| Range 0 can be your friend...if you're properly prepared.
I tend to play Hydrans or Tholians, but I get forced to play Gorns on occasion. In a battle of Hvy cruisers using the plotted movement rules, I drove my Gorn down the throat of the Fed ship I was facing, and released my plasma torps at the last second. The Fed player was a vet- he had MASSIVELY reinforced his front shields and took the damage with just a smidgen of internal damage while pretty much doing the same to me as well. I then did a High Energy Turn (made the roll) and ran...and of course he followed.
What he didn't know was that at the same time as we were ripping up subspace in front of us, I had dropped my rear shield and left behind some Nuclear Space Mines.
On the next turn- my rear shield up and reinforced (he didn't have enough FA phasers & photon torpedoes left to drop it)- I left my hex, he entered...BOOM!
Essentially, that was it. His barely-there shields were shredded by the mines and the next turn, he ran as fast as he could while I did a nice, broad turn to bring my remaining torpedoes to bear on him. He escaped, though quite embarrassed.
Good times, good times.
And as luck would have it, we're going to be playing SFB next week- probably a fleet action of some kind. I wonder if he'll remember that...and all the other nasty stuff I've done to him in SFB? | 
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