Re: Re[2]: Beam Weapons

At 09:15 AM 11/29/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Secondly, we have recognised the problem with beam weapons inbalance
and 
>the latest idea is to distinguish between "casemate" weapons (i.e.
single 
>arc) and "turreted" (i.e. 2 or 3 arc):
>
>				MASS
>C battery (turretted only)	 1
>B battery (casemate)		 2
>B battery (turret)		 4
>A battery (casemate)		 4
>A battery (turret)		 8
>
>
>What do you all think??
>
	I think this is extremely cool (we've been using half mass for
single arc weapons for a while now) but have a question. With a turreted
A-bat at 8 mass, are you going to increase the mass available to capital
ships?

>As fas a "fix" for FT II is concerned, I think the simplicity of the A 
>battery is MASS 4 is fine, and would recommend its adoption as a house 
>rule. That's probably as "official" as you're going to get.
>
>
>Mike Elliott, GZG
>

	Good enough for me. Thanks.

	James
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