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Old March 31st, 2001, 03:22 AM

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Default Re: Retreat Option

I suspect that the simplest option would be to just reduce the length of a combat round to say 20 turns. Sides that want to run can do so immediately from the start and if they are not at a speed disadvantage, they should only sustain a few rounds of fire in the corner.
The combat length setting is in the Settings.txt file by the way.

I have tried this (not in current patch though) and it does really encourage you to use fast ships - fleets tend to end up with more battlecruisers than dreadnoughts as a result.

Interception becomes interesting as you want to engage the enemy with a couple of movement points spare so that you can initiate several combats in the same square in order to damage enemy ships to the point that you can catch them in subsequent combats.

Give it a try and see what you think....
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