Re: Re: More needle beams stuff on [Stargrunt-Fullthrust] Digest Number 149

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From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: Re: More needle beams stuff on [Stargrunt-Fullthrust]
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Number 149

> >> Okay, other then play balance, which is valid, what logic disallows
> >> Needle Beams from hitting 'core systems' in ships?
> >
> >The ship has an outer layer which has surface systems--radars,
weapons,
> >etc--and an inner core which has CIC, fusion bottle, etc.  Needles
put a
> >high energy burst into a surface target but it doesn't penetrate
through
> >multiple decks.
>
> Yep, that's pretty much how my original reasoning went. Needles are
NOT
> penetrators - they are just very accurate pinpoint weapons that can
target
> (sometimes) chosen bits on the surface of the ship - weapon mounts,
drive
> tubes, sensor pods etc, rather than hitting at random. The core
systems
are
> exactly what they say - buried deep in the ship's core, and not
vulnerable
> to damage until you've chewed up the outer stuff.
>
> Jon (GZG)
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And you could say that the core systems are built like the proverbial
brick
s*$t house*, and are too tough to target until the ship has taken a
pounding. Before anyone says why don`t you build the entire ship like
this,
the NSL do (a lot of armour over a tough hull).

BIF
"yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,
strong in arms, thick in head"

*ps-reminds me of a story, when the council in barnsley were trying to
demolish a public lavatory, that had been built in WW2 to bomb shelter
specs. The had to eventually call in specialists, because the bugger
wouldn`t fall down<G>.