Re: Why big ships are too good...

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, lojeck wrote:
> > Have you tried making superships modular?  I.e. a 200 mass supership
is
> > borken down into 4, 50 mass units with 1-2 sections having engines,
1-2
> > sections having the FTL (Original costs are based on the total 200
mass
> 
> in the 180 mass 3 ship configuration, what happens if you destroy the
> center ship? or should the ship be designed to not have a center?

It blows up in a very spectacular fashion.  I once played with the
modular
space station that's provided as an example in the books (FT or MT, I
can't remember), and my opponent hit it from long range with a bunch of
missiles.

The missile hits were randomized between the sections, but they managed
to
take down one of the modular sections (which did 5d6 damage to its
neighbors) and started a chain reaction that destroyed the whole thing.

Rick Rutherford       rickr@digex.net	    The above opinions are mine.
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