Re: Those annoying aliens...

On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Robin Paul wrote:

> A quick thought on railguns;	how about simulating their much greater
> transit time between firer and target by letting beams fire first.  If
a
> railgun-armed ship announces that it's firing on a beam-armed ship,
the
> latter is permitted a "reaction fire" on the railgun-ship, provided it
hasnt
> already fired.

Could work well. It all depends on just how high the 'incredibly high 
velocities' are (and your background); I'm a little too influenced by
the 
'report' from the bridge of the Kinshasa to try it ;) Currently I'm 
trying other ways to balance 'em.

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson

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