Re: [FT] Should all Beams fire at fighters/ordinance?
From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [FT] Should all Beams fire at fighters/ordinance?
On 13-Jun-01 at 12:51, Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com) wrote:
> At 5:48 AM -0700 6/13/01, David Griffin wrote:
> >Doesn't that depend on what kind of mount you're
> >talking about? If you're dealing with something
> >that looks like it belongs on the Yamato, then
> >yes. But lasers and electronics aren't necessarily
> >heavy, so the weight might be negligible, or at
> >least pretty light. Also, some designs (like the
> >collimeter phaser on the dish of the 1701D)
> >don't require any motion of any kind and thus
> >could easily target anything in it's arc instantly.
>
> David, how many mass is adding an arc to a class 3? 1 additional
> mass. Sounds like the gear for shifting point of aim is quite heavy.
Or they have to run waveguides down extra sections of the ship,
or the main mass is the capacitor and extra arcs just take
directors on extra areas of the ship or...
It's your PSB, the game was designed around Jon's PSB, don't assume
your regression of why the rules are the way they are actually
matches reality.