[GZG] Stargate Conversion: Goa'uld Ha'tak

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Ha%27tak

I'm trying to decide how I want to simulate the Ha'tak. At one point,
it was the sort of invulnerable ship that you needed to flee from or
else sneak a bomb into. At other times, like later in the series when
they had Ori and the Daedelus class BCs, it seemed like it could be
matched up and (in the case of the Ori) overmatched.

One of the interesting things from the above link is mentioning 60
staff cannons. Now, a staff cannon (in ground terms) is a portable
infantry support weapon. I guess these are larger versions of that
technology. But the odd part appears to be they can reconfigure the
system to yield different firing profiles.

I had thought of simulating it by buying a mass of 'Goa'uld Ship
Cannons' (aka beams). The interesting twist was going to be that you
could decide, in any given turn, how you combine the mass to define
actual beam weapon types at firing time. The only limit I would
(perhaps?) apply is that they all have the 360 arc since that seems to
be the intent of the weapon layout on the Ha'tak.

For instance 60 mass as....
60 x B-1
20 x B-2
8 x B-3 + 2 x B-2

I'm not sure, as long as I make them all have the same 360 degree arc
and thus you have the same mass of beams and beams are 3 per mass,
that I need to do anything else to account for this configurability in
terms of costing. Maybe the flexibility should have a cost? If so, any
suggestions on what that might be worth?

This would seem to give the Goa'uld player some interesting decisions
at the beginning of each turn (or when firing). Of course, the other
question is do you have to pick a configuration at the start of the
turn when plotting orders or at the time of firing? That might affect
the costing of the flexibility, because if you pick at the beginning
of the turn, you still have to guess what configuration will be the
most useful. If you do it at firing time, you always pick the optimal
configuration for the range.

Obviously, I'd be interested in opinions.

TomB
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