Re: Retrograde skirmishers

I wrote:
> For instance, the Valley Forge class NAC SDN has four point defenses
at
> 190 mass.  A ship in our games that expected to have light or no
carrier
> support would have at _least_ ten at that size, possibly closer to 12
or
> even 15.

Small addendum... while they'd have far more than the 4 the FB1 ships
typically have, they'd also have far _less_ than the 42 Noam's
suggesting
on his ship... that might be useful against carriers, but it's use_less_
against battleships, and in our games you have to be able to deal with
both.  Too much is assumed to be at stake to allow you to just bug out
if you guess wrong and leave an uncontested hole in the battle lines.
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