Needlebeam Fleet (was:RE: [OT] What mailing list is this again?)

On Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:38 AM, johncrim@voicenet.com wrote:
> Actually, I do havbe a topic that I've been wondering about: has
anyone
made a serious
> attempt to design a needle-heavy fleet?  When I get some spare time,
I'd
like to give it a
> shot and see how well they fare against more standard weapons.

Using heavy and multiarc needle beams (from the WDA), should make it
almost
feasable.  I haven't tried to do it yet myself, but a heavy needle (5
mass)
forward + 2 offset multarc needles (3 mass each) on a heavy cruiser
might be
workable.

Brendan