Re: FT-Shiva option/starfire designs

At 12:22 PM -0500 3/5/02, Indy wrote:
>
>Yes, there are 2 PDS guns on the ship, but I was saying abstract them
>out to 1 gun for space-savings. FT does not and should not be only
>modelling each and every individual weapon on a given vessel. It was
>meant to be done in an abstract fashion. Otherwise if you do
cross-genre
>ships, equivalent-sized Superior Wars ships are going to MASSIVELY
outgun
>a GZG ship (which, if you note, have very little, if any, weapon arrays
>visible, lending it easier to abstracting).

Hmm, granted. The two systems did give it the all around protection....

>I don't know anything about the Concussion Missile launcher, or
remember
>anything about the Class 2 beam weapon.

Something of a minimally mentioned thing that Han and Chewie had 
added. It's mentioned in specs about the MF and touched on I think in 
one little blurb in the Movies.

http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/mf/missile.htm

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