[EFSB, FT] Emines and beam costs

G'day guys,

Finally got my Narn fleet stuck together - you probably wondered what
all that swearing was. Anyway spent the evening last night doing up some FT
compatible stats (I think) and was after some reasoning or comments on the
cost and mass of e-mines and the capacitor-projector units, seeings as a
few of you have worked on conversions before.

One, I forget who's conversion it was, but one of you fine gentlemen wrote a
good conversion (EFSB to FB) guideline that had the beam projectors at mass 2
and cost 9 (instead of usual 3x for weapon systems) any reason why? Especially
since the cost of the capacitor is 3xmass (mass = 3xcapacitor rating), which I
like the sound of by the way.

Two, now on to E-mines. So far all the conversions I've seen have
E-mines
(launcher (1-arc) + 3 loads) at a mass of about 5. I was leaning more to
a mass of 9 (3 for the launcher, 2 for each mine) as then its taking up room
comparable to an SML - something that has the potential to do about as
much damage. Does this seem way off to you guys, am I missing some fundamental
reason as to why you guys dropped it to 5 mass in the past?

Thanks

Beth

that's Valamir's B5 design rules. mailto:valamir@aol.com

I'm not sure about those deisgn decisions, I'm more concerned with
the treatment of the Twin Arrays. I think they should be 2xClass-1
batteries which fire as PDFs at fighters and missiles; Valamir has
them as Class-2 batteries which overstates the range of the B5W
weapon.

> At 11:21 AM +1000 9/27/99, Beth Fulton wrote:

I think this is mostly because the original conversion work was under FT2.0 &
hasn't been majorly changed since then with regard to some of the details.
I haven't really looked at the EFSB->FB conversion stuff, I've left that
to the Shipbuilders Guild. (Funnily enough, I've never applied to join, even
though the original conversion was mine...)

'Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/

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