Re: railguns

Hell even in a regular inches game my ships are honking along pretty
nicely
after four or five turns of accell.

Los

Brian Bell wrote:

> I'm not going to take the time to search the archives, but I believe
that
> Oerjan is one of those players who uses cm instead of inches. This
gives him
> about a 2.5 times the game area for the same size table.
>
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> -----Original Messages-----
> bbrush@rev.state.ne.us
> Subject: Re: railguns
>
> [snip]
> I must say I find it interesting just how big a range of velocities
you see
> people talk about on this list.  Oerjan says his capitals move at V,
of 18
> and his escorts of 36.  I would think this would take a VERY large
table,
> otherwise everything would just go screaming off the other side of the
table
> and that would be the end of the game.  Most games I've watched on
standard
> 4x6 or 4x8 tables have velocities of around 8-18, depending heavily on
the
> nationality and maneuverability of the ship.
>
> "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> on 09/16/99
> Subject: Re: railguns
>
> 80 km/s is speed 36... that's about twice the speed of my
> slowest-moving capital ships, and slower than my fastest escorts. If
> they can survive running into space dust at those speeds, they're not
> going to have *that* much problem with small slugs.. and that's quite
> apart from the fact that some of my ships can *outrun* those slugs :-/