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Re: Fighters and Hangers

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:29:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Fighters and Hangers

  > We usually do not have superships except as a theoretical exercise.
> Using Dean Gundberg's SSD as a reference, sectional ships seem much
> weaker than the same systms on a single ship because
> 
> 1) a much lower amount of damage will cause threshold checks
> 2) area effect weapons can e interpreted to affect more than one
> section
> 3) a single section can be critical to the ship, and concentrating on
> that can eliminate the ship while bypassing the rest of the ship's
> strength.

Yes, OTOH, you'd also have a much lower CPV for six Size N sections than

for one Size 6N ship.

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