Re: [FT] Operational game

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:03:03PM -0500, Laserlight wrote:
>2.  Normal starships are not effective against planetary surfaces;
>this means that capturing planets must be done by ground troops,
>possibly with support from specialized ortillery ships.

I've written up some rules I quite like for this:

http://firedrake.org/roger/ft/newrules.html

Section 3, "Space to Surface Combat"

The short version: you _can_ attack surface installations with standard
weapons, but it's a Really Bad Idea.

Roger