Re: [GZG] Battlecruisers

[Ryan Gill <rmgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:17 AM -0700 12/26/06, Richard Bell wrote:
>>
>The posited ship type is a vessel that can engage cruisers with a
>small degree of impunity, even though cruisers in FB1 can include both
>thrust6 and class-3's.  This requires the "true-BC" to have thrust8
>and class-4 beams.  None of the ships referred to as battlecruisers in
>the FB's are anything more than larger cruisers.  For that matter,
>even the SDN's are little more than very large cruisers.

I would argue that thrust 8 and Class 4 beams would make the vessel something more like a Prinz Eugen or HMS Furious. Thrust 8 is very hard to mate up to class 4 beams and not have a unusuall expensive craft.
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