Mod. Thrust Rules was: [GZG ECC IV] Lancaster Brunswick Hotel contact problem

It's been a while since I came up with these rules - I could swear I
mentioned
them on the list at the time - so the memory of my often warped logic
may be
rusty.

Under Cinematic movement ships can only fly along the main axis, so
ships with
high side thrust are just highly maneuverable.

Under Vector movement you could make ships with high side thrust which
would be
able to accel sideways faster that it could forward - this may be why I
have 2
points per inch. Looking at it now I'd probably go with:

1 point of Port / Starboard Thrust pivots the
	  ship 1 clock facing under Vector Movement, and 1
	  point from the same side may be used to Push the ship 1 inch.

There's no reason why a ship should require more thrust to move in one
direction or another.

If you mean broadside weapons as in 1-5 o'clock and 7-11 o'clock 2-arc
weapons,
under Vector I see (saw) no reason not to allow 60 deg. weapon arcs that
covered even-to-even arcs (12-2, 2-4, etc. )  - see:
http://members.toast.net/chanfaunce/ShwartzA.gif . This would make the
sides of
a high-side-thrust ship effectively fore and aft

bif smith wrote:

> Nice thrust rules, I like a lot. Only problem I have with it is that
you
> could put more thrust in the side arcs, allowing your ship to fly
sideways.
> Very useful for broadside weapons. Also, seeing as KV can apply thrust
in
> any direction, anybody try flying them sideways?
>
> BIF
> "yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,
> strong in arms, thick in head"

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