Re: Strike Boats...

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

> >Fought a 4,000 point battle last night.  I had to mass 180 tenders
and
> >36 mass 10 gunboats.  I used two types of guns, based on the same
mass
> >10 hull and cost 37 points each (including weapons).  No FTL, Thrust
of
> >4, 1 hull, 1 armor, 1 FC, and 1 PDAF (wasted, he had no fighters). 
Torp
> >varrient had one single arc pulse trop.  The other had two needle
> >beams.  DO NOT USE NEEDLE BEAMS.
>
> I'd say that generally anti-fighter weapons are wasted on stikeboat,
as are
> any weapons that don't do ALOT of damage. They need to deliver a nasty
> payload to be effective.

I knew he would take capital ships.  I expected some combination of 4x
SDN or
Attack Carriers...  I had no fighters to cover them...

>
>
> The Thrust of 4 seems low to me. I think that they would have been
more
> effective with more maneuverability. Does this match with what you saw
in
> this battle?
>
> Schoon

Only a little in this battle.  See the reply on Oerjan.

IAS