RE: Ortillery platforms

Got it in one.	
The only ortillery platform I designed was for special forces support. 
It
had a cloak, 1 ortillery system & very little else (see webpage for
details).
Ortillery monitors are only sent in after the active space defences have
been suppressed.  Once you get that close to the planet, you start
dueling
with the surface batteries, which (if their smart) you have to find
using
sensors first.	This is requires good defences.

Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
[mkw] Admiral Peter Rollins; Task Force Zulu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Arndt [SMTP:emu2020@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 2:25 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Ortillery platforms
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I have been doing a massive push lately, building up a NSL fleet and
> tryign 
> to round it out by adding a few new ships designs and such.  It so
happes 
> though that I got to thinking on ortillery equipped vessels and then I

> thought some more and ultimately stopped myself cold.
> 
> The problem I came upon was that it occured to me that for ortillery
to be
> 
> effective, a vessel would have to remain pretty much stationary,
poised
> over 
> a specific zone to be able to provide for the troops on the ground or
to 
> target specific positions.
> 
> This led me to seriously doubt the inclusion of ortillery on
conventional 
> ships, and perhaps the inclusion of specific ortillery platforms into
my 
> fleet.  If a ship is going to be a sitting duck while issuing fire to
the 
> surface, it would likely be a defensive monster and wouldn't really be
> worth 
> placing much other offensive weaponry on.
> 
> I'd liek to hear others' takes on ortillery as perhaps I am missing 
> something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eli
> 
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