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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] There's also an old naval wisdom, from the times of gun-based combat: the side with reserves loses. Back when ships fought primarily with guns, at ranges where every ship participating in the battle could theoretically hit every other ship, the side that had the more ships would automatically win. The more ships you had, the more enemy ships your initial volley would cripple, thus increasing your lead volley by volley. You would win absolutely nothing by holding back a number of ships and then throwing them into the battle at some later moment. Phaser-based battles typical of TNG could very well abide to the same rules. The best and most cunning strategy one could think of would be to throw *everything* at the enemy at once, firing every phaser simultaneously, from big bad type 10 arrays to puny type 5 self-defence guns. It would not matter whether your firing platform was capable of defending itself - if the first volley worked, there would be no need for defence; and if it didn't, then the more ships you had, the more targets you would present to the enemy, and the lower the odds that the enemy would cripple your *important* ships. So sending in completely unarmed ships would also make some tactical sense, even if you weren't fighting a hopelessly desperate battle. Their presence would scatter enemy fire, unless the enemy could quickly sort out which ships were harmless and which weren't. And sending in minimally armed ships would be a smart move, since the enemy would then have to decide whether to ignore them during the early volleys (and let them enter their effective weapons range) or destroy them early on (and thus allow the far more dangerous capital ships to survive longer). Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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