Re: Beam Weapons

OK, since everyone else has thrown in their $0.02 on this topic, here's
mine.
The idea is that smaller beams can be turretted at no additional mass
cost,
but larger beams cost additional mass. 

All costs remain as in FT.

C-bats:  
1 arc =>  1 mass
2 arc =>  1 mass
3 arc =>  1 mass

B-bats:  
1 arc =>  2 mass
2 arc =>  2 mass
3 arc =>  3 mass

A-bats:  
1 arc =>  3 mass
2 arc =>  4 mass
3 arc =>  5 mass

Instead of having appropriate size weapons per ship class, you could say
there is an appropriate number of firing arcs: 3-arc C-bats, 2-arc
B-bats and
1-arc A-bats. You can still mount 3-arc A-bats; they just take up more
space.

Scott

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