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

On 25-Jun-01 at 16:26, David Griffin (carbon_dragon@yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
> --- Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net> wrote:
> ...
> > If I can barely threshold a mass 100 ship with a
> > mass
> > 200 ship (these ships will have equivalent weapons
> > loads) the two smaller ships will _not_ threshold
> > the big ship.  Second turn, you have a thresholded
> > ship, I do not.  You set off 1/2 your firepower,
> > still no threshold.  I set off all of mine.  The
> > thresholded ship has another threshold, maybe two
> > and is a mission kill.
> > 
> 
> Ok, 260 mass vs. two 130 battleships, or thereabouts.
> My 260 has 6 type 4's and 4 pulse torpedoes (if I
> remember right). My Battleship has 2 type 4's, 2
> type 3's and 2 pulse torpedoes. At band 4 the
> battleships fire 2 dice apiece (1.6 pts) and
> the SDN fires off 6 dice (4.8 points). At band 3,
> the BB's fire 6 dice apiece (4.8 points) and the
> SDN gets 12. Once their in 30, it goes to 4.8 +
> 1/6(3.5) = 5.38 vs. about 6.

Is it my fault you picked a poor loadout for your bigger
ship?  :)

How about if we give your bigger ships 4 type 4s,
4 type 3s and 4 pulse torps.  Give it the same thrust
as the two 130 mass ships. and the same armour as the
two combined.  Then give it the FCs of the two combined
with a max of five.  Give it a class one for every FC 
not used.  Give it the same shields they have.	Then
you have a valid comparison.