Those darned B1's

Hello folks,

This is my first post here and I hope that my relative novice status
doesn't 
offend in a asking a fairly straightforward question.  I've found the
posts 
here remarkably useful and germain--bravo!  I scanned the archive
looking 
for a answer to the following query and was unable to find one.

I only recently picked up fleet book 1 and overall have found the rules 
quite flexible and well written.  My one concern is with the design
rules 
with regard to B1's.  It seems to me that a ship designed with a massive

compliment of B1's could simply "put the pedal to the metal" and scoot
to 
range 12 by turn 3 of 4 and smoke the other fleet with a huge quantity
of 
beam fire.   They are very cheap and small-- a massive amount of fire
power 
could be brought to bear such a design philosophy.  Enough room left
over 
for rather big engines to get into business range.  Maybe I'm off-base
with 
this but I would appreciate any feedback on this.  I'm really hoping
that 
some goofball has actually tried this and been handed their head.

Kindest Personal Regards,
Galen
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