One way that my group has gone about encouraging the use of B- and
C-class
beam weapons (and to give the ESCORT range ships a break) is the following:
Escort Agility: Any ship in the ESCORT-range with an effective Thrust
of 6+
is considered to have Screen-1 vs. A-Batteries. If the ship is already
screened then add 1 level to it's effective total.
This rule reflects that it is harder to bring heavy anti-ship batteries
to bear on small, agile ships. Now CAPTIALs will need to take some
B-batt's to
keep the little guys from picking them apart. C-batt's still prove
useful by providing supplemental PDAF functions.
Comments?
Morgul, aka Morgan Keyes Sine Pari Airborne All The Way!
> Comments?
I kinda like that concept, but add to it...
Escort class ships must subtract 2 inches of movement to get the agility
bonus...
> One way that my group has gone about encouraging the use of B- and
Nitpick: The escort vessel already has 3 level of shields (improbable, but
possible), what effect does 4 levels of shields have on beam weapons? Is it
now invulnerable?
> This rule reflects that it is harder to bring heavy anti-ship
Personally, I don't like it, though I'm soon going to be in a FT campaign
which uses the above rule, plus that AA batteries add 2 levels of shields.
IMO, beam weapons should be able to hit anything they care to within effective
range. Unless you're assuming 1" is equivalent to large fractions of a light
second of course (the rules seems to suggest ~1000km).
> One way that my group has gone about encouraging the use of B- and
I would rule that you cannot have better than 3 levels of shielding, no matter
the source.
Mk