Re: [FT] Should all Beams fire at fighters/ordinance?

--- Derk Groeneveld <derk@cistron.nl> wrote:
...
> 
> Yes, I noticed this as well. However, PDS + ADFC
> seems to reflect some of
> those capabilities. Given that 6" is a significant
> range, apparantly PDS
> is not _necessarily_ short ranged, it's juist the FC
> that makes it so.
> 

There's some justification to this, but I don't
quite buy it. You still fire just once, not
as the enemy enters each "range band" so it still
feels like just 1 system to me.
...

> Ah... But since even the big ones lack the longer
> range SMM's
> (ship-missilie missile's), it makes sense that the
> fighters don't have it
> either ;)
>  

Ship missile missile? Do you mean Air to Air
missiles or Air to Surface missile? A phoenix
like system in FT would, I think, target enemy
fighters at long range, or enemy missiles.

There certainly are aircraft like the Super
Entendard which fire long range standoff ASM's
at ships with good effect.
...

> I was going to point out in reply to an earlier post
> that _projectile_
> gatlings are AT LEAST as limited as missile
> launchers. But yes, energy
> beam gatlings are not. Let's just clal it a rapid
> fire energy weapon,
> then?
> 

That's what I always thought, but it's all kept
deliberately vague by GZG.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35