Re: SDBs

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>From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca>
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>Subject: Re: Planetary invasion ramblings (longish)
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>Jeff spake thusly upon matters weighty:
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>Sure, there may be a few left behind and your point about SDBs
>> is a good one (though less so with the advent of the FB, I suspect)
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>Why? I assume even with FB it is quite feasible to design a non-FTL
>capable ship which (by virtue of not needing the FTL drives) has more
>hull capacity (and maybe space freed up by fuel) to accomodate more
>armour, weapons and ECM.... and costs less.... therefore making
>a wonderful planetary defence option.

Yes, though under the FB design system leaving off the FTL actually only
saves you 10% of the ship mass, rather than the 25% of FT2. However,
that
10% can actually be more valuable  than the old 25% in some designs.

Jon (GZG)
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