Re: Torpedoes

On Sat, 10 Aug 1996 FieldScott@aol.com wrote:

> 
> I know the "how to balance the A-battery" question is one of the
oldest
> debates on this list, but has anyone tried limiting the number of
firing arcs
> by class? One of my pet peeves is that since a 3-arc beam takes up no
more
> mass (and only a few more points) than a 1-arc weapon, everyone tend
to use
> 3-arc weapons all over the place. This makes perfect sense from a
> max-effectiveness point of view, but I feel having limited firing arcs
> enhaces positional tactics, so I've been toying with the following
idea:
> 
> A-bats can have only one firing arc
> B-bats can have up to two arcs
> C-bats can have up to three arcs
> 
> Has anyone tried anything similar? 
> 
Yes, but with the addition that bigger batteries _can_ fire through more

arcs - but the mass goes up. In this way, you can have ships like WW* 
dreadnoughts, with turreted main guns - but you won't have very much
else.

The points are not a very effective limiting factor in the game, but
mass is.

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson

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