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

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
...
> *Are* the ships in the Fleet Books already balanced
> wrt size?
> 
> No. Not really. Large FT/FB ships have several
> advantages over small ones 
> which aren't reflected in the points/design system,
> eg:
> 
> - Fire more weapons sooner
> - Thresholds are spaced out further
> - Multiple DCPs are available on the damaged ship
> - Better chance of having at least one FCS on a
> damaged ship
> 
> ...etc. This means that if you fight a fleet
> consistng of small ships only 
> against a single ship, or against a fleet consisting
> of large ships only, 
> you're at a disadvantage if both sides have the same
> points value.

Ok, I can see that. There are probably a *few* 
counterexamples like catastrophically bad rolls
on the first threshhold for your one and only ship
totally eliminating your combat power rather than
just reducing it by 1/3 or 1/2, but ok. 

So, if the point costs are supposed to balance the
sides in a battle, is the current point cost wrong?
If so, why? When the fleet book was being written
was it envisioned that all fleets would be composed
of all different classes, or was it envisioned that
the battles would be typically fought by similar
sizes of ships on both sides? SDN's vs. SDN's --
Cruisers vs. cruisers, destroyers vs. destroyers?

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