Re: FB designs & fighters (& strawmen)

On  6-May-02 at 22:54, Eric Foley (stiltman@teleport.com) wrote:

> The design I gave earlier does not make these mistakes, which is why
one
> has to search, and hard, to find a FB1 grouping that would stand much
of a
> prayer against it

> So which is it?  Is every weapon in the game that serves those three
> principles really broken, or do the FB1 ships suck?

Bad news, but in my NSHO the ship that you threw together really
sucks.	It has a glaring weakness, it is far too slow.	It allows
your opponents to chose range and direction of attacks.  I would
almost say it was designed for the tactless (tacticless?) move
right in and slug it out.

Do any of your opponents actually maneuver?  A thrust 2 ship is
meat for an SM armed opponent.	If you can't dodge a few of
those missiles you can't put enough PDSs on a ship to live
through SMs and still give an effective offensive loadout.  If 
playing FSE I would far rather face a fleet designed around this 
doctrine than a base FB NAC fleet.