Re: FC and stealth was: Four years without thrust

KHR wrote:

> >>After all, if you have to concentrate several firecontrols on one
target
> >>and/or for one weapon, you can't use them for something else.
> >
> >If you have to concentrate several fire controls on one target and/or
for
> >one weapon, *ships with only a single operational fire control can't
fire
> >at all*."
> >
> >Which, as Roger says, means that the mechanic makes multiple FCSs
vastly
> >more valuable than they are now.
>
>Yes, if you can't fire at all otherwise.

Correct.

>On the other hand, as far as I understood, the suggestion was to reduce
>range bands per ECM level,

Those times these two ECM variants have been discussed previously, they 
were completely separate proposals.

>so I suppose that a single FCS would allow you to fire at the shorter
range.

Which makes extra FCS a very cheap way of countering enemy ECM, which in

turn means that the *ECM* needs to be very cheap to be worthwhile since
the 
only ships that'd be affected by it otherwise are the Fleet Book DDs and

smaller. (Custom designs would most likely have multiple FCSs even on
small 
ships.)

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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