RE: modular star ships

I've been playing around with modular ships, trying to design a
Guardship from the novel _The Dragon Never Sleeps_.  So far I've found
that giving superships anything close to capabilities listed can be a
fairly large job.  
The way I've found so far is to design a modular ship with 5-6 sections.
A drive section, central core plus P/F/S sections.  All hits are
allocated on the closest section.  Only problem is, a decent ship costs
over 5,000 pts to design (meaning your opponent can wear you down
through attrition or swarm tactics).

(w) Brendan.Robertson @ employment.gov.au
'Neath Southern Skies
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Chris McCurry [SMTP:CMCCURR@vastar.com]
>Subject:	modular star ships
>
>I've seen a few people with web sights that have done some star wars
stuff
>with sections	but has anyone really toyed with the idea of building
>modular ships (i.e. ships with a mass over 100 broken down in to
sections)?
>
>I did a few test ideas using the Robotech universe (since every thing
is so
>big and has so many weapons).
>
>i think i have a base idea...
>
>I have also done some home grown rules on double barreled cannons /
>weapons...
>
>Let me know if anyone has messed around with the ideas.
>
>CMC
>
>