Tactical Retreat vs Fleeing

[El Nino]

E.g. 2 I used to hire myself out as escort, but it is infeasible to do this with the current rule. Pirate asks for tax, my employer says no, I engage, skirmish ensues, employer hits cruise, I form up with him (engaging cruise), pirate uses CD. Now unless he shoots at me I’m out of the game… and my employer just has to fend for himself.

E.g. 3 Poor factions historically have always used hit and run tactics. It is all they really have, but with this rule you hit once… and then have to leave the server for 4 hours.

E.g. 4 People have often used the wounded animal ploy… where one engages… appears to be losing and runs away drawing out the enemy to where his mates are waiting to pounce. See battle of Hastings for an example of how this has worked in the past.

These could all be done if people used the rules... you can do a hit and run attack with thrusters alone (unless you use capital ships wich poor people are not suppose to have... the problem is, however, when you use thrusters to escape, the pesty gunboats will hit cruise to catch up, wich is against the rules and overrides the 200 vs 140 speed diffrence, between fighters and caps, that should enable such fights...

Now what you should be able to do, is retreat with trusters and IF you didn't get cruised up on, you could do all of the above...

Offcorse, whenever i tried to thrust away, the "smart" opponent always tried to catch up with cruise engines... :rtfm:if rules were followed to the letter, everything would be alright.

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