Talk:Tractor Beam/@comment-72.208.200.122-20151204075808/@comment-73.50.63.88-20160113163143

I'm thinking the same, but it's going to be a hard choice between HLC and Tractor each round at range 2 to 3. When you're are at range 1 and your primary doesn't hit then Tractor Beam is a nice back up. Other reasons I may choose Tractor over HLC: to position a ship onto an asteroid and their path next round will take them through the asteroid again (max of 2 hit/crits and they can't attack), to set a ship up so that it has to go off the board (very situational), to get out of an arc if I don't think I'll live (also situational). I want to use the Tractor Beam more as a psycological weapon, forcing your opponent to manuever their ships around asteroids much more carefully for fear of being flung right into one.