It worked fine without the tractor beam. Once the game sees a "weapon" though it decides that my strategy is stupid and refuses to ram anything.
I tried all kinds of strategy settings and nothing worked. I also tried redesigning the ship to have the components in different orders. No joy.
I'm playing simultaneous so I hav to use strategic. It's really frustrating, I just know that with a tractor beam and a working strategy this would be a really fun ship to use.
Maybe I could put the tractor beams on a support ship and have them in close formation - but I think that would be just as difficult to achieve
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