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

Systems like this bother me. Basically it's an
attempt to force each side to take ships that
they don't really think belong in a major engagment
between large ships. Haven't you guys just been
convincing me that those small ships get crumpled
like an empty beer can when fighting big ships?
Wouldn't it be a better use of the fleet's shipyards
to build more big ships? Maybe size escalation is
a natural consequence of the realities of combat.

Sure build DDs to escort convoys. Build Cruisers
to explore strange new worlds or scout. Use
Fleet scouts (BC's or CA's) to scout prior to 
a battle if the bogey rules are in play. But 
once the big guns start booming, if the small
ships are that disadvantaged, shouldn't they be
watching from a distance?

--- Brian Bell <bbell1@insight.rr.com> wrote:
>  
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> I usually encourage
> 1 capital : 2 Cruisers : 3-4 Escorts or
> 1 200+    : 2 100-199  : 3-4 3-99 mass 
> 
> I have not done the following because it is hard to
> describe, but
> split the bottom level into 3-50 and 51-100. Then
> every level is 100
> mass above that. Before you can add a ship to a
> highter level, you
> must already have a ship in the next level down.
> Then for every ship
> in a higher level you add a ship to each level below
> it.
>		   Number of ships
> Level  Mass	   
>   4	 201-300	    1  
>   3	 101-200	 1  2  
>   2	  51-100      1  2  3  
>   1	   3- 50   1  2  3  4  
>		   ----------
> Total ships:	   1  3  6 10 
> 
> 
> - ---
> Brian Bell
> bbell1@insight.rr.com
> ICQ: 12848051
> AIM: Rlyehable
> YIM: Rlyehable
> The Full Thrust Ship Registry:
> http://www.ftsr.org
> - ---
>  
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On
> Behalf Of David
> Griffin
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 16:07
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: Size Class Escalation -- How high in
> Mass?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> In the meantime, is the solution to try to regulate
> the number of each class of ship on both sides? Is
> there a rule of thumb handicap system for balancing
> both sides?
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
> http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use
> <http://www.pgp.com>
> 
>
iQA/AwUBOzeh2dOVrCdNYgyBEQJAfgCgrJk1ljxy6FB8JZaQadzbCM+4mD0AoKMj
> c/rLXDnFlQkZRVY2mFFyQgcD
> =CqqO
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail