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Subject:	Re: Combat strategies and tactics in space. Was: Jormungand Carrier Strike Craft
Newsgroups:	lugnet.space
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:40:57 GMT
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In space, it would be almost impossible to predict where a fleet could drop to sublight. In Wing Commander, the movie with Freddie Prinz Jr. and Matthew Lilliard, if the good guys hadn't captured the ConComm and taken the jump coordinates then the Earth fleet wouldn't have arrived until after the bad guys had exited. Attacking a picketing fleet who is waiting for you is not the best option when your target objective is lightly protected. Fighting a battle you don't have to to achieve an objective is stupid and wasteful. If you can reach the target with FTL and then put the target between you and the picket fleet then you achieve your goal while giving yourself an escape route. Even with a charging FTL jump, an escape would be possible. Innacuracy goes away with good planning. Should the target be a fixed non-moving object like a planet, then precise coordinates could be given and the FTL jump pre-navigated and pre-planned. A properly planned Hit and Run is, by far, the most effective tactic in all of warfare. Should the target be the Picket fleet then the most logical course of action would be to come out behind them and shoot them in the back or above and shoot them from above. Remember space is a 3d battlefield not 2d like on earth. In space, you can be attacked from any direction. During the time it would take for the heat weapon to overcome the superconductive armor, the defending vessel could have fired several high-end rapid-fire kinetic weapons, like mass drivers or rail guns, and disabled or destroyed the opposing vessel. Heat you can defend against for some time but pure kinetic energy is unstoppable, assuming no shields of course. I'd love to read about the physics of your .space force, so if you ever get the time to do it email it to me, remove the NOSPAM of course. \\//,DedmanWalkin

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		Re: Combat strategies and tactics in space. Was: Jormungand Carrier Strike Craft
(...) ...has nothing to do with reality, physics, etc. No offense, but if this thread is based on the idea of reality, the movies are a terrible place to turn for justification. If you want to use the media, the best TV show in this vein I can think (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.space)

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		Re: Combat strategies and tactics in space. Was: Jormungand Carrier Strike Craft
On 14:28 10/19/04, DedmanWalkin wrote (...) Unless there were some way to force an invader out of FTL or otherwise interact with them while they are in FTL. Perhaps FTL does not work within a distance of a gravity well?? If both sides have FTL (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.space)

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