Re: Torpedoes

>I'm not much into exploiting weak points in the rules for personal
gain,
but >since my group is doing campaigns with ship construction as a major
part of the
>theme, we tend to end up running into rules problems.	I wrote a
>scenario (we were testing rules changes proposals) recently and I
>couldn't believe how satisfying it was to have three capital ships in
>the game and still only have six A batteries on the entire field!  You
>would never see that if people built their own ships, because when
>people build their own ships they go into **RULES STATISTICIAN** mode
>and they notice how much better A batteries are than anything else.
>They also notice how much better mass 36 cruisers are than mass 19
>cruisers.  Stuff like that. 
>-joachim
>

	I have the same problem. Everyone wants to put a ton of A bats
on
EVERYTHING!! I don't want to put in a bunch of rules like "no more than
x%
of mass may be deployed as A-bats" or anything but I am sorely tempted.
You
want people to build balanced designs, something akin to real navies but
all
they want is to find the game system's "super-weapon" then equip their
entire fleet with as many of them as possible. What in the world do you
do
about this??

James
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