Re: [GZG] Battlecruisers

On 12/26/06, john tailby <John_Tailby@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Bell" <rlbell.nsuid@gmail.com>
> > Not really, a ship with thrust 8 fighting a ship with thrust 6, in
> > vector, can rotate the main drive to the appropriate orientation,
> > execute a 6 point vector change, and spend the last point of thrust
to
> > bring its single arc beams back onto the the target.  The thrust 6
> > ship is incapable of closing the range.  Unlike a wet naval vessel,
> > the ship need not point along its vector.  In cinematic, single arcs
> > can still be sufficient, but the fight takes up a larger volume and
> > more time.	You have to maneuver your vessel to make slashing
attacks
> > at long range, from behind.  You may not get a shot in every turn,
but
> > your opponent is unlikely to have that many class-3's firing into
the
> > AP, A, and AS arcs, unless all of your ships are optimised to fight
> > that way.  With a larger thrust, you intercept the enemy further
away
> > from his in-system target, so you have more time to deal with the
> > enemy, anyways(assumes some limits on when/where you can engage the
> > FTL drive).
>
> I don't really understand the scenario you propose. No fleet book
combat
> ships are thrust 8.
>
> In general most navies battlecruiser has the same thrust as their
cruiser
> (and similar hull) and similar weapons fit to a battleship. So in
theory
> they can beat up cruisers and get away from most battleships because
the
> battleships have lower thrust.
>
The posited ship type is a vessel that can engage cruisers with a
small degree of impunity, even though cruisers in FB1 can include both
thrust6 and class-3's.	This requires the "true-BC" to have thrust8
and class-4 beams.  None of the ships referred to as battlecruisers in
the FB's are anything more than larger cruisers.  For that matter,
even the SDN's are little more than very large cruisers.
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