FT - Question Regarding FTL use

> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:39:54 -0700 (PDT)

> Recently I was in a game of FT and something came up that I'm not to
It's a house rule. In the campaign at our club you must remain on
the board a certain number of turns before you can leave - too many
people were using the open ended FTL rule as scouting, and it created a
headache for the GM. This way ya pays to look!

KR

Recently I was in a game of FT and something came up that I'm not to
sure about.  The scenario was this - two fleets cmae out of FTL into
a soon-to-be disputed system.  Fleet A actually arrived a turn prior
to Fleet B. The referee for the game announced that it would be 8 turns before
a risky jump to FTL could be made or 24 turns before a a safe jump could be
done. I don't remember seeing this rule in FT. Could this be from MT or does
it sound like a house rule? Thanks for any insight.

In article <970626133954.2161e936@skynet.litc.lockheed.com>,
> <MCCLURE@skynet.litc.lockheed.com> wrote:

It's a house rule.

> It's a house rule. In the campaign at our club you must remain on

Hmmm, makes me wonder what other limiting factors could be placed on FTL
stuff. Like say 'Tau-Shimmer' from RenLeg. So go ahead pop in and out of
Realspace, but don't spend more than X amount of hours/days/weeks in or
*kapow*. Hey! maybe there's a great rationalization for cloaking
devices. They're just 'low-speed' FTL drives. Zip-into
realspace--Zip-out, I suddenly feel much better about cloaks.....

Gene

Treating Cloaking Device as a low speed FTL drive is great, up to the point
where someone drops a FTL missile into the field. BOOM!!, and no warhead
needed for the resultant vaporisation of your starship. (I can't remember the
name of the book, but they used FTL as a form of combat maneuver drive, hence
the FTL style missiles).

'Neath Southern Skies The Oceanic Union lives!

> -----Original Message-----

Excerpts from FT: 27-Jun-97 RE: FT - Question Regarding.. by
Brendan.ROBERTSON@EMPLOY
> Treating Cloaking Device as a low speed FTL drive is great, up to the

_Voyage of the Star Wolf_, by David Gerrold.  Great book, from before he
really got into writing in all the self-improvement-type stuff in his
books. (Though it is still there. And where the h*ll is the fifth Chtorr
book!?!)

LAter,

Excerpts from FT: 28-Jun-97 Re: FT - Question Regarding.. by Brendan

> Aaron P Teske wrote:
The one I've got is actually _Starhunt_, originally published as
_Yesterday's Children_ & it is by David Gerrold.