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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6613777" data-attributes="member: 19675">A variant on the "Tractor Slingshot" has elements similar to the "No Surrender"- attack by using jettisoned cargo and or shuttlecraft as kinetic kill weapons.In SFB, I used the HET to deploy mines in the path of foes heading towards me.  (In SFB, you could only depoy mines out of bays where your shields were down- the HET let me drop the mines right in their face right before my shields went up.)In one of Larry Niven stories, a communications laser was used as an improvised weapon.  In some computer games, mining lasers have been used likewise- usually at short range to cause a hull breach.Depending on tech level, thrusters can be used as a weapon, especially if aimed at a vulnerable spot, like for raking out a sensor array.I've seen some where the ships use weapons or warp fields (or whatever) to trigger things like solar flares or energy discharged from nebulae, gas giants, etc.</blockquote>