Re: small ships: escorts vs raiders

GBailey wrote:

>You guys are designing escorts without any knowledge of what they
>will be going up against.  Any real raider is probably going to have
>a real weapon (i.e., class-2 beam) and some hull.  Anything less and
>the freighters can defend themselves.	Raiders will probably not have
>expendable weaponry when there's energy weapons available, which
>will also be more precise in damage dealing (a missile salvo could
>wipe out that freighter you had intended on capturing).

Sounds like you would mount a Needle Beam or two in your ship sguadron
if 
you were a raider...

2B^2

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