Re: [FT]Variable Fire Arcs...

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> >>
>
> It is of course quite legal to build all-360-degree-weapon designs
> using the FB1 design system. The official NAC carrier designs are
> examples of this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan Ohlson
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

I didn't say it was illegal,  just more difficult.  The ships with
narrower
arcs would have smaller weapons, thus they could carry more weapons.
Thus
more damage.  And haveing to maneuver to bring the weapons to bear,
something I am willing to put up with.

Jon (GZG) said somewhere that he did the arcs the way he did was to
reduce
360 degree battleship abuse.  The weapons getting bigger with each
additional arc solves this nicely.  That battleship could mount all of
it's
weapons as 360 degrees, but it's opponents could carry about 2.5 times
more
weapons.

Donald Hosford