Re: Those annoying aliens...

Having finally recieved my copy of More Thrust, I'll join the debate:

* Armour. Kra'Vak armour doesn't use _any_ mass whatsoever... which I
for one
  find rather, um, strange. I would make armour use 7.5% of the total
  MASS of a ship for each level; thus a size 40 BC would spend 6 MASS on

  armour - just as it would for level-2 shields. OTOH, the armour 
  wouldn't cost as much... Nothing, I think. All fractional MASS round
up.
  The effect is that to get as much weapons into an armoured hull as an
un-
  armoured, you have to pay for bigger engines (and, let's face it:
engines
  are the biggest part of the cost for a capital ship!).

* Scatterpacks: Since the projectiles are scattered into a cone-shaped 
  volume, the further away you are, the lower the density of projectiles
  will be. Thus, a -1 modifier on the damage for each 3 lenght units
between
  shooter and target seems appropriate - which makes it rather
uneffective
  at range 12, but still very good at range 3 (which is the closest I
can
  place my ships anyway!)

Of course, I haven't had time to try it out much...

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson

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