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For Max Range strategy with the Talisman, a variety of ranges might be useful. Put a Missle III and a Missle V on with your Wave Motion Guns. Each weapon could come into range a different times, setting you up to reload out of phase. Then when you are reloading your WMGs, it will move back to Missle III range. If both the WMG and Missle III are reloading, it will pull back even further. Just in case the reload thing does not work right, put one APB on the ship to establish a Max Range of at least 8 all the time. Then your PDC ranges will never qualify as the max range weapon (unless you take damage).

I shall have to try this in a PBW game I am in.