Re: Grab Bag of Ideas & Comments. Mostly EFSB

Morgan Keyes wrote:
> 
> Lurker mode off.....
> 
> >Reloading Missiles
> >I like the idea in abstract, with a new (FTIII?) missile system, but
> not
> >with the current missiles.
> >I think SJGs Ogre game does it best with both missile launchers and
> >missile magazines.
> >Any hit on a missile magazine is going to be spectacular. Even if the
> >warheads don't cook off (almost certain if they are nukes) the
missile
> >fuel is going to make a real bang. An ideal candidate for the
> >Catastrophic Damage rules, something like lose next line of hit
> boxes...
> 
> Actually, nukes don't go BANG when hit.  It takes a very precise
> detonation to make it go critical mass.  As for gutting a ship from a
> magazine hit, possible.  But you may very well see the same design for
> those magazines as is used in Abrams tanks where the magazine is
> designed to blow out and direct the detonation outside if it's
> compromised.	Still not great for the ship in question, but far from
> catastophic.
> 
Now if they were _antimatter_ warheads.. 

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