Re: All this talk of p-torps n stuff...(IJN tweaks)

i'd really like to dispense with the missile systems
altogether for my ships: there are ample
countermeasures and once the missile is gone, good or
bad, it is gone forever. :-/

so at least p-torps are 'always on'. 

--- Charles Lee <xarcht@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You want long range hitting power? Want it heavy
> damage or force threshold checks? Try Uncle Abibe's
> MT MIssles. Launch at 60 MUs and hit at 36 MUs.
> Seven hull hits with explosive war head and needle
> beam options availible too.	;-)
> 
> Inire <inire@yahoo.com> wrote:so i went through with
> the spreadsheet and madified
> all the IJN stats I have (using the PDF i got last
> year or the year previous taht got onto
> star-ranger.com (IIRC). 
> 
> Looking at the stats (And having played the IJN
> _many
> times_ against mixed fleets, but my nemesis being
> the
> NSL), I've decided that having close in weapons is
> useless: the hulls are all so relatively weak that
> by
> the time battle is engaged in earnest I cannot
> sustain
> fire nor damage.
> 
> Of course, I haven't been using fighters wisely,
> either, but thats another story. I should note that
> once the threat of fighters was raised, my main
> opponent modded some strikeboats into PDS/AFDC
> platforms _just_ to mitigate that threat. :-/
> 
> so: given that the hulls are light, the drives are
> biggish and the weapons many, i stripped all SMs,
> submunitions packs and replaced them with available
> PTs, filling in on odd #s with the occasional 1-beam
> or trading an existing 1-beam into a 2-beam with the
> change i had left. Only one ship had a hull block
> added to keep the numbers straight, IIRC.
> 
> If anyone has any interest, I'll post the designs as
> set. 
> 
> if any of the playetesters from that neck of the
> woods
> has any interest in comment or feedback, I'd really
> love to hear it.
> 
> Jeff "My dice hate me!" Fearnow 
> Gaming to keep War out of RealTime!
> 
> "'DESTROY THE WITNESSES!!. Chaffing aside, I have no
> answer: I Excrete Sour Cream!" www.wigu.com, 29 Jan
> 2003
> 
> XT350/DOD#1890
> 
> AND don't forget: Serenity releases 30 September!
> 
> 
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Gaming to keep War out of RealTime!

"'DESTROY THE WITNESSES!!. Chaffing aside, I have no answer: I Excrete
Sour Cream!" www.wigu.com, 29 Jan 2003

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