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[BattleStar Galactica] Would a viable tactic be to ram an oppenent then jump away, using the spacial disruptions as a weapon?
gpt
Maybe, but you know what else is an effective weapon? Good old-fashioned nukes and chemical explosives. FTL drives aren't cheap - pre-attack, most Colonial ships didn't even have one (after the attack, obviously only FTL-capable ships made it into the rag-tag fleet). Making a long sublight journey between colonies was actually a better investment than an FTL drive. More conventional ordinance is simply a better investment:

* You can make more of them, so it's less of a loss when one gets shot down.
* Since you can have more, that increases your chances of making it through an opponent's defenses without a pilot.
* An FTL drive is a massively complicated machine; a chemical or even nuclear explosive isn't. There are fewer points of failure on a conventional weapon.
* Conventional weapons do not require complex onboard computers. Computers are a serious weakness against the Cylons (of course, if we're talking about Cylons using these, that doesn't apply).
* Even a small short-range FTL drive (plus the tylium to fuel it, and the computers for jump calculations) adds a lot of weight. This would make an FTL missile slower and easier to shoot down.

As a last-ditch attack, you could do some damage with this, but you'd be better off just retreating. Ramming would cause additional damage to your ship (not to mention the damage you'd sustain from enemy fighters and cannons getting in close); and if your ship is that badly damaged already, it might not survive the stresses of an FTL jump. If your intention is a kamikaze-style attack, then you might do more damage by ramming and setting off your explosives/igniting your tylium reserves.