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

Yes, and add to this list crippling blows such as those that led to the 
Bismark's end.

Hey, I play NSL, had to have our say <g>

>From: "Matt Edens" <edens@mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>To: <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
>Subject: re: [FT] Who said Nova cannon's were unbalanced? bloody
fighters
>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:31:19 -0500
>
>"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
>

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