Re: Affectiveness of FSE BDN?

>Hullo all
>
>>Played at lunch yesterday against NAC and really felt my BDN
>>was extremely inaffective.
>>
>
>I agree.  I don't think the group I play with has quite figured out the
FSE
>in general and the BDN just does not cut it anyway we've sliced it so
far.
>
>The BDN seems to be the ultimate 'compromise' ship.  It lacks
sufficient
>launchers to be an effective SML ship.  It lacks sufficient beam
weapons ( 1
>class 3 on a BDN ?!?) to slug it out and one fighter sqdn is not much
of a
>threat.  Its fast, but I can't figure out where to manouver it to. 
Again it
>seems that the FSE ship excels at running away :-)=

Well, we never claimed the ships in the FB were all optimised - in fact
just the opposite, many will be general-purpose designs, some may even
be
better for political missions than combat ones.... part of the fun will
be
finding out which work well and which don't in a given situation. Maybe
the
Bonaparte design got built because the Naval Architect's third cousin's
mistress had something nasty on the War Minister.... :-)

Jon (GZG)
>
>>My side:
>>
>>FSE BDN
>>FSE CH
>>FSE DS (Super Destroyer).
>>
>>Opponents
>>
>>NAC CVL
>>2xNAC Escort Cruiser (CE?)
>>
>
>Two ADFC equiped ships does make it very tough to punch a hole through.
Try
>the scenario again with only on ADFC equiped ship and see how it goes.
>
>>
>>The CVL sat back out of the combat most of the game, leaving me
>>the 2 CE's to fight.	I managed to put all SML's on target every
>>time, but 2 interceptors and ADFC on the CE's made this pointless.
>>As far as affectiveness went I felt the CH was much more affective
>>than the BDN as it had 2 SML launchers, 2 on the BDN and I could
>>probably have saturated defenses and landed a few missles.  My
>>opponent apparently agreed as he targetted my CH with all his
fighters.
>
>The FSE CH is a very impressive ship.	My personal fav of the FSE
fleet.
>
>Peter
>
>
>
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