Re: [FT] A quick survey question

On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Graham L. Tasker. M.B.C.S. wrote:

> >Suppose that in my novel ship design system the following three
> >options can be fitted to a cruiser (6-6-6 damage boxes, 1 screen,
> >2 firecons, 3 PDAF, FTL, Thrust 4) with no difference in points
> >cost.
> >
> >- Option one is to have 6 one-arc A-batteries.
> >- Option two is to have 4 two-arc A-batteries.
> >- Option three is to have 3 three-arc A-batteries.
>
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>	  Responce to the above question -
> 
>	  What on earth is the ship to be used for? Is is not really an
escort
> for the really heavy ships, no ADAF's. Nor is it an attacking ship in
it own
> right, at that mass you can fit a wave gun and some smaller beam
weapons.

IMO it is either an attacking ship (5 A batteries in the front arc is
about equal to a wavegun both in size and damage; they are worse against
shields, but much harder to destroy in treshold checks - and they won't
blow up taking the ship with it! Also remember that not everyone allows
waveguns...) or a flagship/general purpose cruiser for operations too
small to warrant the use of capital ships. A reasonable long-range
slogger; strong and long-ranged enough to beat smaller ships, and fast
enough to stay away from too big capitals. 

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson

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 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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