FT-HH LAC`s

I was having a discusion off list with oerjan ohlson about designing HH
universe ships for FT, and complaining about the lack of range of FT
missiles for HH universe ships, if you use limited arc energy weapons
(i.e.-Cl-3 bats). Oerjan sugested using phalon pulsers, to represent a
short
ranged, massed battery of limited arc human weapons. This has awoken
some
ideas in my, rather rambling, brain case. I though about allowing humans
to
have a pulser weapon, limited to close range band only, with the same
PDS as
a Cl-1 bat. Making the mass and cost the same as a phalon pulser would
make
this weapon deadly at close range (the only range it could be used), and
rather expensive compaired to normal human weapons. This still leaves
the
problem of the limited range of the FT missiles (compaired to the HH
missiles), but have ignored this to allow my mind to continue.

As for the reason for this meandering ramble from my warped mind, lets
continue-

HH LAC

 MASS=24    COST=85
			    MASS    COST
B.HULL		       ---	       24
HULL(W) 		2		4
DRIVE T=12	    14		   28
NON FTL 	     ---	    ---
F.CONx1 		 1		4
PULSER(1a)x1[f]      2		  10
PDSx1			    1		   3
SMRx1			   4		12

I think this qualifies as a "egg shell with a howitzer" class of ship.
I`ll
leave others to think about the HMLACC MINATOR, or I may post a
design/ramble/cock up for it later.

In case anybody`s curious, the problem I`m having with the HH missiles
is
the ratio of missile range of 3x that of the energy weapons ON MAX
BURNOUT.
If set for MAX ENDURANCE, the range increases to 12.5x that of energy
weapons against sidewalls/sheilds  (i.e.-VERY long ranged if the energy
weapons have a range of 12M.U.). If anybody has any ideas for
long/variable
range missiles that could be used in this respect, please let me know. I
know that DW give specific figures for missile/energy weapon ranges in
his
book, and the ranges and accelerations for FT have been work out and
will
not match, but it`s the relative differences between the weapons that
matter
(after all, FT is a non-specific system to represent starship combat).

Any comments anyone?

BIF

P.S.- I posted some designs for the arachnid ships on the full thrust
ships
registery, and was gently explained where I was going wrong compaired to
the
starfire designs. In thinking about the ACID class SD, which should have
close range, high damage, sheild affected weapons, I now prefer using 6
arc
pulsers instead of plasma torps, which are long ranged, high damage,
ignore
sheilds weapon. This makes them very dangerous at close range, which was
the
idea for these ship originally (I think). I may have to go back and
redesign
all the ships in light of new ideas.

P.P.S.-Ignore any spelling mistakes, as my spelling isn`t very good.