re: [FT] Who said Nova cannon's were unbalanced? bloody fighters

"isn't it the truth, in Naval warfare, that fighters are deadly."

Yes, but it's also that surface ships will sink if  holed in a critical
area, which makes them pretty vulnerable.  In space there's no such
thing as
a "hit below the waterline"  so in old FT battles often turned into
attritional slugging matched.  That's one reason why I liked the
fleetbook
core systems thresholds - made the heavies a little more vulnerable to
that
lucky shot.

Think about all the times in history when capital ships succumbed to a
single critical hit when, as units they were far from "destroyed".  The
british battlecruisers at Jutland, the Hood, the lucky torpedoes that
finished off the Yorktown & Ark Royal (granted they were both damaged)
or
the glide bomb that dispatched the Roma (granted it was Italian and
pitifully under-armored).

			    -M