RE: [FT] SM Magazines

I would go with 3 magazines. This will limit you to 3 salvos per
launcher,
but SRM seem to be used early anyway. Every time that I have held them
for
later, I have either lost them or the ship before I could use them.

Another alternative is to have a magazine of 6 that feeds 2 of the SRMs
and
then a second magazine of 3 that feeds only the 3rd SRM. This would give
you
the greatest flexibility.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/ft/	   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Books [SMTP:books@mail.state.fl.us]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 10:11 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	[FT] SM Magazines
> 
> 
> One Magazine or several?
> 
> I'm designing an FSE Fleet Carrier, same mass as the current one.
> 11 Fighter squadrons and 3 SML's.  It is going to have magazine
> capacity for 9 ER SMs, I want to leave people the difficult choice,
> use point defenses on fighters or on salvo missiles, hopefully
> extending the life of my fighters.
> 
> The problem I'm running into is do I do one mass 27 magazine, or
> 3 mass 9's.  I'm leaning toward the 9's for damage survivability,
> I don't like the idea of one bad threshold check toasting all
> my SMs, on the other hand if a launcher goes I can't feed its
> SMs to another launcher.
> 
> What do the other SM users recommend?
> 
> Roger