Re: Beam Batteries

The recent traveller writes:
>>  
>>	There have been multiple solutions to the problem.  Some of the 
>>  most common are 1) increase the mass of A batteries to 4 without 
>>  increaseing cost.  2) as you mentioned increase the cost of the 
>>  batteries. 3) do both 1 and 2.  4) make A batteries a higher "tech" 
>>  level and thus only available to more advanced races.
>
>Another option is to restrict firing arcs: A-bats can only mount 1 arc,
>B-bats up to 2, and so forth. I think this makes more interesting ship
>designs IMHO. Other people have suggested allowing A-bats only on
Capital
>ship.

I propose a radical idea! A-batteries may ONLY be mounted on Escort
ships, C-batts may ONLY be mounted on Capital ships.

Yeah, well, okay, so it's a stupid idea...  :-}

But has anyone tried it?

Mk
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During the run-and-fight-and-run-again battle through this forest of
horror,
she is finally cornered. Her weapons have been left deep in the bodies
of the
slain or broken against the granite-hard scales of these snakes that are
not
snakes. Her stand to the death must be fought here. Though her only
weapons
are her hands and her deep and wide knowledge of the slayers, she does
not
fear them. They will die. Of this she is sure.