Orbital Maneuvers

I just had a thought about combat over contested planets. Suppose, as
suggested before, you nominate one table edge as the upper atmosphere. OK, now
then, on a piece of paper you draw the following diagram.

> On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Win Baker wrote:

Why bother blowing up all of the defensive satellite batteries that are
orbiting the planet? Just take out the ones on your table, and you've made a
big enough breach in the planet's orbital defenses to get your troop ship
through.

> Win Baker writes:

@:) Now, you have eight "tables" worth of orbit.

If you could find the space you might be able to actually set up eight tables.
Or six, maybe. Ships are forced to make a
(thrust-free) turn of 60 (or 45) degrees each time they move from
table to table.

This is a lot of tables, however.