FT Tactics was: Floating Walls

> On 13-Mar-00 at 15:40, JohnDHamill@aol.com (JohnDHamill@aol.com) wrote:

> 5) Never be the pursued in a stern chase, with an opponent who is

I haven't seen a "tactics manual" such as they have for SFB, but I can
contribute one for this.

Basic scissors manuever. Works for 2 or more ships of thrust 4 or more.

The two ships start X MU apart facing 30 out from their direction of travel.
Usually X is fairly close (within 6 MU).

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At this point they have no blind spot.

Both do a two point turn towards their common center, which means they reverse
positions, thus leaving no blind spot. The speed it works best at is 4x their
separation since they then reverse positions exactly.

I'll leave turning this arrangement as an exercise for the reader.

One thing to note, this works much better for those of us in a "high speed"
camp. A 6 MU separation means the manuever
needs a speed of 24 MU/Turn.  Amazingly enough 6 inches is
withing ADFC support range.:)

> Roger Books wrote:
wrote:
> > 5) Never be the pursued in a stern chase, with an opponent who is
[...]

I had started a long while ago collecting tactic posts by people in order to
put together this very thing, but I lost most of the msgs
in my recent move of accounts.  :-(  I still have a few. At some point
in my copious free time I'll have to ply through the archives and see
if I can't find some of those old posts again. And/or keep collecting
ones that people post.:) I'll add yours to the current collection.

Mk (doesn't matter the tactics employed, '1' means the same thing on all dice)

> Roger Books wrote:

> Basic scissors manuever. Works for 2 or more ships of thrust 4 or

Yes, they do. If they're facing away from one another, there is an X mu wide
strip (marked XXXX below) which lies in the (A) arc of them both:

--------------/
XXXXXX Direction of travel =>
--------------\

Not very easy to get into of course, but you know where they will end
up if they want to keep up their scissoring :-/

Regards,