FT: railguns and arcs

1 posts ยท Nov 24 1998

From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:25:05 -0500 (EST)

Subject: FT: railguns and arcs

> Reading through the posts of the last few minutes, led me to revise

Question: maybe I missed it or overlooked it in earlier postings, but why the
concern about the Kra'Vak railguns having arcs? I personally find their LACK
of arcs to be a 'trait' of their race, and they make
up for it (as I noted in an earlier post) with their turn-on-a-dime
maneuverability. What human ship can equal theirs in this department?

IMHO the Kra'Vak, as they currently stand with MB, are reasonably balanced
against human ships (not exactly balanced, no; there are tweaks that need to
be made, yes, most definitely). Both sides have their strong and weak points.
Yeah, allow railguns to reroll; I'm cool with that. But I'd be more interested
in limiting their arcs of fire to 1 arc...MAYbe two. Their limitation on arcs
would force a different type of ship design than what humans have. And hence
lend
more credence that these are *alien* ships. Not human-like sub-clones.