RE: [FT] SMLs, Type 3 & Tactics

WHY would you want to field class-16 batteries? A ship that size would
be bigger than the Death Star, requiring the resources of entire sectors
to assemble.  
Meanwhile, I assemble 1000 destroyers, cruisers & escort carriers for
20% of the cost & attack from 6 different directions, losing only about
300-400 mass of ships before destroying you at point blank range.

Military sensor range = 54" (normal table size ~60-70") - anything
beyond is just a bogey.  Could be a ship, could be a mass-1 ECM drone.
Class-6 = range 60" vs Class-16 = range 192"
32 mass each vs 32768 mass each
3072 class-6 vs 3 class-16

At maximum sensor range (54"):
The class-6s will average 2457.4 points of damage
The class-16s will average 23.7 points of damage.

Unless you've got realtime sensor data from sensor bouys on the systems
rim, you won't hit anything anyway.  The Law of Diminishing Returns
makes beams completely ineffective beyond class-5/class-6.

'Neath Southern Skies
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-----Original Message-----
From:	DracSpy@aol.com [SMTP:DracSpy@aol.com]
Sent:	Monday, January 11, 1999 12:34 PM
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	Re: [FT] SMLs, Type 3 & Tactics

245,875 mass, Average Hull, FTL, Thrust 4, 32 PDA, 4 ADFC, 6 Fire
Con.12294
Crew Units.
The Carrier is more resonable:225 mass, Average Hull, FTL, Thrust 4,
nothing
else then the 10 Fighter bays.
Hope you like them:)
-Stephen