From: DOCAgren@a...
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:44:20 EDT
Subject: Need some FT Help with weapon design
Hello all... 1 of my buddy has a want for a Ship with B3/B4 Firepower but only 12 Range, and I have been kicking around the wgt for 1 of these. What have have is a B3 at Mass of 2 and only allowed 1 arc and a B4 at Mass of 4 and only allowed 1 arc. Have I made these to 2 Powerful? Any thoughts or Ideas on how to better work it?
From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@d...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:59:35 +1000
Subject: RE: Need some FT Help with weapon design
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:44 AM, DOCAgren@aol.com > [SMTP:DOCAgren@aol.com] wrote: Phalon Pulsar-S would be just the thing he needs (FB2). Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies IMPORTANT: Notice to be read with this E-mail 1. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. 2. This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential information for the use of the intended recipient. 3. If you are not the intended recipient, please: contact the sender by return e-mail, to notify the misdirection; do not copy, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on this e-mail; and delete and destroy all copies of this e-mail. 4. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender and are not a statement of Commonwealth policy unless otherwise stated. 5. Finally, please do not remove this notice, so that any other readers are aware of these restrictions.
From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:51:27 +0200
Subject: Re: Need some FT Help with weapon design
> DOC Agren wrote: > 1 of my buddy has a want for a Ship with B3/B4 Firepower but only 12 On the contrary; they're on the weak side. The "B3" might be OK in Vector but looks too weak for Cinematic (single-arc range-12 weapons quite often find themselves without anything to shoot at in Cinematic; they're easier to aim in Vector), but the "B4" is definitely too weak - compare it with a pair of standard B2 batteries (Mass 4), or for that matter four standard B1 batteries (also Mass 4) and you'll see why. > Any thoughts or Ideas on how to better work it? I've held several sermons on this over the years; I'm afraid that I won't have time to re-type them for the next week and a half, but they're in the list archives somewhere. Basically you need to compare the total damage for X points worth of your new weapon (plus the hull and engines supporting it) with the same points value of existing weapons with similar damage-to-range profiles (in this case B1s, B2s and Pulser-Cs). Later,
From: Charles Taylor <charles.taylor@c...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:48:00 +0100
Subject: Re: Need some FT Help with weapon design
In message <1ea.dff1e6c.2c587cf4@aol.com> > DOCAgren@aol.com wrote: > Hello all... One possibility would be to simply build a ship with a large number of B1-s, and assume that each group of 3 or 4 B1-s is actually one weapon. Another option would be to use Phalon Pulsars (from Fleet Book 2) (of however many arcs you wish) permanently configured to Close range (C) mode. As the weapon you wish cannot be reconfigured, the cost might be reduced somewhat. For further options, look around the Weapons and Defences Archive, here: http://nift.firedrake.org/Weap-Def_Archive.htm There are a number of short-range weapons included in it.
From: DOCAgren@a...
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:23:23 EDT
Subject: RE: Need some FT Help with weapon design
In a message dated 7/30/03 2:00:36 AM, > owner-gzg-digest@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU writes: << From: "Robertson, Brendan" <Brendan.Robertson@dva.gov.au> Subject: RE: Need some FT Help with weapon design On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:44 AM, DOCAgren@aol.com > [SMTP:DOCAgren@aol.com] wrote: Phalon Pulsar-S would be just the thing he needs (FB2). Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies > [quoted text omitted] yes, yes it was... We never play with the Phalon's so we had not seen it.