Re: Fw: Weapons for Newtonian based FTIII

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:

> But they don't. That's the problem. You could have a station with 
> zillions of guns and screens and armor and it still wouldn't matter if
I 
> could just stop 1" outside your effective range and nibble you to
death.
> 
> And that's exactly what you can do with missiles: Arrive 60" away from
the
> station, conveniently outside the range of all weapons except
missiles,
> launch, turn away, reload, come back to 60", launch... 
> 
> The only thing, apart from calling help and surrendering, the station
can 
> do is to hope he has such a mass of PDAFs that he can drop more
missiles 
> on average than the enemy can launch in one salvo.
> 
> Jump point -style FTL does give fortresses a bit more edge, because it
> limits the number of possible approaches.

	*SIGH* Space stations are neccesarry not as an offence weapon,
but 
it real purpose should be repair and build ships. It's much effective to

build a ship in space then on the planet side. 

	So... let's apply what you said to planets... Mmmm... planet
cannot 
move... so we track a hugh asteriod to drop on the planets.... we should

get the same effect as nuclear winter or ice age on earth(If I am wrong 
feel free to correct me.). Therefor, planet is not really defendable 
either... (I think some body else mentioned drop a hugh rock on planets 
too.) 

	The point I want to make is, if you REALLY want to destroy
something 
badly, YOU CAN!!! The problem is why, and what benefit do you gain? In 
case of droping a asteroid on a planet, you will almost render the
planet 
inhabitable. Congratulation you gain a rock that is usless to you. In 
case of dead space station, you cannot repair your ship with enemy's 
equitment. I just think destroy a space station wouldn't benefit as much

as capture it.

	Thanks for listening to my rambling...
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