RE: Campaign rules?

Date sent:  5-DEC-1996 08:58:22 

>Hello Guys,
>  As a first rule for construction times, what do you all think about
>using the square root of the mass as time in months for construction
time?
>Thus a 100 mass unit would take 10 months to make, while a 4 mass unit
>would take 2 months to make.  Time taken is considered to be wartime
>construction times where the shipyard is taking 7 days a week to make.

Doesn't this make larger ships too easy to build?

>  Comments?  Oh, one more thing.  In private email, there has arrived a
>situation where one of us thinks you need one Fire Control per needle
beam
>absolute, and another thinks you need one Fire Control to control a
bunch
>of Needle Beams - assuming they are firing at the same "targeted
system".
>Could someone point out the correct path to follow in this instance?

A Needle beam requires it's own firecon. A pair of Needles can share a
firecon if, and only if, they are both firing at the same system. Not
the same system type mind you, but the exact same system.

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