Re: Torpedoes

On Aug 10, 1996 17:41:15, '"Back from the woods, time to learn how to
use a
fork again..."' wrote: 
 
 
>Well, I haven't placed any specific restrictions on batteries in my B5 
>ship designs other than what 'felt' right. If I felt a battery on a
particular 
>ship had justification for multiple arcs, I went with it. But if I felt
that 
>the battery(ies) should have more restricted arcs (2, or even 1), I
just  
>simply 
>designed the ships with that in mind. 
> 
>Most of the B5 ship designs I've come up with are forward-arc heavy,
moderate 
>to the sides, and, well, in some rare cases have a few aft-arc weapons.

 
But in the B5 case, the designs and the weapon layouts are pretty much
dictated by what shows up on the series as the episodes progress.  The
big
question is:  where the designs aren't influenced by an outside source,
what sort of limitations have people used to encourage more balanced
ship
designs? 
 
Restricting battery arcs sounds like a pretty sensible idea. 
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Michael Kwan 
mkwan@usa.pipeline.com 
mkwan@pipeline.com 
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