RE: Size Class Escalation -- How high in Mass?

A know problem in a great system.

I prefer enforcing some form of ratio in the battles, but that is just
one
option.

Another is to apply a "surcharge" on large ships. You can set this at
whatever you like (10% for ships mass 100-199, 20% on ships 200-299,
etc.).

Another way is to add a multiplier to all ships. Such as add 2x mass to
normal ship cost. Thus a Harrison Scoutship (6m/21c) would have a game
value
of 33. A Valley Forge SDN (190m/642c) would have a game value of 1022. A
Uberdreadnought (600m/1500c) would have a game value of 3100.

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Brian Bell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Griffin [SMTP:carbon_dragon@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1:47 PM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Size Class Escalation -- How high in Mass?
> 
> The fleet book has superdreadnoughts and supercarriers
> which are in the 250 mass range class (plus a bit for
> a few ships). How high in mass are the big ships you
> field and what has your experience been with them? 
> 
> I play Federation miniatures, Geohex UN miniatures,
> B5 Earthforce miniatures (as the UN), and a few
> others.
> 
> I'll start.
> 
> My Excelsior SDN, the UN SDN from Geohex, and my
> Warlock SDN (from B5) are all about 265-270 so far.
> I don't get them into battle all that often because
> they cost from 864 (Excelsior) to about 900 points
> and our games are usually 1000-1500 pts. My experience
> with them has been basically good. They take a 
> pretty good pounding and can deliver decent damage
> but not in an obviously unbalancing way. Their
> survival rate does not seem to be higher than my
> other ships (since they tend to get focussed on).
> 
> Having recently purchased a largish Enterprise-E
> miniature, I'm considering upping the weight class
> a mite to something between 290 and 350.
> 
> We actually had a game the other night in which it
> turned out one of the opposition ships was 620 mass!
> We killed it, but I felt afterward we should have
> gotten a medal presented by Princess Leia. It wasn't
> really unbalancingly powerful, but it DID have the
> advantage of firing all at once.
> 
> 
> 
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