RE: Strikeboat Mass

>It seems that the real difficulty in designing a strike boat is that
they
>must achieve short range to be effective.  Granted it would no longer
be
>considered a strikeboat but what about a class 4 beam weapon on a 30
mass
>hull?

One problem here is actually the lack of hull. With 3 hull boxes, the
ship
would be forced to make multiple thresholds after the armor was gone.

Also, holding the range open with a Thrust 6 vessel using Cinematic
movement rules makes it very hard to use that Class 4 beam, unless you
mount it in the rear.

Schoon