Re: Realistic movement thoughts

At 11:12 AM 1/24/97 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, hosford.donald wrote:
>
>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
>
>"Father, what is wrong?"
>"My shoes are too tight. But it does not matter, because
> I have forgotten how to dance."
>- Londo Mollari
>

Well that depends on what you do with the DD's....Those 5 DD's are going
to
be creamed by the DN.  But the DN will probably be badly hurt in the
process.  

What it does is puts all the ships on the same level.  5% of hull
dedicated
to engines on an Escort, results in the same speed as the 5% of engines
on a DN.

Donald Hosford
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