Re: NI/NAC AAR & Stealth

Tim Jones wrote:

> >As for lopsided firing arcs, this is certainly a plausible 
> >design if you take the FB roll-ship maneuver into account. If you
know
a 
> >force is trying to blind side you, you can flip and blastem.
> 
> Doesn't work if you get doubled though. 

If you misjudge where the enemy is going to end up, you're out of luck
anyway. The off-set arc designs are more vulnerable to that than
weapons-all-around a la the NSL, but OTOH the off-set arcs ships hit a
lot harder when they can fire :-/ If you use Noam's tactics of
long-range
circling, there's no real way for the enemy to blind-side you.

> Interesting
> enough in the age of sail ships could only fire a
> broadside from one side at a time as they only had
> enough crew to man the guns on one side. 

Hm. I seem to recall crew organisations where the gunners were divided
into "starboard" and "port" gangs, but I'm not at all sure about it :-/

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
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