Re: Why big ships are too good...

>Some things in life just aint fair <grin>.  

'Sright!
:-)

>Just as escorts have an easier
>time getting up to speed 8 than do capital ships, capital ships have an
>easier time setting up defensive systems.  If you were a single
fighter,
>which would you rather face, the defense system of a single destroyer,
or
>the defense system of of a Battleship?
>  Question: someone mentioned something about being able to place 3
>shields on an escort.	How can this be?  It takes a minimum of 9 mass
>units to get 3 shields.  This would mean that the ship had to have a
>minimum of 18 mass units.  Isn't this larger than an escort class ship?
>(again, I wish I hadn't lent out my copy of the rules!!!)

18 is the biggest mass for an escort, so to have 3 shields, it either
has
nothing else (!) or it lacks FTL, and masses at least 12 (no FTL = 75%
mass
available for systems).  How about a Mass 16 system defence vessel with
an
A-Battery and 3 shields?  

Cheers
Rob Paul

Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR	  Tel. (01865) 512361
rkp@mail.nerc-oxford.ac.uk
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