Re: Re: [FT] Battlecruisers vs. battleships

>
> > From: Eric Foley stiltman@teleport.com
> > >it's kind of silly to build a ship of the wall sized vessel that
doesn't
> dare fight something its own size.
>
> > <grin> Oh, I want my BCs to fight things their own
size--merchants,
> > troop ships, fleet tenders....
>
> Yes, but I think that's just a _slight_ misstatement of what I was
saying,
> no?  ;)

<grin> No.  But what you said wasn't what you meant, and I knew what
you meant.  I need to start marking <dry humor>, apparently.

> > Er, Eric, it [l]ooks to me as if you're saying a Thrust 6 ship can
go
> toe-to-toe with a Thrust 2 ship?
>
> Strictly speaking, not really.  I wouldn't define the tactics
involved as
> toe-to-toe so much as hit-and-run.

You were, IIRC, the one saying that high thrust wastes space that
would be better invested in weapons?