RE: FT-Fire arcs

FT 2nd Ed. and MT both had the same 4 firing arcs (Fore, Port,
Starboard,
Aft).
The 6 arcs started with Fleet Book 1 (Fore, Fore-Starboard,
Aft-Starboard,
Aft, Aft-Port, Fore-Port).

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn M Wilson [SMTP:triphibious@juno.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:45 AM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: FT-Fire arcs
> 
> In FT/2nd it's 90 degrees for four arcs and in Fleet Book #something
> (from what I understand) the Arcs are now 6 60 degree arcs...
> 
> Depends on whether you're using FT or the MT/FB rules, apparently.
> 
> Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious (American Mongrel)
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> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 09:53:02 -0000 "Bif Smith"
<bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk>
> writes:
> >Oerjan Ohlson wrote-
> >
> >>Sure. You can't launch through the (A) arc unless you use the 
> >"Optional
> >>Rule: Aft-Arc Fire" on FB1 p.4, but there's no reason why the 
> >launcher
> >>couldn't point that way.
> >
> >>Note that your "FP/P/AP" arc stretching from straight ahead to 
> >straight
> >>aft would get its "AP" arc truncated since it overlaps the normal
(A)
> >>arc.
> >
> >Uh, I though that the rule was that if drive was used, the AFT arc 
> >could not
> >be fired through (60 deg), if you say that it`s all the aft arcs
> >(AP/AFT/AS), the area uncovered increases to 180 deg, whereas the 
> >original
> >arcs in FT covered 90 deg. If you say you cannot fire through any aft

> >arc,
> >the blind zone doubles!. I think this needs clarification, is it 60 
> >deg
> >(which sounds reasonable, compaired to the original 90 deg), or is it

> >180
> >deg (which would double the blind spot).
> >
> >BIF
> >"yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,
> >strong in arms, thick in head"
> >
> >
> 
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