RE: [FT] Night's Dawn Trilogy

Or change the range of the beam weapons to 6".
This puts a SML at longer range than beam-3s.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net	 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Llaneza [SMTP:imperialdispatches@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:27 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: [FT] Night's Dawn Trilogy
> 
> I've given it some thought. The fastest ships in Night's Dawn (barring
> anti-matter) top out at about 9g. A Thrust = 9 ship would be
frighteningly
> maneuverable under vector, so I considered calling a thrust point 2G,
> which
> puts the Lady Mac and the fastest Navy frigates at thrust 5.
> 
> Other than that, combat wasps are the main weapons - call those SMLs
(with
> lots
> of scope for special salvo types - ECCM, defensive only salvos, etc).
> Since
> beam weapons aren't much used (wasps outrange them) I considered
limiting
> even
> the largest ships to Beam-2's and smaller stuff to Beam-1s.
> 
>