Re: [FT] SMLs, Type 3 & Tactics

Baking two replies into one:

DracSpy's design was:

> 245,875 mass, Average Hull, FTL, Thrust 4, 32 PDA, 4 ADFC, 6 Fire
Con.12294
> Crew Units.

Hm. OK, 3 single-arc Class-16 batteries or something like that.

However, for the cost of this ship - 835989 points - I can get about
8000
Thrust-8 ships: half armed with needle beams; the rest with "real"
weapons. Oh, and give them some PDS as well to whittle the fighters down
<g>

OK, it'll take me some turns to get into needle range, but the huge ship
can't kill more than three of my units per turn, and you'll run out of
fighters eventually as well - they won't get more than a few hundred of
my Swarm craft before the carrier dies, and after that they can't
re-arm... and after *that*, it is just a matter of time. Damage control
parties can't repair Needle damage...

Somehow it seems that this mega-ship isn't quite as dangerous as it
looks
<g>

John Atkinson wrote:

> Uhhh. . . Actually.
> 
> 245,875 Mass	245,875
> 73,763 Hull	147,526
> 24588 FTL	49,176
> 49,175 Thrust 98,350
> 32	PDS	96
> 4xADFC		32
> 6xFiCon		24
> 32,768 mass gun	98,304
> 
> So we have 639,383 points.  
> 
> Calculated from memory, added on a TI-82.  Anyone wanna double->
check?

You've got 65536 Mass unused here, though - room for another two monster
guns if you want to caugh up those extra 196605 points :-)

Best wishes,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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