[FT]Scenario Question

My friend has desided to try a game of FT. On that thought, we came up with a
few ideas for a scenario:

Scenario: Convoy escort gets jumped.
Game System: FT-FB
Forces: 2 Player A: Space Patrol Units: A dozen or so freighters. And a
handfull of ships destroyer and smaller. Goal: Get as many of the freighters
off of the map before they get flattened. Player B: Local Space Pirate Band
Units: Several pirate ships. Goal: Cripple as many freighters as possible
before they get away.
Special Rules: Pirate Q-ship.
We have been playing with the idea of maybe allowing the pirate
player to include one Q-ship amongst the freighters.  How to do this?
Background: This is taking place in a pirate infested frontier sector.
The convoy is passing through a system on its way else-where when the
pirates jump them. Notes: We haven't yet desided on force sizes or
compositions. Any ideas?

Problem 1: The Pirate fleet -- My friend has desided to be the pirate
player, and is designing his ships.   Should there be a limit to how big
or what type of weapons are allowed to him? (He has already designed a
destroyer with a class-4 beam weapon...It doesn't have much, but it does
have the class 4...ouch.)

Problem 2: Freighter capture -- How does the pirate capture the
freighters? Is it reasonable to allow the pirates to have tractor beams? Or
does he use some kind of "aimed shots"?

> On 3-Nov-99 at 03:15, Donald Hosford (hosford.donald@acd.net) wrote:

Needle beams are the standard way of dealing with this. First take out the
manuever drives, then the FTL. There are also boarding parties.

Want to try a "nasty"? A CVE (mine is 250NPV with two groups of fighters) is
really nasty against small ships. Big boys swat the fighters down, but
destroyers and smaller tend to have little in the way of defenses.

In a message dated 11/3/99 12:15:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> hosford.donald@acd.net writes:

> Problem 1: The Pirate fleet -- My friend has desided to be the pirate

I would say that he should be limited to the civi stuff, plus one level,
i.e.
Class-2 batteries, submunis, standard fighters, ect. A class-4 on a DD?
They must be a VERY good pirate group.

> Problem 2: Freighter capture -- How does the pirate capture the

Use the boarding rules.
-Stephen

> Roger Books wrote:

> On 3-Nov-99 at 03:15, Donald Hosford (hosford.donald@acd.net) wrote:

I'll pass the CVE idea on...gulp! What makes this harder, is my friend has my
copy of the FB...