[FT] Who said Nova cannon's were unbalanced?

G'day guys,

I'm in the mood for a good argu... err discussion <g> and so I've
decided
to ask a question that's been bugging me for ages. Why do you guys think
the wave gun and nova cannon are unbalanced (as evidenced by the
reactions
to the initial UNSC SDN design)? Under the FB designs they're no super
weapon, they're regularly used down here and I've only seen them do
devastating damage once and that was because the target got cocky (my
son
had the wave gun ship fully charged, but his opponent was so sure he'd
take
it out through damage causing threshold checks he ended his fleet 2 "
away
straight in front in a nice big line and then rolled a lot of 1s and 2s
much to his horror). Given the fact you can't fire any other weapon
system
that turn either then you may as well use large beams/p-torps (or if
using
EFSB stuff as well, heavy beams) as you'll more often than not do more
damage that way. The rules for theses two "big" guns were written pre-FB
when ships were a lot smaller, now we regularly see ships hit the board
with masses >100. I'd even go so far to suggest that to make them useful
(and to give them back some of their reputation) under FB I'd double
their
radii of effect or give them twice the dice, I'd also drop the
requirement
that says Nova Cannons can only be carried by capitals (though that's
less
to do with balance and more to do with the fact I don't see it as an
important distinction anymore).

Any way there's a few cents worth to rattle a few cages... been decidely
too quiet around here for my liking anyway ;)

Have fun

Beth

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