Re: [GZG] FT: Modern Naval

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Thomas Pope <tpope@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> 2) The pulse combat model.  FT models WWI dreadnought battles decently
well.
> It models WWII battles with carriers and screens quite well for a
space
> game.  In both of those models the combat model is similar.  Ships can
take
> a number of hits from almost any weapon and keep fighting.  In
contrast, a
> modern warship can maybe take two missile hits before it is a mission
kill,
> but I wouldn¹t count on it.
>

I am not entirely sure that FT models WWI naval battles very well.
The dreadnought era has too many really big guns with huge arcs and FT
lacks a mechanism for modelling plunging fire.	It is really suited
for predreadnought naval battles.  The vessels even had similar
designs to FT ships-- some big guns for long range plinking, some
medium guns for when the range closes, and a light battery to fend off
torpedo boats.	Even better, most of the guns only fired in two, or
three arcs.

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