship may put in its orders that it is escorting a certain friendly
ship X
(provided it has sufficient thrust to match course and velocity with X),
and
protecting a single quadrant of ship X (F, A, P or S).	Attacks in that
quadrant against ship X count X as having one additional level of
screens
(up to a max of two), and a number of dice equal to the amount of damage
prevented by the escort is rolled as an attack against the escort.

The attacker is effectively penalized for trying to fire past the escort
to
attack the target, yet the escort can pay a price for doing his duty and
can
also be outmaneouvred or overwhelmed by multiple attackers.  Also, an
escort
which is relatively small relative to the target may be destroyed as a
consequence of interposing itself against incoming fire.