RE: house rules/offline

Status: RO

I agree with this.  With wet-navy ships big guns allowed you to hit
targets at a distance and penetrate heavy armour.  If a small fast ship
got within range they would use smaller quick fire guns that were easier
to target with.  Perhaps with A batteries they would be normal against
T-7 (thrust 7) ships at long range,penalty of 1 off your die roll at
medium range and 2 off at short range (or some variation on this).

David Best

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>From:	Chris McCurry[SMTP:CMCCURR@vastar.com]
>Sent:	Wednesday, October 15, 1997 5:47 PM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: house rules/offline
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>I like the idea, and it is realistic but I don't think that because the
>ship is fast and the bigs are big that they should be totaly
uneffective.
>I believe that greatly lowering the chance of a successful hit is a
better
>than making the larger gun worthless.
>
>It would be a sad day when a capital fleet gets torn-up by a fleet with
>nothing but crusiers and scout ships...
>
>my $0.02
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>CMC
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>>>On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Todd Mason wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ref house rules. Someone commented on the limited survivability of
>small
>>>> ships. We have the HR that ships with a thrust > 6 (ie 7 or 8) can
only
>be
>>>> engaged with C beams, needle beams, submunitions and missiles. This
has
>two
>>>> effects, it forces the bigger ships to spend some mass on the
lighter
>>>> weapons, and it allows the smaller craft an opportunity to close
with
>the
>>>> enemy and get a few shots off before they are vapourised.
>>>>
>>>> Todd Mason
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This sounds like a good rule, and it has a certain amount of
historical
>>>precedent. Big wet-navy battleships can't aim their huge 15"/18"/etc
guns
>>>at small, fast vessels - so pre-ww1, ships had quick-firing guns
along
>the
>>>sides to deal with the little torpedo boats and stuff that were
popular
>>>then.
>>>
>>>It also makes the much-neglected C Beam more useful, especially if
you
>>>also allow C Batts to be used as PDAFs as well, as per the More
Thrust
>>>rules...
>>>
>>>Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
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