Re: Re[2]: Beam Weapons

At 11:15 AM 11/29/96 +0200, you wrote:
>Funny you should say that....
>
>Jon and I were chatting the other day and one of the things that came
up 
>was this beam weapon thing for FTIII (as you may know, we are thinking 
>about producing a new version of FT). Jon is quite keen on the idea of 
>getting rid of the points system (shock, horror!, what will the
tabloids 
>say?) in favour of a single parameter for ship design, i.e. MASS.

Getting rid of the points system wouldn't bother me. The current point
system isn't bad, but it's flawed. 

>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??

Hey, I like it! I was coming to the same conclusion in my Age of Iridium
background, though I hadn't worked out the points. The only problem is
that
the A battery turret seems a bit high in cost. Are there any other mass
point changes?

Allan Goodall:	agoodall@sympatico.ca 
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