RE: Eldar tech, was (something I can't remember...)

Date sent:  24-OCT-1996 14:50:15 

>Yesterday or so, Aaron Teske wrote (something I managed to delete
before 
>I could send this mail):

>[on the size of the Eldar holoflage tech - I'd use 5% of hull mass,
Aaron 
>prefers 20% or so]

>No. 20% means far too much hull mass per weapon. According to Eldar 
>doctrine, ships should be fast, have lots of firepower, and go BOOM as 
>soon as someone actually manages to hit them through the holoflage
<vbg>
>If the holofields are too mass-intensive, the ships will take too long
to 
>go BOOM... which (since I don't want to reduce _weapon_ masses on Eldar

>ships) leads me to either small protective systems (the holoflage) or 
>increased available hull space per hull mass (since ether sails as I 
>envision them are not very mass-intensive).

How about using something like 75% capacity 25% damage for the Eldar
rather than the standard 50/50 split?

P.S. It looks like Mike Elliots fileserver has fallen off the edge of
the world. (The errors report it as being somewhere in France?)

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