> From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au>
away
> straight in front in a nice big line and then rolled a lot of 1s and 2s
I would have to agree from my experience the nova and wave cannons have proven
to be a very unreliable weapon. At the moment the current "super weapons" are
missiles and fighters which at the moment are being taken to the extreme in
our current gamming group, For example some people are turning up with
corvettes with fragile hulls no weapons PDS and mounting a single missile
rack, and another good one is a mass 50 odd ship with fragile hull and thrust
two with 4 fighter bays. I will admit that fighters are a part of the game and
add to it but when you play a 4000 point game and 26 attack fighters come at
you and destroy 3 battle ships in a turn and the
game is over before any ship to ship combat takes place. I think the
Just a quick opinion, but isn't it the truth, in Naval warfare, that fighters
are deadly. when a fighter today can seriously threaten a warship, I see no
reason why, in the 3D environment of space (other than reaslistic arguements
against space fighters in the first place) a fighter group shouldn't pose as
much of threat. Besides, we all know that in the genre of SF space fleet
battles, the ships are always at the mercy of those daring aces in whatever
machines they fly.
Eli
> From: "Nathan rolfe" <ace_hole@hotmail.com>
> take
away
> straight in front in a nice big line and then rolled a lot of 1s and
> Eli Arndt wrote:
> Just a quick opinion, but isn't it the truth, in Naval warfare, that
But can they with all the serious anti-plane & anti-missile kit navies
have been investing in recently?
> I see no reason why, in the 3D environment of space (other than
So maybe fighters should cost more than capital ships?
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> Nathan rolfe wrote:
But when your opponent says this counter shows where all 26
> fighter groups are i get a little annoyed. That's all i will say for
Play Kra'Vak with custom ships! Do you have any idea what 40 scatterguns can
do to 26 fighter groups!!!
Bye for now,
"isn't it the truth, in Naval warfare, that fighters are deadly."
Yes, but it's also that surface ships will sink if holed in a critical area,
which makes them pretty vulnerable. In space there's no such thing as a "hit
below the waterline" so in old FT battles often turned into attritional
slugging matched. That's one reason why I liked the fleetbook
core systems thresholds - made the heavies a little more vulnerable to
that lucky shot.
Think about all the times in history when capital ships succumbed to a single
critical hit when, as units they were far from "destroyed". The british
battlecruisers at Jutland, the Hood, the lucky torpedoes that finished off the
Yorktown & Ark Royal (granted they were both damaged) or the glide bomb that
dispatched the Roma (granted it was Italian and
pitifully under-armored).
-M
Yes, and add to this list crippling blows such as those that led to the
Bismark's end.
Hey, I play NSL, had to have our say <g>
> From: "Matt Edens" <edens@mindspring.com>
or
> the glide bomb that dispatched the Roma (granted it was Italian and