Re: Why big ships are too good...

Date sent:  10-DEC-1996 10:00:39 

>The assumption we were running on is that total hull points is not 
>representative of the entire hull, merely the amount of damage required

>to damage its usefulness in terms of vital systems and such and
actually 
>there are structural elements left behind even if all damage points are

>gone.	A second method would be to design superships in a starbase type

>arrangement, with each module connected to all the others... So a three

>module ships would look like a triangle (with limiting arcs for each
module)

>--Binhan

I once designed a SSD like this. It had three sections. A core that
contained the Hanger Deck and some point defence, and two 'banks'
that contained weapons. I never got round to using it though.

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