Re: house rules/offline

Status: RO

I like the idea, and it is realistic but I don't think that because the
ship is fast and the bigs are big that they should be totaly
uneffective.
I believe that greatly lowering the chance of a successful hit is a
better
than making the larger gun worthless.

It would be a sad day when a capital fleet gets torn-up by a fleet with
nothing but crusiers and scout ships...

my $0.02

CMC

>>On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Todd Mason wrote:
>>
>>> Ref house rules. Someone commented on the limited survivability of
small
>>> ships. We have the HR that ships with a thrust > 6 (ie 7 or 8) can
only
be
>>> engaged with C beams, needle beams, submunitions and missiles. This
has
two
>>> effects, it forces the bigger ships to spend some mass on the
lighter
>>> weapons, and it allows the smaller craft an opportunity to close
with
the
>>> enemy and get a few shots off before they are vapourised.
>>>
>>> Todd Mason
>>>
>>>
>>This sounds like a good rule, and it has a certain amount of
historical
>>precedent. Big wet-navy battleships can't aim their huge 15"/18"/etc
guns
>>at small, fast vessels - so pre-ww1, ships had quick-firing guns along
the
>>sides to deal with the little torpedo boats and stuff that were
popular
>>then.
>>
>>It also makes the much-neglected C Beam more useful, especially if you
>>also allow C Batts to be used as PDAFs as well, as per the More Thrust
>>rules...
>>
>>Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)