Re: [Power Projection] Review

So what does the same amount of missiles do to an unshielded ship?

Roger Books

On 12-May-03 at 15:59, Dominic Mooney (dom@cybergoths.u-net.com) wrote:
> 
> On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 09:16 Europe/London, Roger Burton West 
> wrote:
> 
> > Unless you have a ship that's specifically built to handle it, with 
> > lots
> > of capacitors and energy-hungry weapons. (If you ever played
> > Andromedans in SFB, the tactics are very similar.) I don't believe
any
> > of the ships in _Fighting Ships_ is built this way, though.
> 
> Bear in mind that a Tigress can land 430 (USP 9 nuke missile
batteries) 
> x 900 EP of energy in a single round! ~429,570 EP! In HG2 terms...
> 
> ouch!
> 
> This is more than 10x the energy a Tigress can dissipate from its 
> capacitors per turn...
> 
> 0.5% x M x J = 0.5% of 500000 x 4 = 2000000 x0.5% = 10000 dT
capacitors
> 
> EP stored = 36 x 10,000 = 360,000 EP
> 
> 1 extra dT capacitor = umm MCr - I can't see it offhand. Assume 4MCr
if 
> the same as J Drive cost per dT... will ask CT-starships for cost 
> confirmation...
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dom
> 
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