[Fwd: Full Thrust]

Hello: Here is a question that James Butler,a new player, sent me about

tactics. With his kind permission I post it here.

Later, Mark Okay... I just got into this game and already I've got a massive
problem. While trying to put together a little scenario for me and my friends,
I've run into a snag. I was trying to put together some little missile
frigates as conversions from Star Fleet Battles Kzinti ships to Full Thrust.
Well, with the limitation that you can only fire on so many ships as you have
fire control systems, it seems to me that the smaller your ships the better.
That way there are more of you and he can't get you all.

So here's the problem--how in the world do you stop a 1500 point force
consisting of 100 Mass 2, 1 submunition armed, drive 12 craft? Including an
FTL drive, these little battlepods come out to 15 points total!

Double the size of the pod and instead of a submunition, you can carry a
single missle and never even have to worry about casualties while closing with
the enemy!

Please tell me there is a solution for this because I like what I've read
about this game and would like to play it.

Ummm....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "8" the maximum thrust allowed? You're
design calls for "12" thrust.

Granted, this doesn't really answer your question--previous
messages have already given stellar reasons why a pod
swarm, while interesting, is _not_ the fleet you want.  It
would only work in a one-off game, and even then, only once
against any given opponent.

Every time I've played we use the "max of 50% of the ships from any one class"
rule. I think it's a little more realistic.
No self-respecting fleet would be made up of nothing but
scout-sized vessels.

Out here.

        -monty          (Robert Montgomery; New Orleans)

PS.  (sigh) /Okay/...I'll wait to post anything on _ID4_. (sigh)