Re: Those darned B1's

Following up my own post here...

I wrote:

>I've been collecting FB ship designs ever since
>FB1 was published (last count was 1063 legal non-SV ships from >around
60 players, but I have a bunch of designs I haven't had time to >check
if they're legal yet); only about 40 of those are armed with B1s >only
- and the biggest of those ships is TMF22 (IIRC, could be 24 as >well.
I don't have the archive handy right now :-( ), so they use B1s >simply
because they can't easily fit any bigger weapons.

I didn't remember correctly; the B1s are even less popular than I
remembered :-/

The "about 40" small ships I remembered were in fact only 21 (TMF 22
and smaller). (What I remembered were the 45 ships of TMF 24 or less
which use *50% or more* of their weapon Mass used for B1s. Examples of
such ships are the FB1 Minerva, Ibiza and Novgorod frigates.) 

There are also a bunch of larger ships where B1s make up all of their
anti-ship weaponry: carriers, freighters, area-defence ships and fast
scouts (with Enhanced or Superior sensors and a single B1 for
self-defence). In these cases the anti-ship weaponry is only a small
fraction of their actual *payload*, though - none of these ships is
able to shoot up enemy ships very much, and most of them want to stay
as far away from the enemy as possible :-/

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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