Re: [FT] Are Submunitions Packs overpriced?

> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 20:17:00 +0100
> From: Charles Taylor <charles.taylor@cableol.co.uk>
>
> In message <000a01c0ea92$351a1340$b9169fd4@kitsune>
>	    "Adam Benedict Canning"
> <dahak@dahak.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:31:42 +1000
> > > From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au>
> > >
> > > G'day Charles,
> > >
> > >  >So, what are peoples experiences of using SMPs?
> > >
> > > They're nice to put on really little guys for
> > > some up close and personal punch.
> >
> > I find that scout ships carrying them are good for
> > attracting Charles attention away from the
> heavy ships with
> > the conventional weapons.
> >
> > IIRC the Rat did try a fast SMP armed Battleship [HMS
> > Dictator] but it was very much an all or
> nothing experience,
> > with emphasis on the nothing. The all Pulse
> torpedo ship did
> > better.
>
> I remember the Pulse-Torp dreadnought (to ba
> accurate, the _Asymmetrical_Pulse-Torp dreadnought

The Rat's a Stieb. The SMP ship was the same evening IIRC.
It didn't take K gun fire well.

> >
> > Of course Charles has accused me of considering
> scoutships
> > to be little more than antimissile decoys for my capital
> > ships.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> Well, from the point of view of the poor crewmen :-)

They have it better than the Fighter crews.

Adam