Re: [GZG] Full Thrust Playtest

["john tailby" <John_Tailby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yeah, that's about what I had in mind. You can squeeze in a couple more
> missiles, I expect, if you have Mass 104 or something similar.
>
> > People have humorous arguments with this kind of ship, about whether it 
> > should get a mass reduction and therefore an increase in drive speed when 
> > it launches its missiles.
>
> That would be plausible, but most ships don't launch enough missiles for 
> it to make a difference. This one would drop mass by 32, to 68. You'd get 
> Thrust 4.
Are not heavy missiles mass 2 each so 30 odd missiles would reduce the mass 
by 60 so it's actually significant especially when a barge like that would 
be doing nothing than escape.

I don't know about unified fighter proposal but we do allow ship weapons to 
shoot at missiles or fighters with a -2 DRM as long as they are not doing an 
attack run. (so beams hit on a 6) the limit is usually fire controls because 
each missile is its own target and if you are trying to shoot at missiles. 
This doesn't make a significant dent in a big missile swarm  and most of the 
NSL capitals can't manoeuvre worth a dam. The best defence out of a FB1 
fleet would be to buy a high % of scouts and surround the capital ships as 
missile magnets hoping that they would suck some of the missiles. The NSL 
fleet would want to be moving at as fast a speed as possible so it's one 
turn would put more than 6mu of change between it's actual position and the 
one it would have been if it didn't turn. But that would require travelling 
at speed 28. 


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