Defense drones was (The GZG Digest V1 #608)

On 10-Dec-99 at 21:36, Tom Anderson (thomas.anderson@univ.ox.ac.uk)
wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Roger Books wrote:

I do?:) I give up a single PDS on my big guys, give them one more FTL mass,
and they tow their own defense drones. (actually I give up an armour box since
I work under the weak hull extra to armour idea)

> it may also be worth bumping the mass up and loading a PDS; that way,

One PDS versus a SM? Nope, my big guys (cruiser and larger) all have ADFC's.
If the drone is the only thing taking hits my PDS net kicks in to defend it,
otherwise.

That PDS on the drone is going to save it from a Salvo Missile 13.3% of the
time and raises the cost significantly.