Re: Fighters and Defense

Izenberg, Noam wrote in reply to David Griffin:

>>Maximum range is 50". 
> 
>This is longer range than any normal weapon in the game. Your later
>comment "Surely a system like this is not out of the technological
reach of >the particpants." Is IMO belied by the fact that only extreme
(Class 5 >beams) and genre weapons have ranges like this.

Not to mention that the longest-ranged anti-*ship* missiles currently
have a range of 54mu... and they take 3 turns to move that far.
Fighters are far smaller, and therefore most likely
harder-to-lock-onto, targets than starships are.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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