Re: Fixing salvo missiles

Jared Hilal wrote:

 >Idea #2)
 >Salvo Missile Racks are really underutilized.

Like Laserlight said, underutilized *by whom*?

Among the custom designs I've collected so far from all over the planet 
SMRs are about as common as SMLs, and many players have asked us why
anyone 
would use SM*L*s when the SMRs are have such obviously advantages:
higher 
launch rate (gives better chance to overwhelm target point defences),
and 
lower vulnerability to threshold checks (so the SMR salvo is rather more

likely to be launched at all rather than the magazine-stored SM is).

In fact, I can't recall anyone else claiming that SMRs are too *weak* 
compared to SMLs... though please note that I'm *not* saying that you're

wrong in the context of your gaming group, only that many other groups
have 
reached quite different conclusions than you have.

 >To encourage their use,
 >change SMR to 3 MASS & 12 PV (4 per MASS) or 15 PV (5 per MASS)

Unless your missile boats are thrust-8 or faster, Mass 3, cost 15 makes
the 
SMRs *more* expensive overall than Mass 4, cost 12. Mass 3, cost 12
gives 
them a bit of a rebate, though in light of what I wrote above I'm not at

all convinced that it is necessary.

 >Idea #5)
 >change SM magazine to 3 MASS for 1st salvo, +2 MASS for second
 >salvo, +1 MASS per additional salvo, and 6 PV per salvo.

So the 9-salvo magazine aboard the FSE Foch-class ships would have a
Mass 
of 12 instead of 18 and the 6-salvo magazine on the Roma-class drops
from 
12 to 9 Mass? That's nice, but I'm not sure how it fits together with
your 
above statement that SM*R*s are underutilized (unless this SML-magazine 
Mass progression is what *causes* the SMRs to be underutilized in your 
gaming group?).

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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