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* '''Straight''': Starships exchange fire at a few kilometres' range.
* '''Exaggerated''': Starships fight at mere metres' range and have to move to avoid crashing into each other.
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** Dominant FTL travel method is point-to-point instantaneous jump without [["No Warping" Zone]] a la ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** One side has individually superior ships that can destroy a number of the other side's, but the other side has better fire
** Both sides avert [[Point Defenseless]] in a setting that only has viable projectile weaponry. Starships need to get close so that their munitions don't simply get intercepted out of hand.
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': Two sides appear to go into the usual visual-range engagement, and then one side's starships start getting blown up by BVR fire from the other side's new "sniper" ships.
▲* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': Starships have giant arms and legs and engage in brawls and grapples.
* '''Deconstructed''': The side that has weapons with very short effective range and lacks the acceleration, defences, stealth or tactical FTL to close the distance gets blown away by the side that outranges it.
* '''Reconstructed''': The tactically inferior side starts using signals trickery to fool their foes into wasting shots, revealing themselves by firing prematurely, causing [[Friend or Foe?|friendly fire]], or worst of all, [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant|making an enemy of a hitherto-neutral superior force]]. To minimise the likelihood of recurrence, the foe is forced to return to visual range and properly identify what it's attacking.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': The starships fight at properly long ranges where they cannot see each other.
* '''Enforced''': "It's not entertaining to our viewers if all they see of space battles is dots disappearing from radar screens."
* '''Lampshaded''': Starship combat scenes are prefaced by either notes to the viewer or in-universe acknowledgement that ranges of engagement are orders of magnitude greater than depicted.
* '''Invoked''': One side develops [[Lightning Bruiser|high speed heavily-armed and -shielded]] or stealth ships to close with an enemy that is not as effective in "knife fighting".
* '''Defied''': One side develops an effective means of BVR combat.
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