Re: FTJ Honorverse

[Sylvester Wrzesinski <xveers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Noam Izenberg wrote:

>Brendan,
>
>I just re-saw this and I am now increasingly interested in an HH  
>conversion of FTJ. Just over the last few weeks I picked up the HH  
>novels for the first time and I'm chewing through them at an  
>astinishing pace (given my slow reading speed); I'm almost halfway  
>through "A Short Victorious War," and would _love_ to combat sim HH  
>battles. FTJava would be perfect with only a few more mods.
>
>AMS and Energy torps aren't expendible, though, so are they modeled  
>well enough by Scatterguns and Subpacs? Plus, sidewalls are 100%  
>effective against energy torps, while the e-torps are utterly lethal  
>at short range if the sidewalls are down.
>Is rolling the wedge model-able in FTJ?
>
>I either missed or have not yet read the difference between HH lasers  
>and grasers (and FT grasers).
>  
>
There isn't any real differeence between FT and HH hardware in this 
respect. Grasers in HH are simply more powerful lasers, with a stronger 
punch and longer range at an expense in mass.

> From what I've read so far, each larger class of ship has 1.5 to 2  
>times the raw combat power of the next smallest size - which is a  
>rather larger class difference than standard FT.
>