Re: Realistic movement thoughts

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, hosford.donald wrote:

> With X thrust divided by Y mass = Z acceleration, that means the big
ships
> will have to buy more engines per point of accelleration....which
means they
> will cost more, and high speed dreadnoughts are prohibitivly
expensive.

Yes, compared to other slower dreadnoughts. However, a speed 8 mass 
70 DN will spend exactly as much mass as 5 speed 8 mass 14 DDs on its 
engines... which makes the DDs much weaker than the DN.

Samuel, I'm not as much after full-blown realism as after variety. If 
small ships are inefficient they won't be used very much in set-piece 
battles - they'll be useful as scouts, couriers etc in a campaign, but 
not elsewhere.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson

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 I have forgotten how to dance."
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