large ships

I didn't want to say anything since I'm going on vacation for over a week, so
I won't be able to respond to any replies. But I just couldn't keep quiet any
more.:)

For the super large ships (10000 pts, about 3000 mass?),
use the supership rule: divide into equal-sized sections and treat a
section as a ship for the firing sequence. When we had ship inflation for
awhile we put on a 300 mass limit to a ship size, else it had to be broken
into sections. We choose 300 since no published ship is that big so we took it
as a theoritical limit (make up your own PSB). We didn't go far with this
since we started decreasing ship sizes, except for a couple behemoths (like a
baby Death Star, 1000 mass). You could assign a section to have the drives so
another section could have more weapons to give a "big ship" concept to one or
more sections.

(man, I got so much to do before my 5:30am flight with so little time)

I've tried the plague-of-little-ships tactic, and seen others do it.  It

doesn't work. We tend to have one or two more FCs on our ships than
related-sized
book ships so more little guys get taken out per ship firing. Also, the

little ships are losing weapons immediately while big ships are able to fire
theirs a little longer which means more damage to the enemy (more little ships
destroyed with their weapons).

Btw, my main nemesis, Steve, came into town for a week so we got a few battles
in. His main design scheme now is approximately this: Mass 144, average hull
(43), MD2 (advanced), FTL, 16 armor, superior sensor,
5 FC, 1 ADFC, 6 scatterguns, 22 class-1 Kra'vak rail guns.  Cost 588.
And with his penchant for rolling 6s this becomes a nightmare for me. The
only ship that beat it was a multiple class-2 beam ship.
It looks like I missed out on a big rail gun debate (I wasn't reading posts
for awhile).

Glen