Re: [GZG] Stepping out the airlock....

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Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:

> At 7:55 PM -0400 4/13/09, Tom B wrote:
>
> >Systems:
> >
> >Ancient/Alteran/Lantean Drones: I think these are best modelled as
fast
> attack or torpedo fighters. They can probably be destroyed by darts
that are
> screening a wraith cruiser, but they pretty much ignore screens and do
some
> serious damage. Of course, their has to be an attritional component to
the
> damage - sometimes a drone will fly into a wraith hiveship and out
again,
> other times that encounter destroys the drone (hits something solid
enough
> or something).
>
> Good point. I was wondering how to model these. However they seem to
have a
> LOT of them on board. A typical carrier doesn't tend to have nearly
enough
> bays for the quantity of drones some things can launch.
>

Can't always do things one for one (try doing BSG, for example ;-) ).
Abstract some of the numbers out.

Mk